I don't have very many photos from when I forst arrived in Finland because they were on a computer at the Chapel and one of the Elders deleted them - i was really mad!! I had asked one of the elders to copy them onto a disc for me because it was going to take him 2 seconds and me like 3 hours because I couldn't understand finnish. So he did my comps and then he didn't do mine and then he deleted them a little while later - so all that GONE.. but I do have lots of videos.. so I guess that is ok. But I don't have many of just me and my first companions time together as they were all deleted. This is the best photo I could find (so far) of me and my trainer.
We are on a train, probably heading to Helsinki or something - I can't remember. But anyway. This is me and Sister Kieffer.A little about her:
She was from France. She had about 4 months of her mission left when she started training me. We Served in Espoo - which is where the Temple is built. Our second or third change together we were given a Finnish companion. We were a lot a like and got along really well. We had our differences of course - and one being language. She spoke French. I spoke Australian. She learned English AND Finnish in the MTC - yes I know AMAZING - I couldn't even learn finnish! She didn't understand me alot of the times when we were first togther, and she didn't tell me this until a little while later - we often mis understood each other, and this is probably why. But Sister Kieffer was awesome - she made the BEST crepes EVER - and she was always watching out for me!
This is Sister Kieffer, Sister Welling and myself - Sister welling was my second companion, she was from North Finland, she was awesome - we were in a threesome for about 6 weeks and then Sister Kieffer went home :(
This photo was taken late January, in Espoo, it was FREEZING this night and we were stuck at a bus stop for about an hour, it was dark, cold and there was NO ONE around - actually one person walked past I think. Anyway, it was so cold that we could see our breath (well, that was like an every day occurance in Finland) I guess we took these photos to entertain ourselves while waiting..... and waiting for the bus!
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yes, you do look very cold here!
this reminded of my colleague in Sydney who said she did visit Finland once and she was wondering how there were no people around anywhere. She was from China so I did explain her that it's a country of small population and she did visit during the winter when there are no tourists and all the locals prefer staying inside rather than freezing outside :-)
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