Week 32 ~ alcohol chocolate...and SNOW

HEYYOOO.

Another monday. Another email.

First off, shout out to my Mom and brother Anthony! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love you people!

Second off, it snowed!!!!! It was super weak, lame snow, but it still snowed nevertheless.

This week was crazy. We had MLC up in Leiden, Netherlands on Friday so we got to have a sleepover in Gouda on Thursday night and then another sleepover on Friday night in Zoetermeer! Which means I got to see both my MTC comps! It was so great. MLC was really good and I learned a lot! It's always fun to go get spiritually uplifted and see all my friends! Saturday was insane and the trains were all screwy so we ended up traveling for SIX HOURS to get home on the train. It was death haha but we met some cool people and I met a girl from Utrecht! I love Utrecht.

I got a call from a random number this week and it was ZR LODDERS from Utrecht!! I was so excited to hear from her. She is the best.

Other funnies this week:

I ripped my coat in the armpit... again. Trying to reach my glove that fell in the crack by the train. I was lying on the ground trying to reach it and a guy came up and offered to help. When he found out I was trying to get my glove and not my cellphone he decided not to help though... awkward. BUT tender mercy! When we got on the train I found a glove on the ground!

Our investigator gave us chocolate.... we were eating it waiting for our train and there was a suspicious individually wrapped one. So we broke it open, sniffed it, and deemed it okay. Well it WASN'T OKAY. Freaking alcohol hahah it burned my mouth and then we were just coughing and spitting everywhere. Hahah pretty great.

Zr De Souza and I almost got separated on a train! I jumped on the train and then the doors started to close so Zr De Souza couldn't get on so I pulled an Elder Roberts and jumped through the closing doors and like superman opened them to get through. 

That's pretty much it.

I love you people!

Love, Zuster Fordiani

1-5-Gent!!

​1-Book of Mormon challenge :)

2,3-Dendermonde

4-Some of the snow... it was pretty much melted

5-America vs. Canada hahah

6-New Years eve in our matching sweaters from the ward :)

7-Cluffy and I on exchanges in Antwerpen​

Week 31 ~ 2017

Happy New Year!!

Last P-day we went to Brugge! It was beautiful. We also saw the Blood of Christ in this creepy little church.. not sure if it was authentic..... but I wasn't allowed to take a photo hahah.

We also had another lesson with Nicolai this week! He keeps getting cooler and cooler. He freaking loves tennis! Dad his favorite player is Macenroe. I think you guys would get along really well. We had a huge discussion about tennis hahah. Also he used to play piano for ballerinas so he knows tons about ballet and we had a cool conversation about that too! Don't worry we also taught him a lesson ;) 

Guys. I finished the Book of Mormon!! At 11:50 on New Years Eve hahah. I had a lot of time because we had to be inside by 4:00 pm on New Years Eve so I read from Ether 4 to the end! The challenge was to finish the BoM on Dec. 31 and mark all the names of Christ. We started in October. It was such a cool challenge! I know that the Book of Mormon truly testifies of Christ. You can see his name marked in red multiple times on almost every single page of the book. One thing I noticed as I read the Book of Mormon, is how loving and merciful Christ is. He has so much charity for everyone and never gives up on us. I've been focusing on developing charity for the past year or so and in Moroni chapter 7 it explains really well what charity is.

 45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Then comes my favorite verse in the Book of Mormon... 

48 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.

along with the quote "The best evidence of our adoration of the Lord Jesus Christ is our emulation of Him." -Russell M. Nelson. This is a quote I've stamped on my heart throughout my mission that I wanted to share with you guys. I hope you all can continue to read the Book of Mormon throughout your life and learn something new every time! 

It was really cool to finish the Book of Mormon again, and then as I was praying about it in my bedroom, I just felt so much joy! And then all the fireworks started going off! It was a really cool experience :) I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that it will bring so much joy to your life if you read it every day!

I hope you all have a wonderful 2017! Beste wensen :)

Love, Zuster Fordiani

Photos from Brugge!

 Oh also! Our district. We tried to spell Antwerpen! hahah fail :) And Zr De Souza was super excited because we went to McDonalds​.

Week 30 ~ Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS ya filthy animals. I hope you all had an absolutely wonderful Christmas with lots of snow and yummies. 

I'm gonna keep this email short and sweet so here are some fun things that happened this last week:

Last p-day we went to Mechelen and caroled as a zone :)

I played bean boozled (a jelly bean game) on exchanges in Antwerpen and had to eat barf, rotten egg, and canned dog food flavored jelly beans... lekker

Zr De Souza and I were literally two steps away from being blown up by some stupid kids fireworks haha it was fetching scary

Our investigator Murtaza fed us dinner again! Yesss and he finally came to church! We took the train with him, but because it was Christmas the buses weren't running so we walked 40 minutes to get to church. He's a champ

I skyped my family!!! :) 

Our ward is AMAZING and they gave us and the elders each a box full of presents after church on Christmas!

We had a five course Christmas eve dinner at the Bishop's home. They are the best!

My family sent me a 12 days of Christmas package, but I didn't get it until the 23rd so I had fun doing the 10 mintues of Christmas hahah and then two days. I love my family :)

Also COOL STORY:

Christmas eve night we didn't have anything to do so Zr De Souza and I decided to go street contacting and we brought a bunch of Book of Mormons with us. We got inspired by a story in the December Liahona about a senior couple in France who did the same thing on Christmas eve and gave out Book of Mormons to people walking around alone. Sooo we did the same thing! And it was awesome! We were super bold and I even chased this guy down the street that I really felt like I should talk to and he was interested! I told him we were giving these books out for free because it was Christmas and that it had changed my life and he was super thankful and told me he would definitely read it!! Super cool! I also knocked on the window of a guy sitting alone in his car and we were able to give out three Book of Mormons within an hour! Freaking Christmas miracles :)

I LOVE CHRISTMAS

Love, 

Zuster Fordiani

1-12 days of Christmas

2-ya idk

3-Murtaza made us dinner!

4-Crazy/cool church in Lokeren

5-Christmas eve selfiesss

1-Christmas!

2-the bishop's cat hahaha