Home teaching--Part 1

Saturday was a glorious day. The skies were magnificent. There were gentle breezes. And we went to Sister Korhonen's mokki to hometeach. (Every time I write mokki I'm really misspelling the word because the "o" should have two dots over it and I don't have a Finnish keyboard set up.) We first drove to a small summer tori at a nearby lake where people gather to buy, sell, and socialize with their summer neighbors. There were only about 10 people selling things but it's as much a gathering as a market. We got some great bread still hot from the oven. We met the branch president and his wife there so they told us where to buy the good bread and about some special juice that was for sale. David and the pres had some Finnish crepes.
The market is held only during July. Take a look at that georgous lake in the background. The rest of the pics are of Sister Korhonen's mokki. It is truly beautiful. She has a children's play mokki--and several outbuildings. In another room of an outbuilding she has created a play store for her grandchildren. The house has electricity but no running water. Notice the shoes. Virtually every finnish house has a little anteroom at the entrance where you remove your shoes. Typically, floors are wooden/birch and covered with flat mats. At her house there were boots for wet weather and snow, clogs for gardening, and wool shoes inside the door for cold floors. At the Soininen's house they had an assortment of slip ons and clogs in different sizes so you could look at the garden without having to go to the front of the house to retrieve your shoes. We are invited to a kantele concert at Sister Korhonen's house at the beginning of August. Can't wait.