Mon Famille!

I LOVE LIEGE! Considering the fact that everyone already looked up my apartment in Liege...you know that I am here! When I walked out of customs I scanned the crowd for the President...scanned again and noone! :) I wondered if it was some kind of candid camera test...would I start contacting ASAP?! Alas...they were just running late! President and Sister Brubaker are incredible. In response to your question Chelsey, I would say he is most like President Burton, the perfect combo. The arrrival pictures are a little rough looking but I don't know if I expected much different.I couldn't be happier. Honestly, I feel so incredibly blessed. I am serving with Sisters Orton and Carson. Sis Orton is my trainer. She is from Ceder City and couldn't be more amazing. She has been here for more than a year aka she goes home in December and I have so much to learn from her. I am in awe of her every moment we spend together. Last night she got really sick and when we came home to plan she threw-up, crawled to the bedroom, changed her clothes, came back into the kitchen and said...'OK time to plan.' The dedication is unbelievable and I feel so blessed to learn from her. She likes to tell stories and I am ALL EARS. Sr Carson is also amazing. She is from Indiana and a Public Health major at BYU. She speaks French beautifully and is always willing to help me! She came into the field already knowing the language so that has been a blessing. The way the sisters work is awe-inspiring. It would be easy to just sit back and let them do their thing BUT I am doing my best to jump in when I can. I am the resident prayer because that is about all I can do without stammering! I am beginning to be able to decifer what is being said and can tell that there is a whole lot more than my own brain power at work! We serve in both Liege I and Liege II branches. Liege I is everything north of the The Meuse and Liege II is everything south. Our apartment is on the 10th floor of the building and overlooks the Meuse. It has been gorgeous here with the leaves changing. It reminds me a lot of home. Yesterday we were in a city that was a little bit farther out and walked under some tunnel trees. It made me think of the Harper Lane bike rides. The members here are also incredible. They have been so welcoming. I bore my testimony in both meetings yesterday and only fumbled a coule of times. After the meetings everyone came up and started babbling at me in French...I guess I fooled them! One of the sisters told me I reminded her of Princess Diana:) I'll take that. Liege is a city of miracles. We have been so blessed to be able to spend time doing member passbys and contacting people along the way. Really quick I want to share something that happened on Thursday. We do what are called consecrated hours everyday. We take time the night before during planning to find a street that we need to go to find who Heavenly Father wants us to find. We go to the street, pray and then do our best to follow the spirit to find the people who are searching for truth. Well, as we started our prayer...it started to POUR. Cats and dogs. We opened our umbrellas and ran to the first door. The man who opened the door goes...:"Come in...I'll give you 5 mins." 45 mins Later...this Muslim man had a Book of Mormon and a return appointment AND the sun was shining. So amazing. ANd it keeps happeneing! Ok I have to go a couple of quick things - 1. Only Family can email 2. YEA for LEONA AND FANNY!!! I am so proud of them and happy for ADE, tell them I love them 3. Did Courtney get accepted to Parson school of design? there is a member here whose daughter wants to go there...if so can I Courtneys phone number sis Finocello wants to call her. I LOVE YOU!