Temple Day! We had a bright and early day of getting ready!
Then we went to email. Real Good. Highlight of the week. Thank you all for your
letters! Then we hurried home to switch the laundry before we left for the
temple. It was a beautiful day. Shining
sun and warm air. We even ate an apple in the sunshine. Kaunis (beautiful). The Temple blessed us so
much. When we got home, we shopped real
quick, then ate and went to a lesson with our new Iranian friends. They are such a sweet couple who we set a
baptismal date with. June 8th! So excited. They are so prepared! After their lesson we
had another lesson with our recent convert who’s baptismal anniversary is
coming soon. So we got him pumped to go to the temple because we had just been
there. It was awesome!!!
Wed – DISTRICT 2…THE END! So sad! We had our last district
council as this district. I probably won’t
be seeing some of these people until I go home…weird. But it was good. Got to talk about random stuff, plus our
District leader brought brownies! It was awesome! Then eventually we left and we stopped by a
member’s house and she gave us cookies and some places to contact. We even found a few people! Ihmeitä!
(wonders) Then home for studies and dinner.
Then we wanted to have a lesson, but cancelled. So we went to Vuosaari
(a bit further out area) and were gonna follow up with one lady, but this drunk
man offered some girls (young like 6) some alcohol and scared them enough and
they stood by us till he came close to us then they ran and we went inside but
our follow-up wasn’t home. So we went to
another follow up but as we contacted there we saw our investigators from last
night! We were in a contact, so we ran a bit to catch up and we ended up going
to their apartment and teaching them the Word of Wisdom. Which they follow mostly, they drink
tea. Which they told us they would
stop. Awesome! It was such a
miracle! Then it was time to go
home. So many miracles today! [ 2 Nephi
27:23 Read it]
Thursday: It’s a bullet point day
-lesson with this man who told us the wrong name to see why
we called him then didn’t have the energy to stay and meet. So we taught a 5 min lesson at the bus
station.
-contacted by the beach – gave a 4 min restoration lesson
and were really cold as it got cloudy while there (actually stayed 20 min)
-Short interlude then taught B (Nepalese friend) and decided
to fast for him to help him stop smoking.
It was a fire lesson. He is so
ready for his baptismal date! (June 8)
- DINNER & FASTING “For HIM!”
- Tracting by the sea! It is so close and so beautiful
+ we saw and met a Norwegian
+ we knocked on Richie Rich’s door – He had to buzz the gate
so we could knock
+ we met 2 IHAN (not sure what this is) Scandinavian women
who I thought would surely punch us (they didn’t)
+ we heard a band practicing in their garage and then saw
them, they are all in their 40’s+
+ thought we were lost then found the church and then BOOKED
IT HOME!!!
Friday was quite chill.
We went and taught a returning member.
Very nice woman. The lesson was
weird; she seemed really mad at us, but then sometimes nice. I don’t know.
I don’t understand most of what she says. Then we got the fated call. We were walking home
and President Aura called and gave us our calls. Sisar Hansen will TRAIN…again! And I go to LAPPEENRANTA!!
It’s so weird. It was hard to focus during the rest of the afternoon for
studies and weekly planning (ALSO FASTING!).
Then after we walked to the church for a Relief Society (18 + women’s)
activity, but none of our friends showed up and we were starved! So we couldn’t stay, especially because food wasn’t
until later. So we went and at the most delicious hamburger EVER! So GOOD! Then
we contacted to the church for English hour. Both our Chinese friends were
there, then two young women. It was fun! Then home! Good.Full.Crazy Day!!!
Saturday! The first up…Ward Coordination! My last here. Then
we contacted home for lunch and some short studies before back to the church
for…drum roll…A BAPTISM! The Elders’ friend!
I lead the music! And it was so good.
He is so excited! His faith and happiness about baptism was
remarkable. Amazing! We mingled and then
cleaned up afterwards. Then contacted
out to Kulasaari and back. Home for
dinner. AP (asst. to the Pres) Weeks
called and told us where a bunch of missionaries were going on Tuesday, and I
cried, because of change and a slap from reality. #denial… So we went
contacting to the church for SPORTS! It was weird, there was a former elder here.
It was weirdly long, 1.5 hours, but good.
Lots of fun. Now home and not
much to do but get ready for bed.
Sunday was a Special Day.
Our friend who got baptized yesterday got the Gift of the Holy Ghost
today. It was so great. The blessing was even in Finnish and I understood (it was a missionary who gave it though, so…)
And after sung to ‘God Be With You Til We Meet Again’ He was crying and I was
almost crying. It was an event. And so many pictures and goodbyes. It was so sad. I have loved this ward. After church we ate
and studied before heading to a lesson with B (our friend with a baptismal date
June 8) He is so ready. He hasn’t quit
smoking all the way yet, but he’s working and almost there! He understands so
much, his progress is remarkable. We came
home for dinner then had a miracle happen.
We had a lesson that fell through.
Then we contacted/tracted the neighborhood around the church and
contacted a couple who walked away. But we followed to tell them the correct
name of the church and they were cool.
Then we had a cool conversation with an old man about Jesus then Mokkit
and gardens then the Book of Mormon and Jesus again. Then as we contacted back we went to knock on
a door and I said “9B is gonna let us in” and it was a woman we contacted
yesterday! She had thought about us
later and how she could ask questions and let us share our message with her and
she said we could come back. It was so
cool! We were on a bit of a high after that.
It was definitely God putting us in the right place at the right time to
help this woman. Then we walked and
contacted some more before a safety video and home. But altogether an amazing end to an AMAZING
week!
Love
Sisar McCammon
Abbie and Sisar Hansen at the zoo
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