It gets dark at night?!

This probably isn't going to be the longest email. Just a quicky. I changed things up this week and did personal responses first. 

This week was long. I'm having a hard time remembering exactly what happened. Nothing overly exciting I guess. Quite a few of our appointments fell through, but we got to meet with a bunch of the older ladies in the ward. Visiting old ladies is actually one of my favorite things to do on my mission. They are really quite fun to hang around. And sometimes they have surprise tea parties with you, or make you eat a whole huge plate of cookies before you do anything else, or just talk about how they thought they were going to die the a few days ago... but didn't. They all love missionaries though. It's fun. 

One of the challenges of serving Lahti is that all the buildings are locked. I suppose this needs some back up story. In Finland. most people live in kerrostalot, or apartment buildings. In most cities if you live in the Center, you have a locked building that you can get into only with the key, but as you get further out from the center there are more and more buildings that you can just walk into and go tracting. Not so in Lahti. Everything is locked here, so if we find ourselves with free time on our hands we have to go contacting. I think this is a bit of a cruel joke Heavenly Father played on both Sister Schellenberg and I as we are both terrible at contacting people on the street. But it's fun anyway. We meet some really cool people, some of which may or may not be intoxicated. But that's life. Mission life. 

Things are fairly slow here for the moment, but steady. And every week we get a bit better. And every week the hills we have to ride up and down all day get a bit easier. (there's a lot of hills in Lahti... it's killed for the first couple weeks).

Fall is beautiful here! I've never actually seen so many maple trees, and they are gorgeous in the fall! Also, it's weird because it is really dark at nights now. It's almost dark when we get home in the evening. Really weird!

Anyhow, got to go. I'll tell you more about actual missionary work next week. 

The church is true, and so is the gospel! It's fantastic because you can always learn something new from it! 

Love you all,

Rakkuadella,

Sister Kastendieck