Dear Family,
Update from Kerava,
Thank you for all of your prayers and support. Elder Downs and myself have been doing great! We are excited for the Christmas season to be here. With Christmas just around the corner it give us missionaries a wonderful way to share the true meaning of Christmas in a normal and natural way.
We have been working with our ward and have met almost everyone. We have continued trying to contact less actives and formers. One of our main goals this week is talking with everyone. I had the thought a couple days ago about this. This will help us even more in reaching our goal of 20 teaches a week. Things are looking great. I love it here and love to see how the Lord is preparing the people here.
In answer to your questions:
Sheet music would be best. I am not computer talented. I am a little old fashioned.
I hear from the Fearsome Four almost weekly. We keep in touch through email. Nothing big just a couple words here an there.
(Future thought, Packages that cost 60 dollars/45€ or more are harder to send through customs. Either the Office or myself will have to pay extra for it. Along with Fed-x and Ups packages.)
Alright,
Everyone loves a good story. This week we had a a special experience when we went to ward council.
Elder Downs and myself love baking cookies. This is a weekly treat we love to share. Well about two weeks ago we had baked cookies and wanted to take some to our members as well as some less actives. We baked a few and were able to take them to a few people. The next day was one of the craziest days. Nothing was working out. We didn't have time to do our weekly planning and our back up plan for our back up plan had fallen through. It was 19 and we had nothing to do....what do we do in these situations? Pray. I said just a small prayer in my heart that we would know what to do. We went to our area book and we found a section we had some how passed over before. It was a section of less actives. We had both felt impressed to find some one out of those names that we could visit. We only had time for one person as well. We also had just enough cookies for one last person...
I thought this was great. Our rough day was finally working out to our gain. So Elder Downs and myself found this one person and walked to their apartment. (because of Finnish Law, we are not allowed to tract or knock doors after 20:00.)
We were going to be cutting it really short with this last person we wanted to meet. We finally find it and knock on the door. a Woman opens the Inside door sees us and closes it with out a word.......
Sword to the Heart!
After everything we have done with this hard day and to finally finish it off with this. I will admit I was a little down hearted. I had no place to be mad, but I was disappointed.
Elder Downs and I decided we would just leave the fresh baked cookies there and just leave our pass along card too.
Walking home I don't think we even talked to each other. But we brushed the dust off our shoes and got over it.
Now I want to draw your attention back to Ward Council.
Our Primary President was talking about some less actives that she had talked to that week and she mentioned that ONE of the less actives was touched by some cookies left at their door and that these were some of the best cookies they had ever had.
Come to find out after this less active was the Primary Presidents son.
Just a fun little story reminding us that Heavenly Father is always in charge.
I love you and thank you for all you do for me.
Love your Son, Brother
Vanhin Sandberg
Will you ask Annakaisa Who she knows in Kerava? I have asked a couple families if the know her and George, but because I don't know her sukunimi it makes it a bit hard.
Bishop Sandberg,
How is ED doing? I went with the missionaries a couple times to teach a man that lived in the Browns old house.
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