I happened to be on the computer this morning when Melissa sent her email, so we got to have a little "email chat!" That was fun! It makes me all the more excited to talk to her on Christmas! Anyway, here are some excerpts from our various communications today.
Hey there, family!
I sure love you, but guess what? I've been blessed with the gift of not being homesick! We've just been so busy with the craziness of transfers last week and now I'm TRAINING that my mind has been off of it! I call that a blessing.
So this week has been crazy busy, like I said. But the best news of all is that my greenie, Sister Edwards, is ENORMOUSLY an answer to prayers. She is nice. She is gracious. She is clean. She is hard working. She has a great desire to be obedient. She is excited and grateful for the opportunity to serve. She is everything I could have hoped for in a greenie. I say a trillion "thank you" prayers a day because it's almost like my life is too good to be true. I'm thrilled about Sister Edwards and I'm still so grateful that I get to stay here in Brighton and my lovely LP wards for the holidays.
I've been LOVING opening my 12 days of Christmas presents! The Tums one cracked me up. Also the Christmas CD is still a hit. I listen to it at least once a day. It is the only Christmas CD we have in our apartment so we always have it playing in the getting ready room.
We spent a lot of time Wednesday last week and Saturday cleaning. Deep cleaning. It was AWESOME. There are a lot of gross things that happen when you have 4 girls with long hair living in the same apartment, and spending 90% of their time in the apartment in the same room. All of those gross things revolve around hair. Let's just say we could only have the vacuum on for like 30 seconds at a time before we had to empty the chamber and clean out the brush. But it feels so good to have it all clean. We did some rearranging for our CHRISTMAS TREE! That's right, we have a Christmas tree. In our APARTMENT. L* gave it to us (we fit it in her MINI COOPER - miraculous) before she went home for Christmas break. It is a REAL tree! It also smells like a real tree. The lights are strung crappily and the ornaments are few and struggly, but it's adorable. We have a tree skirt and all our presents nestling under there. It is a sight to behold. I just love it.
I just e-mailed you last Wednesday so I don't have a ton of stories..................... hmmm. I'm drawing a bit of a blank here. This is a lame e-mail. Andrew's e-mail this week was lame too, so I guess you all just have to deal with lameness. Sorry about that. But in less than a week we will get to talk and possibly even see each others' faces. So that's fun! I don't know what the timing will be like exactly, but I'll plan on between 1:00 and 5:00 my time. Huge window, I know, but you can just be home the whole afternoon, so stop complaining.
Well, I love you! If you have the time/desire, you should come up with a list of questions or something for our chat on Christmas. I don't want it to just be me staring at the screen crying ;)
Have a delightful week leading into Christmas and know that I am a happy, happy girl. I am so grateful for this time to serve my Heavenly Father, and (especially at this time of the year) invite people to come closer to Christ.
Love you,
Sister Broekhuijsen
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