Morning run at the soccer fields
Last week was pretty crazy. We had a bunch of lessons. More
than usual at least. Tuesday we had 2. We taught our new friend (henceforth S)
and he is way cool. He came to church yesterday too. He believes more in
science than in religion, but he is really open to learning. He seems to really
like what we believe so far, and it has been so fun to teach him. Then right
afterward we left to go walk with the next person we are teaching, and he
walked with us, and met the next man we were going to teach before he headed
out. He was totally ready to just hang out with us for the night. But he left
and we taught D. He is so funny! His accent sounds almost like he is from
Detroit, but he is actually originally from Rwanda. He has lived in Finland for
about half his life though. He is way cool. We got to teach him and he had
texts and calls the whole time because he is going to visit Rwanda on Wednesday
and people wanted to see him before he left. So when he left he said
"Thank you for your time," and we immediately said "Thank YOU
for your time. You are much more busy than us," and he just looks dead at
Sister Nielson and says "There is always time for Jesus!" It was so
awesome! We will hopefully get to teach him when he comes home. There is a
lesson set up for him already so fingers crossed.
Wednesday wasn't much. Just a lot of finding time, and I
finally went to the bishops house. We had a dinner appointment and so it was
really fun to go out and meet his family. They are all really nice kids. It was
really good too. We had a fun spiritual thought about superheros and how
through the Holy Ghost and spiritual gifts we can become our own kind of hero
as we develop these gifts. It was really cute and way fun.
Then on Thursday we went to district council. Just a normal
day. not much to report, but we went to another members house for dinner today
too. Their family is just amazing. We got to do the superhero thought with them
too and they just loved it. We even dug deep into superheros before switching
to the Holy Ghost, so the switch was deeper and much more prominent than
before. We live and we learn right. It was way fun!
Friday we got to go to a friend M's house. We got to see the
Russian border from her house and we took a tour of her yard. She has so many
cool things and knick knacks. Her mom works a loom and so they have a million
rugs that her mom hand made. her dad works with wood, so all their chairs and
tables and even their house is made by him. He also has a bunch of war
memorabilia, so their house is almost like a museum. It was way cool. (Pictures at the end) Then we
got to make Karjalan Piirahka. Which is basically a rice and egg mixture in a
savory pie crust and shaped like a football. Google pictures of them. It looks
and sounds kinda gross but it is actually REALLY good. After we came home from
her house, we went to visit a person who just moved form Greece that the missionaries
there emailed us about. We went to her and were talking. She is so nice.
Because of her status as a refugee though, we can't teach her until she gets
residency unfortunately. But we got to visit and she fed us a pudding type
parfait. It was just unfortunate because we had two members with us who were
gluten free and couldn't eat it. Then when she took us to visit her friend they
fed us too, and again they had to refuse. We felt bad, but we had to leave soon
after, so it wasn't too bad. It was fun for us though.
Russian Border
Saturday was crazy! We weekly planned that day and had an
insane lesson. It was at their house, and they weren't really interested and in
the background the radio was playing and the TV was on and it was in Finnish,
so I was struggling to hear what they said and translate because of it. And at
one point the radio played on of my favorite songs so that didn't help. It was
just crazy. They were really nice though. Just not interested. One day they
will be ready though. So hopefully in a couple years when the missionaries stop
by, they will be ready. I just pray that God will grant them a change of heart.
Then we waited for a bus and got to talk to the member who came with us for a
while because the bus was longer than we expected. So it was fun to talk to him
about missionary work and stuff!
Sunday was fun too. As I said before S was there and Sister
Nielson translated for him, and in Sunday School I translated for our American
member. She is way cute, and she is so patient with my poor translation skills.
I had to make up a lot because I don't understand everything and it isn't
always easy to hear what people say. You can hear that they are speaking, but
the words blur together sometimes and some people are easy than others to
translate. So she was patient and I did it. Then after church we had a little
luncheon at the church and our friend stayed for that. He said he liked church
and would come back next week! It will be exciting. Sister Nielson will be
speaking so that means I will need to translate for him. It should be
good. 😬😬😬
We didn't do much yesterday, but we had another dinner
appointment and it was fun. We brought them cookies because the other day when
I was making a some stress cookies, I accidentally mixed up two ingredients and
put in 6 times the amount of baking soda and mixing it together before I
realized what I did. So instead of tossing and restarting, I times the recipe
by 6 and moved forward. So we ran out of every ingredient and now we have a lot
of cookies. It has been fun though to give out so many cookies. We even brought
some to our ward mission leader, and he liked them. He thought the story was
pretty funny too. Not your usual missionary story. I was just a bit stressed
and a bit tired and just decided to go for it. They turned out really good too,
so high five to me!
I don't really know how to be brief, so I am sorry, but this
week really has been amazing. We have seen so many miracles and taught so many
people. We have really felt the Lord working on us this week. He has been
helping us find people to teach and to help them come unto Christ. It is hard.
The hardest thing I have had to do. Ever and possibly the hardest thing I will
ever have to do, but there are lots of people that have really been helping. Thank
you for all of your prayers and encouragement. I love you and I miss you
all.
Love Sister McCammon
What fun pictures she sent this time. Inside a Finnish home and a Moomin House!
Pictures of inside the Moomin' House and inside the children's cottage.
Gun Collection war memorabilia, Clock handmade by her dad.
A little fire pit shelter, An old Finnish phone box, some boats behind their house and the Russian train again, and fun yard decorations.
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