“Lighting” this corner of the World (written in DECEMBER)

🌟We have been blessed by the “Light” of so many dear people who cross our paths each day.  What a blessing it is to be able to serve our Lord here in The Hague Temple at this time of the year when we  have people coming from all over the Netherlands, from Germany, from Belgium, from France, from Sweden, and Norway, Russia. from England & Italy, from the US, Surinam, Brazil and even from Australia.  (That doesn’t even cover all of them) but no matter where they are traveling from they bring their smiles 😊and a bright Light with them.  🕯

This week all of the missionaries of the Belgium/Netherlands Mission came to the temple and brought their brightly shining lights with them.  The mission was divided into 3 groups that are small enough to fit our endowment room and they participated in a session just before they went to the Zoetermeer church for their Zone Conference.   On Tuesday the Elders and Sisters who serve in the north and eastern corner of the Netherlands came by bus.  Wednesday,  those serving in the southeastern Netherlands and in Belgium came, (also by bus.)  Then Thursday those who are serving closer around the temple came to the temple to do an early session before the temple opened to our usual patrons.  We are usually closed  on Tuesday & Wednesday so they chose to start the session at 10:00 am on those days which meant they had to be on the bus by between 6:00 & 6:30.  The Mission President and Mission Mom, (President & Sister Buysse,) some of the senior missionary couples along with some of our temple workers came to help run everything and it was a wonderful success.  💓How very grateful we are to be able to serve here.💖💕