Christmas Chat with Ankela 🎄🤶🏻

I spent some time with Ankela to talk about what Christmas and the Advent season means to her. Hope you enjoy!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
❤️ Laura
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[@bonniewoodard2771]

Laura, so delightful to see you after soooo long a time away from us ... Ankela is a special gift at this time of year with her lovely memories and to say we should never stop the wonderment of it all !! So nice to hear your family is doing well ... the boys are growing up! Happy Birthday belated to you and Ankela :) love at Christmas time from here xo xo

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Thanks! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well! 🥰

[@geoffreykirton2578]

Laura, when are you going to start doing your regular podcasts, really enjoyed them and look forward to them again.

[@ruthlaurie-hopper3489]

I have visited Beechgrove Community twice and loved it both times and still in contact with my hosts Ruthie and Willym and I continue zoom meetings with jesse and lenore Barton and our group. Bruderhof community are special people, kind, generous and giving. I wish I had known about this community years ago, I would have joined. Latter Autumn years of my life I remain in contact. I ask God where do you want me to go. God has answered and given me a direction. A community in kent not far from Bruderhof community. The pilsdon Malling community where I can use my social worker qualifications with people recovering from mental health issues and former prisoners. I feel excited by this opportunity to volunteer and live with them. I will continue to remain in contact with the loveliest people at Bruderhof and God leads me. God has changed my life and I feel full of joy.

[@philippac4710]

Lovely to see you both. Happy Christmas! ⭐️

[@michellesunshinestar]

I'm sick on Christmas today. I can't go over to my dad's I might be contagious.

[@sjwells04]

So sorry to hear that Michelle. Hope you’ve had a peaceful Christmas and you feel well soon ❤

[@m2d5]

'Out here' we have so much STUFF! I really like the idea of giving something that will be enjoyed, but won't add to STUFF! Y'all are such an example. Living lean can mean living generous.

[@MommyDontSeeMe]

Thank you for this visit from both of you! ❤️ Happy Christmas to you and yours! I can appreciate the difference in experience when going from one climate to another. I grew up in the southern US where it may have snowed a handful of times in my life and never on Christmas. When I was in my teens we visited my grandparents at Christmas - and yes! It snowed - so magical! BTW, I enjoy looking for Christmas recipes that originate in Australia because the celebration is during summer with tropical fruits and very different flavors from foods we traditionally eat in the Northern hemisphere.

[@victoriahayes-kerridge9436]

How lovely to see you both talk about your Christmas wishes. Ankela is so natural as are you Laura. thank you for sharing with us all xx

[@tinamarie7777]

Merry Christmas ladies!!! Thank you so much for sharing your precious stories!!! 💚🥰♥️

[@jaynepreston1737]

Lovely to see you again missed you’re vlogs great vlog xxxx

[@ruthlaurie-hopper3489]

Ankela I wish you a meaningful joyful Christmas too. 🎄

[@nikitab92]

Happy New year to you and your family and Ankela and all the wonderful Bruderholf members community!

[@marymurray5059]

Great to see you back again. Happy Christmas from Scotland.

[@mruggier0]

I had wondered where you were at! Missed your videos. Todays video was so wonderful. The Santa/Elf story was epic!

[@cherylgodding2339]

Such a touching, sincere, meaningful Christmas message, Thank You so much! You always make me smile, Laura. Blessings to Ankela, You and your family. Happy New Year!

[@jannier9766]

Merry Christmas to your beautiful family. Ankela’s stories are a treasure.

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Thank you! Yes, they are

[@ingridarcher69]

It’s Christmas Day Evening here in the Uk and what a lovely surprise your video is - I do miss your more regular uploads! Ankela is an amazing lady - she really exudes ‘Meaningfullness’ in its purest form of Care and Love… So interesting to reflect on the ‘swaddling clothes’ issue - thank you! Wishing you both and your families and friends a Joyful Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2024 ✨❤️

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Same to you! Thanks for your comment

[@jdavis3129]

It was so wonderful to see you and Ankela! What wonderful stories she tells. I enjoyed it very much, and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. Love from Vancouver 🇨🇦 💜💜

[@marywipf2737]

Wishing yous a God blessed Christmas and a very happy healthy New year . From Dorothy & The wipfs at Oakbluff colony..❤

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Thanks! Same to you 🥰

[@haileek682]

Merry Christmas! Lovely video, as always. You both look just as young and vibrant as in your last Ankela video. Stay well!

[@sia9907]

Spitzbuben are the best!

[@daisychan6571]

So lovely to see a video from you again! ❤️ and a Merry Christmas to you all from us!

[@brookemcvey5511]

Yes ! I love your videos.

[@braedynyoutubes3419]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Always love visiting with you both.

[@chloerosecoombe7092]

Merry Christmas Laura and family!

[@vickimarkjones]

I miss your videos. Merry Christmas!

[@helenalundqvist]

We also have Tomten in Sweden . Merry Christmas

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

So cool!

[@estellesmith6418]

It was 104°F here on Christmas day...in South Africa.

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Sounds amazing!

[@71suns]

🫂🌹🫂 Merry Christmas to all there

[@emailjough]

More people should use KZbin to capture the wisdom, folklore and memories of our elders before that wisdom is lost. This was not so easily done just a few decades ago.

[@LaurafromtheBruderhof]

Totally agree! Thanks for your comment

[@dcthomas5977]

Ja Ankela! Sind Ihre Familie aus Deutschland? 💗Zimtsterne sind auch sehr lecker!

[@petagayekrug5204]

Merry Christmas

[@swampophelia2098]

Are you expecting again Laura

[@StudioTerrafemina]

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[@michellesunshinestar]

I was starting to get sick yesterday. Much worse today. I went to my sister's yesterday. Nice to see my nephews. The younger one just wanted to go to bed.

[@WHEREYOSAFEAT]

How do I join you guys in escaping from this wretched world in order to be free and do Gods will

[@joannewall5499]

Why did this lady have to escape from England

[@bbee674]

To avoid the internment of German citizens in World War 2.

[@jerusalem4492]

Family is German.

[@sia9907]

I was wondering too. It was because they were pacifists, it seems. 'In 1940, confronted with the option of either having all of its German members interned for the duration and its English members conscripted, or leaving England as a group, the Bruderhof chose the latter and some began to look for refuge abroad...' 'In 1941, the Bruderhof emigrated from England to Paraguay - at the time the only country that would accept a pacifist community of mixed nationalities. This move was assisted and facilitated by the Mennonite Central Committee...' Wikipedia