Sisar in a Suomi Sauna

  Tervetuloa takaisin! (Welcome back!)  Well, it's now been 3 weeks which means next week I'll be halfway through my MTC stay?!? Sisar Luke and I were just recently talking about how this missionary experience feels like a different life. I just hope after the mission I'm able to take these experiences and not necessarily remember all of them, but have become something more than I was before through them...if that makes sense.  Also Tuesday devotionals are the absolute best and I especially loved yesterdays because it talked about how Jesus Christ is our everything. He's our WHY.  Elder Gim énez even pointed out that he was wearing a tie because he loves Jesus Christ. It just makes me want everything I do, I do, because of Jesus Christ, because I love Him, and that's the most important thing. I love you all so much, I pray for yall, and I feel so blessed to feel the support from you guys. Please please email anytime I really wanna stay in touch! But I just ...

Moika! Can I start by saying that it's absolutely crazy to me that I've been here 2 weeks now?! I remember talking with missionaries my first couple days here, and even when they would say they'd been here a week I was like "woah-" and now it's been 2 weeks AHH  As for how I'm feeling about that...I definitely like the MTC and there is so much to learn, and like I mentioned in my last email everyone in my district has such a beautiful and unique testimony I can learn from. Although it's kinda feeling like I'll be in the MTC forever haha like this is my new life and I'm not actually going to Finland? I'm very much living in the moment right now, mostly because every single day is super busy and scheduled out so I don't have too much time to think about the future. But hey we're still a happy sponge and like I said in the beginning there is lots more to learn and great people to spend more time with :)  Also shoutout Sisar Luke! (Minu...

Terve! Hello!    So I thought I'd go into a little more depth in this email of what's been going on because 1 not all of you guys were on my list for my first little email (AND I'M IN THE PROVO Missionary Training Center or MTC NOW !) and 2 I realize I didn't talk too much about all the cool stuffs that go along with being a missionary or any of that...SO  I've now officially been a missionary for Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-which fun fact in Finnish it means the same thing but it's backwards, so it literally means Latter-Day Saints Jesus Christ's Church haha) for about 2 weeks or so! Also sorry I tend to talk in the parentheses a lot so hopefully this email isn't too hard to follow...just take your time haha. And for the first week I was online doing Home MTC, so we met our district (which all six of us are going to Finland !) and companion on zoom and I could already tell...