We couldn't meet with Laur this week unfortunately. His mom was in the hospital so we rescheduled. Speaking of hospital! One of our less active members was in the hospital because of a possible blood clot that might have had something to do with her heart. We hope not!! We saw her yesterday though, and she seems to be doing better. I think she got a stent put in, but as I am neither good at Finnish nor medical things, I am glad I don't know much. But she seems to be good.
We also met with two other less actives. We taught one about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she said that it really helped her to learn about it again, because it made more sense to her. She said that it helped her head. It was sweet.
Another less active we met with has just had surgery, so we went to her house and helped her clean but she has cats and I am allergic to cats. It was a very sneezy day. It was so fun though. And she calls us her daughters and that she is our Finnish mom. She is really the sweetest and it felt good to be able to help her clean her house, then lift her spirits afterwards with the gospel.
Much more than that we didn't do this week. We had a week full of finding knocking on doors and talking to people. It's been really full of that. Also visiting members. We had dinner on Sunday with one family who fed us licorice ice cream. It is vanilla ice cream with a licorice ribbon running all throughout it. It sounds really disgusting, but it is actually not as bad as you would think. Eat it with a little bit of brownies and it's perfect!! Masks the taste!! Then last night we visited another member for family night and it was so fun!! We had sheet cake pancakes with ice cream and jam and fruit!! So it sounds normal, but they kept calling them pancakes, but they were definitely not American pancakes. But they were good and they were super kind to invite us. Earlier this week, on Wednesday we had brought the mom of this family a dew flowers just to show our appreciation for her. It was probably the best thing we ever did. She had had a terrible day at work and things in her home life were going not amazing. It was just a lot of hard things in one day to have to deal with. And then we came along, and Sister Kristensen wasn’t really sure if she even wanted to go over to her house and give them to her, but it was definitely a blessing that we went. It made her day so much better. More than the flowers, but to know someone was thinking about her and that we were grateful for her. It was such a special thing.
Then on another day we were talking to this lady at a bus stop on our rush home because of curfew. Anyways, we stopped to talk to her, and it turns out that she was from Estonia. It was really cool because we had only talking to her for a few seconds when this family in our ward passed by and luckily, the dad is from Estonia!!! So they spoke to each other in Estonian and Sister Kristensen got to listen. I on the other hand was speaking to the wife who’s from Venezuela (speaking English) about this American luncheon we’re having here in Lohja. We knocked on one of her friend’s doors so we asked her to invite her friend. It was awesome to see them and have that happen. The Lord was definitely on our side.
We also had another interesting contact happen yesterday. We were tracting and just before we left the area to go home for lunch, we walked down this street and saw a weird flag attached to a car trailer. We stopped by the car and had the man roll down his window to ask, and he was a roofer!! So we talked to him for a while and obviously we started talking about the church, and he was so interested! He asked so many questions and we had the answer to all of them! I was so happy we could help him! It was such a blessing to be able to find him and talk to him. We even gave him a pamphlet about the Plan of Salvation because all his questions were like “What’s the purpose of life?” “What happens after death?” so it was sweet!!! It really was a blessing.
The last thing I want to talk about is a goal I set this week. I wanted to read the book of Alma in 10 days. Which meant (from where I Started) I needed to read 16 pages a day. It definitely isn’t easy even as a missionary. But I know the Lord is helping me. I know this book is true and I want to share it with everyone here. It’s hard sometimes, but reading the longest book in the book and so quickly is building my testimony about missionary work. Alma was one of the best missionaries and he is such an example. I know as we set and keep goals to read the Book of Mormon, the Lord strengthens our testimonies and helps us to find people to share it with. Even if you don’t think someone is ready, it’s worth it to say something about your experiences reading it. I love this Book and I know with all my heart it’s true. I love it and the fact I get to share it every day. I love you all and I miss you! I hope all of your weeks are amazing and you so much fun!!
With love,
Sisar McCammon
ps. It turns out that I can actually cook! I made hamburgers the other day and they were actually cooked and delicious!!! I haven't seen the Northern Lights yet, but I heard that they aren't really seen this far south. unless it's maybe at like 1 in the Morning when I am asleep. They are rarer than we thought I guess.
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