This week was great! It was super busy but pretty fun and it is just flying by right now! On Tuesday we had zone training (2 hours long), hence our P-day was on Monday and then after that we hopped on a night train down to Helsinki for a mission leadership training consisting of all the Assistants, Sister Training Leaders, Zone Leaders and District Leaders in the mission to have a day-long meeting with President and Sister Watson to be trained in leadership things and after that we got to go to the temple! We took a night train back up to Oulu that night and arrived on Thursday morning. Thursday and Friday were full work days and then Saturday we had District Conference for the Oulu District. 6 Elders came to that with their branches and stayed the night at our apartment so we had 9 in total. Sunday finished District Conference and 8 other Elders came up late that night for Zone Conference (6 hours long) the next day (because they would not make it there I the morning by train), so, all in all, we had 17 Elders in our apartment that night and it was nuts! We had the entire floor covered with matress' but it was good to be able to get to know the missionaries a little more!
We found a new person to teach here in Oulu and he is awesome! He is studying here and he's real easy to get along with and really looking for the joy and happiness that can come from the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! He keeps commitments and I believe is experiencing the power of the Holy Ghost is doing so.
Another cool thing was that in Zone Conference President spoke a lot on family history and how we are not using it enough as a mission and he challenged us to all use family history more in contact. So that night we tried it and it worked! The man was very interested and we got his information so that we can set him up with the Temple and Family History consultant. After the contact as he was leaving, he said that if we had talked about religion he wouldn't have talked to us! It is always good to see we have received divine counsel when you try it and it works!
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