#8

Alors j'ai seulement 8 lettres qui me reste.  WOW! Only 8 of these left!  Crazy huh!?  Well all good things have to come to an end.  But i will for 8 more weeks just work it.  I am doing well.  This week i got extremely fatigued.  Like honestly i was mentally, physically, and emotionally drained and so i took it slower so that i could give my mind some rest.  I was getting pretty burned out from doing so much so right now we are going to do things a BIT differently so that all goes by a little smoother.  But other than that the week was good.  We had Elder Texiera and his Wife came down for the mission tour and that was nice. Unfortunately i didn't find it the most ravishing.  I went in with questions that never got answered mostly due to a lack of time and a something coming up to where he couldn't stay the entire time.  But whatever. I talked with Elder Nelson, one of my best buds bout the stuff and he helped me see some of the answers which was nice.  I was able to see him, Elder Awerkamp, Elder Gubbay, and a lot of my other buddies from around the mission.  It turned out to be good in all but it's true i wasn't super inspired....  I think that happpens from time to time.  But you know there were a lot of good things that were said in anycase. 

So this week wasn't to crazy i honestly don't have a ton to write home about.  We do have some people that are progressing toward baptism but it is taking a bit of time.  More news on them to follow in the future.  However there is a fun story that happened while we were walking the other day.  We passed this Arab couple holding a 2 year old baby who was crying, crying, crying.  Then as we got closer she looked at us stopped crying immediately and said to her parents Yasu or Jesus in Arab.  Then her parents smiled and said yes yes sweetie. How fun is that.  I don't know what it was.  We didn't even say anything to the kid but somehow she recognized Jesus in us even from being in a muslim home.  Interesting. Children have a special connection with things like that.  

Another fun thing that happened is Kevin's little brother Bryan got baptized in Brussels this weekend! And guess who baptized him??? Kevin!  Kevin was able to baptize his little bro.  That made me so happy talking to Elder Petersen about that.  Talking to him in general was fantastic!  He is such a great guy.  Apparently a couple of the brothers are having difficulties but it's ok.  Their choices you know but Andrew, Dablo, Michel, Kevin, and now Bryan are doing excellent.  Carlos apparently according to Dablo is "drinking a little and is hanging out with chicks." He is just caught up in little antics but he'll learn.  Hanging out with chicks lol of Dablo!  I still can't wait to see them soon!  I love those guys so much!  Ummmm so yeah brussels is just the best still.

I Want to make sure that connor knows i am thinking about him and WISH him a super happy birthday!  Joyeux Anniversaire!!!!  Also tell laura congratulations on having the twins how fun!!!!!  They are adorable i said to you earlier mom!  Well i love you all and i hope that all is going well back home!  See you soon!

Elder Hoopes

p.s  This week it rained harder than any other week before.