Week 66: Sister Brey is Fantastic!

Man, what an awesome week we had here.  I have a new companion and her name is Sister Brey ... she is fantastic!  She is American, but has lived in Singapore for the last four years, which is super cool.  We are going have a great transfer here, I think.  We have only been together for five days, and already she has tried to  burn down the kitchen (hahaha jk jk)  So, the story behind that is that Sister Brey was cooking fish, and just put a frozen one on some cooking paper and put it in the oven.  While she was doing this, I was putting on my makeup, when I hear, "Fire!  Fire!"  So I run in, (lucky I didn't stab my eye with my mascara ... haha)  So ya, I run in and the baking paper is on fire, and she is blowing it and it is getting bigger!  (haha)  So I tell her to stop and I run and grab our fire blanket, and rip it out and put the fire out. (haha)  I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.  It was super funny.

We had some really great appointments this week, as well ...  It's all kinda a blur, though, so I'll do my best to remember some of it.  Sister Nielson got transferred, so we had a few farewell appointments and she packed lots, so that was fun. 

On Wednesday we had six sisters stay in our apartment because transfers were the next day.  Which meant we had to lug 6 suitcases up two flights of stairs ... (hah)  Good thing I'm buff .. Not! :)  But, we survived.

This week in my studies I found something I had put in my studies probably during institute or seminary way back when.  But, I wrote something in there that I really liked.  It was in 2 Nephi chapter 5 and it is the story when Nephi's brothers were really bad and wanted to kill him because of his obedience to follow God ...  So Nephi took his family to a different place for safety.  While there, it says they had:  #1 their family, #2 they kept the commandments, #3 read their scriptures and studied the gospel, #4 built a temple, #5 they did work and labored (not lazy), and #6 held the priesthood.  Then in verse 27 it says:  "And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness."  I thought that was really cool; the proof that if we can follow these 6 principles, we can find happiness in our lives.  And no, it won't be perfect ... there will still be "war" from time to time, but that is because we are living in an imperfect world.  But, you can still find reasons to be happy. So, think about what makes you happy in your lives and find reason to be grateful :)

I hope you all have a fabulous week!

Liebe,

Sister Jordan Brown

 Sister Brey is fantastic!!