Hey friends and family

This last week was awesome. Beyond awesome. 

First off, back story. Two months ago our mission president emailed all of us missionaries here in Finland with a promise that in each area there was someone ready to be baptized in April or May. We get lots of promises from President and for some reason my little soul tends to think that they just apply to other areas. Well, Sister Johnson and I determined that we were going to show as much faith as possible and work as hard as we could towards this particular promise. After many baptismal dates falling through, stress, prayers and planning, it happened! On May 31st we had a baptism! The nine year old daughter of a part member family got to go to baptism. 

And now I really know that there are no exceptions to any rules, promises etc. In addition to this we have several other investigators who are top notch.

One of them we met several months ago but, have never been really serious about because she's quite old, and usually they have harder time accepting new things. Not so. We had a really powerful discussion about the Restoration and she loved it! She always talks about how things in her church are changing and she doesn't like it. 

I also had the opportunity to go off on member splits. Sister Johnson was a bit sick so she stayed at someone else's house while I went off to teach a couple lessons with a good member in our ward. It was scary. When you don't have the person who you've prepared everything with and your left kinda alone... it's scary. To make matters more fun, when we got to our investigator's house, he had a friend over. So, I got to try to teach about baptism, and on the side a bit about the Book of Mormon and whatnot so that his friend could understand. It went quite well, and was wonderful. I surprised myself, which is always fun to do, and then realized I deserve none of the credit. 

Also, icing on the cake for this week. In a couple weeks we're having a Music and the Spoken Word type special fireside. Guess what. I have a solo (scary) BUT, guess what song it is!!! It's Angel Lullaby from My Turn on Earth... I was the only one in my district that knew what it was, and so I get to sing it in Finnish! I'm so excited! 

So there is a glimpse into the life of me. Time keeps moving forward. Life keeps going. And miracles keep coming. 

Love you all,

Sister Kastendieck