Ooh boy, things have been pretty hectic this week, but so far so good in Tallinn. The Pärnu Elders have been taking the liberty of staying at our apartment there and eating our food, but oh well. Our new place here is like ye olde standard Estonian 2 room apartment. It's certainly tinier than the Pärnu South apartment and it was previously inhabited by an old grandma. Oh yes, it shows, ha ha ha ha. The Perrys, the missionary couple here in Tallinn, went to sign the lease and the owner didn't expect us to move in so quickly so the apartment was in pretty bad shape, cleaning-wise. The Perrys spent probably 7 hours just cleaning the kitchen on Wednesday. When we arrived on Thursday morning, we spent maybe 2 hours cleaning everything in the bathroom. The floor is still really gross so we might just chuck the rubbery covering on it and buy some new rugs or something. Perhaps the Perrys were a little desperate to get the apartment, but oh well. It's a missionary apartment. They're not always the prettiest places, but they're functional. Like for example, my bed could certainly be used for a trampoline, it's that bouncy! We're dying to try out some of the pieces from granny's several tea sets too :) And with the Russian sisters just a 10 minute walk away, there's definitely going to be fun things in the future!
President Dance just wanted to move us up here so we could get this area somewhat established before the new sisters arrive. We had to pack all of our belongings since one of us will be staying here to train while the other will go back to Pärnu or Tartu. I know sisters haven't been there (Tartu) in over a year. There might be hints that I'll be here, but there's still a week before transfers. The weather's been colder here than in Pärnu :P Must be that cold, nothern wind from the sea. We haven't been left with many investigators to work with, or much of an area book for that matter, so we're pretty much starting from scratch with this area. Yay for being whitewashed~ It's a little daunting, but so far it's been fun. We have the area of Mustamäe and Haabersti, so like south-western Tallinn. I think Mustamäe is kinda 50/50 when it comes to Russian and Estonian. Last night we went to do some knocking for about 2 hours at the far end of Haabersti. Lovely place!! I haven't seen nice houses of that size in well, almost a year, ha ha.
Miracle of today was that on our way to the library on the tram, we noticed a black man out the window who got of the tram. I always get excited when I see signs of diversity here :P Anyway, he stood in front of where we sat and he was just looking at us. I'd wanted to say something and then he asked in English if we were from some church. He'd seen my nametag! He's from Nigeria and he remembers a branch from his home town and had some good impressions of it. He's very religious and just wants to help his wife (an Estonian and sitting in front of us :) learn about Christ. So we gave them a contact card, a Book of Mormon, and we got their phone number. Aziz told us that he's looking forward to our call to meet in the future! And they'd like to come to church too! We had missed our stop because we were talking to him, but he also admitted that our conversation made his family miss his stop as well, ha ha ha! Wow, what a tender mercy from the Lord!
I don't have the mailing address for our mailbox in Tallinn yet. I'll get working on that. We still did an exchange on Friday, so Sis. G came with me to do service with the ward at the Zoo on Friday while Sis. LeDuc chilled with Sis. Dawson and Sis. Wrigley (who has had foot problems lately and can't do much) We'll be helping them out more this week so at least all of the sisters can get some equal time to get out there and work.
As far as the Mother's Day call, you can call me when it's evening time, therefore early morning for me. Sis. LeDuc's fam is going to call us during our night time. Maybe you could call me at around 7am? I don't know what time that'd be for you. Thanks for the prayers. I think it's working :)
Love,
Courtney
P.S.I actually can't really go and check on my e-mail so easily, but since it was an emergency, I got permission :)
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