Beloved Family and Friends!
GAAAAAAAAAAH~~!!!!! LACHELLE'S HAVING A BABY!!!1!11! I'm so essited xD
I didn't recieve any of your packages yet, but I got the shirts and divinity nut rolls and several cards from Grandma and Carol. That was really thoughtful, and yummy! I have 3 rolls left :) With "Friend Day" (Valentine's in Estonia), the end of English classes, and my birthday, Sis. LeDuc and I have been loaded up with lots of chocolate lately so there's no need to buy anymore for quite some time! Valentine's Day isn't really big here since it's only been celebrated within the last 20 years, but I think they just give chocolate to friends, (pretty much what they do for every other holiday here, methinks, :P) We're going to go bowling today for my birthday, and tomorrow I'm getting my haircut so I'm really excited. It's already been a super birthday! :D
I'm sorry to hear that Dad isn't feeling so well! Actually, this last week has been pretty bad for us too since when I finally started to feel decent enough to go work, then Sis. LeDuc came down hard with a fever and chills. It's like our Pärnu district was plagued with something, ha ha! So we were pretty much out of commission for almost a week. Now we gotta catch up! We made a huge batch of sugar cookies for Game Night and our English class, complete with pink frosting for Valentine's~ As soon as we started to pass around the cookies and then set them on the table, Saima started mentioning how these would be great with prunes on top. WUT?!?!11 NOOOOOOO. DON'T DESECRATE OUR AMERICAN SUGAR COOKIES WITH YOUR NASTY PRUNES!!!1!!!11!! But sure enough, she asked Zoja to bust the prunes from the closet (for Primary?) and then they placed one on top of each of our pretty pink cookies remaining on the tray. Ugh, that's so Estonian... The Elders were especially in an outrage because they're doing a no-sweets challenge with a couple who's trying to work on the Word of Wisdom. We Sisters haven't been helping them with that lately, ha ha ha. Needless to say, our cookies were a big hit!
President and Sister Dance came to our branch on Sunday, but the turnout was smaller than expected. Earlier in the week, we invited them to come to eat with us after church, so they accepted and brought the Elders along too. We tidied up the apartment and made Sis. LeDuc's Chicken Paprika. It was fun to eat and chat with them, and President told us some fun bits of news too, like Sisters' Conference next month in Riga, and that we're going to do an exchange next transfer with the Russian sisters! w00t w00t. Oh, and one other secret he let out was that we're having a Mission Conference probably at the start of summer, so that's something to look forward too! President spilled the beans about it because I mentioned that Elder Burr from my stake was coming in soon, although I probably wouldn't have the chance to meet him, then President said "you may get to see him sooner than you think!" :)
We had to drop an investigator this week :/ We taught him with Bro. Tšekmarjov, who was a great help, and we clearly invited to be baptized, but he doesn't want to change and repent right now, so he refused. We'll still occassionally check up on him though, see how he's doing. Last night, we visited a lady whom we knocked into a few weeks back and I think she sees that the Book of Mormon could be true, but she said that she's not sure if this is the right time since she's
busy and her mom, excuses, etc. Me and Sis. LeDuc just testified away about what this knowledge means for us and she agreed to meet again. We need to take a member with us next time so that they can help her see why she needs this NOW in her life.
Transfers are this week, but nobody thinks we'll be whitewashed into a new area yet. Even IF we were transferred though, we're still going to make it to the wedding this weekend! Oh and the Elders have a baptism on the same day, so that's really great for the branch! People have been telling us that this weekend is finally going to get nasty cold, so we'll see how that goes. It's been rather nippy the last few days~ I still think we've lucked out this winter, so I can put up with the bitter cold for a little bit :)
Well, that's all I've got for this week! Thanks so much for all the birthday wishes, and of course all the usual hugs and kisses~
Love you so much,
Courtney
P.S. I suppose I'll have to ask around and see what I can do here then for eye stuff. I'll have to pay out of pocket for it, but from what I've experienced or heard so far with Estonian medicine, it's quite cheap since it's socialized or whatever.
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