This was once again, a crazy week! But a great week!
It involved moving, exchanges, organizing and baptism, change calls and even a bit of missionary work!
I'll get all the suspense out of the way as far as change calls go. Sister Schellenberg and I are both staying in Lahti! Hooray! We are really happy. We just had finally gotten to really know the ward, and were starting to really get into the groove, and we were worried that we would be separated. I am also happy to be able to stay some where longer than three months! Being here for two changes makes Lahti the city I've served in teh longest, and also it's the longest I've stayed with one companion. Lahti is also receiving Elders again! Way exciting! So much is going to be done now. Just wait. This city is going to explode.
A lot of this last week has been involved in moving. Tuesday a whole crew... okay three people, came up from Helsinki to help us move. Two of them were senior missionaries from the office, the third was my former district leader who had served in Lahti. Moving took most of the day. But it was fun. We also had a great lesson with this young daughter of a new convert! This little girl got baptized on Saturday. I'll send you pictures next week!
Wednesday we went to Tampere for district meeting, then to Turku for exchanges! I was really excited to go and see another finnish city! I actually didn't get to see much of it, but I met another new finnish convert who joined the church while she was nannying in the states. She actually reminds me alot of Savannah.
Friday we came back. Saturday was the baptism. The baptism was mostly organized by us, while we were out of town. Okay I lie, it was mostly organized by my companion, because she's great! Sister schellenberg and I both gave talks... in Finnish... oh dear.
After the baptism we met a really cool potential investigator this week. We had been walking to the centre from the chruch, and decided to go up a path we had never gone down before. While walking there wasn't any one around. And then we saw one man a ways down the path. Sister Schellenberg slowed down, and we started talking about how beautiful the view from the hill was. One we had stopped and taken a picture, the man was really close and so it was really natural and normal to talk to him. He stopped, and said he was one his way to go rehearse some music, but we ended up talking to him for over 20 minutes. He promised to read the Book of Mormon, and said he has a family that prays together! He also said he doesn't really like churches, but we'll work on that. Really promising! Things are looking up!
After the baptism we met a really cool potential investigator this week. We had been walking to the centre from the chruch, and decided to go up a path we had never gone down before. While walking there wasn't any one around. And then we saw one man a ways down the path. Sister Schellenberg slowed down, and we started talking about how beautiful the view from the hill was. One we had stopped and taken a picture, the man was really close and so it was really natural and normal to talk to him. He stopped, and said he was one his way to go rehearse some music, but we ended up talking to him for over 20 minutes. He promised to read the Book of Mormon, and said he has a family that prays together! He also said he doesn't really like churches, but we'll work on that. Really promising! Things are looking up!
Sunday, was another great day. Today we got lights in our apartment. One funny thing about Finnish culture is that they really love their light fixtures, and so when they move out of a house they take their lights with them. Sister Schellenberg and I have been suriving on using just the entrance light and stove lights these past few days. Which is okay. But it's great that the office has granted us light fixtures for our bedroom and what not. Now we can see what clothes we're changing into in the morning.
Anyhow, got to go. Love you!
Sisar Kastendieck
Sisar Kastendieck
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