SO last week I believe I left off telling you that Sister Egan was in the hospital, recovering from appendicitis, and things were falling apart and I was ridiculously stressed. Voi ei! Pretty much that was my whole week.
Later on last P-day we found out that our mission president was sending up another sister missionary from Helsinki to help us out. At first all four of us didn't want her to come, because we thought it would make things way more hankala (awkward) trying to make sure we all had companions, and having member splits all the time and everything. But it turned out to be a HUGE blessing. President sent us Sister Feher, a Hungarian sister who only has a few weeks left in the country. She arrived on Tuesday and declared "We are on LOMA!" (loma = vacation). That day she got to see a ton of members and investigators she knew while serving here, and it was great. Stressful, because they were all from my area, and I was thus expected to have a lesson, when I hadn't studied very deeply for the last couple weeks, but good. Sister Holt was a bit upset because she was at the hospital all day with not very much food. Wednesday was zone meeting. Got a parking ticket. bleh. But had a good lesson with a less active where we shared our favorite scriptures. Thursday. Not much happened. Friday was insane! Sister Egan got out of the hospital, Sister Holt had a physio appointment, one pair of sisters had a lesson with an investigator, and our investigator had a baptismal interview... and it all happened at the same time! Pretty much we were all on splits for a few hours that day. I also got to go on member splits with Sister Juottenus... who's husband is the area 70... who also ended up coming to a lesson with a potential investigator. It was really a little bit nerve racking. But really good. We now have a new investigator from Africa. He is really cool and really interested in the church. And then came change calls. But I'll get back to that later. Saturday there was a BAPTISM! Our investigator was so excited! And everything went really smoothly. Smoother than I expected, especially because we didn't have anyone lined up to baptize her until the night before at 10:00 pm, and the program wasn't even fixed until the day of. Sunday was pretty relaxed.
So, change calls. Are you ready? So I am headed out of Tampere to the town of Lähti! Not only that. Lähti currently is an Elder city. But not for much longer. I get to kick the Elders out... with a brand new missionary. This is because as of this week nine elders are leaving and only three new ones are coming into the country. So I'm opening a new Sister city, and training. I'm not sure where President Rawlings is finding this trust in me, but it will sure be great to feel and act like a real missionary again. This last week has pretty much killed me.
Things will soon be back to normal. Whatever normal is.
But, cool experience today. We got to give a Mormonin Kirja to Sister Holt's doctor. We were waiting for something during this checkup and he asked us "So why are you in Finland?" And we told him. We got to tell him all about the Book of Mormon and where it came from. He was like "why doesn't everyone use it. It sounds cool!" And we told him we didn't know. But we gave him a copy and he said he'd read it. Really cool experience. Hopefully we get to talk to him again. Although, it's a bit doubtful. He said that he hasn't seen anything like Sister Holt's condition in his 20 years of being a doctor and is referring us along. He does want to know what the results are though. What her real diagnosis is and everything. So maybe when we talk to him about that we'll be able to talk to him more about the Book of Mormon.
Anyhow, I should go. I have a couple pictures from this week for y'all. Including: Sister Egan getting out from the hospital, the baptism (with all the sister missionaries who were in Tampere at that time), and Sister Feher, Sister Holt and myself. Enjoy.
Hyvää vikkoä teille!
Rakaudella,
Sisar Kastendieck
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