Ryan's Entire Mission

Ryan's Entire Mission
ryan is in the far right corner

Ryan at a Zone Conference...

Ryan at a Zone Conference...

Ryan and President Brubaker

Ryan and President Brubaker

eating raw fish -- eeewww

eating raw fish -- eeewww

Ryan at temple - day before MTC drop off

Ryan at temple - day before MTC drop off
handsome guy!

Ryan and President Smith

Ryan and President Smith
getting set apart as a missionary

Welkom all friends and family of Elder Ryan Leash

We welcome you to the first edition of Elder Ryan Leashs' missionary blog. We hope that you will find the information included fun, informative and memorable. Please make comments and show Ryan your support by writing him often!







Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Baptism comping!

March 27, 2011

Wow! I received some great letters this week! Even some pics! I feel loved :)!
Thanks so much! Well mom about being transferred, anything that arrives here in Kortrijk before the 27th of April will find me. My address, I’m
Anticipating will change at that point. I’m glad that you enjoyed the pics etc; I have another set when you send that one back, oh and thanks for sending them all back out - I like to look back at the pics every now and then so I really try not to delete them. Thanks again! That’s very cool that Khris stopped by, how are things with him? Be sure to send some love his way for me! You and dad sure do look great over there at the sock hop :). Danielle is looking as pretty as ever, very exciting stuff happening with her, Getting a job, and the license, Miss Independence!

Scripture reading is going good here! I’ve put my Book of Mormon reading on hold as conference comes closer. I’m trying to get prepped for this coming conference by making sure that the messages and counsel from last conference are fresh in my mind. I’m so excited about next week!!!!!!!!

Well, in other news things the work is going pretty well :). Carmen will be baptized on the 9th of this next week! I am so excited! Then Alain had some real concerns earlier this week and he told us he did not want the lessons anymore, we had no idea what the issue was; thereafter he had received his first Liahona he found a talk directly addressing his concern which was tithing. To further clear the matter we took President Lemon on joint teach to his house and we were able to completely clear up his issues :)! What a blessing! He will be baptized on April 30th!

This week we did a look up out of the area book and found this man home, his name is Faustino and he speaks some Dutch and some English so we were able to communicate and have a great first lesson at the end of which we extended a baptismal invitation and he accepted :), we will keep you posted as Faustino progresses!

We helped the same member of the ward again with some moving etc and were again able to enjoy each others’ company and talk a bit about the gospel etc and unfortunately were not able to find time to share a formal message and yet inactive Sarah, and investigator Richard were in church again, along of course, with Alain and Carmen! It was great!
Things with Elder Byork are still interesting and yet we are making this work and that is all that matters. Those were mostly the highlights of our week :).

I love ya’ll very, very much and am looking forward to talking to you soon!
Much love,
Ryan

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Still in Kortrijk, Belgium

March 21, 2011

Hello Hello,

Who is that girl in those pictures?!!!! I know that is not my boo boo sister! Wow...anyways it looks like she was having fun :), where are your pics petite momma? It sounds like life is going well your way :) I’m glad; I’ve been thinking about you this week!

Things are good here, at the moment we are enjoying some wonderful lekker sun! If you all don’t mind I’m just going to gloat while I can about the fact that I have good weather and you don’t lol, by the time I walk out of the library here it will probably be back to rain and clouds lol. I am most definitely getting enough to eat, more than enough!!! I am very happy that I was able to stay here another transfer! The wedding was just great! There was a weird Belgian tradition that we did where we waved this napkin around for like 5 to 10 minutes while we sang some songs etc. It reminded me of My Big Fat Greek Wedding lol. A blast! We just had a great time and there were some non members there that we were able to talk to a bit as well, great stuff! The only drawback was that my stomach was not so happy I was on the we all night lol.

Carmen the principle is enduring and growing and is a continuous joy to be around and to be friends with, I love her very much! Alain on the other hand called us out of the clear blue the other day and says he doesn’t want lessons anymore; I think that he must have come across some anti material but we are not certain at this point, we will go by this week and see what happened. Please pray for us and our next appointment with him!

On a better note this week we were helping a member move and a family friend as well as an inactive member of the family were there and we built a good friendship and had a nice time working and talking with each other, both came to church yesterday! The family friend wants to start taking the lessons! At one point during the service he told me of the spirit that he felt and how wonderful it was, it was a great service! Further, another inactive member of the Lemon family came to church yesterday and would like us to come by his place this coming week! Exciting stuff! I know this is the Lord’s work and that He is busy directing us and those around us! I am so very grateful for the gospel and for the new perspective it gives us!

This week I got my new comp Elder Byork.. Elder Byork is a great guy and has some great qualities! Anyhow, I love you lots and oh, before I go - mom you asked about the Easter package; I guess I’m a really sloppy eater because I have stains all over my ties and shirts lol, do you think you could send me 2 or 3 Tide To Go pens? That would be awesome! Oh and one last thing, I have an sd card ready to send you as soon as you send the last one back!

much love,

Ryan Leash