well well well.
Im home.
Not sure how this really happened or where the time went but its good to be back in my beautiful sunny southern california and see all the people i have missed.  However, after giving a presentation today to an older crowd about my mission and as I sit here preparing a talk for tomorrow my heart is starting to ache for the things I have left behind.  Ive been living in a cloud for the last couple of days, a happy one, but i think the reality of the situation has begun to sink in.  My mission is over.  Im home.  my life is changed completely once again.  at the moment i feel extremely numb.  mostly due to the fact that i havent really been able to adjust to the time difference or truely relax yet, but im sure soon i will be my normal very much alive self and ready to see you all again!

so anywho the reason I came on here, probably for the last time (and first since my fam and friends were the ones updating this blog every week) was to let you know about my homecoming(s).

1st one is tomorrow.. so no one will see this before than but its in my home ward in Los Alamitos.  dont worry, you wont be missing much.
but next weekend, June 23 i believe, at 1pm in the eldorado ward I will speak and then most likely have  a little get together at my place so i can see more of your pretty faces.
so leave a message on here, send me a message on facebook, call me (same number), or find some way to update me on your lives!
thanks for all your support in the last 18 months, its meant more to me than you know!
veel liefs,
jen (zuster) Jones

soo i dont know how many more of these entries you will be seeing.. ill be home in a little more than 3 weeks and right now dont really even want to be emailing, ive got things to do and see! :) but i thought i could share at least a miracle and leave a picture or 2 maybe.. ill write another 1 or 2 of these before home and give you all info for when i will be actually home and ready to see you all again! too crazy.. 

soo.. the miracle: we are going to have a baptism before i leave! (if everything goes as planned of course). tuesday morning our appt cancelled and on our way to our back up plan we had the feeling to stop by an apartment from a former the elders had told us about.  we had been a couple of times but she was never home.  this time we belled up with no answer and then were about to leave on our bikes when the door to the apartment building opens! so we got to go up to her place, she let us in to talk and we found out she has a 5 week old baby! Her life is finally at the place she needed to be at to start living the gospel. she told us it was so weird that we came by because sunday she had tried to come to the church but it didnt work out! she is so ready to be baptized and change her life now and were here to help :) she is a MMA (mixed martial arts) former olympian in training and her father was a NBA basketball player (rudy jackson) so she is a verryy tall woman who you wouldnt want to mess with and then she has this adorable teeny tiny (premature) baby and they are both just the sweetest things ever.  im excited to get to teach her for the last few weeks! 

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this week has been the strangest but one of the coolest of my missions since im kind of just making up what were supposed to do right now.. lets see Tuesday was the coolest, queens/now kings day! so fun and I ate raw haring :)  wasn't too bad! then Wednesday was the big day! went into the mission office around 9:30 and then met our greenies and had a training in this super classy hotel across the street. the greenies all stay in a hotel now since the mission home isn't big enough to house groups of 30 and then we have all trainings in a conference room.  these new girls are amazing.  the quality of missionary has totally changed and im sad that I wont be a part of it for too long :( but glad that im still here to see all these changes take place.  after a long training and a super fancy lunch, we got my comps luggage and headed to Groningen! 3 1/2 hours later.. we made it to the train station and a girl in the ward picked us up, gave us dinner and got us settled in our new area.  by this time it was 8pm.. a very long day! the next morning we realized the maps on our phone don't work and we had no other map of where we were and only knew that one member... so we were sitting in our house with no idea where we were haha thankfully im good at directions and just went to the store and bought a map and weve been just fine ever since.  it was hard for the first few days not knowing anyone but thankfully we have 2 amazing elders here who take care of us! now weve met tons of potential investigators, taught our first 2 lessons here and have found 5 people that are officially meeting with us to find out more! all in 6 days :) and one of those days we had to go back to the mission office so we traveled for 7 hours.. im loving this city and am so grateful to be here for my last weeks.  that still does not seem real. I think its going to be harder to come home then I thought.. but im excited to see you all of course!

Pics!

we were not in our city much this week which was fun but crazy. monday we went to zaandam, tuesday amsterdam, wed i was on exchages in den haag, thurs we exchanged back in dordrecht and fri we were in the mission home in leidschedam.. ohh my what a week, no wonder i am sick right? but all of it was great and somehow we still do alright in our city with work too.  so you might have heard about the change in missions with sisters being involved in leadership positions..  friday we had our first mission leadership council and i was lucky enough to be one of the first sister to ever attend :) i dont know exactly yet what our duties will be but well find out more info this week.  its an exciting time to be a missionary :)

other than that i really just enjoyed teaching families this week, helping prepare kids for baptism and realizing how much i really do love kids.

so this coming week im looking forward to being healthier, going to the temple and keukenhof, planning 2 baptisms and hopefully enjoying a little more spring like weather! (which means rain and 60's here but thats better than snow and 30's :))

love you all!

zuster j

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im blowing away!!
on to this week! all that i remember was this last weekend.. but it was a fantastic one! we set 3 baptismal dates, 2 that will happen next weekend because theyre children from a member and were just lucky enough to get to teach them a little, and then one for the end of next month with peter! my fav! im really praying this one goes through on that date cause ill be transferred the next week so im being a little selfish! but this man is great and i love teaching him and getting to know him better! he has really taken a hold on the gospel and i love reading scriptures with him and seeing how well he applies them in his life.  the gospel just makes so much sense and he is loving that.  we also received lots of referrals this week that are all going places! and should be setting 2 more super positive baptismal dates this week. the only bummer is one of our progressing investigators that i really loved just moved to amsterdam so we had to give him over to the elders :( but im feeling super blessed right now with all the work im able to do and the difference im able to see in the lives of others.  were teaching one man (rene) who lost his wife about a month ago (i think of mentioned this) who has already started planning his own baptism! the ward has already picked him up and all we have to do is say hello at church and teach him during the week :) im hoping to see quite a few baptisms here before i leave and i love it! 
i just wish the wind would stop blowing!! oh my! weve had crazy crazy winds that freeze your face off! im not sure how fast they are but the wind chill has been around -15  to -20 and its not so fun.  we cancelled our pday plans today so we wouldnt have to go out in it.  i guess this is the coldest march they have ever had here.  i want to see pretty flowers! i live in the tulip field part of holland and am ready to see all the colors! but it will be here soon enough since time seems to fly by! 
ok thats all for now! tot volgende week!
love zuster j 

Even More Pics!

More Pics!

 Amsterdam!

   

 new/old comp sister schwab on exchanges

 Sister Rigdon and ik at zone conference

 MTC kids all grown up!

Sunday picnic at the windmill

1st off! we can email each other now! so if you have something exciting to tell me or just want to say hi, send me an email! jenjones148@myldsmail.net

ok on to my week! it was a crazyy one according to my companion but i dont really remember.. haha ill send photos though so you can at least see some of the adventures.  we sent to the anne frank house in amsterdam last pday and took lots of photos, explored, shopped and ate. everything i love to do.  i love that city too as long as youre not on the wrong streets :) 
we had sister exchanges last week and i was paired up with sister schwab again! she is from my mtc district and i served with her for 6 weeks in gouda. it was a super fun day and i was reminded of how well we work together! then guess what?? we got transfer calls last night and sister schwab is coming to serve with me in haarlem! were super excited to work hard together and get ourselves in shape mentally/spiritually/physically for our last transfer here.  im going to miss my hilarious comp now but this is her greenie city and she needs to go somewhere new where she can really progress!  
thursday we were in leiden for zone conference with president and that was definitely the highlight from the week! i got to see my elders from the mtc and just enjoyed being around everyone and feeling the spirit so strong.  i love many aspects of missionary work but there is nothing like getting together with 50+ missionaries and sharing ideas/testimonies and having some fun! i wish i could just be a missionary like this forever when im in those moments.  
funny moments from the week: 
-our investigator opening the door naked covered in soap to tell us that she was showering and we couldnt meet.  dont worry she was hiding her body behind the door :)
-i almost died when my brakes gave out on my bike and a scooter was flying at me.. ok maybe thats not funny but i survived so it is now.  
love you all and cant wait to receive emails from you soon!
-zuster j 

ok so this week! hmm.. we actually spent a lot of time knocking doors this week (which we dont normally do) to change things up a bit.  im trying to figure out what is the most productive use for missionaries time in this area.  every area is different, even if its only 20 minutes away. this country is super interesting. there is a different dialect every 30 mins basically and the accents are so different in every part that even the people in the same country have a hard time understanding each other.  i think thats why this language is so hard for missionaries because everyone speaks it differently.  but ive really come to love it. last night we had a stake fireside about missionary work and people came up and shared experiences they have had with reactivation.  it was fun to try to figure out where each person was from based on their different accents.  im in the den haag stake (the hague) but it covers from den haag all the way to the top of north holland (above amsterdam). there are only 4 stakes in our mission so they each cover a pretty large area and people have to travel pretty far to go to church functions. most people dont have cars either so for example in our ward if you live at the top of our boundaries and dont have a car it can take around 2 hours to get to church since the bus system isnt as frequent on sundays. dedication. 
a family we had dinner with this last week shared this video with us that you should check out. its called "the difference between holland and the netherlands" on youtube. its hilarious how confusing this "country" is.  holland is only a very small section of the netherlands.  
people always ask about food too.  food depends on the season here but since its winter almost every meal consists of a kind of meat (some kind of sausage or giant kind of meat ball usually), potatoes of course, and a green, usually spinach or other greens that we dont eat very often in america so i cant think of what you would call them in english.  then you cover it all with a thin sort of gravy (usually just the juices from the meat).  ive never had a "bad" meal here but after a few winter months you get sick of potatoes and meat.  they also make this mashed potato dish that is just a potatoes and other veggies mashed together.  so its just another variation of the everyday foods.  there is also of course the strong indo influence here in with food so we also eat a lot of rice dishes (nasi) and noodle dishes (bami) that are filled with indo spices and greens. i love indo food! they use this sause called saute saus that is basically a sort of peanut butter fatty yummy thing that you put on your food.  makes everything taste good but your boday (well mine) doesnt love it after :) i definitely dont go hungry here! 

ok thats the cultural 101 for this week :) hope you all had a great week! it was sunny for a little last week but the rain and freezing weather came back yesterday and we even got a little snow.. spring will be here soon though i hope! 
love you all!
<3<3
zuster j

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great week in north holland! someone will hopefully be uploading photos soon but here is the weeks updates for now. 
we got to go to the corrie ten boom house saturday for our lunch break and it was so interesting! i love the historical sites you can find all over this country! look up the story on this woman, shes quite an amazing person! 
one cool thing from this week, we started helping our investigator maria stop smoking and its been a fun journey! shes been smoking like a chimney for 35 years so its not an easy thing for her at all. thankfully she lives in our building so we go see her whenever we leave or come home and we gave up sugar for her so she could feel that extra support.  its been funny because im used to doing no sugar weeks but my comp has never tried. well be out and about where she would normally stop to buy a cookie or a treat and shell want it so bad but i just say, "think of maria.." haha poor thing i dont think she enjoys this part of being my companion. we had 4 positive investigators at church yesterday and we were so proud when peter, our investigator who is the sweetest man ever, answered another investigators questions using joseph smith as an example.  he just gets it and its great! i love seeing the light and happiness that this gospel brings to these people.  even when they dont fully except it they still make such beautiful positive changes in their lives and i am so happy that i can be a small part of this!

where do i begin? it was a crazy busy week full of lots of travel between zone conference and exchanges! we also had a ward party that we threw and were busy getting ready for that! we were so nervous that no one was going to show up to the valentines party we threw but it turned out to be a huge success and was so fun! we did karaoke and had lots of yummy food, cookie decorating, etc.
we had an appt with flavio and maria (mom and son, flavio is 14) and flavio shared this story:  Flavio was asking a lot of questions and we talked to him about prayer and the feelings we receive from the spirit.  He responded with ya but praying is kind of scary.. of course we needed more explanation.  he then says, "i havent told my mom this but after we talked i went in my room to pray and asked god if he really does exists to give me some kind of sign, like a knock. then i heard a knock and i got a really warm burning feeling in my chest, i dont know what that was but it shocked me." what?! we responded to him by telling him that was soo cool and that that was his answer and that he needs to keep praying to continue to feel those feeling and to develop a testimony.
what a great kid.  im excited to continue watching him grow.  such a cool feeling to have in a lesson.  
ok i dont have much more time, were off to amsterdam today for a photo scavenger hunt pday with our zone!
love you all, have a great week!
<3<3 zuster j

soo this week... hmm.. it was rainy.. then there was hail.. then rain
then big hail that felt like needles in your skin.. then sun.. then
snow.. then lots of snow.. now its just frozen.  haha i wonder if ill
ever write a letter without talking about the weather.
ok the real excitment of the week.. like a told you, we spent all of
wednesday with president and sister robinson (sorry we didnt take any
pictures..it was a busy day and we forgot until the last 10 mins of
the evening..) but it was a great day! we have 2 baptismal dates that
are doing great and that we got to teach with president. he is a great
teacher and i really enjoyed getting to teach with him!  by the way,
next week is the end of the transfer again.. crazy! but because of all
the changes this transfer is only 5 weeks and next transfer is only 4
weeks (normally 6). but i should be staying in haarlem for at least
the next transfer.
this week i learned what it feels like to be old.  my back went out
this week. or just got really tight and i couldnt move very well.  i
looked like a penguin trying to walk the snowy streets contacting
people haha but eventually i decided it was a good idea to talk to
sister robinson about it and they immediately brought me a new
mattress (i was sleeping on foam) and then when i went to a meeting
later our ward mission leader saw me (hes a docter) and gave me lots
of pain meds and ordered me to rest.  so im doing just fine now! still
a little stiff but not feeling much haha.
well this week i have officially been in the land 1 year! i officially
feel like a european after living through all the seasons haha but the
language.. im definitely not a skilled language learner. i did give a
10 min talk in church yesterday that ended up being 20 mins because i
guess i couldnt shut up haha so at least i know i can do that with no
problems.  the bishop ended up kicking me and throwing a note on the
podium to get me to shut up haha they are very strict on time here.
highlight of the week was our 14 year old investigator stopping me
when i began to pray and asking if he could say it instead.  we were
getting worried about him because he wasnt showed as much interest but
that prayer helped us to realize that he still wants this.  it was a
cool moment.

love you all!
<3 zuster j

i really dont have too much to report this week.. hopefully soon ill be able to upload photos more often and then you can just enjoy that instead of so many words.. heres a short piece from my letter for this week!

the snow has completely stopped and now its around 5degrees so that means its warm enough for lots of rain and lots of wind since im on the coast now.  there was one day where the wind was so strong that we had to stop biking and put our feet on the ground to stop us from flying away haha i was so spoiled with california weather.  if we had weather like this at home people would freak.  and here there are still people out riding bikes likes its nothing.  i love it.  

then of course there are always miracles to go along with the funny stuff. we got another headquarters refferral this week and had just gone by to make the appt but it was a bell up (dont know how to explain that..we just bell him up at his apartment builiding?) so we hadnt seen him or really talked to him.  after the week we had had we just wanted someone positive to talk to.  and we sure found it :) this man is dating a girl who just recently got baptized in the states.  he saw how happy the church has made her and wanted to see what it is all about.  he is rustig.. uh restful? hmm i dont know how to describe him in english. hes just willing to sit and listen and feel the spirit. i love him already.  dont know where this will go but he is excited to learn more and i am oh so greatful for that! 

love you all! tot volgende week!

zuster j

ok on to my week! The work is coming along here in haarlem! we had one miracle this week that im still laughing about.  we received a hq referral earlier this week (always exciting) and were even more excited to see that she lives on the ocean (i hadnt seen a real beach since ca). so as we were walking to the appt i kinda of prayed/talked to sister rigdon that we were going to set a baptismal date with this woman and that she would get baptized in the ocean.  we never thought someone would actually desire that in this weather.  but.. we show up to this womans door, she lets us in, we teach a great 1st, invite her to be baptized and she says "i already made a promise with god that i would only get baptized in the ocean so only if i can do that with your church". we tried our best to keep a straight face but my comp lost it and i excitedly told her that wed do our best to make that possible! and you know me and the ocean, this gives me even more motivation to keep this woman on board haha so i will let you know about her. 

we had another amazing appt with a mom and son that we are teaching.  her son is 14 yrs old and is the cutest coolest kid.  weve been teaching his mom but he is always in the room too and we knew he was listening.  this week we watched the restoration and he was glued to the tv the whole time and kept asking questions.  he loved it and agreed to come to church with his mom.  then the coolest part of the night, his mom asked him to say the closing prayer and he looked at her and said i have no idea how to do that. but he wanted to know.  so we taught him a simple prayer and he was so nervous! it was adorable! he kept starting and then pausing and grunting and then asking questions and then starting over until he got it perfect! then sunday he was at church all 3 hours and the ym's president and bishop got to teach him and then he sat with a ym in sacrament meeting.  im excited for this kid to really start to understand everything, hes so smart and has such great deep questions!

other than that we just rode around in the snow all week, had an awesome zone training, ate lots of good food and laughed a whole lot.  im looking forward to another great week!

love you all!

zuster j

Pictures from Antwerpen!

 One of my fav parts of Antwerpen (For the shopping)

 Brugge w/ some Elders! on top of the bell tower, if only you could see the view...

 Chinese dinner w/ Tao and Dan!

 I don't know but I like it :)

 Typical Belgium.  Mommy bike, chocolates, cobble stone and brick

Just looking Mormon and doing what we do :)

Jen's New Address

Sister Jen Jones

371 prattenburg

2036 SM Haarlem

Netherlands

greetings from a very frozen holland!  this week has been one of the strangest of my whole mission from leaving my very favorite city to coming back to holland to lots and lots of snow!  but im living in an adorable new city that seriously looks like fairy tale land now with all of the snow!  i wish it felt more like a fairy tale to bike in the snow haha but its been one hilarious adventure! yesterday we got about 4 inches of snow in the afternoon while we were walking around trying to 'find' people.  too bad we were the only ones stupid enough to be outside in it and we got very strange looks when we showed up at doors looking like snowmen.  it was soo funny and the whole area just looked so majestic, i loved it.  i now know what fresh powder means, but i have bike peddles under my feet in place of ski's...

my new comp is sister rigdon and shes hilarious! its going to be a very fun transfer.  im trying to get used to the new schedule since im used to a very busy city and lots of appts and this is a very quiet place and they just had a baptism here and dont have any other progressing investigators so we need to just find people to teach.  we set one baptismal date since ive been here with a lady who lives in our building though! and this week we will find the other crazy people out walking in the snow with us :)  
love you all! enjoy the warm weather for me :)
love zuster j 

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1st big news... im off to Haarlem on wednesday!  ok maybe i dont feel like that exclamation point at the end of the sentence right now but i know i will when i get there. and ive gone on exchanges with my new comp and i LOVE her so i know this will be a fun new adventure.  shes on her 3rd transfer so shell still have the greenie energy that i love :) im definitely leaving a huge chunk of my heart here in antwerpen though. thankfully i got to say goodbye to a lot of my fav people yesterday and i still have some appts tonight and tomorrow to get closure ;) serisously if you have low self esteem just go on a mission! these people just shower me with love and compliments, and gifts! haha this morning our ward mission leader called and was so sad that i was leaving that he showed up at our grocery store while we were shopping to buy me a box of truffles.  i love these people. 

well onto our week! it was a long one but definitely a good one!  we taught 3 new amazing people this week that i am soo sad that i will not be here to teach!  we have been teaching this older woman for a few weeks now that i had been trying to teach since my first transfer here that i absolutely love!  her husband died about 2 months ago, (we came to the door moments after he died in their house, i think i told you this before) so now shes a little stronger and loving the company that we bring as well.  she wanted to join the church before but her husband was stopping her and now shes starting to really understand the book of mormon and really wants to believe that she can be sealed to her family forever.  the miracle this week was that she told us to go visit her daughter (ive met her twice before) so we went by her house and had an amazing evening with her and her husband getting to know each other and discussing the gospel. they told us that they are looking for a church and want us to keep coming back to teach more.  oh im so sad i cant teach them, but i know i will be in contact with them after my mission, i have a really strong bond with this family. 

hmmm. i also got proposed to twice this week by african men and followed for a good 20 mins until we went and hid at a members house till they went away.  goodness sometimes i dont love living in a city and having blonde hair. 

i love my life :)

tot volgende week van nederland! ik hou van jullie!

zuster j

 

beste wensen idereen! thats what everyone said to us at church yesterday and i was a little confused until i realized that we hadnt seen then since the year before :) this week was crazy to say the least and although it went by quickly it feels like new years was forever ago.  

highlights for this week:

-teaching tons of lessons!  since we have 5 baptismal dates, were very busy!

-going to amsterdam on exchanges

-having interviews with president

i loved this week! i got to see all the sisters and my second parents 3 days this week :) i really felt like i learned and progressed a ton this week too which always feels good.  i love going on exchanges even though it is exhausting because of all the travel (antwerpen to amsterdam is about 3 hours on a train) but i got to work with new sisters and got to help them set a baptismal date and find some new people to teach and thats always fun.  when i first got to the city i thought, ok ive seen amsterdam now..that was enough. but by the end of the exchange i had fallen in love and felt comfortable in the city.  then friday during my interview with president he come right out and says, "well you time is almost up here in antwerpen". i was very confused but then he says we have less than 2 weeks left in the transfer.. weve been so busy i have not paid attention to that at all. plus i thought id stay here another transfer with my greenie but he told me hes been thinking a lot about me lately and wants me to work in other places. well see what happens though!  hope you all have a great week and ill keep you updated on address changes soon!

love you all!

zuster j  

happy new year! im excited to write out my new years traditions tonight and refliecton the amazing year i have had!  this was a really fantastic week! we saw miracles with old investigators showing up at church and a member telling us that she wants us to start teaching her boyfriend!  and we set 3 new baptismal dates!  highlight of this week non spiritual wise was learning how to make pupusas (cant spell) with my favorite el salvadorian family! soo delicious and hopefully i will be able to recreate it when i get home :)  this week were learning how to make chinese food with our chinese investigators! i love this city and all of the amazing experiences i am able to have :)

sorry for the short letter this week, the ghetto internet cafes computers have froze on me twice so ive had to retype letters over and over and im done now haha love you all and have a safe and happy new year! 

love,

zuster j

so funny crazy stories from this week, because yes missionary life is
sometimes just nuts and this week was definitely no exception.
saturday night we had an appt with a woman that i had met at a bus
stop about a month earlier.  i had just started a small conversation
with her but she spoke very broken dutch and french so the
communication was very difficult. but we exchanged information and she
said that she wanted to make us couscous (shes from morrocco, which
also means shes muslim). she called us but it wasnt on our priority
list to visit her because we knew it wouldnt lead to much. so after
she called a few times we decided it would be good to make an appt.
we show up at her house that is on the crazy graffitied side alley
with a member of the ward that speaks french and after about 45 mins
of awkward not really understanding each other conversation we say ok
well we have to get going b (sorry i just got interrupted by an elder
calling with a skin question haha) ok so we told her we had to get
going but then shes like no, i made you dinner and my friends are
coming over.  it was 8pm at this time and we are supposed to be home
at 9.. we just looked at each other with wide eyes because when a
morrocan person makes you dinner it is a feest and you have to eat
everything.  sure enough she brings out a feest and her 2 african
friends join us and keep enforcing the fact that we need to eat more.
the coolest part was that she had specifically told these two men to
come over because they were christian and wanted to know more about
mormons! so even though we were sitting in the tiny apartment getting
forced to finish every thing on the table when we werent hungry to
begin with and even though we were super late getting home, we got a
man to read the book of mormon so it was worth it :)  then we leave
the apartment to try to quickly get home and there was a huge fight
that broke out in front of us in the tram station. so im on the phone
with our district leader to tell him we will be late and then he hears
yelling and screaming and i have to explain to him that we were caught
up between a bunch of muslim teenagers going at it.  we ran out to the
far back of the station to get away from it and got home saftely but
it was a pretty funny crazy night.  the best part was seeing my
companion witness her first crazy appt haha i loved it.
merry christmas!! love you all
zuster j

so this week was great! my comp set her first baptismal date with a man who we met through our other baptismal date! we love both of these men and saw some really great changes in them this week!  one of them called us one morning after reading in the book of mormon and was soo excited to change is life around.  my companion literally fell on the floor with excitment.  shes hilarious. 

saturday we got to go christmas caroling and contacting in the city centrum with the young adults from our stake.  we brought a piano and set up a tent right by the cathedral and the christmas market and got some great crowds to come enjoy our singing.  it finally started to feel a little more like christmas after that! 

yesterday we had a class on food storage in gospel principles and the reaction of the class was so hilarious.  everyone was soo excited, especially all the africans who have amazing ways to store food. i might have a very interesting african influenced food storage one day :)

oh and we will be staying in our apartment forever now i think because they cant find us a new.. so mail can continue to come to my belgium address if wanted.  we will hopefully be getting a new hot water this week though! merry christmas to us :) 

ok i love you all!

zuster j