Sisar in a Suomi Sauna

  Is it just me or is time is absolutely flying?  SPIRITUAL THOUGHT Missionary Work: Sharing What Is in Your Heart -Dieter F Uchtdorf  "Their hearts are aflame with the testimony of Jesus Christ, and they sincerely want others to experience the same joy they have found in the Savior's gospel."  I love this desciption and this is exactly how I want to be all the time. I want to have a testimony that is so strong and rooted that I can't not share it with others. And I really believe this is how it is supposed to be. When we love the Lord and His gospel, then we will find it surprisingly natural how easy it is to share it. I invite us all to make Christ more important in our day, because when we choose Him every day it will help us develop this testimony and naturally invite others to this "well of joy" we are constantly drawing from! :) UPDATES -I am a TIRED GIRL. So much is going on, I'm not even sure where I would start...basically we have lo...

Warm regards to all of you out there whom is reading my email juuri nyt (right this second) unfortunately I find myself with like zero time to write so...SPEED RUN ZONE CONFERENCE  -we got to present our theme to the eastern area of missionaries here in finland of HERE I AM; SEND ME and I was able to talk about how love should be our greatest motivator in the work. Jesus Christ's Atonement, the greatest act in history was motivated out of His love for us. Everything our Father in Heaven does is out of His love for us, His children. So if we want to do missionary work in a way that truly changes us we need to do it out of love! This is His work and doing missionary work out of love for God and love for His precious children is how we can do the work in His way! SPLITS  -me and sister lambert had such a great day together. We talked to so many cool people and I was able to testify to a guy on the street that although God can appear silent He hasn't left us alone! As ev...

Brownie points to anyone who understands that reference (and I've learned how to make some pretty fabulous ones out here shoutout Jarvis) To be quite honest with you all at the start here, it feels like I was just writing one of these johns and yet SO much as happened since I last did.  SPIRITUAL THOUGHT  🇫🇮Herra näkee sydämeen  "...hänen sydämensä oli vahva Jumalan silmissä...Hän rakasti Jumalaa koko sydämestään, ja hänellä oli syvä halu olla kuuliainen Jumalalle." 🇺🇸The Lord Looketh on the Heart  by Elder Barcellos  "...his heart was strong in the eyes of the Lord...He loved God with his whole heart, and he had a deep desire to be obedient to God."  (DISCLAIMER this is just me translating the finnish so it might not say these exact words in the talk)                    So bringing this back to the idea of "digging deeper" as I was reading this talk I was struck with one of those "ja haa" moments where ...

A moment for my beautiful daughter Sister Israelsen. first day^ somewhere in the middle there^ and the last at transfer day^ Oh my lovely child. I miss you more than I can say, but I'm with you. Here is a poem dedicated to you: I've always thought it was cool you like worms And your love for Taiwan just confirms You were meant to be my baby  Let's hangout one day just maybe... And if you make a jian bing I'll be around faster than you think Äitisi rakastaa sua aina ja ikuisesti🤍 SPIRITUAL THOUGHT  Thou Art the Christ by Amy A. Wright  "Our love may comfort and inspire, but Their love (Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ) can sanctify, exalt, and heal. This Jesus should not be a fictional Jesus, or a simplistic Jesus, or a bodiless Jesus, or an unknown Jesus, but a glorified, omnipotent, resurrected, exalted, worshipful, powerful Only Begotten Son of God, who is mighty to save. And as a young child in the Philippines compellingly testified to me one day. 'We are w...

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT 🤍 Romans 12:1  "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."  The more I'm referenced to the book of Romans, the more I think, wow I should be reading in here WAY more often haha. But during my personal study I came to the conclusion and reminder that for all the things God has given us and how impossible it seems to ever be able to repay Him back for it all- there IS something He perhaps hints we can do to give back. And that is using our God gifted time for His purposes! I'm talking, if we really want to show God we love Him, because we all know He loves us so very much as evidenced by the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, we sacrifice our time to show love to someone/to serve them, we try to find out what He would have us do and pray to find out. Most of all though, we ACT. We all know the phrase 'actions speak louder than w...