Week 14

Hello Family, 

First question answers first... if that makes sense. My week has been great! unpredictable as always. But it has been great. many miracles are given to us. Our Branch is about 25-30 active members. Our meeting house is a rented out floor of a building. We live just three buildings away from it, which is really nice. That is also where we email from, It is the Seminary/ Institute room. We actually get our Mini-missionary tomorrow. We thought he would be coming last week, but we guessed wrong. Sounds like Life is great back home. It is always wonderful to hear the fun stories from home. And to see how Heavenly Father is taking care of you. Dmitry is also doing great. He is in Helsinki visiting the Temple at the moment. He is a solid member. He helps we all the time with the Language. And I help Him with his english. Two way street as we say in America. 

The Language is coming. every week i am able to see the improvements, but during the week it can be a little harder to see. And Jeff might like this, but almost everyday I am asked if I am from Sweden. The Name helps with that a lot. But then I am able to talk a little bit about our Family. How did we come from Sweden exactly? 

When Jeff and I come back to visit Sweden and Finland we will have both Languages down. We could live up here ;) 

I tease my companion that I will buy a swedish to Finnish sanakirja before i completely know Finnish because it has happened a couple times that someone will speak to me in Swedish and I will just answer them in Finnish. I cant quite understand the difference yet. But I did understand which is the funny part. So, maybe someday I will learn Swedish. 

The story about Vanhin Speirs in the Hole. We found a different way to tract. We dress in our P-day clothes and we tract. We call it service tracting  because we go and ask anyone if they need help. If we see someone in there yard then we hop off our bikes and ask. It is a good way for others to see that we are normal people. and that our service is not always spiritual. We do hope that it can lead to that, but this kind of tracting has shown to have a different effect on people. We really like it. 

But the story behind it is we went tracting and found ourselves in the area of one of our members so we popped by and said " we are ready to work. Put us to work." 

iT ended up being a blessing because our member we digging a compost hole and had hurt his back. So we showed up ready to finish the job. It was probable ten feet deep. Miracles happen everyday. 

I love you all and pray for you everyday. If there is anything i can do for you, just let me know. 

mom, Read Alma luku 26-27 and think of your `boys` Jordan, Kb, and Ethan. I read that yesterday. Thought you might like it. I love you all! 

love Vanhin Sandberg