Awesome Miracle!

Sorry to be so late in posting this.  It came at the normal time, but I got distracted and forgot that I hadn't yet posted it.  My bad.  Andrew tried sending us an audio clip today, but said that the computers where they send email are just too old and slow so it wouldn't work.  :-(  Oh well, happily, we still got the normal written email!

Hey everyone!

This is Elder Broekhuijsen. 

So! I have lots of questions. Actually 2 

1. Who of my friends have mission calls now? Because let's face it. There are now girls who graduated a year AFTER me who could be going on missions within the next few weeks. What the heck.2. Who of my friends are already working on their papers/have decided to go on missions? 

We had an awesome miracle this week! Remember N*? The lady who thought we were ridiculously beautiful? (I mean, come on. I think we are quite reasonably beautiful.). We got a meeting with her. She invited us over to her house, and we had a member come with us, Brother S*. And we taught the most perfect Restoration lesson I've taught in probably my whole mission. She accepted everything and was coming to conclusions about things faster than we could smoothly transition between doctrinal points in a fabulous display of preparation and companionship unity. I mean. We sat down and prayed, and she was like, "So I'm a little confused.  How are Joseph Smith and Nephi related?" And we were like, "Yeah... we'll tell you." So as we were teaching, we got to the point where we explain the restoration after the great apostasy, and we started explaining about Joseph Smith. Elder Nielson was like, "Joseph Smith was a 14-year-old boy who lived about 200 years ago." And she cut him off and was like, "Ohhhhh! That makes way more sense! I thought when you said 'prophet' that he was like 50 years old or something, but it makes WAY more sense why God would want to restore his gospel through a young person who didn't have the life experience to form a bunch of his own opinions yet. Now I have no problem believing that he was a prophet!" And we looked at each other in a rather flabbergasted manner. And then finished teaching. So she wants to be baptized. Unfortunately she couldn't come to church this week because her daughter, M*, who is 10, has bad health and got sick this weekend. But last night after church we had a meeting with both of them again and taught Lehi's Dream (in this mission there is a policy called "teach about the great and spacious building REALLY soon after you meet someone because otherwise they will hear something bad or find something bad on the internet and stop answering their phone," so we didn't move on to the Plan of Salvation just yet). So that lesson went great, and M* is a small-sized boss. 

Anyway, we're pumped about her. 

Another cool story: The Priesthood in Bezimianski is so active that President Sartori decided to put the extra companionship that our mission complement will gain in our branch. So next cycle, assuming I'm still here (I can't imagine otherwise, and I actually have the experience to back up an assumption like that now), we'll have us, Bezi Elders, and Bezi Sisters. 

Speaking of the Bezimianski Sisters, and the Avrora Sisters while we're at it, we had interviews with both of them this week. They were wonderful. Those sisters are so dang cool. Actually, sister misionaries in general are so dang cool. Also one of the Avrora Sisters, Sister Wynn, knows Kaitlyn Brunsdale, because they worked together. Man. Small world. 

So that's probably about it for the week. Hopefully things are still going great down there in Highland. The weather is starting to get colder down here, and everyone is saying that it's supposed to be the coldest winter in 20 years, and we're going to break -40C. Yeah baby! Talk about snagging an extra mission adventure story that I can tell all the young'uns for the rest of my life. Presumably in a Scottish accent: 

"When I w's yer'age, we dinna have no warm wayther! Oal we had was dert! And we were gretful!" Yeah, don't worry that typing in a Scottish accent isn't a skill I've obtained yet. 

I'll try Pirate:
"When aye was YAARRRR age, 'twas bein' right cold outsiiiiiiiide!" Better. 

That's probably enough nonsense for today. 

Love,Elder Broekhuijsen 

P.S. Ooh! I have a few minutes left, so I'll probably try to send a few photos.  [Editor's note:  No photos came, so I'm guessing that the computers he sends email on were also too old and slow to send photos on.  Drat.]