12/20/16

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Merry Christmas everyone!I can't wait to be able to skype home this week.
We got two new investigators this week. They're really awesome, and in their first time coming church they both made comments in

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Sunday school. It was really great! One of them even volunteered to help prepare the
Sacrament, but luckily bishop was sitting next to him and explained to him that he couldn't really do that
quite yet. That part comes after you receive the Priesthood.

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So glad to see they're willing!
Haha.

We visited a less active member (she shared some yummy Finnish blueberry pie with us), and

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church

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Sunday

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. This was the first time she had been to church in about a year. In church that day, one of the

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High

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Councilors

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had come to speak, and he was actually her home teacher a while ago. How cool is that?! He didn't know that she hadn't been coming to church, so that was a blessing for them both. After meeting with her on

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Wednesday, we were able to get home in 20 minutes,

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even though

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it took us an hour to get there. It was quite a blessing because we wouldn't have gotten home on time otherwise.Another day, we were out trying to find a referral, and couldn't find it. It was in an area that we had never been before, so we didn't know which busses went there. We went to a stop and waited for a second. I had the feeling to hurry over to the next stop, so we did, but on our way a bus came that we knew could take us home. We weren't to the stop yet, and the bus had passed us, so we were afraid we weren't going to catch it, especially

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because

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president has advised us not to run for busses or trains because we don't look professional when doing so. We were able to make it because the drivers were switching shifts. We knew that was a blessing from Heavenly Father.

There were some other sisters having a baptism at our church building because it's the stake center, so we decided to invite some of our investigators to it. When we invited our

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Chinese investigator, he mis-understood, because he thought it was

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HIS

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baptism. His response was "Oh, okay. I'm a little nervous, but I think I can do this." It was so cute. He was just so humble and ready to do what we asked of him, even though we would always make sure it was his decision, not ours, for him. He asked us when the soonest was that he could get baptized, and that this is something he's really serious about. He's awesome. He has plans to go back to China

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rightafter Christmas, but he found out that if he gets a job, he can stay.

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He wants to so he can keep coming to church here and learning
about the Gospel

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from us.

Saturday was the baptism of the other sisters. Our

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Chinese investigator and one of our newest investigators came, it was really cool. Because the church was in our area, we had to prepare the baptismal font.
We woke up and came straight to the church to start filling it up so it would be ready by

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noon. When we got to the church (we had a lesson a little bit before), the water was really cold. So we decided that we would let it drain
out

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a little bit

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and

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turn the hot water back on. 20 minutes later as we came out of the lesson,

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a member told us that the font was

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nearly empty!!!!! We went and checked and there was only a foot of water in the font!!! It takes

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4 hours to fill it up,

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e 

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didn't think it would drain almost completely in 20 minutes. Keep in mind that this is 30 minutes before the baptismal service is supposed to start.

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So the elders, us, sisters, everyone is grabbing pots from the kitchen and filling them with the sink,

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hoses

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 everything

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we could think of. They ended up postponing the baptism for another 20 minutes. But we were

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still

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able to fill the font in only 40 minutes

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instead of 4 hours. Heavenly Father was definitely watching out for us!

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 At church on

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Sunday, as we were greeting people at the door,

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our mission

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President and Sister Watson walk in the door. Surprise!!! Of all the weeks they picked to show up, it was probably the best one because we had 4 of our investigators in church, and a couple less active

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members. After church President and Sister Watson invited us to come over to their home for dinner with the 

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elders. We were really surprised because 1) they live out of our area, and President has a rule that we can't have dinner appointments out of our area, and 2)we can't have dinner appointments with the

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Elders. 

​In this instance though, the President was in charge, so it really wasn't an issue after all. Just surprising. ​

We had yummy

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Shephards pie, cinnamon apple slices, carrots, pulla, and glögi (finnish christmas drink). We talked about Christmas traditions, and favorite

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Christmas movies. It was really

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awesome to interact with President and Sister Watson on such a casual one on one basis.  It was fun.

Well everyone, it's been a great week. Thanks for all the love and support. Love you all, and I can't wait to skype home at Christmas!!!

-Sisar Cappskarissa.capps@myldsmail.net

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