I have another train story for ya! But we'll get to that later.
I hope you all had a great week! I had a pretty good one. It was plein d'adventure.
Monday we went to a church that had a little famous super old baptismal font. They recently restored the church building so they made a little video about it- with like 2 minutes about the baptismal font. They're very proud of their video haha, they made sure we got to see it and in English. So that was fun. That night we went to the doctor for Soeur Nelson - same Doctor I went to. Party.
Tuesday we did some LARC hunting, aka we wrote a list of a bunch of people we don't know that live relatively close together and went on a hunt. (LARC is less active/recent convert) Did some porting. The fun never ends!
Wednesday morning we went and saw Kristalina, she's a recent convert, got baptized in February and she's probably one of my absolute favorite people on the planet. She has cancer and is really really sick but she's always so positive and happy, and always happy to see
us and talk about the gospel. Last week she had to be in the hospital in Brussels for tests so we couldn't see her and it was probably one of the sweetest moments of my life when she told us how much she missed getting to talk about the gospel and taking the sacrament. She is an ange.
Then the adventure really begins, Tuesday the STLs got here for exchanges with the other Liège soeurs, and we headed back with them to do our exchanges in Lille Wednesday afternoon. So we had to take a train to Brussels and then connect with another train to Lille. We got to the gare on time, our train was at 15h, and the train out of Brussels was at 16h17, and it would take an hour to get there. But on the platform of our train (which was sitting there with the doors closed) it said "ne pas embarquer" where it should have said Brussels. Stressing. So we talked to a conductor that told us we could take a different train- that one takes an hour and a half because it makes more stops :( long story short we missed our connection, but made it to Brussels.
We went to information and got set up with a new itinerary- got to Ghent and then make the connection to Lille. We would have 15 minutes in between. But then the train to Ghent keeps stopping randomly on the track and sitting. So we roll into the Ghent gare with one minute before our other train leaves. We SPRINT out, find the board that says where all the trains are and SPRINT to our platform, as we got up the escalator the whistle blew, we hopped on and the doors shut behind us - biggest exchange miracle of my life. Ghent is in the other mission where they speak Dutch, most people speak French as well and often English but still miracle that we didn't have to deal with that. So then the conductor comes through to check our tickets and it turns out that this train splits at the second stop, one half goes to Lille and the other doesn't - so at the first stop we got off and ran to the other side.
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| "after we caught our miracle train to Lille. when it was EMPTY and we panicked" |
Missionary work.
Thursday we had exchanges. It was good. :) did some porting.
Friday. Did some planning. Ate with a less active.
Saturday. Did some work
Sunday. Eglise. We were told were singing in the choir for the fête de Noël (they are so excited for this Christmas party, it's literally the only thing they ever plan in advance or get people to work together on) so yeah. I never thought I would participate in so many musical productions. but yeah, rounded out the day with some porting and had another adventure trying to get home tonight. Buses in Liège are not my friends. Especially Sunday nights.
But it all worked out! We made it home safe and sound! So yeah. Those were the most interesting things that happened to me this week!
Everybody pray that Soeur Nelson and I can find some new Amis!
Love you all! But not as much as God does!
Soeur Hansen
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| "Got creative in the kitchen" |
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