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My trip to the USA 2024.. The adventure starts!

 Good morning everybody!

Greetings from Pleasant Grove, Utah. I arrived on Tuesday the 13th of August to the SLC international airport, a little before 1 pm (the flight was early...). I traveled together with the returning missionaries. It was so nice! 

I was really tired but I haven't been so tired that I thought I would be. My medicine helps me get my sleep patterns stable and regular. I have been walking a lot and it hurts in the evenings when I have spent a long time walking around. But it's ok. I think I have lost a little more weight, it's so much easier to get around! What a big blessing.

A few months I was still in a wheelchair when I went outside! WOW.

It is a miracle! :)

I took a little break in writing. Hope you don't mind hahhah! 

This country is very interesting! :) stores and such have so different "infrastructure", I don't know if that's the right word... And a town or city is not separate or like far from each other. You just kinda swoosh into the next one with the car hah. In Finland there is a countryside between cities and towns. Like woods, lakes and nature. That being said: I love the mountains.

The people here are so nice and I tell most people I meet that I am from Finland! <3 

When I went to Deseret books, the lady who checked my Temple recommend didn't understand that I don't live here and she looked at my name too and said that it is a beautiful name. She told basically all people within hearing distance, that my name is Cindarella! haha.

I am going to Barnes and Noble, a bookstore today and also to Deseret bookstore again.

The jet lag doesn't exist for me, not yet at least. I have melatonin for the evenings and caffeine pills for the morning... :) it's really good. I have an own kind of "suite" here at my friend's place and a toilet and shower all to myself, and a walk-in closet. Everything is so nice! 

It's pitch black outside still, it's soon six AM. In Finland the sun would be shining by now lol.

This country is very different and the people have good manners and children are pretty well-behaved. I did get a very evil stare at Walmart when me and my friend were shopping together with her baby, a little over a year old Johannes. He stopped (the mean starer) and looked angry or something, maybe he thought we are a Rainbow Family. But we're not. That is just such a weird thought, in Finland first of all, a lot more people dare be openly LGBTQIA+++ and it is more visible, but the fact is, there are just as many of them here than there, nobody just has the guts to show it. No wonder though, look at the news.

I have not said anything political here except that I think some cars smell different from the exhaust when they have been getting gas in a certain country that shall be here unnamed... It does smell weird lol. There are differences. It used to be cheaper to get gas there and no wonder it smelled wrong then. I am not an expert on exhaust smells but anyway... That came out wrong, sorry! lol

I am so scared to talk politics here... Because if you know me at all, I am very much like Beyoncé's ex's stuff... (to the left to the left) hahhah! YOU try find a member of the church HERE with similar opinions as me?!? Good luck! ha. 

It's now six AM. I might start getting ready soon.

I also feel a lot more happy here, very little anxiety! That is such a big blessing...

I am doing pretty well today, always a little worried about stuff though.

More later!


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