Nelly's prayers were indeed answered and the sisters are still here in Pärnu! However, the big news for this week is that our trio's now down to 2 :( President Dance called Wednesday morning saying that Sis. Aitken had to come down to Riga that night and then start flying back to America the next day. Because the doctors here can't figure out what the problem is, they're going to try doctors back home. I don't know how soon she'll be able to come back either, but we're praying that it's just at the end of this transfer which is at the end of February. She's just taking a vacation ;) It's definitely quieter around the apartment without her and she's surely missed in the branch, but Sis. LeDuc and I will keep the work going until she gets back. So, for her last day, we walked out onto the frozen Baltic Sea (finally) and then did some shopping. Funny thing is that we had 2 young Jehovah's Witnesses knock on our apartment right as we were leaving for the bus station on Wednesday night. Once they saw Sis. LeDuc's nametag, they started to exit, ha ha. They left us with a booklet, but we missed our chance to give them a Book of Mormon in return. ARGH! Now they know where we live, ha ha ha.
Thankfully, I received some letters and pictures from Marily, Mark and the kiddos and Stacey so that lifted my spirits back up. The pictures were soooooo pwecious and Stacey's letter was long and full of laughter!! Oh gosh, my family is the best~ I'm excited to hear that Veronica has a letter for me too! It's been a while :)
We were awoken at midnight on New Year's by oodles of fireworks that people were lighting up all around our apartment and around the bay. I'm glad we had to be inside, because it didn't look all that safe outside, ha ha! It was really cool to see how many there were though. On New Year's Eve, we shoveled out Saima's house and then blew the last of our Estonian Kroons on a frozen pizza and some pear ice cream. (First time I've tried it. Yummy~) I fell asleep early that night because I contracted a cold over the weekend, but it's mostly gone now.
We taught Liidia on Saturday with Bro. Tšekmarjov. He's the first counselor and probably one of the scriptorian's of the ward. He was able to answer her questions, but she still won't read a lot of the Book of Mormon on her own. I don't know if future lessons we should turn them into reading sessions or what. Sis. LeDuc and I just need to go through former investigators and find new people to teach. I think the Elders might have some baptismal candidates though, so that's exciting. We started implementing a "missionary moment" like we did in RS in the single's ward back home, so I hope that will get the members excited to help us out.
Well, that's all for this week. We're going to go do some sledding now, w00t! Oh yeah, and Stacey told me my old co-worker Amanda had her baby! I'm super happy about that! Love you lots! I was grateful that several of the pictures Marily sent had other members of the fam too :) I'll be praying for uncle Gary. Thanks for the hugs and kisses!
Love,
Courtney
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