So, what a crazy week we've had! Tuesday, Soeur Holmes and I had an awesome FHE with the Wright couple, and Marie-Pierre and Marie-Paule. We love those sisters so much! Marie-Pierre is such a solid rock in the gospel, and all the kids in her family are so classy and wonderful. Wednesday, we weren't affected by the change, but we did welcome two different elders into the Ward, Elder Martin, who is dandy, and Elder Everett, whom I've known for about a year now. Elder Everett is from Canada and speaks Quebecoise french, which I LOVE! We had an interesting expercience on Wednesday. We had a received a text from some of the elders who were waiting at the church for their new companions to arrive. It was just kind of a joke text about my mormon.org profile page, which they had recently stumbled upon, while looking through profile pages online. We decided to get back at them, by taking a few minute detour and visiting the church. My plan was to pretend to get really mad at them about the text, and then shortly after tell them it was a joke. Soeur Holmes didn't have the composure to stand beside me, so I walked into the computer room, straight-faced and serious-toned, and just tore into them. Poor Elder Platt, who had sent the text, and was sitting in the middle of the room, got the blunt of it. I told them that what they had sent was inappropriate, stupid, and that they shouldn't even have been there, they should have been out talking to people. Then before I lost the seriousness in my voice, I turned around and left, walked down the two steps to where Soeur Holmes was waiting for me, and smiled as we listened to the Elders sit in complete silence. Then I came back into the room and told them it was a joke. The sigh of relief that came out of those elders enough to keep a kite flying for a least a couple of seconds. Poor Elder Platt, he looked like he had almost gotten a little emotional at me getting so mad at him. Everyone was so shocked and were like, "That just wasn't like you!" We all got a good laugh, but Soeur Holmes and I were like, "We can't stay, we have no need to be here" We tried to encourage them to really go out and do contacting, but they're good missionaries, so we weren't really hard on them. But then, talking about that, Soeur Holmes and I said, "You know, it really is important to use up this time wisely, and to do contacting (talking to people on the streets)", So off we went. And would you believe it? The first lady we talked to gave us her number, and then the third or so lady stopped, and we talked with her, prayed with her, and fixed a RDV! How amazing is that?! Her name is Patricia, and we're going to see her tomorrow. Then, the lady after that was a lady that we had ALREADY contacted about 2 weeks previously, but hadn't been willing to give us her number, and we had unknowingly given her the wrong number from us. So, miracle of miracles, we ran into her again! She didn't look familier to me, but Soeur Holmes recognized her instantly, and amazingly enough, she was able to pull her name out of the depths of her memory. Clemantina! We got her number, and gave her our number. All of this happened in just 25 or so short minutes. It was amazing, and fortified my testimony of being outside when we're supposed to. On Thursday, we went to the hospital to decorate the room for Catherine, our Recent Convert, who is still there. She loved it. On Friday, we had mission council, so I took advantage of seeing Soeur Mataalii, and listening to Elder Clawson sing. It was also a wonderful time, where we learned about how to focus on Christmas while we contact people, hence, Christmas Contacting! The Ward Christmas party was amazing! There were SO many people there! Marie-Pierre came with her sister, brother, and mom. I love all of them. It was incredible. Our amie, Catherine, also came, as well and Cassandre, the neice of the Palomakis, and Filipe (Maria was too tired to come). And yesterday, we had another amazing experience. We decided to do the 'Christmas Contacting', and, would you look at that? More miracles! We contacted two Belge women, talked to them about Christmas, sang for them, prayed with them, and fixed a time to come back this week. Then, 3 minutes later, we contacted a woman from Portugal, prayed with her, and fixed another RDV, after having talked about Christmas, and how to make it more centered on Christ, with her. SO COOL!!! Well, every day I get more and more tired, but as you can see, the Lore hasn't gotten tired of helping us. He just waits for us to do our little part, just so He can show us how much He can give us! How blessed we are!
I love you all,
Passez une bonne semaine!
Soeur Bracken
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