First Member Visit

Today we visited a wonderfaul member of the ward. She is about 75 years old and speaks Finnish faster than a speeding bullet. Typically, people remove their shoes when they enter a Finnish home to protect and preserve the birch wood floors. As we entered David said, in Finnish, I need to remove my feet. Sister Mustonen said, "Just your shoes, you'll need your feet for walking."

Then she offered what David thought was to be a light snack. The light snack consisted of creamy fish soup, rye bread, something breadlike stuffed with meat and rutabaga, 4 kinds of juice, raspberries, cream, rice pirakka, cream cheese peach dessert. Unfortunately, I ate some of the stuffed breadlike stuff and am still burping due to liver problem. I think she was very excited to have company. We looked at all of her photo albums. She talked a lot about many of the pictures. I understood 10% of what she said and I think that David cheated and didn't pay attention. She was so generous to us. I know she must have limited means.