Hey everyone!
My birthday was great! While bowling, I at least scored over 100 on the second game so...yay? Ha ha! I got the package on the exact day, perfect!! Thanks so much! Everything fits fine :)
Aili and Ülo's wedding was great! Sis. LeDuc and I gifted them a generic version of Jenga, which they were thrilled about! We've played it with them a few times when we've done FHE with them and so we knew how much they liked it :) Nelly (RS President) was at a loss for words because of how pretty Aili looked, ha ha ha ha. She wouldn't stop talking about it! I uploaded a few pictures of the wedding and other things. Speaking of cakes, we ate SOOOOO much cake at the wedding!! There were several varities so of course we had to try some of each! The cakes here aren't as sweet so I guess in that way, we didn't feel as bad for eating so much, hehehe. One of the members said she probably should fast the following day because she ate so much :P One other interesting thing that happened was that we saw a young woman at the wedding whom we knocked into and taught a short lesson to almost a month ago. That was a surprise! She was suprised to see us too. We were a little afraid to talk to her until around the end of the wedding. Apparently Aili is an acquaintance of hers from work or something. We're thinking of going to pay her a visit maybe this week or the next :)
The district president (like a stake president?) and his wife came down from Tallinn to perform the wedding and to speak at church on Sunday. After church they gave us a little tower (made of a toilet paper roll and clay) that their boys made with an Estonian flag sticking out the top and a Kalev 'Estonia' chocolate bar (YUMMY) in honor of the 24th of February. That day is Estonia's independence day (the original, when they first became their own country. There's a 2nd independence day in the summer when the USSR fell).
The other good news for this week is that a man whom the Elders had been teaching was baptized last Wednesday! His wife is a semi-active member, so we're praying that his conversion will be a blessing to the family. Other than that though, there hasn't been much else to report about.
Transfers were last week. We're still in Pärnu~ I'm kinda bummed that Elder Barney was transferred up to Tallinn. He's the last one left of my very first transfer here. Sis. LeDuc and I agree that he'd make a good bishop in the future, dunno why ;) Elder Baird has come down from Tallinn to be Elder Aardema's companion. He's definitely much shorter than Barney was, but he's a good teacher too. He's got about 3 months or so until he finishes his mission. I don't know much about him, but he does like to ask a lot of questions to get to know people. Almost like interrogating, he he :)
Tonight, we're doing FHE with the 1st counselor's family. Sergei is also the branch mission leader, so we know him pretty well from our weekly meetings with him. He is solid as a ROCK in the church. His wife just doesn't really understand gospel things. We were thinking of talking about Jesus as the Bread of Life. Hopefully we can make it simple enough for his wife, and two little kids to understand as well. We plan to play some games and maybe make a box cake that Sis. Aitken left here :)
Last week was certainly cold and slippery~ We're still layering a lot, but folks say things will start warming back up by the end of the week, yay! We've been having a rough time finding service opportunities lately :/ Nobody will let us help them! We find this perplexing since there are so many poor people here, wouldn't you want some free help?! Some other people have told us to wait until spring or summer. Normally we would help Saima with things at her house, but since there's snow, there's no work to do in the yard yet. So fam and friends I need some help here. We could use some ideas on how to find, or even finding people to teach. I know how much of a smart, clever, experienced bunch you are ;)
Lots of love,
Courtney
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