Current Address:

This is my current address:

Elder Jonathan Hoopes
17, cours Monseigneur Romero
91000, Évry
France

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Hi Family!

Comment t'allez vous tout le monde!?  how is everyone doing?  I miss you all quite a bit.  So i going to stay here in Brussels for the next transfer with Elder Peterson!  He was is my old district in Compiègne and he is just a work horse!  I am so stoked to have him as a companion.  I am really sad that i will be losing Elder Gubbay though.  Also Elders Marquez and Smith will both be leaving so 3 new missionaries are coming up to our apartment.  Crazy sauce!  One is a cool italian kid and the other is just another American.  Mais bon!  Je suis content d'avoir les nouveaux visages.  So yeah news news.  Well just on a fun side note i am learning a lot of new things in Spanish and i can follow conversations and bear testimony in Spanish.  Um also this week we had to do a ton of baptismal interviews and i have to say that it is so much fun seeing all of these people who want to be baptized and have strong desire to follow Jesus.  So cool i must say. I love it.  

So things going on here in Brussels.  Brussels is so cool still and i just love it so much.  I can't tell you how cool it is to go out and just find people to teach.  This week had some cool miracles.  Ok so in Brussels we are the only one with a credit card and so we have to buy everything for everyone.  So tuesday we spent the whole day shopping with the senoir couple here because they are remodeling their apartment and then also we had to go down to a city called Mons and do an interview.  So we stayed the night there and then Friday we got my foot checked out and by the way the is going well don't worry about sending stuff, and we did another interview and then sunday we were in another city called Liège for ANOTHER interview.  So this week it was a lot of Zone leader stuff and not as much just pure missionary stuff during the week.  Well because we did what we were supposed to some cool things happened.  This weekend we had 3 people come up to the church asking to be baptized!  and these people aren't crazy either.  One is a spanish man who has had the lessons before and then moved.  He found the church and asked to be baptized.  The others are both friends of members who have been sharing the gospel and both of them wanted to take the lessons and be baptized.  Cool Huh!?  So we will see what happens but all i know is that i feel super blessed and super humbled.  This week has been hard because not only has it been hard just finding the time to do things but it has been so SO SO cold!  Were talking like -10° celsius with humidity and wind.  BRRRRRR!!!!!!  Still i could be Bubba in Ukraine so i am happy but the point is is that if we keep working and just puting our heards down and going forward we won't have anything to worry about the Lord will take care of us.  I love this work so much and i appreciate my mission more than anything!  

Things like i said are just going great and i will be sad stay here without Elder Gubbay but in anycase the Lord needs him back in Paris for Chinese work.  Also just to let you know there were no problems with the Fed Ex package! Thank you so much for sending me all of the stuff!  I loved it so much and i am so thankful that you sent it to me!!!!!  Well i love you all so so so so so so so so so so so so so much!  Merci pour tout ce que vous faites!

Je vous aime tous!

Your First Born haha

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