Grocery Shopping

Just a quick little note while I have a minute!! It has been a full day today!! We started out with our breakfast (top photo) with our 'view' of the temple. This was taken from our dining room table!! It is still amazing to us to be this close.

The Luthy's took us grocery shopping this morning. That was nice to have them with us to help us pick out good brands and 'normal' foods that we were looking for. We found on this trip that food tends to be TWICE the amount that we would pay for it at home. Fortunately, we were expecting that but now we know it is really true!

Dad LOVED pushing the cart down the escalator......the cart kind of locks into grooves on the escalator so it won't go down on it's own. Cool!

After we got our groceries put away the Luthy's took us to the Espoo Magistrate Office where we had to show them our 'certified' copy of our marriage license! They had to make sure we were married and then they would register us as a 'permanent' residence of Finland. We proved it and we are now official citizens of Finland. Basically, that means we can get a drivers license in 6 months if we pass the test. Dad will definitely have to have one as he has been asked to be the 'fleet' caretaker for the temple vehicles!

Then it was off to visit with President and Sister Brown, Helsinki Finland Mission President and his wife. President Luthy wanted to make an introduction so that dad can be available as a mission doctor if he is needed. That went well and the Brown's seemed very happy to have dad close at hand!

Back to the apartment. Quick nap (we have done extremely well with our jet lag......we have been blessed with that!) Sister Luthy asked me to help her in the distribution center since the Russians arrived this afternoon and needed to purchase clothes. There is a very nice, small distribution center here in the apartment complex. I was taught how to check people out (using a computer!!!!). I am amazed at how well I was able to do since I have never done that on a computer before. Dad came along to watch and see how it was done. He was a huge help. It was amazing to me that we were able to communicate with not being able to speak Russian!!!! Smiles go a long, long, long way! These are the same folks that will be here all week and several receiving their own endowments. Dad is in a meeting with President Luthy talking to them in preparation for tomorrow and the rest of the week. He was invited to attend. I can't believe how much we have learned in just such a short couple of days we have been here.

We have been assigned to work on the afternoon shift this week (it alternates each week.....morning or afternoon). That will be kind of nice for us to begin with that. President Luthy will set us apart tomorrow when we get to the temple tomorrow as temple workers. Up till now we have been set apart as missionaries in general but tomorrow it will become specific to being temple missionaries.