Hello Family and Friends-
Ohhhh my goodnesss what a fantastic week we have had! I LOVE this work so much. And I am completely sure that I have the best companions in the world. Zuster Meier and Zuster Gallego are the best.
We have been having such a crazy week with appointments with less-actives, recent converts, and investigators this week plus the 16 referrals we have received for the "Joy to the World" DVD's we have been delivering! We have a new investigator named Lucero who basically only speaks spanish so Zuster Gallego has been loving it since her native language is Spanish. She unfortunately leaves this week though and we are so sad to lose her :( Me and Zuster Meier will need to brush up on our spanish. I dont know how that is going to work out but we will do our best! Didier, our recent convert that was baptized about a month ago went to the Temple to do baptisms for the dead on Saturday with the Branch President Pres VanHees and it was SOOO good! He was so happy and it just made my whole year seeing that happiness in him. On Chrismas Eve we will be spending the night at President VanHees's house with Didier and I cannot even wait. It will be such an amazing holiday season! We just got a Christmas tree for our apartment from Zuster Geens and Its sooo fun! She gave us ornaments and all the lights and decorations. She really is like my other little mom. So now our apartment is all festive and ready for Christmas as well. We have our big mission wide zone conference this coming Thursday and Elder Texeira from the 70 is speaking and I am so excited. So we will travel all the way up to Amsterdam on Wednesday for that. Then Zuster Meier will be in Leiden for a huge council for all the leadership missionaries and I will be heading down south to Breda and work with another sister for just one day and then we will finally return back to Gent on Friday night. It will be one crazy week! We also had a small miracle the other day. We had gone to deliver a DVD to a referral and they ended up not wanting it. So we were walking back to the bus stop and Zr Gallego saw this lady working out in her yard and went right up to her and just said "Can we help you with your yard work?" She was BLOWN AWAY. She kept saying "why on earth would you do that?" You dont get paid?! And we kept saying no no we are volunteers etc etc. We ended up helping her in her yard and had a nice lunch of soup and bread that was delicious! they were so sweet and it was such a good feeling to beable to just help someone completely random. Missionary work is the best!
So funny story, Guess who Zuster Meier's dance coach all through high school was? Lorna Strong! All of a sudden she said she went to Hunter High School and it rung a bell in my head and I asked her if she knew Lorna Strong and we both just freaked out. Both her and her family know Tom and all of the kids. It was such a fun little connection we made! We are having a blast and I am absolutely loving it. I love this gospel so much and I love being out here on a mission being an instrument in the lords hands. Especially during the Christmas Season it is so fun to walk around and talk to random people about why this season is so important. I love all of you and thank you for your wonderful support and prayers!
Love, Zuster Brophy
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