Opposition in All things!!

Hey Y'ALL

 

       As always, I will get little stuff outta the way. Ummm yeah, if letters didn't come it was because I sent them out today and not last week.  Sorry, I have been a little busy. Also, The dentist appointment will be covered and I am not sure if it will be too bad.  I am not even sure exactly what is wrong or if anything is wrong with it yet.  I think that is all for little stuff.

      This week has been extremely tough. It is already halfway through the transfer and we have had lot of success.   I think some really amazing things must be coming up though, because we have been nailed with opposition up the wazoo! First off, I have started to have that stupid not sleeping business start up again, like at the MTC. Plus I have had the flu or something like it.  Our money was not  reimbursed yet, and that  made shopping for food a bit more difficult.   There are a few less active families that seem to think we are God and can fix all their problems.  We have been trying to help a man that was planning to kill himself, and I had to plan and give my first district meeting.   ALL this was mixed in with, twenty amazing rendezvous and miracles, a super successful church activity (that brought a few new investigators), and a very tired Elder Lyons.

      I guess I probably need to explain myself now. OK, So the week started out normal with a super nice P-day, until we tried to pull out money for groceries.  Alas, it was not there but we called the bureau and they said it would be there soon.  We just scratched the food thing until later in the week and had a normal P-Day for the rest of the day.  We went exploring around and saw the castles and all that jazz.

    Then we had family night, which is held every Monday at our church, and I had to give the thirty minute lesson. I gave a lesson on missionary work and how missionary work is really spelled C -H -A -R -I -T -Y ! Than I proceeded to give experiences I had had thus far as a missionary. I told about the challenges I have had, how I got my testimony of this church, and how to share it. The members were very touched and we even had our amie Isabelle there, and she loved it!

     Tuesday......was different. It started out super awesome!  We did some contacting and met a really awesome lady that had taken the wrong bus and had gotten lost and wanted to come to church.  We did have to climb mount Everest to get there but it was definitely worth it.

    Later we headed to Beebee's house. The member who got baptized when I got here.  We ran into someone on the way. When he saw us he said MORMONS Right? And we, being a little surprised that someone actually thought we weren't Jehovah's witnesses and that he was speaking in English, ....replied yeah. So he started talking to us.  Apparently he was a member who had been baptized recently in Mons.  He had a TON of problems with his ex wife and was struggling to pay for himself to live .  He has to pay to see his kids, which he doesn't get to see hardly at all. He was ready to give up on life and was planing on staying in this park all night. (that is where we met him at)  He had prayed to God to basically give him a reason to live, and then we showed up right after he was done praying. He started bawling, and to make a very long story short, he was just a mess. So, we did all we could to just get him safely home.   He was very drunk and not in control of himself.  We managed to get him home safely and say a prayer with him and calm him down.

 The next day we checked up on him and he was doing a TON better.  It turns out that he had never gotten his records changed to Namur so no one knew who he was.  Now he knows where the church is, he is going to start coming back. WOW, how's that for a miracle!

     Well the rest of the day we had rendezvous with some really cool recent converts and one new amie that is the friend of the bishop

     Thursday was bad and good. We fasted that day because we felt really strongly that our rendezvous with Isabelle would be super important.  We started out by having a really good session of contacting for two hours and found a really cool African man from the Charleroi equipe, and another man who lives here in Namur.  I guess the fasting made us super tired and since we were already a little overwhelmed with everything else....let's just say the last rendez vous was less than perfect. It wasn't bad, but the members that were there kinda tried to take over and it just really didn't go anywhere.  It is OK, we forgive them, because they're just old

   Shoot, I really have to leave now, but now that things have cooled down a bit I have time to send stuff off.  Forgive me again for those empty mailboxes.  Don't worry I know how it feels, so at least I can cope with ya.

 

Love Elder Lyons