This is weird. Right now I'm emailing you from across the street of the temple. With pretty much everyone from my district. There are too many people here. The quality of this email will most likely not be so great. Also once again, I find my self with the usual P-Day amnesia where I forget everything that has happened the previous week.
Espoo has been pretty good. Can't complain. Things are a bit slow right now, which is to be expected. Give us another couple weeks and we'll be flying. The slowness of it though seems to be affecting my companion more than myself. She had a lot of success and was very busy in her old area... and I don't think she's ever really experienced a slow week. I've had quite a few over my mission. I think I may have become a bit too complacent. Slow weeks don't really bother me. And I do want things to pick up. But, I'm not terribly upset that things are as they are.
We had a zone meeting this week. Which, is always a bit weird when you move to a new zone. There are lots of missionaries you've never met, and the one's you do know are now closer with their new districts, and I don't know. Anyhow, Elder Call and Elder Richards from my old Lahti district were there, and that made life better. Also, Sister Egan, Sister Fronk and I are all now reunited in the same zone. The zone meeting went well. Some general authorities in charge of family history came and talked. Afterwards on the way home Sister Vincent and I were just talking with each other on the train when a man approaches us. He asks if we are Mormons. We say yes. And he was really existed to talk with us. Unlike the last time someone approached Sister Dayton and I if we were Mormons, this man was very nice and polite. We had another meeting with him the next day and were able to give him a Book of Mormon. He has a lot of questions, and is really interested in figuring if God is really there, and how he would actually know that he is there. He's gone to Holland for the week but, we should be able to meet with him next week. That's exciting!
We also met an old lady at the train station the next day. She had been glancing over at us every now and then as we were waiting for the train. And so I went over and said hi. It turns out she's a Swedish Finn... who doesn't really like Finnish and so spoke to us in English. She said she loved being with younger people. She also said she had seen us walking around the neighbourhood earlier, and wants to talk with us. We said we'd come over and sing to her. Really cool.
That is one thing that I love about my mission. I make so many friends, instantly! Every time I'm on the bus, street, anywhere where there are people I don't know the scripture Ephesians 2: 19 comes to mind. (I may have mentioned this in an earlier email. Forgive me if I have). It says "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God." I think to myself "I may not know you right now... but, one day we could be in the temple together. We could be friends!" And then depending on the day, or minute, or hour... I summon up some courage and I talk to them.
So that's my thoughts for this week. I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week! Love you!
Sister Kastendieck
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