Transfer One is DONE

[Last one for today is the email I got today. So I am ALL caught up. Which is good.]

Holy Cow! I can't believe I have been gone for three months already! These past 8 weeks have gone by crazy fast, but it has been fun this week to look back at all the progress I have made in these short weeks. My French has improved a ton, I have pretty much conquered my fear of the cell phone, and I have really fallen in love with missionary work and the people in Liège! Also, Wednesday, I will no longer be the youngest Bleu in Liège, because we will be getting a new Soeur and a new Elder! Yay for new Bleus!

This week has been a good one. We had an FHE at a member’s house, where we set missionary goals with three member families. I also discovered that the son of the family whose house we were at was in the same ward as me in Rexburg last fall, so that was weird. The Mormon world is so small! We were sitting and talking about missionary work, and all of the sudden, it hit me why he looked familiar. We totally saw each other at least once a week for a semester, haha!

Tuesday, we had district meeting in Bruxelles with all the zones there to celebrate with a pizza a party the accomplishment of finding 101 new amis as a zone this transfer. I heard my first dying testimony because Elder Jones goes home this week. So sad! He has been in Liège for the last 6 months and now he goes home this Thursday. After we had our meeting, we were enjoying our pizza when I learned that I would be attempting my first flan suck. You put a little cup on flan on you plate, and then somehow you are supposed to suck it up and swallow it all in one motion... Let’s just say, that I did not do very well. I kind of got flan everywhere. It didn't all fit in my mouth. Maybe next time it will go better...

Elder Buxton preparing to flan suck.

Wednesday and Thursday were normal days; we had some good lessons. One was with an old amie we found in the area book. She hasn't been taught since 2009, but she accepted an appointment with us. The rendez-vous was awesome! The first thing she asked us was, “Is it possible to grow my faith?” We were like, Ba...oui!! And then, she asked us “How!” And we were like WE CAN HELP YOU!! So, at the end of the rendez-vous, we gave her Alma 32 to read, the chapter that was literally created to help us missionaries out. It's so funny how at one moment in someone's life they are not prepared for the gospel, but six years later something has changed, and they realize there is something missing. We are super excited to see her again this week!

Friday, we went to Paris!!! We caught a train to Bruxelles at 6:30 in the morning, and then another train from Bruxelles to Paris at 8:15 and got to Paris at 10! The Soeur conference was AWESOME! And it was all in French, but the cool thing is that since I have been learning French in Belgium where the accent in TERRIBLE, I can understand French-French because it is so clean and beautiful. It was awesome! They talked about security and all that fun stuff, and the all the STLs did mini lessons on health, unity, and coming closer to our Savior, and then we had lunch. After lunch, Soeur Babin talked about how we are all daughters of God, and then President Babin talked about stress and something else that I can't remember off the top of my head... One of my favorite parts by far though was seeing Soeur Ulrich and Higgins again! We literally talked and talked and talked and talked!!! It's also funny that we have been apart longer than we have been together now, but we are still best friends and inseparable!

The Soeurs and their transfer numbers.

Saturday I don't remember super well...and I don't have my old planner to tell be what happened...the repatoire came out, no changes for me and soeur clawson, but soeur Proudfoot will be training in her 3rd transfer (a scary pattern that has started in Liège), and Soeur Hogan is off to Orlean which is smack dab in the middle of France.

Sunday, we had an amie that we have been trying to get the church for the past month finally come!! And, one of our less actives got up and bore her testimony. It was so awesome to see their progress! Testimony meeting in Liège is super awesome, the two that I have been a part of have had no pauses, great testimonies, and we have gone over a tiny bit. It's super cool, especially because it's a branche. I also, broke away from Soeur Clawson for the first time to set up rendez-vous!

Waiting for the bus crammed on someone's porch.

I love you all and I hope you all have a great week!!!!

And to finish, the picture is of my district and everyone's transfer numbers!

[And that’s it. I’m tired guys, and I apologize for always being tired. I would apologize for my life if it would help, but it wouldn’t. It would just make you all uncomfortable.

As always, have an excellent week. I hope I can see you next week. We’ll see if it becomes two.]