I can honestly... and quite sadly, say I really have not felt like a missionary for the past couple weeks. Between Doctors appointments, Physical Therapy, MRIs and now Sister Egan having appendicitis missionary work has gone down the drain.
Let me explain.
So here in Tampere there are two sets of sisters: Sister Foster and Sister Egan, then Sister Holt and myself. Sister Holt has been suffering with her foot this whole past change (exchange) and so that has been slowing things up. On Saturday I got to go on splits with Sister Foster as there had been next to no missionary work being done in mine and Sister Holt's area of Tampere. It was fantastic! I got to go tracting, contacting, teaching! I even got some doors slammed in my face and it felt pretty okay! No one incredibly interested or anything, but I was doing missionary work! During this time Sister Egan and Sister Holt were at my apartment. Sister Holt's foot was in pain, and Sister Egan was feeling nauseous. The sisters went back to their house, and Sister Holt and I continued into a fairly normal Sunday (although not normal... it was the first Sunday with the wheelchair... so we got mobbed by the ward members asking us about it. At least we know we're loved). Halfway through church we find out Sister Egan is in the hospital, but not much more. Later at home we got a call, saying she had appendicitis and that Sister Foster needed to stay at our place for the night. CRAZY! I don't know what's going on!
Today has been insane to say the least. I'm quite exhausted and haven't even done any P-day stuff yet. Just spent a lot of time with hospitals, and doctors. Both with Sister Egan and Sister Holt. Sister Foster and I are on splits so that we can email our families and buy groceries. We're going to try to cover both of our areas this week while our companions rest it up. It's going to be intense.
In happier news, one of our investigators is getting baptized this week. That's going to be a highlight. She's this really cute older lady who is ready to jump into the font! Hopefully everything goes smoothly.
Also happening this week is change calls! Next week there are 12 new sisters coming into the country, and along with like nine elders. I could be a trainer next week. I used to never want to be. But if it means that I can do normal missionary work again I'll be very grateful. I'm starting to run out of patience (although that's usually restored via napping) and I really just want a normal schedule again, where my biggest concern is "how are we going to fill in that two hour gap tomorrow?".
So yes, the craziness continues. Never a dull moment in Tampere.
Rakastan Teitä!!!
Sisar Kastendieck
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