The woman in the floral dress is our lovely amie Enza. 

Soeur Hosking!

Soeur Hopkins (the redhead) served in Tours as well so we bonded over that. She is wonderful! 

My favorite less active Soeur Walmag. I ADORE her.

Sr Quarre :) i love her so much. she taught with us all the time and she was my grandma in liege! she bought me a ton of my favorite chocolate to take home with me :)

 Soeur Walmag. she's a gem :)

The woman in the picture with the Christmas tree is Sr. Bougnet. I love her! she is a branch missionary and did soo much for us.

I was able to see Soeur Bennion right before she went home and also Soeur Hosking! 

My new comp at a beautiful parc here in Lille! 

Tis the Season

Oh my lanta! I am leaving my beloved Liege in just two days! and my dear Soeur Clawson is going to be training a new missionary! I am so excited for her, she is going to do an incredible job, I know she will take great care of Liege. 

On Saturday morning we went to Marinela's baptism. She is the other soeurs amie. It was a wonderful service and afterwards we had samedi sports with the Kenndrick family and we had a nerf gun war until noon when the list came out with all the new changes. My heart was beating as we all crowded around the computer searching for my name. Finally we found it. Villeneuve d'asq. I am going to Villeneuve d'asq!!!!! It is in the very north of France right next to Lille, actually I'll be living in Lille with two other soeurs, so I'm staying in a four man! yay! At first I was a little disappointed because it wasnt at all where I expected to go but I feel...at peace. I really feel that I am needed there, I love Liege so so much I think my heart is going to break but I know that I have done what I could here and now I am needed somewhere else. I am so happy that Heavenly Father is helping me to let go of Liege, and to love my new ville! Liege will always hold a very special place in my heart but I am so excited to have a new adventure and to discover even more people to love!! Every time I move villes I always think it will be impossible to love it as much as my last one, but every time God expands my heart and somehow I am filled with even more love than ever before. 

This last week we began the Christmas contacting and porting and we had SO much success!! We got let in so much this week it has been unbelieveable! I loved being able to sing Christmas songs for them and helping them feel the true spirit of Christmas. Being a missionary during this season is straight up the best! What could be better than spreading Christmas cheer and sharing my testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ everywhere I go?! I am so grateful I was able to have two Christmas seasons on my mission. 

So. We wanted to visit a less active but on our way there we realized we had forgotten to write down her address, we knew the street but forgot which house number. we racked our brains a little bit and both thought it was number 86. we were convinced it was that and it never crossed our minds it could be something else. When we got to her street we literally could not find 86. It jumped from 96 to 82. we were exasperated. So we decided to porte instead and we found Odette!! We sang for her and she invited us back another day. As we continued we were invited back several times and we also sang for an adorable Syrian family. It wasnt until we got home and checked our less actives address that we realized it was actually number 269. But I honestly believe God made us think it was 86 so we could find Odette and our little Syrian family. miracles :)

avec amour soeur hawkes 

my new address! 

105 Boulevard Montebello D404 59000 Lille

Look at this creepy tunnel we found!

Saying goodbye to the members was so hard! plus I wasn't able to get very many pictures but here is one with Rachel Kappepula. She's actually in the other branch but I was able to get to know her well when i was working with Soeur Hosking. I adore her. 

Last night at our Christmas concert in Brussels. It was amazing!! the missionaries did a few numbers, a few different black sister groups did some gospel music that blew everyone away, an adorable american family did a number together, a Belgian piano prodigy arranged a Christmas medley, a Liegoise opera singer and a Norwegian woman sang Breath of Heaven. It was wonderful.

District photos

And there are decorations in the elevator!

Bonjour à tous!

Well today there is a huge strike throughout Belgium so there are no buses, no open stores, no trains but the Christmas market is up and running so I guess that's something. But we have a rdv this afternoon, a member has invited one of her friends to meet with us and today was her only day off so I am really excited to meet with her and share our message! Needless to say, my email will be really short, sorry!

Our week was really good, we were able to do a lot of finding so we have lots of potential amies that we are hoping to meet with this coming week. We were porting one afternoon and an old man walked by and gave us candy telling us, bon courage! haha it was great. We met a lot of really great people this week so I am excited to be able to teach them soon!

We had two Thanksgivings this year. On Tuesday we went to Bruxelles for our district meeting and ate Thanksgiving lunch as a zone. Our homemade pies were a huge hit and everyone had brought lots of delicious food. Then on Thursday we went to the Family Scheurch and it was wonderful! We met their extended family and they loved us! The food was amazing and we were able to go around the table and talk about the things we were grateful for, it was really cool because their extended family aren't members and a few of them said they were grateful to have met us the missionaries! I of course talked about how grateful I was to be a missionary in Liege and for all the people I have met and the things I have learned. It was humbling to really examine my life and realize how blessed I've been and how incredibly grateful I feel for  these past 14 months as a missionary. I cant believe all the things I have learned, the people I've met, the ways I've changed and the enormous amounts of love God has shown me. I am frankly very spoiled. Heavenly Father is definitely way too kind to me. Especially for the wonderful family and friends that I have!! I am so grateful to have such a wonderful support back home :) I love you all sooo much!!

avec beaucoup d'amour soeur hawkes 

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