Week 68: You're a number!

Last week while emailing our families, President Poho sent me a message on Facebook. That either means something really good or really bad. I opened the message. It was a forwarded message from the mission president in Finland. He wrote about someone whom the missionaries there are teaching, but she would soon move back to her home country, Slovakia. She had been taught everything and had a solid testimony of the Book of Mormon.

We got in touch with the sister missionaries in Finland, and we set up to video call at a certain time. This is exciting. When the video came up, the lady immediately started speaking Slovak to us. The Finnish sisters were lost. But then when the lady switched to Finnish, we were lost. 

But holy cow! This lady spoke Slovak, Russian, Finnish, and English. And probably Czech if we're being honest. She was really funny! So I told her. There's an expression in Slovak: "Vy ste ale číslo!" That means, "You're a hoot!" but literally translated, "You are a number." The lady laughed so hard she couldn't speak for a moment. When she finally gathered enough air to speak, she told the sisters, "He called me a number!" But that didn't help, because we don't call each other "numbers" in English.