10/11/16

​​​​​​​​​​Hello everyone back home!                                     10/11/16

Wow, what a great week! It's been super crazy fun getting everything ready for the baptism. The baptism went very well. He kept telling everyone he felt so light, and that he felt like flying afterwards. He is an amazing person, I can tell that he is on his way to even greater things.

We had splits with the sister training leaders yesterday. So many miracles came about from it. The first sister I was with, we went to tract in Leppävaara (I got lost on the way there, haha). We got a return appointment with one person we talked with, and gave a Book of Mormon out to another. The second part of the day after lunch, I was with the other sister training leader. We had planned to tract in the area we lived in, but realized that the other sisters had all the books to keep track of what doors we knock on. So we decided to go to our area and find former investigators. We got lost on the way there again, but Heavenly Father had a plan for that. Once we got our bearings again, we started down a street, talked to a man, gave him a Book of Mormon and set up an appointment, walked about 5 feet, talked to a lady, gave her a book and set up an appointment. Walked another five feet, talked to another man, gave him a book and set up an appointment. We had multiple miracles happen within just a couple feet. This pretty much never happens in Finland. People are hardly ever this willing to learn about a new religion.

A street or two later, we see this lady standing next to a tree, and she was doing something strange. As we got closer to her, I leaned over to the sister I was with and asked, "Sister, is she stomping on acorns?" She said, she sure is, let’s talk to her!! So we stopped and talked to her and started stomping on acorns and taught her almost the entire lesson about the Restoration of Jesus’ true Gospel upon the earth. So cool!

The last part of the day I was with the first sister again, and we went to a lady who was a self-referral, meaning that she sent or called in a request to send missionaries to her. She told us she is looking for the truth. She is so awesome, and she is definitely so prepared and wants to keep taking the lessons. We're super excited to keep teaching her.

It's been a great week.

Unfortunately that's all I have time for, but I love you all! Thanks so much for your support!

Rakkaudellani,

-Sisar Capps

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

Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko

    

4 Oct. 2016

Hello all!

This week has been really great! General conference was amazing! We had a little different of a schedule. So as you all were watching it at 10 am, it was 7pm our time. We watched the  Women's conference Saturday afternoon. Saturday morning session in the evening. Priesthood session was Sunday around noon, then we had the Saturday afternoon session, the world report, then Music and the Spoken Word broadcast by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, we then watched the Sunday morning session. The Finns have to wait until conference comes out in the Liahona magazine in order to read the Sunday Afternoon session in Finnish. As missionaries we don't have time to watch the last session, so we'll just wait for it to come in the Liahona and read it during our meals and such.

Every Thursday night, in this area, the missionaries host what we call game night, and we play what we call "chair football" in other words chair soccer, where you have to guard your own fold-up chair and everyone else's chair is the goal. It's a really fun game, we bring investigators and invite people we meet on the street that could potentially be investigators. We have a  really fun crowd show up every time. It's quite refreshing to laugh and have fun.

We met with a less active member of the ward this last week, he was really friendly, and has been coming to church lately. It makes me ​truly happy to see the changes in him each time he comes.

We also met with a potential investigator of the Gospel, yesterday, he was very kind and seemed to be interested. He didn't know where our church was, so we had to meet him at the train station and show him the way to and from. I can definitely say our discussion could have gone a little better. If it weren't for a ward member we had there with us, it would have been a very interesting meeting. Neither my new companion or I know Finnish all that well so we had to have help from the ward member with us. And if it weren't for the Spirit that was actually there in spite of us. I can tell you he definitely would not have wanted to meet again. Fortunately, he said he would like to. We asked him on the way back to the train station, about his thoughts to meet with us again, and he told us he didn't really know, just that he felt like he should. It is so interesting to see how the Father works through weak people like us sisters who can barely speak Finnish, and how the Holy Spirit guides people to the truth through His power and not our abilities!

We have a baptism set for this weekend, and it's been cool to teach this other gentleman a little bit more, and to see how he's changed. He's definitely ready for baptism into Christ's true Gospel, and we're very excited for him. Hopefully I can send a picture of us
afterwards.

Anyway, it's been a good week, and I look forward to another week of missionary work in the beautiful country of Finland. It's starting to get a little colder nowadays and the leaves are changing colors, it's all so very beautiful!

Hope all is well back home.P.S. Cami, don't blow away in the hurricane!

Love you all!!!

-Sisar Capps
https://www.mormon.org/fin?locale=fin
Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko

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​  ​

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 ​

 i

​t'​

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

​everything​

 exactly on time

​.​

 

​W​

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. 

​T​

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 

​E​

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

​E​

nglish and 

​F​

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 

​do ​

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 

​G​

eneral 

​C​

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 

​S​

aturday morning session, then 

​S​

unday afternoon we watch the 

​S​

aturday evening, and then 

​S​

unday evening we watch 

​S​

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

​L​

iahona magazines to come out before we can read the 

​S​

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 ​

 i

​t'​

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

​everything​

 exactly on time

​.​

 

​W​

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. 

​T​

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 

​E​

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

​E​

nglish and 

​F​

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 

​do ​

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 

​G​

eneral 

​C​

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 

​S​

aturday morning session, then 

​S​

unday afternoon we watch the 

​S​

aturday evening, and then 

​S​

unday evening we watch 

​S​

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

​L​

iahona magazines to come out before we can read the 

​S​

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

​  ​  

Hey everyone, 

​S​

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 

​to​

 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 

​B​

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

​t​

, 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 

​H​

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 ​

​a​

 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