Sisar Cäpps: September 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

9/27/16 Haaga

Hey, All!

This week has been pretty great

in my new area

! Sister Nelson and I have been getting to know each other, and I've been doing my best to keep up with her. She's quite the hard worker. This zone is also very obedient. Like, exactly obedient

I'm grateful for it, but

s a bit of an adjustment, because it can be hard to start and end

everything

exactly on time

e have to sit next to each othe

r on the train/bus,

instead of mingling with the people, so

it's been an adventure.

Haaga is beautiful. It's a little more city-like than Lahti was, but it's still quite beautiful. When we look out our window, it's like we're living in the sacred grove, we live on the main level so it feels like we aren't even living in an apartment.

he colors are changing, so it's very beautiful!

We have a baptism that was already set when I got here for October the 8th. We're super excited for Anthony, he's so faithful and ready. We've also been teaching some other really awesome people, and

have even

had some referrals!

It's s

o great! A lot more people speak

nglish down here because we have a lot of foreigners here for schooling, so we get to teach both in

nglish and

innish.

Sorry I can't really give a ton of details because of the laws here in Finland we can only do so if we have direct permission from the person themselves. But I've got it all written down in my journal at least. :)

Sunday night I started coming down with a little cold. I'm getting better now, but it's been a little tiring,

because

I can't sleep it off

all day

, I just have to take my vitamins and keep doing missionary work. I

have about a half hour to

nap

during meal times, so that helps a little bit.

We get to email in the family history center here at our church building. We have the stake center here, so it's nice.

We're excited for

eneral

onference here! Our schedule is very different if we want to watch it live. Since we're 9 hours ahead, we have to wait until evening to watch the

aturday morning session, then

unday afternoon we watch the

aturday evening, and then

unday evening we watch

unday morning. After that, we just have to wait for the

iahona magazines to come out before we can read the

unday afternoon session,

because

we don't have any other time to come here and just watch the last session unfortunately. But either way, we're still pretty excited.

Anyway, until next week.

Love you all!!!

-Sisar Capps

https://www.mormon.org/fin?locale=fin

Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko

9/27/16 Haaga

Hey, All!

This week has been pretty great

in my new area

! Sister Nelson and I have been getting to know each other, and I've been doing my best to keep up with her. She's quite the hard worker. This zone is also very obedient. Like, exactly obedient

I'm grateful for it, but

s a bit of an adjustment, because it can be hard to start and end

everything

exactly on time

e have to sit next to each othe

r on the train/bus,

instead of mingling with the people, so

it's been an adventure.

he colors are changing, so it's very beautiful!

We have a baptism that was already set when I got here for October the 8th. We're super excited for Anthony, he's so faithful and ready. We've also been teaching some other really awesome people, and

have even

had some referrals!

It's s

o great! A lot more people speak

nglish down here because we have a lot of foreigners here for schooling, so we get to teach both in

nglish and

innish.

Sunday night I started coming down with a little cold. I'm getting better now, but it's been a little tiring,

because

I can't sleep it off

all day

, I just have to take my vitamins and keep doing missionary work. I

have about a half hour to

nap

during meal times, so that helps a little bit.

We get to email in the family history center here at our church building. We have the stake center here, so it's nice.

We're excited for

eneral

onference here! Our schedule is very different if we want to watch it live. Since we're 9 hours ahead, we have to wait until evening to watch the

aturday morning session, then

unday afternoon we watch the

aturday evening, and then

unday evening we watch

unday morning. After that, we just have to wait for the

iahona magazines to come out before we can read the

unday afternoon session,

because

we don't have any other time to come here and just watch the last session unfortunately. But either way, we're still pretty excited.

Anyway, until next week.

Love you all!!!

-Sisar Capps

https://www.mormon.org/fin?locale=fin

Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Hey everyone,

orry I forgot to tell you

that

on transfer weeks our preparation day switches, so I'm writing on Monday this week.

We received transfer calls on Friday morning. Sister Albiston and I thought I would be staying, because she and her last companion

were both

completely new

as a

companionship

the area. But

we got our transfer calls and I am being transferred to a city called Haaga just outside of the Espoo/Helsinki area. I'll be with Sister Nelson since Sister Albiston is going home this week. I'm a little sad to leave Lahti because we made friends with a lot of the members and we had some amazing investigators. But I'm excited for a new experience!

One experience we had a

week ago,

was when

we were out tracting door to door

, we felt impressed to

knock on this lady's door

. W

e gave her a Book of Mormon and she told us we could come back. So, we came back and she had read the introduction and the testimonies of the Book of Mormon. She had so many of the perfect questions that just led straight into the Restoration. We briefly taught her about the Restoration and how we got the Book of Mormon and about Joseph Smith. After a couple seconds in silence, she said to us, "I should probably tell you two that when you knocked on my door, I was reading from the

ible about

knock and it shall be opened, ask and ye shall receive

. As I was reading that, I heard a knock on the door and though

, oh that's probably angels at my door. And when I opened the door and you sisters told me you had a message about Jesus Christ, I thought, wow, this is something I should really

look into

" We told her that when we go out

searching for

people

to teach

, we don't just go to each and every door

, one after the other

. We pray first for guidance, then we

feel inspiration to

pick a

certain

door, and today, that door was yours." The Spirit was so strong, and we knew that Heavenly Father had prepared her to be ready for

is message

to her

. She has accepted it so well, and she loves hearing from us. We have been in two lessons with her since then, but we also had to say goodbye in our latest lesson. She was really sad to see us go because she recognized

and felt

differe

nt spirit

when we were in the room. We told her that there were new sisters that could come, she really hesitated, but reluctantly agreed to let them come. We got her address so we could continue to write her.

Anyway, I meet my new companion on Wednesday. I'm excited to be able to meet her, and to be in a big city. I'll send pictures next week, but until then, I love you all so much!

Rakkaudellani,

-Sisar Capps

https://www.mormon.org/fin?locale=fin

Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

9/7/2016

Hey everyone,

In some missions, the mission presidents like to pull the newest missionaries back in after 6 weeks of being in the field, and have a couple days of spiritual nourishment and role plays

all things to help us become a better missionary. It was so spiritual, and we learned so much. I took so many pages of notes, I wouldn't have time to type them up, but I'll be sure to do that after the mission. Everyone from my MTC district and our trainers came back to stay at the mission presidents home and we all squished on his couches and pull out the kitchen chairs to be spiritually fed by President Watson. He is so knowledgeable and he taught us so much about the spiritual aspect of missionary work. Sister Watson gave us advice on staying healthy and gave us some life

skills

so we could do house work and other tasks easier and still stay focused on missionary work. The assistants to the president and the sister training leaders in Espoo helped out and led role-plays where we would practice different types of contacting people on the street or tracting in apartments, interactions with our companion, etc. in both

nglish and

innish. It was all so great. The office and senior missionaries made us some really yummy foods that were nice and healthy, but hearty. They were so good. It was such a great week.

Yesterday we had a really busy day planned. We had to renew our bus passes in the morning, we had a lunch appointment with a member (she gave us some cute hand knitted

innish socks afterwards-I forgot to take a picture of them, sorry), then we had to meet with an investigator, had another dinner appointment with our bishop and his wife who live almost an hours bus ride away, then lastly an appointment with a less active member. There was so much traveling that had to be done, and we didn't know how we were going to make this work. My companion Sister Albiston is really good with the bus schedule, so she did the best she could in planning, but if we missed any of the buses it would throw everything off. We said a prayer before we left and asked that everything would go according to plan, and that it would all work out.

We came so close a couple times, where there was no way we would have been able to make it, but we noticed Heavenly Father tweaked things in such a way that we didn't miss any of the buses, no one cancelled, and everything was able to work out. It was quite a miracle that we were able to get everything done that day. We've truly seen the Lords hand in our lives, I cannot deny that this is His work, and He will do what it takes to help us complete the tasks.