Go so hard, go so hard, then go so hard again

Missionary work in Finland

This last week was pretty amazing. So many good things happened, including helping meeting with a lot of amazing investigators, splits with Sister Egan and just having fun in general.

SO, on Tuesday we had a lesson with our Hungarian investigator. We took him on a tour of the church, He really seemed to love it and at the end of the tour we invited him to be baptized. He accepted. It's great meeting with him. He really wants to learn and has an amazing ability to understand exactly what the scriptures are saying. He's so ready. Anyhow, that night we reported to all the people we needed to that we received a baptismal date. While talking to the assistants they told us that they wanted us to call them the next day with another one. We told them that we we had been planning on it but, our meeting with one of our promising investigators had been cancelled. So, we made a pact to try to invite someone, like on the street or at the door or anywhere, to baptism. If we did it, they had to too. Well, it turned out that we just so happened to teach another new investigator. We invited her and she accepted! So, we did get to phone the assistants again with good news.... and they on the other hand had completely forgotten their end of the deal. All well, Ei voi mitään. There just seems to be so many people all around that are 100% ready for the gospel, and they keep approaching us.

One of the cool things about serving in Espoo is that the temple is so close to us. Another fun thing is that during the summer they have tours of the temple grounds every Wednesday evening. We had invited one of our investigators to come for last Wednesday to see. He is preparing for his baptism this coming Saturday and we thought it would be cool for him to see the temple. We also, ended up last moment inviting our Hungarian investigator. Then we were at another lady's house and she brought up the temple and how she wanted to see it and learn more. And so we went with her, the Hungarian and our other investigator. Super great! There were a ton of people that night at the tour, the member leading the tour was surprised and everyone loved it.

I also got to go on splits with Sister Egan this week, She was my companion in the MTC, and is now my Sister Training Leader. We had SO much fun together! We got to ride bikes (For my first time in forever), contact this referral, play at a park, reminisce, teach some people and ponder our time on the mission and just ponder the nature of time in general. We've been through a lot together, and she is so amazing. Heavenly Father really does plan all things right. I'm so lucky to have had such a stellar companion and to have served in at least the same zone as her for most of my mission.

Anyhow, I need to go. I love you all. This week is going to be crazy. Wish me luck. I'm wishing you all luck in all your endeavors.

Taivaallisen Isän siunausta teille.

Sisar Kastendieck

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