11-6-17

Coucou!

Well, I'm sure you've all been dying to know the transfer decision (because, you know, you've got my transfers marked on your calendar) so I'll tell you already... I'm staying in Bruxelles!! No way!! Yeah... that's not really a surprise. The real question is, who will be my companion? Stay tuned to find out!

This week we got to see Meredith twice! She is still on track for her baptism in December and this week we taught her the Plan of Salvation. She had a million zillion questions and it took us several appointments to answer all of them, but she now has a really good understanding of it all. My favorite part of our lessons this week was when she asked us to explain the Atonement to her. She told us that when she learned about it in cathecism she never understood it. We explained that it's as if Jesus Christ is paying a debt that we cannot pay, thus satisfying the demands of justice and mercy. It was so incredible to see her understand this principle and begin to apply it in her life! She invited us to her wedding! She's getting married on March 21 to the member that brought her to church.

We also had a really fun FHE with Nene's family again!! They are less active, partially because they live so far away from the church, partially because the mom is the most motivated of the 5 to come. The 3 girls have varying interest in coming but they LOVED our FHE, complete with a lesson on warm fuzzies, warm fuzzy-making, scattegories, and banana muffins! We hope to help them make friends in the ward so they have more reasons to come on Sundays :)

For this lesson, I got to translate the warm fuzzies story into French. It was some intense language story. Fun fact: there is no translation for the word "warm;" neither is there one for "fuzzy." Our solution? Call them "cozy balls" or "boules douilettes" No matter what they are called, they are stinking cute and fun to make! The kids loved it!

The rest of this week was busy trying to see a lot of amis and members. Highlights are Tanya (incredible as ever), the Trigo family (3 generations all living in the same house-- we taught the grandma and 6 of her grandkids) and Sr Ballon (the surprise mangez-vous from last time. We were prepared this time and enjoyed some crab soup, noodles, spring rolls, and cassava? I think? something in banana leaves). We also got our flu shots from some cool British doctors and I ate several delicious piping hot gauffres :)

What was that? Transfer decisions? Oh yeah! I get to stay with Soeur Peterson!! HOORAY!!! We are so pumped for next transfer. We've got a lot of momentum going right now in our missionary work and we are so excited for all the goodies next transfer will bring.

Je vous aime tous, à tantôt!!

Soeur Rogers