Land of the Midnight Sun: Johannus!

The Longest Day of the Year...LITERALLY!!!

Looking at my backyard at 11:00 pm

I officially have survived the longest day of the year!  Johannus (midsummer day and eve), where the sun never actually goes down!  It was super fun.  Lets just say that it is nearly impossible to sleep.  The sun is up all of the time and every time I wake up I think it is midday.  It is the most confusing thing ever!  But it only gets darker from here on out! :)  Well, our Johannus week was a good week but a rather slow week.  Johannus is one of the biggest holidays in Finland.  It still amazes me how Finns celebrate Holidays.  Every holiday literally everything closes.  Its like the whole city just shuts down and everyone just gets drunk and stays at home.  At least this is what it seems like anyway.  However, we are not allowed to go outside on Johannus unless we have an appointment and no one wanted to meet with us.  So basically that meant that was our planning day.  But the rest of the week was so good! 

The Finnish Sauna Turning Point

The Oulu district

This week was huge for our Finnish investigator Jari.  He is awesome.  The gospel is literally changing him and it is amazing to be apart of and to see him change.  When we first met him he was struggling with really bad depression, but really in the month that we have been teaching him he has come to life.  He is so happy and jokes with us so much.  He is finding answers through the Book of Mormon, praying for us to jaksaa (feel like it) in our important work, and he told us that we are always welcome! No one tells us that!!  He also came to our ward Johannus party and he went to the sauna with the members (which is usually a turning point I am told for investigators according to stories I have heard) and he ended up staying there with the members until 2:00 am!  What!?  Yup, he was too tired to come to church but he felt really bad about not coming so we are pretty happy about that!  The members were doing too good of a job and kept him up all night!  We are so excited for him though. His baptism is scheduled for July 5th and today we are talking to him more about how he feels about his baptism.  So we will see what happens tonight!  We both feel strongly that he will be baptized though and we are so excited for him.  The gospel really is going to change his life forever.  :)

Oulu missionaries

Half of My Companions Die This Week

This week I also got to go on splits with Sister Gasser for the last time. She is amazing and is going home this week with Sister Fronk!  It is crazy to see people that I have served with going home. I just realized that half of my companions die this week!  The only companions I will have left are the ones that I came into the country with.  So weird.  Sister Nyman and I will be staying together in Oulu for another 9 weeks so we will be together for 4 months!  Wow.

Sister Gasser and me on splits

Though It May Be Awkward, The Spirit Can Work Miracles
 Anyway, we had one of the craziest most full days ever and it was way fun because we got to go and meet a former investigator that we had called a week or so before and wanted to meet.  So we had never actually met him and didn't have any idea what he looked like. We just got his address and went to go and meet with him.  Before Sister Gasser and I had left ,Sister Nyman had been telling me how excited she was that I got to go to the "sketchy" area of the city.... haha.   I just laughed at that thinking that its not possible for there to be a "sketchy" area in Finland.  When we got there it didn't look sketchy at all.  So I just thought she was being ridiculous.  Then while we were locking up our bikes this guy comes out with hair down past his shoulders and a beard that goes half way down his chest.  I just thought "Oh, now I get it.  Sister Nyman was right!"  Then he asked us if we were coming to visit him.  I was like "huh?"  One, because I totally though I understood him wrong, but turns out that I was completely right and this was actually the investigator.  What proceeded was the most awkward lesson I have ever taught in my entire life but he said that he will start reading the Book of Mormon and wants to meet again and start coming to church!  So though it may have been awkward.... The Spirit can work miracles! :)

Another 11:00 pm picture of my backyard

All He Asks

I love my mission.  It really is amazing.  I love the chance that I have to be and instrument in the Lord's hands and to see people changing.  It really is amazing!  I may not be perfect, and I have so much still to learn and change about myself, but I think that is the best thing about the atonement and our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  They know we aren't perfect and that we are going to make so many mistakes but all they ask is for us to do our best, to trust in them, and to try to change and become better.  I love my mission and the person it is helping me to become. This work is amazing.  It really is the best work that you can do. :)

I love you all! Thank you for all of your love and support!

Love, 

Sister Knapp

Looking out my front window

Being Called An Angel

Moikka! 

Praying While Biking

This week I think I am more going to just write about one cool experience we had and then tell about the culture of Finland or what the summer here is like anyway, because I can't actually remember what has happened this week! :) But this week I learned again how important it is to pray always.  This has been something that our mission president has really been focusing on with us to really take our mission to where it needs to be so that we can find those that the Lord has prepared.  So after we got out of an appointment this week and were on our way home, we decided that we were going to talk to two people and that one of these two people would be a new investigator.  The first person that we talked to didn't lead to much of anything and really had a hard time transitioning from a music concert to anything religious.  It was kinda awkward.  So we kept biking and I just started praying my heart out that we would find someone and that the Lord would lead us to the person that we really needed to talk to.  As soon as I started doing that, Sister Nyman stopped and started talking to this girl sitting on a bench waiting for her husband.  She was from Thailand and so cute.  We got to talk to her all about God and how much it means to us and can mean to her and then invited her to a church tour and she said yes!  We are meeting with her this week :) 

The Land of the Midnight Sun

Finland is just beautiful!  It really is so green and there are trees are everywhere.  Sometimes I honestly feel like I am camping.  It is beautiful here and I love it because we bike everywhere and get to bike on trails through forests and I love it. There is also a huge difference in the people here this time of year.  In the winter no one is ever outside, everyone keeps really to themselves, and it is dark all the time, so that is probably not surprising.  The summer is a complete 180.  It is sunny all of the time! The sun is seriously still up at midnight!  (I only know this because a member took a picture for me) :).  Everyone is outside and the streets are so crowded and the people are so much happier.  I am still debating if it is because they are drunk or not.  With the summer I feel like more and more people are out drinking with their friends so naturally we talk to a lot of drunks, haha.  They usually really like us though so that is good!  I have never been called an angel so many times as we have by drunk people. :)  It is way hard because everyone goes on vacation and Finns go on the longest vacations.  It is usually a month long visiting families and staying in their cabins.  Crazy.  So we are hoping that we can keep everything going.  Sadly, Sofia with a baptismal date this month is going to Norway for a couple of weeks.  But hopefully when she gets back she will still be baptized July 12th!  Keep her in your prayers!
Good Finnish Food

I guess, I can also tell about what Finns like to eat, which is mostly bread, cheese, and potatoes.  Almost every time I go to a dinner appointment we have potatoes and we for sure always have rye bread and cheese.  Then a lot of pastries and desserts.  They always have really good bakery goods everywhere.  I love it.  Finland has some way good food! :)

Anyway, thank you for all of your love and support! 

Love,
Sister Knapp

Where It All Started In Finland

Hei! 

With my zone at Larsmo--Dedication spot for missionary work in Finland by Ezra Taft Benson in July of 1846 (see plaque below)

Traveling Finland

This week was a rather crazy week but I am realizing that I am seriously being so blessed!!  This week we had a Zone Conference in Pietarsaari! So the day before we got to take a 7 hour train ride down to Vaasa to help with a service project that all of the Youth of the Church in Finland came together to do.  It was so much fun and I got to see Vaasa!  But I have to admit the best part was that I got to see and stay with SISTER FRONK!!! I absolutely love her to death. It was so much fun to be able to see her again and talk to her.  Really we are sisters.  There is no other way to put it.  She is wonderful and such an amazing missionary.  It was so good to be with her again before she goes home.  It is crazy to see the time fly and have half of your companions all dying at the same time. Vaasa was beautiful and I got to go on splits with Sister Bitner (Sister Fronk's current companion).  She is an amazing missionary and it was way fun to spend time with her because we have both had Sister Egan and Sister Fronk as companions.  We also decided that we are practically the same person. :)

The chapel in Pietarsaari, the oldest branch in Finland :)

The Beginning of Missionary Work in Finland

Then the next day we got to travel on a bus with all of the missionaries in our zone to Pietarsaari and go see Larsmo!  I never thought that I would ever get the chance to do that.  Larsmo is the location where Pres. Ezra Taft Benson dedicated Finland for missionary work and is also where the first branch of the church was organized and is still there today.  It was amazing!  I can't believe I actually got the chance to be there and to stand where the history of the church was started in Finland, and to now be apart of it.  It really is such a blessing.  I love Finland.  

The school where the first meetings of the Church were held in
Finland.  With my first companion/trainer, Sister Fronk

Zone Conference & Goodbyes

The Zone conference was really good.  It was all about following the Spirit.  It really is the only way that the work really can more forward.  We really are instruments in the Lord's hands and the more that we recognize that and follow Him and the let the Spirit guide us, the faster this work will go forth. :)  The hardest was the end of the conference when Sister Fronk and Sister Gausser got up to give their farewell testimonies.  I really just bawled.  You can't find friends like you do on a mission.  There really is something special about being with the missionaries that you serve with.  They are amazing. I absolutely love each and every one of them.

Goodbye to Sister Fronk who finishes her mission this momth

A Day in Oulu

Well, to answer your request Mom, I will write about a normal day in the here. Wake up at 6:30in the morning, exercise and get ready for the day.  8:00 is Personal Study.  9:00 is Companion Study and Preparing Lessons. 10:00 is Language Study. 11:00 is Lunch.  Then we go to appointments for the rest of the day.  We bike absolutely everywhere and usually it is around 6 to 9 miles a day. We get to see a lot of Oulu which is absolutely beautiful!  Right now Sister Nyman and I have a ton of appointments everyday but we try and eat dinner before 6:00 and then we get home around 9:30 every night.  It is getting harder and harder to be home on time because the sun never goes down and it is always light outside!  We really just completely lose track of the time!  But we are repenting and trying to be better about that.  But that is usually how the day goes every day.  Not much changes.  Just the lessons and who we are meeting with. :)   

With my companion, Sister Nyman, at Larsmo

Thank you for all of you love and support :) 

Sister Knapp

Editor's note: I found a picture of the memorial online The sign is written in Finnish, Swedish, and English, and reads:

"On this sacred spot Finland was dedicated for the preaching of the restored gospel. Dedicated by Apostle Ezra Taft Benson 16 July 1946. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."

The Miracles Keep Coming

Hei! 

Santa Claus Is Real!

This week was such a great week!  I mean what started to make it wonderful was that we got to go to Rovanemi! I was so happy!!  This has been one of my dreams since coming to Finland to be able to go to Rovanemi and to go to Santa Clause Village and see the REAL Santa Clause!  Then it happened!   The hardest part was having to catch a train at 5:00 in the morning which meant that we needed to wake up at 3:50 in the morning. Yuck.  I was a little exhausted from that. The weirdest part was that it was already light outside at 3:50 in the morning.... that is not normal.  The light made sleeping on the 3 hour train ride a little bit harder. Oh well. So in Rovanemi we first  had district meeting and then we went to Santa Clause Village!!  It was so much fun!  We got to go and see the REAL Santa Clause.  I have to say that he knows how to teleport (is this a word? I can't remember) really fast because one minute he was right outside then before we knew it he was inside where we were.... It was really impressive, haha.  ;)   After Santa Clause Village we had a 3 hour car ride home.  Fortunately, the elders took the train home so it was us 4 sisters in the car.  It was way fun and we even got to see some reindeer!   I never thought that would happen either.  The first time we had to drive past really quick so we basically had no time and didn't get to take any pictures.  We were all super sad about it... and then I started asking whether or not it was appropriate or not to pray to see reindeer.  Not even 30 minutes later we ran into a group of reindeer on the road!  Therefore, we got a lot of pictures! :)  Prayers are answered!

Miracle Investigators

We also had a miracle happen when we were going to visit our Chinese investigator, Sofia, and ran into her friend, Sarah, just outside the door.  We got to talk to her for a little bit and she had heard all about us and said that she would be right back.  She ended up coming back and staying for the entire lesson of the Plan of Salvation.  They both loved the whole thing and Sarah said that she would come to the next lesson too.  Later we were helping Sofia move into her new apartment and while we were getting off the bus we found Sarah struggling with her suitcases.  So we told her that we had 2 cars coming and that she we could help her move too. That made her so happy.  After helping them both move we were able to have a little lesson with them about faith, repentance, and baptism.  We had prayed about it earlier that day and felt that we should invite Sarah to be baptized on the 28th of June.  There was such a good spirit in the lesson and when we invited her to be baptized she didn't even hesitate.  She was just like, "Yes, Yes!"  It was like she was waiting for us to invite her.  It was amazing to be apart of.  They are both the cutest, most fun girls to teach.

Meeting our Goals and More

We continued to see miracles even when lessons started falling through.  We had about 4 lessons with investigators fall through this week and we had set a goal to have 8 member present investigator lessons for the week.  We weren't sure how we were going to do it exactly but then it just happened!  We were able to meet with some of our other investigators a few times, find new investigators early on in the week and have return appointments for that week and then before we knew it we had 10 member present lessons for the week!  It was amazing to see the Lord really help us to reach our goal even if it wasn't in the way that we originally planned.  We were also blessed with 3 investigators in church.  It was amazing.  Really, as Sister Nyman and I have been working on the basics in missionary work, meeting multiple times a week, having members present, giving church tours, etc, we have been able to just see the work really go forward in our area and to see the Lord really blessing us.  I love being able to be apart of it :)

No Better Work

Thank you everyone for all of your prayers and support. I know that your prayers are being answered.  We have been so blessed to see the work really go forward and to see people changing and growing and I know that a HUGE part of that is because of prayer.  I am so grateful for my mission.  I love my mission so much and the people that I am meeting here and the friends I have made.  It really is a special thing to see someone change and come unto Christ.  There is no better work than missionary work! :) 

Love, 

Sister Knapp 

The Blessing of Being Exhausted

Strength to Make It Through Another Day
This week has been another amazing week.  But I must say that I am exhausted.  I really don't think that I have been more tired in my entire life.  I could sleep forever!!!  But we keep going and keep praying for the strength and somehow we make it through an entire day.  That does not mean that we don't collapse on the floor the minute we walk in the door though!  Oulu just gets more and more beautiful every single day.  Spring and nearly summer has finally come to Finland and I am so excited!!  I never thought that this day would come!  I have to admit that it is crazy seeing how the sun isn't going down until after we are asleep.  It still blows my mind.  I think I fall more and more in love with Finland every day!

Member Testimonies Add So Much

This week we continued to have so much success with members coming on lessons with us (we had 9 this week!) and it really does change everything.  Members and their testimonies add so much to each lesson and really has been changing everything about the work. We are seeing so many miracles. Sister Nyman and I have been trying to do two things better.  1) Follow counsel given to us better. 2) Be consistent.  So to start with following counsel better, we are counseled in Preach My Gospel to invite people to be baptized on the first or second lesson. So, we decided that we were really going to be good about doing just that (along with the things that we were working on last week--church tours and member present lessons.  So we had two church tours this week and though I think it can be the scariest thing ever inviting people to be baptized in the first lesson, we prayed about it and felt really good about it.  So we prayed about dates and got ready to invite them to be baptized.

Church Tours & Baptismal Dates
The first tour was with our Chinese investigator, Sofia.  She is absolutely the cutest sweetest person that I have ever met in my entire life.  We absolutely love her.  She hasn't been living in Finland for too long, just about 8 months and so she needs friends. We invited her to a church tour and she came and it went so well.  The spirit was so strong and she really was just loving all of it and then at the end we invited her to be baptized on June 28th and she said yes!!  At first she wasn't very sure because she wasn't sure that she could know that fast and asked if we had received answers that fast.  Then we found out that she thought we were inviting her to be baptized on the 28th of May!  She kept saying that she wanted to change her life but she wasn't sure she could do it that fast!  But once we got that cleared up she was completely willing and ready to learn.  She is wonderful.  We then were able to meet with her two times after that:  once to go and get ice cream for daily contact (the best kind of daily contact) and then we taught her on Saturday and guess what?! She made us Chinese food (my favorite!!)  It was so good! :)  We invited her to church but she had a big exam on Monday and hadn't started studying, but after explaining that God will bless her and help her to do well on her test if she came for at least one hour then she wanted to come. She ended up coming and loving Sacrament Meeting so much that she decided that she could stay another hour.  It was amazing to see.  She is wonderful and so prepared! 

We then had another church tour with a Finnish investigator of ours that we met playing volleyball, Jari.  It was really such a good tour and he is so good and so prepared.  He has been struggling with major depression and told us so during the church tour.  He cried through the whole thing and it was so sad but really sweet to see how much the spirit was working on him.  Then at the end of the tour we invited him to be baptized on the 21st of June and he said yes.  We are really excited for him and to see how the gospel can bring joy and happiness into his life and really just change his life. We really have been so blessed in finding those prepared and who really need the Gospel in their lives. 

Teaching a Lessons in Finnish, English and French

We also have an investigator that we are meeting with that doesn't have a baptismal date but came to church!  It was so cool because she speaks French and Finnish but not English.  But we have a member who is from France and speaks French and English and comes and helps us on teaches.  It is always interesting as we are constantly having 3 languages going in a lesson.  But this really might be why this French member came to Finland, so that she could help us to teach this investigator.  She came to church and it was so cool to see because our investigator helped to translate into French for our member!  It was amazing and she really is progressing!  Hopefully we can help her want to be baptized soon!  

I'm So Lucky!

Really this week was so busy and though tiring it was amazing to see the work moving forward and we know that it is just going to continue to get better and better as we are doing our best and work as hard as we can.   I love being a missionary and seeing the lives of those we teach changing.   This message really is a message of Joy. I am so lucky to be a part of this work because really there is no greater work than this!

Thank you for all of your love and support! I love all of you so much!!  

Love, 

Sister Knapp

p.s. Sorry no pictures this week.  I forgot my camera cord.

p.p.s. Today we are only emailing but not having a full P-day because on Wednesday we have a district meeting in Rovaniemi and get to go to Santa Claus Village (on the Artic Circle)!

Here are some pictures from the internet of Santa Claus Village: 

The Article Circle

From Winter to Spring in the Blink of an Eye

Help From The Members Is The Best!
This past week was the BEST week of my whole mission thus far!!!! I honestly have no idea how to begin to tell how amazing this week was.  We really are seeing so many miracles in Oulu and really all over Finland.  The work really is going forward.  The best was that the members were helping us so much!  I have always struggled with getting members to lessons but really they are the best part!  They help so much and bring such a strong spirit and are another testimony to the lessons we teach.  This week was amazing as we saw members really coming together to help us! We had 8 member present lessons with investigators this week!  It was incredible!!! I have never seen that happen before on my mission and we already have 9 member present lessons set up for this next week.  We are being so blessed!  

The Blessings of Church Tours

My first talk

In our mission we are really focusing on this 10 day program which is a bunch of steps that we want done within the first 10 days of someone becoming a new investigator.  Two of the steps are church tours and baptismal dates.  This is something that Sister Nyman and I have decided to really start to focus on and try to improve on. So we have really focused on getting people to the church and as we have started to invite more and more people to church tours we have found that it is a really successful non threatening thing to people. Also, as church representatives it is not a weird thing for us to want to show them our church building, what we believe, and give them opportunities to ask questions. Just from starting to invite more people to church tours we were able to find 5 new investigators this week and have 3 church tours this week and 2 next week!  It really brings such a strong spirit to do church tours and then afterwards we almost always invite them to be baptized and one of them said yes!  He is a former investigator, Ben, from a year ago that we ran into on the street and invited to a church tour and he came and it went so well.  He had been invited to baptism before, which he mentioned when we first contacted him on the, and he said that was why he stopped meeting with missionaries...Well guess what!?  We invited him to be baptized again and he said yes!  He will be baptized on the 28th of June and we are so excited for him! :)
Speaking in Church

I also had the opportunity to talk in church this week.  Talk about the scariest thing that I have ever had to do on my mission.  The worst part was that we were SO busy this week that I didn't have time to translate it until the night before. That was nerve racking.  But it all got translated and our language coordinator got to go over it.  The best part about speaking in church is that it gives your investigators more reason to come to church.  Sadly, only one came but it was our investigator with a baptismal date.  It was SO good that he came and we are meeting with him two more times this week.  We really feel good about him and if all goes well he will be baptized. :)  It was an incredible week. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here in Finland and be a missionary.  It is the best experience of my life!! 

Half way through.  So fun celebrating with
someone a companion that came out with me!

I Was The Lucky One

We did have one crazy experience this week though. We got to talk to a drunk lady who told us her really sad life story and just kept drinking and crying while she was talking to us.  It was the sadest thing ever.  But we shared a scripture with her and talked about God with her and she just loved us and said we were like her own daughters and then before we left she kissed me on the hand and Sister Nyman on the cheek...Haha,  I was the lucky one! 

Spring Has Come At Last

Finland is really changing over night.  People would always say that Finland will go from winter to spring in a blink of an eye.  I never believed it.  But oh my word it is so true!  Trees were completely bare last night and now they are covered with leaves.  I seriously couldn't believe it.  Plus, it is SO HOT!!!! I am dying!  (Last week it was in the 40s and 50s and today it is in the 80s, though it will go back down to the 60s and 70s for the rest of the week.)  I have never been hot since coming to Finland but today it really is just so hot outside!  There actually is a summer in Finland!   I have to admit the worst part about summer in Finland is the ice cream stands.  When you are doing addiction recovery with investigators and are trying to give up sugar.... wow.  Yeah, there are ice cream stands on literally EVERY CORNER.  But it tastes amazing :)  

The funny 9 month picture

Thank you for all of your love and support!!  I love all of you so so so much! 

Love, 

Sister Knapp

Another Amazing Week!

Mother's Day Call

I'm so lucky to serve in such a beautiful place

This week was such a good week and selfishly probably the best part of the week was the I got to call home!!! I love you guys so much!! It really was the best thing ever and I was the happiest, and continue to be like the happiest person ever because of it.  Landon you are still amazing me with just how different you sound. Oh my goodness Bud!  You are seriously changing and growing up so much!  Can you just stay my LITTLE brother for a little bit longer?!  I won't be gone that much longer!  Cassie you sound so much older.  Really it was kinda amazing.  Kara you sound pretty much the same haha but I really would love it if you could send me that CD for my birthday.  I just loved talking to my family and, of course since you all already know, I loved talking to Blaine!  Thanks for that! :)  

I Love Chinese People

This week was really good for missionary work though!  We found five new investigators, four of which were Chinese!  I love being able to teach Chinese people.  They are so open to learn and it really is the best to see. The funnest part was that we really wanted to find a Chinese investigator because well... I really like teaching Chinese people.  So we looked through our entire area book and found one former investigator who was Chinese. So we decided that we needed to go and stop by to see him.  The only thing was the we were going to be on splits because we had zone meeting and the Kuopio sisters were coming to stay with us. So I was with Sister Neilson going to visit a less active member and do service.  Let's just say that I have no idea how to get anywhere in Oulu yet, which meant...yup...we got lost and were 30 to 40 minutes late to our appointment and then an hour late to the next one... oops.  But it all worked out!  Sister Nyman, however,  got to go and meet with this former.  It turned out that he had moved away but a Chinese girl was living there now! Her name is Sofia. So Sister Nyman ended up teaching her and she wants to learn more!!  Then Sister Nyman ran into 2 Chinese boys when she was on her way back and ended up teaching them and inviting them to a church tour! They said they would let us know, and you will never believe it!  They actually called us the next day saying that they want a church tour!  So we gave them a church tour and they ended up bringing a friend, which was really not a normal thing to happen.  We invited them to church the next day and they came!  We are also teaching them tonight too!  We are so excited about them!

All my MTC friends now serving together in the north zone:  Elders Cummings, Stanbury, McMaster,
Lee, Chapman, Hugie and Stegby with Sister Nyman and me.  

Zone Meeting (aka MTC reunion)

We also had zone meeting this week which was the best thing ever!  I had no idea how many people from my MTC group were serving in the north zone until Friday.  There are 9 of the 15 of us in Finland serving all in the north!   It was like a big MTC reunion! And Sister Fronk was there.  She really is an angel!  I love my mission momma! She is the best and it was so fun to be with her again!  It was a really good meeting and we just found out that we have to teach all five lessons from Preach My Gospel before baptism.  It used to be just the first 4 but now it is the first 5.  So that was something new!!  Apparently it is the BIG news that the zone leaders have been so excited about sharing for awhile.  It wasn't that big of a surprise though.  It makes a lot of sense to be able to give people a bigger picture of what blessings come after baptism and really working towards going to the Temple.  

Sister Nyman and me

Oulu, Bike Accidents and My Amazing Companion

Well, I really am starting to just LOVE Oulu.  I mean I loved it when i got here but I just come to love this place more and more.  It really is an amazingly beautiful place.  I love it!  Plus, I get to bike everywhere and it is so much better than walking or public transportation (though sometimes, oddly enough, I still miss the public transportation.)  But I did receive some revelation that I would crash on my bike one day and guess what?  It happened.  I learned my lesson to never say that you won't crash because then you will!  I was having a really crazy day and broke a bowl that morning, fell back in my desk chair and then thought, " I am going to crash on my bike today".  Then it happened.  I ran right into Sister Nyman!  Fortunately, neither of us were harmed!  But I love biking!  Plus, I really do have the best companion ever.  Sister Nyman is amazing and such a good example to me.  She is so sweet and really just loves everyone.  She loves this Gospel and it really just radiates from her.  She wants to tell everyone about it and is so good about talking to everyone!  She is really one of the best missionaries I have ever seen.  She is amazing! 

Well, Thank you for all of your prayers and support! 

Love, Sister Knapp