Tšau ('ciao' or 'chau') Fam!
I love how you always tell me what you ate for Sunday dinner. It makes me hungry for some home cookin'!! I finally tried making my own Estonian-style pancakes yesterday. They turned out pretty well. I didn't have a recipe and I couldn't remember exactly what measurements Sis. Pruel had showed, so I just put what looked good inside there :P Estonian pancakes are more like crepes, just a little thicker and often fried with a little bit of oil.
Let's see, things that happened this week... Well, we had our apartment checked by the missionary couple who came down from Tallinn for the day. Boy, Sis. Perry checked like every nook and cranny in the kitchen, he he. I guess we still did very well (Sis. LeDuc is kind of a clean-freak :) even though she gave us a whole list of things to do :P We randomly paid a visit to the old lady who fed us lunch several weeks ago. With the help of Kerle (she had been teaching us Estonian right before the visit) we convinced her to come to game night. Not sure if she's ready to try our church out yet, but she lives right next to it, so there's really no excuse ;) Last night, we weren't sure where to go to start doing some knocking so we were just going to hop on the soonest bus. At our bus stop, we saw a lady in a neighboring building whom we'd knocked into but we haven't been able to meet with her since. She was sending off a visitor, who I also know quite well from English classes last fall! What a coincidence!! (or divine help!) Anyway, we had a nice long chat and then we followed her to walk to the seashore and then back. When we finally get to meet with her again, we'd like to teach her the plan of salvation, since her husband passed away 10 years ago and her mother has cancer.
Quite a few of the lessons we had for this past week fell through, but we were able to still meet with some people. We have one investigator with a baptismal date, (his name is Ain :) but that's not until June because he wants to be baptized in the river :) We challenged him to read the Book of Mormon before his baptism, and he's right on schedule so far! He admits that a lot of it is confusing for him, but when we meet with him, we can explain that stuff. He wants me to try playing his accordion too. I'm hoping we can finally get down to his place this week since he lives out of town a bit and we have to take a special bus to get there.
Things are warming up gradually now~ yay! We're going sledding today, so I hope the hills are still good and that they haven't gotten too slushy yet. There are tons of puddles and slush on the sidewalks and paths so dodging them sometimes feels like we're in some Mario game, jumping from one platform to the other :P Sis. LeDuc and I are super pumped to go down to Riga tonight and have Sisters' Conference tomorrow! Yay for road trips! I'm just excited to really meet/see the other sisters throughout the mission. Our companionship feels a little...well..lonely sometimes? Ha ha ha! I mean, we are the only Estonian-speaking sisters in the whole wide world. No pressure, right?
Yes, we did hear about the damage in Japan. That's amazing that all the missionaries are well. Now they'll have their hands busy with work to do. I must say, we missionaries here in Estonia often pondered what sort of effect a natural disaster would have on the work here... buuuuut, besides maybe flooding of rivers from melts or rain, I don't think Estonia is at risk for a natural disaster. Well, unless if all the food stores closed for a week or so. Then we'd have a famine, :P Estonians go to the store like everyday to buy maybe 3-4 things, he he.
Gotta go eat some grub and hit the slopes now!
I love you so so so much,
Courtney
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