Everybody has a story

It is easy to get caught up in our own lives and forget to look outside ourselves. Thirty minutes before the Tuesday Devotional with Elder Nelson began on January 26, I remember trying to fit in my religion class reading assignment while I was waiting in the John W. Hart Building. But something told me to look up and talk to the blonde girl sitting to my right. I went through the usual questions: what’s your name, what are you studying, where are you from. She answered, “Hélène, international business and Belgium.” Wait. Belgium!?! Where weren’t talkin’ Utah or Idaho here.

Hélène just completed a semester abroad at Missouri State University and was briefly visiting her brother at BYU-I before returning to Belgium. She spoke highly of her experience, and I simply couldn’t pass up an opportunity to look at a semester abroad from the flip side; someone coming to the United States to study.