happy halloween!

today we had a zone halloween party! sister hinchcliff and i hosted it here in antwerpen and it turned out so fun! i made pumpkin feest with fresh pumpkin soup and pumpkin desserts and then we carved pumpkins together. i wish i could put up a photo of the fun pumpkins/pineapple/melons that we carved. yes i said pineapple and melon.. it is not easy to find "normal" carving pumpkins here so some of the elders just bought things that they thought they could carve. i bought a big pumpkin this week and spent all my free time cutting away at this thing to puree it for everything. i am very grateful for canned pumpkin haha but everything turned out soo delicious and im happy that i got to celebrate with 18 of my fav missionaries :)

the week itself.. was good? i dont even remember haha we definitely had our ups and downs since lots of appts did not go through but we still kept very busy and have some wonderful people we are working with that make this work worthwhile.  and the members, i love them. we had an hilarious dinner with a phillipino woman and her daughter on tuesday night where we just died laughing the whole time and ate soo much good food. it was one of the elders last day on his mission and the woman kept making predictions for his future wife while the elder was trying to teach a spiritual lesson. he was not happy. poor guy, none of us could contain ourselves. and the other day we stopped by to visit an older couple and she had knitted us little pigs and mice and had us come in for soup.  no other time in my life will i be welcomed into everyones house with food and gifts.

have a safe and happy halloween!!

zuster jones

 

ps. the mail system here can sometimes take forever so i want to start collecting addresses now to send out christmas cards! if you want a christmas photo card please send you address to my mom!directkelly@gmail.com