It's funny how you can forget what happened in an entire week. But I'll start off by saying Happy Remembrance Day! I remembered! And I even managed to wrangle my own poppy! Yesterday at church the family that we had Canadian Thanksgiving with (The Solitts) were sitting behind us, and I noticed the Dad had a poppy. I asked him where he got it, and his mom had sent it to him, and then he gave me one! I was also informed by the Elders just a few minutes ago that they too observed Canadian Remembrance Day and had a moment of silence at 11, and then prayed for Canada... and the U.S.A as today is also Veterans' Day in the States.
Yesterday was also Father's Day here, which meant it was a flag day, and also we couldn't go tracting at all, or show up anywhere unexpected. Sister Schellenberg and I didn't really have very many plans, oops. We did get to meet with one older lady in our ward though, and it was nice. We didn't have any talks about Father's in sacrament yesterday though, because it was the Primary program! Which was fantastic!
Oh. I also lost my wallet this week. Good opportunity to learn basic Finnish vocab that I didn't know before. The word for wallet is kampakko just in case you were wondering. Okay don't worry I found it again. We had had a lesson with a really cool investigator at a coffee shop here in a mall. The lesson went well, and then we all parted ways, I without my wallet. Unfortunately I didn't realize until nearly 9pm that night. But I was able to go back the next day and find it, and nothing was missing! Hooray for honest Finnish people! The next day President Rawling, my mission president came into town! But just for a few minutes to do interview with all of us here. Received some great advice, and then split ways again. This time we thought we locked our phone in the church building. But, it turned up in one of our bags that we had checked like 6 times . So it really was just a week of lost and found.
We were able to help a member in our ward move this week, which took a bit of time. But it was worth it. She's a single mom, who was baptized a couple years ago. This week due to the move, her one son's baby blessing and her other son's baptism, she had a ton of family in town. Sister Schellenberg mentioned to her that if they ever want to learn anything, we have missionaries everywhere around the country. On Sunday she came up to us and said she had talked to her aunt in Kouvola and that she was really interested! We got to talk to the Aunt for a few minutes and she is really excited to hear about the gospel. Hooray!
We also had a ward activity. Where everyone came together and sang old traditional Finnish songs. Really fun. Wouldn't have known what half of them were about, except the lady beside me was translating for me a bit. There were also a ton a non-members there! The ward is really excited about missionary work, and we've had a few people come and say to us that they have friends they want us to meet! So fun!
Anyhow, I'll wrap this up. I feel kinda scatter-brained today, so I hope this will suffice for this week!
Love, Sister Kastendieck!
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