Bastogne

Bonjour!

Another great week passes by in Liege. All the school kids here are on break this week but us missionaries are still on the grind haha.

The week started off with exchanges. Elder Kaonohi and I had a fantastic time together contacting less actives. He played football for The University of Hawaii before the mission as an O lineman so, needless to say, we talked about sports all day. Haha.

Later in the week, we were able to do some service for someone Elder Kendrick knew. He was the Ward Mission Leader in Kendrick's last area, Mulhouse, and he had been working on restoring a home in Liege, that his aunt lived in. So we went by on Friday and spent the day cleaning and moving rocks. It is an amazingly big and beautiful home. The Aunt

isn't a member of the church. It was fun to all work together.

Passed out in the back of a member's car. Long day!!

On Sunday our investigator Aimé showed up and it seemed like he had a good time. We are going to have to move his baptismal date back a couple of weeks. We just haven't had enough time to teach him everything. Our less active friend, Abraham, also showed up for the second week in a row.

On p-day we went down 1.5 hours south to a city called Bastogne. That is where the famous Battle of the Bulge occurred. It is commemorated with a huge monument in the shape of a star, and museum. To sum up the whole month of war in a quick sentence, the Americans saved the Belgians from the Nazis during the cold of winter by holding the city of Bastogne. It was fun, humbling and inspiring. They were also having an expo about some Texas A&M Aggies who fought in the battle. We wanted to go but we didn't have enough time because the museum itself took 2.5 hours. It was super cool though seeing Aggie stuff everywhere. Haha.

Hope everyone has a fantastic week.

God Bless.

Elder Hein