A secret mission and I may be very very lactose intolerant...

My favorite chocolate milk here makes me die on the inside, but Mama didn't raise no wussy's... I can take the hits. I also only am attacked by this milk so I think I am good.

This week, we went to go find some new amis in Godinne, Belgium. We climbed up the to summit of the nearby mountain and knocked our way down hitting each house. We talked with a few of the residents but none were really interested in what we had to say. As I had given up and felt like the ideal attack strategy was a retreat to the apartment for studies. We decided to knock one last door. 

We walked up a large staircase of placed round stones to a White house with a spacious dining room with large glass windows hanging off the hill side. When we walked up to the door to see that the lady who lives there was sitting in the dinning room on the computer. She checked out our plaques through the window then came to the door and let us in and started to speak english to us. Her name is Françoise, she studied in the United States, but is from Brussels. She had a lot of questions and we taught her the entire Restoration. We set up a return appointment and we had a good conversation about families. 

OPERATION: RESCUE MANTEAU VERDE

tuesday

On Tuesday after our service project, we didn't have enough time after service to go change and go porting before it got dark so we decided to go rescue Elder Purdy's coat from Bruxelles. To explain how we knew the coat was in Bruxelles I need to go back like 6 weeks.

frites

Like 3 weeks ago, we went to Chez Gaby's. Our favorite Maître des Frites, Michaël was there dishing up cones. So naturally we asked to take a picture unsure of what transfers would look like. He asked us when we would be leaving and so we told him we don't know and talked about it could be in 3 weeks, maybe 9. we thought Purdy would be out though so we told him that. He wanted to quote " get a drink with us" so he gave us his number. Elder Purdy took the peace of frite cone paper with the number on it and put it in the zipper pocket of his green coat.

thalys, anderson conference

okay so now, we are at the Versailles chapel. Elder Purdy had called the Sœurs in Metz (his previous area, he got pinkwashed {sœur missionaries replace elders}) He had left a dress wool overcoat in Metz and asked them to bring it to the Anderson Conference. We saw them exchanged the coat for some Belgian chocolate. and went back to Cergy to continue the exchanges with Peel and Bingham. Elder purdy wore his green winter coat into Paris on monday and was leaving with this grey peacoat. After my OFII appointment on that following thursday we hurried to Gare du Nord and boarded our Thalys to Bruxelles Midi. I took a nap after tossing my backpack up onto the luggage rack above my head. Elder Purdy wore his new peacoat and tossed the green winter coat up onto the luggage rack. When we got to bruxelles we rushed to get on our train back home leaving the green coat on the luggage rack. 

Chez Gaby 

Last monday, we went back to Chez Gaby to hook up the Nievelle's boys, Elder Niederhouser and Elder Black. It was the first time we saw Michaël since he gave us his phone number. He told us he had recieved a call from Bruxelles Midi saying that they have his coat. He remembered that it was Purdy's Green coat and told them he would send us up there to get it. 

secret mission extraction.

like I said after service we didn't have time to do anything productive so we went to get this coat.

we boarded a train and travelled to the extraction point ( bruxelles midi). We met with the guy at the lost and found and talked with him for like 15 minutes for him to tell us that it wasn't recorded, but we knew it was there because they called Michaël.  So we gave up and went to a greek restuarant at grande place, called Plaka, check it out when it bruxelles.  then we went home so like we failed our mission but whatever.

                                                                                     

Other than that, we moved our bunk bed into the living room and it is like 15 times cooler now. and Transfers were this week, Purdy and I are staying in Namur, But our Beloved Zone Leader Elder Fund and Elder Niederhouser are leaving us so, I am sad.

Our amis with Baptismal dates are going to a protestant church and are being standoffish so that sucks. It will be okay, they will come around eventually but it looks a little dim at the moment.

Hope everything is doing well, I am doing well.

ab