Bipolar Weather

Hei Perhe! 

The house is so different! Looks great! And wow, sounds like the whole house was sick! I just got over my sickness on Thursday, it took a lot of patience and I think I prolonged the sickness because I went out and worked too hard last Monday haha. What are you gonna do, souls need to be saved and I was itching to get outside! But after heavy congestion, exhaustion and a sore throat I thought id better take it easy for a few more days.

The weather is bipolar but today it feels like spring and it makes me so excited. There is still snow on the ground, which I don’t get but the days are getting longer and I am looking forward to a beautiful Finland summer!

In other news, as I was almost over my sickness (this is on Wednesday), my companion Sister Toomey was running in our apartment to get the phone when she banged her toe on the ironing board and completely fractured it. So, after going to the hospital and getting it wrapped up we had limited time walking outside because she was crippled and extremely slow haha but she is taking it well and it should be healed hopefully in a week or so. Now we are forced to stop and smell the roses, which isn’t too bad because we always seem to be is a rush running from somewhere to catch buses or trains. But we walk at grandma speeds now :)

It also was national Finnish Language day on Saturday, if you are interested in linguistics; Finnish is the way to go! It was just in the 1530s-ish when Finnish became a written language. I love this place. On a spiritual note, we had many great experiences of giving out books of Mormon this week. One particularly comes to mind of this Finnish woman who we sat next to on the train and after some talk we listened to here share of her confusion for the world and God and her desire to know answers. Well, naturally we testified to her of the book of Mormon and when she took one you could see her eyes light up with a chance of hope and clarification and she thanked us graciously. She left quickly after that for her stop so we didn’t get a chance to write down her number but the moment was still just as powerful. I haven’t seen very many huge miracles, grand successes, or people just dying to be baptized, but it is times like that when I am super grateful to be a missionary and help people in whatever little way that I can. That is all for this week, keep up the busy work at home! Love you all!!!! :)