Things are starting to warm up a little more! The temperatures are fluctuating around the freezing point, so that's nice. I hope that means that the nasty sheets of ice on the paths around town will be mostly melted by next week? Ok, maybe it won't happen that quickly, but hey, we can dream :)
Thursday was Estonia's 93rd anniversary of their (first) independence. We met with some of the members at the church that morning to sing the national hymn, and listen to them tell stories and we sang some more song from the hymnbook. One of our eldest members even brought her traditional Estonian garb so I got a picture of that! We tried asking folks if they do anything special for their holiday, but we never got any really good answers. It made me wonder what America's Independence Day would be like in the winter? No more barbecues, watermelon, and corn on the cob!! There might have been a parade here...? If so, I don't know where or when it was. We did see some dirt bike racing on the river. Yes, on the river. They plowed a flat track on the snow the day before and there were a bunch of races going on. That made me miss the Figure 8 races at the fair :)
We only had 8 people in our English class this past week, so that was kind of a bummer since half of them are old students. Maybe next week...? Anyway, we're doing a private lesson with one of them this week.
Unfortunately, I haven't heard anything from Sis. Aitken yet. Some fun stuff for this week is that we will have Sis. Tanner coming down form Tallinn for a few days. I think she's probably one of the most senior Russian-speaking sister missionaries, so that'll be awesome. We already have a referral for her to work with and Raissa (Russian, inactive member) agreed to meet when we have more exact details of when she's getting here and for how long.
One mini-miracle this week was that Sis. LeDuc contacted an old lady on the bus right before we had to go to district meeting and they started talking as if they were old friends! We got off at the same bus stop near the church, and she showed us right to her apartment. She invited us in, but we told her we'd have to come back in 2 hours because we had our meeting to get to so she agreed to that. After our meeting, we go back, and she cooked us a meal for lunch! Perfect
timing since I was getting rather hungry! She was a really sweet lady who had been through a lot and she was really grateful to have met us. She said God must have put us in her path :) She gladly accepted the Book of Mormon, although she's always been Lutheran. We had a return appointment for later in the week, but she called us that night and had to cancel because her daughter was going to come pick her up to go visit relatives, but she wants to meet again!
Gah!! Sorry fam! I ran out of time to tell you more this week, but I hope you all know I love you tremendously! Thanks always for the prayers and love.
Courtney
P.S. Could you tell me Maureen's mailing address when you get it? :)
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