I got a big hug from Zuster Boegaerts and Julie when I saw them. They are both in love with you two. Z. Boegaerts told me not to change myself and to stay spontaneous like my momma! I hear that you met the ZLs and pretended to be a visitor from Germany. Haha So great. the Elders told me that you (Mom) and I are exactly the same and I am very proud of that:) Haha!
This week was a weird week but still really awesome. Things with Eugene are good. I think I told you that he fell and hurt himself so now he has to either move to a rest home or move in with his kids..Jammer. We will see what happens with him this upcoming week.
We didn't get to meet with Marisa this week...Total bummer. She is kinda flaking on us which sucks but we hope we can get an appointment with her this week.
Remember the Romanians? Victoria and her friend Creola? Well we stopped by their appointment the other day and they were totally open and happy to see us. We read Alma 32 With them and it was super spiritual. Creola was so excited because that scripture answered a question she had. She bought a pot a couple of months ago that said something like "the pot is the hope and the flower is the gift or faith or something" Anyways she was wondering what that meant and after reading she was super excited because she understood what that meant. (If you don't know what I am talking about you should probably read Alma 32 this week)
Zuster Rigdon had another meeting in the Netherlands so that meant a lot of traveling and me spending time in Maastricht knocking doors. I do have to say that I am getting a little better at my Dutch. Haha Whenever we are by Julie she always gets super mad if we say anything in English..thanks mom:).
We went to the youth stake fireside on Friday night which was super good and also Saturday night we had the adult session of Stake Conference. That was SOOOOOO GOOOD! the Area Seventy who spoke was so bold and just said everything that everyone needed to say. He definitely is pushing the members to do their part of missionary work and I think it is great. He is also pushing us to do better. I think it is fantastic.
Haha.. Saturday night the Turnhout sister slept over (because we had stake conference in Brussels on Sunday) so we decided to have a competition to see who could finish a can of whipping cream the fastest. I didn't win.. I thought I was going to though. Haha It was fun.
Sunday was fabulous. We picked up Ashley (one of the youth who we reactivated) and went to conference with brother Schiltz. He is totally awesome btw. He told me about Belgium and life in the car. He is really a cool guy and can't wait for you guys to meet them when you come pick me up. Stake Conference was great. When the Seventy spoke..it was sooo good. Ashley was even crying (which means of course I was crying). She told us that she really wants to go on a mission and is going to start preparing now. Soooo cool.
Here is just a thought: I remember the feeling of the day you guys dropped me off at the MTC and how sad I was and all the different mixes off emotions. Do you guys remember that? I do. Anyways. That feeling you guys had, the feelings we had were the same feelings that we had when we left our Father in Heaven except for those feelings were even stronger. Heavenly Father gave us a big hug and said "I will see you again." I cant imagine how he feels now as he watches live our lives. He just loves us sooo much. He knows that being here on earth is what we need to be doing in order to be happier and perfect like him. Just like how you guys know we need to be on a mission right now in order to be better when we get home. Thank you for all of the support you guys give me. I know this is the church of Jesus Christ. I know that I am not perfect but by live the gospel and following the words of the prophets, we can become perfect, we CAN live together forever.
This is the work of the Lord and I am so excited to be helping and doing my part. I love you guys a ton. Hope I didn't forget anything.
Transfer calls are next week..I think I am going to be staying in Antwerpen....sadly that means Zuster Rigdon is leaving..but we won't know until next week!
Steph thank you for the letter! I will write back asap. LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! Keep being awesome.
Zuster Kohlert
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