April 18, 2017 ~ Week 78

Hey family and friends! Happy Easter! We are blessed with this great opportunity to ponder and reflect the world altering events that happened not too long ago. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the completion of the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the single most important event to have ever happen on the face of the earth and for that I am tremendously grateful!Leading up to this day for the previous few months I have been studying Jesus Christ more intently and the thing that stands out to me more and more is His Character, His ability to turn outward when the natural man would turn inward. It is truly incredible and something I love to ponder about.

This week in and of itself leading up to Easter was great! I learned a few more things about Easter this year her in Finland in terms of traditions. The major thing I learned is that they don't believe in the Easter bunny, rather in an Easter chicken. I mean it makes a little more sense when it comes to laying eggs everywhere, but bunnies are much cool. I learned this while we were at some members houses spending time with them and building their faith in Jesus Christ and in his Gospel.

This week we also went on exchanges in a small town called Kajaani. It's two hours away by train and actually Elder Henry's first city. He was so excited to go back there and see the city again and happen to bump into to people that he had met there. The Elders currently serving there are great missionaries, working very hard. One goes home this transfer while the other one just came to the country this transfer, interesting to see the differences.

A cool experience that happened this week actually happened yesterday. Usually at 8 o'clock we go inside to make phone calls because we can't tract after 8 and walking on the street isn't very effective because no one is out there. But today we felt that we should stop doing that and go on the streets anyways and the Lord will bless us with people, so that's what we did. We walked the whole hour and then in the last 10 minutes we met a super prepared person. It was awesome, she was excited about the answers that the Book of Mormon can give to her along with prayer. We were very excited to teach her and then found out that she was just visiting here but lives in Denmark. That was a little disappointing, but shows that the Lord blesses us for putting in the extra effort and doing all that we can do.

Have a great week! 

Love,

Vanhin Robison