Sisar in a Suomi Sauna

  HAUKKUMINEN 👑  Sooooo I have a cold. Fun fact about Finland, you can't get cold medicine unless it is prescribed to you by a doctor. I have not been to a doctor and I don't think it's that severe so I have been "thugging" it out with no meds. Definitely made the week a bit of rougher one for me but I honestly just feel sorta bad being a dead-weight to my companion this week. BUT I've been feeling better and God is a God of miracles so I know He can heal me up to go out and do His work!  PÄIVITYKSET 🌸 🤍 PITSIVIIKKO! Rauma, the city I'm in, is known for its lace aaaand this past week was Lace Week so there was an international food market, pop up shops, more people in Vanha Rauma than I could count or comprehend. Like an actual CRAZY amount of people for Rauma I was taken aback. (in a good way)  🤍 As part of Pitsiviikko or Lace Week we went to a knitting picnic, which was just a whole bunch of older ladies gathered together to knit and chat. We met som...

HAUKKUMINEN 👑 This is super random but guys I have a new dream, I want a small dog supa bad after the mission. I wanna get a puppy and only teach it Finnish commands haha. ALSO I'm determined to find a Finnish friend to teach me to make pulla....katsotaan.... PÄIVITYKSET 🌸  🤍 Another DA! This time with two lovely member ladies and they took us to a really yummy Chinese buffet  🤍 We asked our friend about baptism and he said he wants to work towards it!! We haven't set a date, but it's been exciting to help and see his faith grow in Jesus !  🤍 OFFICALLY GRADUATED MY GREENIE ERA WOOHOO I am a full red blooded missionary now-the streets of Finland aren't ready  🤍 We had apartment checks and it was really funny because the guy doing them also showed us some music videos his son made (Finnish music is gas I can't lie ((its super good)) )  🤍 ZONE PDAY!! So we had a mini zone conference followed by a zone pday! So we had our free day with tons of other missionar...

  HAUKKUMINEN 👑 First of all I want to say, the rumors aren't true. Finland can get quite warm turns out haha-I was sweating my face off the other day because it was 30 degrees Celsius! (86F) And second off, that's all I'm gonna say here because I yapped like a madwoman again💢 PÄIVITYKSET  💙 SPLITS IN TAMPERE and guys I talked with someone on public transport for the first time! She was a super sweet lady, she noticed how crowded the tram was and scooched over so I could sit down-and it was such a wholesome conversation with her broken English and my broken Finnish haha  🤍 So during tracting and knocking the doors of the apartment literally across the street from us...WE FOUND A MEMBER?! We didn't even know she was a member when she let us in until she started talking about other members hahaha but apparently it's super hard for her to get to church so I hadn't met her my whole time here in Rauma?! I say this about everyone (but it's true) but she's ...

HAUKKUMINEN 👑  Today I thought I'd share some cool Finnish song lyrics with ya ! (Because I yap like a mad woman the rest of this email)  🇫🇮 mun kyyneleet niin pitkään vuotaneet tänään ne saa  mut vaan kimaltamaan 🇺🇸 my tears  leaked for so long  today they will be recieved  but just to sparkle Check out Timanttei (Diamonds) by Mirella🙌 PÄIVITYKSET  💙 Interviews with the Lehtinens!! I love them I love them and I even made them some bread ! 🤍 Visited a 91 year old member! And she's moving to Rauma soon! I hope I'll get to see her a lot more, she is a super sweet lady  💙 LOTS of finding again this week, tracting and social media mostly. And we've had some success! Yesterdy, I was able to simply testify at a lady's door and just tell her God and Jesus love her :) 🤍 I can't remember if I've brought these up in the past, but my mission does something called a V-Book that you get to take home. Basically all your companions you have are in char...

HAUKKUMINEN 👑 After Juhannus some of the members are calling me "uimari" (the title) because we talked about my long swimming history haha  Now, to be completely honest this week was possibly one of my roughest weeks on my mission...I didn't quite understand how much a mission can change with a change of companion. My new companion is great, don't get it twisted ! It's just been weird adjusting to someone new, who has new ideas for how to do things/spend our time etc. There's good and bad in it, but overall I'm feeling that this transfer is going to be something of a "growth" transfer. BUT never fear, tough things in life make tougher people 💪💪 although with that being said prayers are always much appreciated-ANYWAYS  PÄIVITYKSET💥 🤍 Both of those referrals I mentioned last email are actually bearing fruit !! We met with one way out in the boonies of Säkylä and the drive was soooooo beautiful.  💙 Speaking of driving, the speed limits here ar...