As missionaries we are encouraged to be out and about and visit as many branches and wards as we can. We are not assigned to any one particular ward. So today, the Gee's (we have become good friends with them) wanted to visit Espoo 2nd Ward. They meet in the morning. It was fun! We had been there once before but it had been several weeks. Since the Gee's finish their mission in a bout two weeks we wanted them to choose where they wanted to go.

This has also been Estonian week. The picture of the young couple with us is a couple who were endowed on Friday and Sealed on Saturday. They are officially the FIRST couple from Estonia to be sealed in the Helsinki Finland Temple. They are just as cute as can be.

This sister with us in the red dress introduced herself to us today after church. Come to find out she is Anne Luthy's sister (Anne is the matron at the temple). We were totally surprised to meet her and know she is right here!

Then while at church we met a young man by the name of Steven Jones. Found out he is from Cardiff, Wales!! Did he know Lauren Tamplin?? He remembers her as they were growing up. Turns out that he served his mission the same time as Kevin and Lauren in the London South Mission!! His wife and two children were on holiday visiting family so we invited him to join us and Gee's for lunch after dinner.

That turned out to be a fun afternoon. We put our leftover spaghetti with the Gee's leftover spaghetti and cooked some peas and carrots along with some corn. And, low and behold we had a wonderful meal.....part ONE!! I had purchased a pork roast yesterday to cook today along with some new potatoes. I put that in the oven to cook. After round ONE we played some games. Then it was time for round TWO with the pork roast and potatoes! And I baked a spice cake for dessert!!

BUT.....back up a few hours. When we came home from church there were two tour busses in the parking lot of the asuntola! We were not sure what language to speak when we parked our mission van and went to greet them. We started out with Finnish. Turns out they were all Americans touring around. So we had fun visiting with them.

What a great Sabbath day right here in little 'river city'.......Espoo Finland!