Week 60 - "These are our plains"

Family! Hullllooooo!

Well alors this week- honesty racking my brain about what to tell you guys, we did lots of missionary work. So yeah.

Monday there was a bus strike, so weird to see Liège without buses. The next morning when we got up and could hear them outside our
apartment again it was so reassuring. Some people have security blankets or good luck charms, we have loud yellow buses.




Tuesday we went to Brussels for a conference with Elder Kearon (President of the interregion) Sister Burton and Sister Oscarson! It was wonderful! We got to hear President and Soeur Babin speak English. They both speak really well but we don't hear it very often- so cute, especially President saying "Oscarson", that one wasn't easy. It was our zone and the Lille zone, so about fifty missionaries. So so good. I loved Elder Keaton's talk, his wife spoke for a few minutes about his conversion story which was really neat - and then he just gave us a pep talk haha we've been quoting his one liners all week "these are our plains!" And "we thrive on adversity!" Whenever we were like walking somewhere or we got frudged we would just say "these are our plains!"

The rest of the week we just worked. A lot. Like always. We're both old and sage so we're trying really hard to make this a transfer where we just get going and take everything we know and work as hard and as smart as possible. I really like Soeur Nelson, she's just easygoing and she is down for anything so it's super easy to teach her the ville.

One focus of ours is to be really efficient with our time- if we have an hour we can go contacting instead of doing a random pass by to avoid doing finding. I mean sometimes we need to do pass bys but we're trying to find new people and the way to accomplish that goal is by doing finding so we're trying to be disciplined and yeah. That's the goal.

So on that note one experience I wanted to share with you guys - it's been on my mind this week. I think it was Wednesday or Thursday I don't remember honestly but we were walking somewhere and we had a little time so we were contacting and we stopped this lady and she was like tout de suite on the defensive and tried to wave us off by saying she wasn't believing (little do they know we want to talk to everyone, not just believing people!) but since she was belge she was nice enough to stop for a second when we asked her a little more. She shared with us briefly some of the trials she's had in her life and that they make her feel like there's no God. You could just see how much pain she was in, so we testified in the quick second we had with her that God loved her and had a plan for her, and that we can all find hope and peace through Jesus Christ.

We have experiences like that pretty frequently - people aren't always willing to stop or hear us out but like more or less, we contact a lot - but for some reason that experience has been on my mind. It made me reflect on how much God really does love us individually and personally. He loves that woman we talked to and He wanted her to know 

that.

Yeah. Getting deep over here.

I love you guys! Have a great week! Remember you are loved!

Soeur Hansen

In the words of Sister Burton "It's a Korean thing"