Week 23: I was flashed this week

Bonjour, 

This week flew by and was just packed full of great stuff. 
On Tuesday night we went to the Brebois for dinner! I love this family. After dinner we taught retab in 5 minutes, then had them teach it. Mikayla who is 17 did it with her uncle (Frere Brebois) and it was amazing! It was so cool hearing her testimony of a Loving Heavenly Father. 

On Friday, we went to Mons which is kind of far out to visit a less active member. Since we were there we found a couple of really really old amis to pass by. One answered the door smiling so big and was so excited to see us, it had been since 2011. She invited us back so we will be teaching her this Friday as well. 

On Saturday, we went to Frere Butchers house. He is from St.Lucia originally and speaks English, he is so so funny. We ate lunch with him and his wife and another member from Mons named Peter. When it came to the spiritual thought, Peter and Butcher said that they decided they wanted to give it. They have started to read a section of Preach my Gospel together every week, and they wanted to teach lesson. These members. We went through "What is my purpose as a missionary?" And tried to help them come up with ideas on how they can reach out to people in different ways. Butchers wife isn't a member, but she fully participated and prayed with us. I felt the spirit so strongly with them. 

And yeah church was great! I didn't come home with a headache and we set up a lot of rendezvouses just in case this is my last week in Nivelles, which it probably will be!! 

Also, our new dmp (ward mission leader/convert of 1 year) dropped the F word in our first meeting with him hahahaha. And we were flashed twice ... okayyyyy!

AU REVOIR ♡ 

Macaroons

Legal :)

Week 22 - Nivelles

Hi.

I know this week was a good week but I don't remember much about it.

We had a really good lesson with Gaëton. The fact that we have a living Prophet today is the reason he began listening to the missionaries, so we decided to go over Priesthood and Auxiliaries. We brought the Ensign with us that has the full page of General Authorities and he snatched it out of our hands so fast and his eyes were all lit up, it was so funny. I was scared that he wasn't going to learn anything new from our lesson but he asked so many questions! We asked him why an organization like this is necessary and invited him to think of a way he can apply this to himself. Like how can he follow the prophet? How does knowledge of an organized church ran by Jesus Christ through a Prophet benefit his life? I really started thinking about it for myself.   Jesus Christ is helping our generation today through someone who is extremely sensitive to the spirit, we are so taken care of!

On Friday we went to Liège for exchanges. My dream ville, I want to serve there so bad. :') Soeur Warr and Bennett are so great seriously! We had a great rendezvous and I learned so much more about finding. And there were people on the street haha.  We walked a block and met two really cool people. In the morning we did Insanity and I hurt really bad right now, but when your brother tells you you are getting chubby you gotta do something.  (Lol)

Yesterday the Elders made us sing in sacrament and it wasn't too great but whatever I'm a Soeur missionary so gotta sing. And then the Desmedts had us over for dinner and cake for Soeur McBride and Deborah's (their daughter)  Birthday. They are an amazing family, I can't even say how grateful I am for them.

Today we went to Brussels. Shopping + Grande Place + Food. Amazing.
This week is full !!! People aren't busy anymore it's amazing. I'm so excited to meet with everyone and just see more miracles.

Have a good week!

Belgian Waffles :)

Bday Ice Cream

Grand Place

It's getting cold!!

More Waffles :)

Week 21: 6 months...comment? (comment = how in French)

Hey!

This week was a blur haha. We had a really good (6 hour) zone conference and interviews with President Sorensen. And I hit my 6 month mark! I guess you should believe 'em when they say your mission will fly. We went to the best Mexican Restaurant in Waterloo to celebrate. :')

I restarted the Book of Mormon this week and I LOVE 1st Nephi. It was always just that first little book I couldn't get past, but it is amazing and sooo packed. I don't like to put it down and I hope and pray our amis feel the same way.

On Saturday, we went to Tubize and took some Italian Book of Mormons with us, and we placed two! So this week we have with us Swahili, Polish, Romanian, and German and we are pretty pumped to place them. We also have exchanges in Liège (they were rescheduled) so I am pretty optimistic and excited going into this next week!

Oh and happy birthdayyyyy Kody and Emma. 🌈🦄🐄😈🐌🐘👩‍🚀 😄 weirdos.

Have a good one.♡

Drinking Water??/Not a common thing for me

Week..forgot. But I 💗 (Knee-Vail)

It has been one of the best weeks of my mission so far! Oh my goodness the people here just make me so happy and McBride (McFrite) is great. Life is just good good good.
It started with Pairi Daiza last Monday! It's a beautiful zoo, holy cow man. I walked into a room with millions of bats and I cried.

Kelly - Natalie is a less active who we visit. She has been less active for 20 years because her husband decided he didn't like it, so their 14 yr old son was raised catholic. BUT, Natalie loves seeing us and talking about her baptism and faith it's great. Last week we taught her son Kelly how to pray at the end of our lesson. This week he came in at the beginning of the lesson for the prayer then pulled up a chair and stayed for the whole entire thing and accepted a Book of Mormon.  He was so open it was amazing!

Patrice & Patricia - on Thursday we went to see Patricia and her cousin Patrice was there as well! During dinner Patricia looked at him and just said "I'm going to stop smoking so I can get baptized." Anyway, amazing night.   She is great, he is great and they are going to take us to Bruxelles for McBride's birthday and it's going to be great.

Baptism - Danny is Baptized! His baptism was so simple and amazing and he is so cool! That was the first convert baptism I have ever seen.  The Elders forced us to sing in the program and now we have to do it again next Sunday. ..Elders man.. (But they did leave drinks in the car for us so I guess I can't be too mad).

Gaëton - GAËTON CAME TO CHURCH. After 1 year of being taught he cammmmeee. And he loved it he said it was familiar, simple and peaceful. And he stayed for the 2nd hour and said that next week he will be able to stay for all of it. I think me and Soeur McBride cried a little! So so so exciting!

Then today we spent the day in Dinant which is beautifullll. We climbed the citadel and almost died and had lunch it was great. That's where the saxophone was created so they have a saxophone for every country all around the city. Probably my favorite ville so far.
This next week is nuts with interviews, zone conference, and exchanges in Liège (On my 6 month mark baby) 🤙

Have a good one! ♡

Thanks Elders

Week 19: Je suis Américain

Hiiiiiiiii. It's finally Pday 💃 Thank goodness. This week just dragged. We had just one rendezvous this week, the rest fell through so yeah usually we have at least 8-10ish so you can see how much finding we did.

THE ONE RENDEZVOUS was with Patricia. She wants to get baptized. It's all about the one. :')
BUT we knocked on some cute doors found some cool chapels ate a little too much junk and kept going. AND we met the coolest 16 yr old (Cam, come marry this little Belgian) Her name is Flore. She heard us trying to figure out the rest of the birthday song in French and just laughed and was like "We just sing it in English!" Then we talked until our train came and she followed us to where we were sitting and we talked more (She loves practicing her English) and she took our pamphlet and gave us her number and told us we should meet her friends.😊

Yesterday we got to go to Mons to speak at the S.H.A.P.E Branche, which is a US military base. We got to see the Thompson's and meet the members there.  They were so excited to have us, it was so sweet! It was the first Sunday in 5 months I have left church without a headache, I love English so much and everyone there was so American. :') They gave us so much food too!!! Our mouths dropped we were so happy. I guess you could say my pride had been really really hurt this week and while I know I need to get over myself it was nice to feel loved and cared for by the people here.

Oh, this week I helped an old lady cross the road hahaha, didn't think that kind of thing actually happened but an old Italian cranky lady grabbed me by the arm and yanked me across the street (a busy street) to a little shop for a big pack of cigarettes and then right back across haha. And we got American pizza for 7€ whatta deal ♡

This next week is already looking up. The Braine Elders ami, Danny, is getting baptized on Saturday! He walked into church a month ago and was like well who is gonna teach me? He is so so so so cool. It'll be good.

 Life is what you make it, so we'll make it rock!

Soeur Nay

Zoo for Pday

7 Euro Pizza

Food from the SHAPE ward

Week 18: Transfer 4!!

Hey everyone!

I'm just going to start out by telling you the story of Gosling. We found him one morning and took pictures with him and gave him a name and we thought that he was our first miracle for the day...he was dead the whole time and now we avoid that street because he smells
horrible :(

We went over the rétablissment with Patricia on Wednesday and she knew everything, the year, what age he was, what scripture he read. She studies those brochures and it makes me so happy! The only question she had was who is the prophet today? We went home so happy. The next day we went to help her take a load of things over to her son Nigel's apartment and she asked if we would help her with groceries. When we went, it was actually us grocery shopping and her telling us what to get so we would stop just eating cereal at home. She is going to start teaching us how to cook and in turn we are going to teach her some English. She's a really sweet lady, except when she put dog food in the cart and said I would probably like it.  She wants to have a primary activity with the kids too, she is so well integrated with the ward!

We did a lot of porting this week. Had a lot of weird things happen.  Had a random guy come up and grab me and plant a bisous on me so that was terrifying. Uhhh yeah.
It's the beginning of another transfer! Transfer 4..how did that happen!? Me and Soeur McBride get to keep doing our thing here in Nivelles but a lot of things are changing around us. It's going to be a great transfer! We are pretty stoked :')

Have a good week!


Sœur Nay

District - Transfer 4

Talking to Gosling

Gosling

Patricia

Week 17: soihushougoss70us8ohlsbo

Hey hey hey,

The mission is amazing, and I am half way done training! How did that happen? Me and Soeur McBride made peaches and tuna almost everyday this week and it was amazing. Also, we had two amazing porting experiences. We prayed with and gave the Book of Mormon to an Athiest/scientist and it was such a cool experience! Another lady let us in and we discussed all of retab and she accepted the Book of Mormon...then said she is leaving to Ruwanda for 4 months...ahhh man.
We also had zone conference so here's a not so great picture of that. It was one of those long weeks but that's okay, next week is gonna be so great!

Have a good week everyone. :)

Soeur Nay

Bruxelles Zone

Peaches and Tuna