Sœur Kennady Nay : Week 9: Nivelles 🌻

I honestly thought this week I would just send pictures BUT we had Sœur Conference on Saturday and it was probably the most spiritual couple hours of my missionary life. And no it wasn't a "girl power, we should have the priesthood" kind of thing haha. It was a really good discussion about why we came on a mission, what keeps us here and how we can be better and it just really hit home. Oh ..and Sister Dalton just popped right in. She is wonderful and seriously helped me so much.
She talked mainly about how the Lord directs our paths and I don't really know how to explain what I learned but it really gave me a feeling of divine purpose. She talked about how we might feel weak and simple, but the Lord delights in weak and simple things and He can help us become who He wants us to be.
She talked about how right now, we might not see miracles. We might not see why what we are doing is important but in a few years, we will see the fruit of our labors and those things will become clear to us. But yeah "In the strength of the Lord, I can do hard things."

We met this guy from Nigeria last week named Soloman. He grew up in Nigeria, studied and worked in Moscow, married a Russian girl and is now working here as an engineer. We had a rendezvous with him yesterday and we ended up taking a nice Sunday walk with his family. He is so cool. He didn't know the church's official name, so when we said the "The Book of Mormon" he was like oh my I know you guys! My best friend growing up in Nigeria was a Mormon, great family, his dad was amazing. And I met some girls like you back in 2004, we would play sports with them. And my company is based in SLC so a lot of my coworkers have been Mormon. And then we gave him an English version, and his wife a Russian version. (She only speaks Russian, I thought of Alex) he was like "I'm so excited to tell my friend back in Nigeria I am reading one of his books!" Anyway, its cool how many connections he has and the walk was beautiful. Yesterday was a Sunday from heaven. We only had that one rendezvous set up but somehow at the end of the day we had had 4. Members came in clutch and invited us over for lunch and dinner. What a great ward.

Also, look at me being a Belgian Soeur and eating too much chocolate and baguettes. I hate myself haha. We went to Bruxelles today with the Braine Elder's ami, William. He was definitely very very drunk but we trusted him to be our tour guide through Bruxelles. Standing at the top of the Basilica I felt like I was in Ferris Buehler's day off, seriously sooooo cool.

Christianne is getting baptized on Saturday. We are so excited. :') This week is going to be nuts. Soeur Raj is having a surgery on Tuesday, we have exchanges on Wednesday, we have a Zone activity on Saturday day and her baptism at 6 p.m.. Yeahhhh here we go ♡