WEEK 9!

 December 2, 2013

     Wow how thankful I am for my life and all the people in it!!! This week was probably the best week.  I am surrounded by loving fun people!! So Monday I had a thing called exchange so I go with another Sister and my companion goes with another Sister for the day! So I was with Sister Snow! She is so cute and so fun! We did all English and went to visit some less active!! It was really nice to not have to worry about the Spanish for that day! :) hehe but Tuesday we went and knocked at this trailer park and this African American lady came to the door with toothpaste all over her mouth and started yelling at us and slammed the door... hahaha I walked away so scared but laughing so hard! haha The funny things you see on a mission!! haha But we found our first real investigator. Wow he is golden, his name is Adan (Adam in English) He is very humbled and very sweet and willing to hear our message! He came to church on Sunday!!! It was so Amazing!!!!! :) Hopefully he gets baptized! haha but wow Thanksgiving!1 I missed my family and friends on this day!! I stopped to think and started crying cause I miss my amazing family so much! But all the missionaries (six of us) went to Sister Andersons house. She has two very cute kids! haha but it was so fun! We went over at 10:30am and helped her cook alllll day while the Elders were working on the yard and setting up Christmas stuff! The Elders thought it would be so funny.. to pull a prank on me..... so they found a frozen crawdad (a little lobster) and put it in my shoe... so after we ate, food was amazing, we went to all take pictures outside! So I was putting my shoes on, my Sperry's.. and something was in the front of my shoe and I couldn't put my shoe on, so I go to look and I see a crawdad. Oh my gosh.... I have never been so scared in my LIFE!!!!! I screamed at the top of my lungs and jumped and threw the shoe.... EVERYONE was laughing. I started crying cause I was so scared! hahaha everyone said I jumped so high they didn't know a girl could jump that high! haha All the Elders were laughing so hard for like 10 minutes. So now I have to get them back, if anyone has an idea... LET ME KNOW! ;) haha So Thanksgiving was a blessing. We all ate, hung out, played games, and put up their Christmas tree! It was a great day!!! I am thankful for being in such a loving ward! :) I love my companion, we have SO MUCH FUN which helps a lot!!! :)  I am beyond happy and love my life!! Thank you  all for being so supporting and loving!!!

I love and miss you all.

Hermana Brugman

(Pictures will be coming soon)

 -This is a picture of the missionaries at a members house for dinner 12-4-2013-