After another perfect day in my beloved D-pils, we were ready to say goodbye agin, probably forever this time. And that meant 8ish hours on a bus, a good thing since I'm still only able to sleep about 3 hours durring the night and busses mean dramamine and dramamine means sleep.
When we got to Riga, we had two hours till our but to Tallinn and my appetite had suddenly returned full force so we went to T.G.I.Fridays. Why an American restaurant, you ask? Again, it was about the memories. And today, it was about fate.
We sat next to the most adorable family that was speaking Russian and their baby boy wouldn't stop giving us his charming, toothless smile. His parents were also kind, helping him wave goodbye to us and wishing us luck, maybe because that's what Russians say or maybe because he thought we'd need it with our poor Russian skills. Kate mentioned that if she were still a missionary, she'd be all over that. I also noticed that one of the waitresses was the same one that had worked there when we came as missionaries, but I couldn't remember if she is the one that had asked about the book we always carried and to whom I gave a copy. But it was the other waitress that I noticed most. An old investigator. A promising one. One of those "ones that got away" because she moved to Bulgaria after the first three meetings. And she recognized me and hugged me. She said that some of the missionaries tried to call her recently, but she is very busy. We are facebook friends so I'm going to message her that it was good to see her and that she should meet with the missionaries again. Baltic people are all about signs and fate, so maybe running into her will give her just enough of a push to meet with the missionaries again. As we left Fridays, I told Sister Foust, "If we were still missionaries, we would have hit the jackpot today."
Tomorrow, church and an otherwise chill day in Tallinn. This is no Daugavpils, but it is still good to be here. I love this place. I remember in the MTC someone showed us a Baltic calendar with pictures of the different cities. Many of them were beautiful, but when I saw a picture of Tallinn, I got a special feeling. I knew I would finish my mission here, which I did, and I knew there would be some special people here. And there are. I can't wait to see them tomorrow!
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