Hey you can probably find some pictures of me on these two blogs. The first one is the office senior couple's blog. The second one is Elder Yocom's. From my understanding, Elder Yocom's mom is already sending you guys pictures of me that he takes =) So that's good. But I'll still keep trying to get my own.
http://robisonsbelgiumnetherlandsmission.blogspot.nl/
http://www.missionsite.net/elderdillonmckayyocom/pictures
So I'm training Elder Clement now as my replacement. We picked him up on Wednesday after his zone training, did some work, I trained him as we worked the whole day Thursday, then Friday we went on a Brussels Trip for legality. Busy, busy, busy.
The crappy part is that we have 5 people in our house now. It was already pretty run-down (it's one of, if not THE, oldest apartment in our mission), but now it's just getting messier and worse each day.... Yikes.... Plus, training my replacement is just exhausting. So I'm pretty dang ready to get out of the Office and go to my new city (still don't know what it is yet). But I'm gonna miss a lot of things from the Office and people from the ward.
It's weird to think that General Conference is back again! Woo hoo! We had a lesson with a girl this week who is doing great, but she just doesn't quite understand her relationship with Christ. The same thing kind of happened last week as well. I was getting my hair cut at a place by this one Iranian lady and she explained how she was raised Muslim, but didn't really follow it and how she just wanted to make her own decisions and do good in life. So through her questions and stuff, I basically ended up teaching her the first lesson while I was getting my hair cut, ha ha =) it was awesome. It was really good and we had a really good talk with each other. But anyways, one of her questions was about why we need Christ. Why do we need somebody between us and our Heavenly Father? And I talked with her a bit about that, but this week I really studied it out and better understand the importance of Christ in my life as well. I've always known the facts about why we need Him, but this week it became personal to me. And that's been really helpful and important to me.
Basically, we need Him because in the Celestial Kingdom, or the presence of our Heavenly Father, everything needs to be clean and pure. Otherwise, God would not be God and our reward for everything we do would not be as great. Nothing would be as meaningful to us and everything would have less purpose. And our reward would not be a reward, it wouldn't have as much meaning, if God didn't work through pure justice. If He went back on his laws. If he wasn't the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. So we need Christ to be a mediator for us so that we can actually communicate with Him and so that we can become clean and live with Him again. It had to be through the Son of God, a perfect person, with an Atonement of flesh and blood. Otherwise everything would lose purpose and we would simply stay in our our state. No progression and not near as much happiness as we can have if we follow His Gospel. While it may be hard, it's worth it.
Thank you guys for everything, I love you all! Bye bye!
PS, registration for BYU classes opens June 9th for me.