Wow! You are so______!   

(Finland – Week 30)   

04 August, 2015

Well, it finally happened, a Finn has finally told me that I sound ____ . Twice in a week I was called the same thing, finally I looked it up, it meant fluent. Funny how I was being called fluent but did not understand the actual word fluent. I assure you that these were very kind Finns, I am not fluent, but I will work on that so that one day I may be, SUJAVA! (that means fluent, I think, I hope I spelled that right...) 

This week we have a mini missionary!! It's the coolest program ever, for a week teenagers come and live with the missionaries, eat with us, teach with us, and be officially representatives for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! They are so excited, I love it. Our mini missionary is 15, like my wonderful sister Leisel! We have taught together, talked to so many people, and had a lot of fun. I helped teach the 5-hour "mini MTC" and watched them all be told where they were going, they are all really prepared. It's awesome to see the testimonies Heavenly Father gives, we don't need to have years of experience teaching or anything to have bright testimonies that stand as a sign for the nations. 

This week a scripture was brought to my notice in Jeremiah 16:16,"Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks." Someone pointed out that the huge apartment buildings all over here in Finland would have looked like giant mountains in Jeremiah's time, and that each apartment would be like a hole in the rock. This made all of us missionaries feel super epic, hunting out God's children across the land (probably with epic music in the background), and it reminded me how much I love what I am doing. I never thought that I would love the fact that I have sore feet all the time, because every time I feel my feet, I remember that that's because I told 100 people that day that Christ is their Savior. I love my Savior Jesus Christ, and I love how the scriptures apply to us today. They are meant for us, to strengthen and enlighten and inspire. I love studying the scriptures, it is always worth the time. 

I hope you all have a most wonderful week! Much Love!

Sisar Mendenhall