Bonjour toutes!
*I will be throwing in some random french words for fun*
Sœur Hunsaker and I have had quite the week here in Charleroi aka Belgium's version of Chicago. Last lundi night, we ate with the Bishop of Charleroi 1, at a Tex-Mex restaurant. It was so fun! It didn't taste exactly like home, but pretty close. Then, on Tuesday, after a great Réunion de District, I had an échange with Sœur McGhie! It was so dandy. We taught a recent convert, and our lesson went really well. We also had some gelatto, Ferrero Rocher flavored. I happened to study Alma 17 that morning, which is AMAZING!!! All about missionary work. I loved it. It shows that there is suffering in missionary work, but that through it all, the Lord is there and will buoy us up. I know the Lord is preparing people here in Charleroi. It's amazing. I'm not sure if it's just the Belge culture, but I honestly feel like people are just a little more open. I love it. Also there's a small chance I'm getting fat (unlike the chance of me getting small, which, ironically enough, would be very fat (aka, fat chance!). On Wednesday, after DMP meeting, Sœur Hunsaker et moi did some visites with Sœur Ypersier, which was awesome. On Thursday, we went and saw our amie, Gertrude, who is way cool. She listens to what we're saying, and I think for the most part she accepts what she hears. We're trying to get her to ask more questions and realize why we're different from other churchs. On Friday... such a crazy day. Sœur Hunsaker and I had to go back to Paris to do her légalité for France. We had an early morning train to go straight there from Charleroi. So Sœur Hunsaker and I waited very early at the Bus Stop for the bus to go to the Gare. We waited, but the first bus never came (at 6:27), so we waited more, and again, the 6:50 bus never came! The bus company is called TEC, and it drives us crazy!!! So finally, we called a member, who drove us to the gare, just in time to see the train pull away! We were SO ticked. So, we caught a train that went to Bruxelles 20 minutes
later, and there we caught a train to Paris (luckily, I had enough money saved up on my missionary account to buy us two tickets to Paris, you can believe that it cost a pretty penny), so we only ended up being an hour late to the légalité and training. While all of our bleus were out doing everything they needed to do, we trainers were given the fun task of doing some contacting/a scavenger hunt at the same time. While they were reaing off the list of things that we had to do, Elder Hall, one of the APs, said "Well, I really wanted you guys to do it, and yesterday we had the other group do it, but... mabye we WON'T have you lick the Eiffel Tower." Haha, dang, that would have been fun. Nonetheless, Sœur Stapley and I had a good time contacting people, as well as taking pictures, playing the piano at the gare (a man from Romania recognized when Sœur Stapley played 'Sweet hour a prayer' and came over and talked to us. He's an amie, how cool is that?!). Then we finally got home at 9:30, luckily we actually MADE the train home with the elders. Saturday, we had an AMAZING lesson with a woman s'appelle Madame Afiwor, from Ghana. So incredible. She and her daughter, Forgive, are so ready for this gospel. We also visited a less active named Cathy, who has, to put it nicely... a lot of pets. But she's sweet! It was also the baptism of Stéphanie Wéry, an amie of the Elders, so that was wonderful. She's already married to a member, so it was an especially beautiful occasion. Then yesterday, Elder Fuller received a call from a woman named Laura, who wanted to see the sister missionnaires, so we went over and visited her. She is a less active who moved to Charleroi in avril, and decided she wanted to become active again. We talked with her and asked her what we could do for her, and she said, "They used to have envelopes that people could put their tithing in, I would like to pay my tithing again, so will you bring me one next time?" I was just shocked, and so moved. We're so excited to work with her. She reminds me a little of my dear friend Sarah, at Nogent. And so, here we are. Haha, hope you liked my week! It's been great. I love this Church, and this ever-shortening time that I have as a missionary. I can't believe I hit my one year mark last week! I feel like I'm such a different person. I hope everything is going well back in the states, and that you guys get some rain soon! Love you!
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later, and there we caught a train to Paris (luckily, I had enough money saved up on my missionary account to buy us two tickets to Paris, you can believe that it cost a pretty penny), so we only ended up being an hour late to the légalité and training. While all of our bleus were out doing everything they needed to do, we trainers were given the fun task of doing some contacting/a scavenger hunt at the same time. While they were reaing off the list of things that we had to do, Elder Hall, one of the APs, said "Well, I really wanted you guys to do it, and yesterday we had the other group do it, but... mabye we WON'T have you lick the Eiffel Tower." Haha, dang, that would have been fun. Nonetheless, Sœur Stapley and I had a good time contacting people, as well as taking pictures, playing the piano at the gare (a man from Romania recognized when Sœur Stapley played 'Sweet hour a prayer' and came over and talked to us. He's an amie, how cool is that?!). Then we finally got home at 9:30, luckily we actually MADE the train home with the elders. Saturday, we had an AMAZING lesson with a woman s'appelle Madame Afiwor, from Ghana. So incredible. She and her daughter, Forgive, are so ready for this gospel. We also visited a less active named Cathy, who has, to put it nicely... a lot of pets. But she's sweet! It was also the baptism of Stéphanie Wéry, an amie of the Elders, so that was wonderful. She's already married to a member, so it was an especially beautiful occasion. Then yesterday, Elder Fuller received a call from a woman named Laura, who wanted to see the sister missionnaires, so we went over and visited her. She is a less active who moved to Charleroi in avril, and decided she wanted to become active again. We talked with her and asked her what we could do for her, and she said, "They used to have envelopes that people could put their tithing in, I would like to pay my tithing again, so will you bring me one next time?" I was just shocked, and so moved. We're so excited to work with her. She reminds me a little of my dear friend Sarah, at Nogent. And so, here we are. Haha, hope you liked my week! It's been great. I love this Church, and this ever-shortening time that I have as a missionary. I can't believe I hit my one year mark last week! I feel like I'm such a different person. I hope everything is going well back in the states, and that you guys get some rain soon! Love you!
Avec amour,
Sœur Bracken
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