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Hey family and friends! This week we did a
lot of fun things like going up to North of Finland into Lapland (the
really far north) and spending a few hours there at their district
meeting, teaching a lesson in Swahili and also getting let in while tracking!
While we were in Rovaniemi we spent time with
some of the elders up there and attended their district meeting which
was great, we talked about what a successful missionary is. Since the
key indicator numbers have been reduced to 4 it is seeming like a lot of
missionaries are having a difficult time feeling successful especially
since weeks were we get all 0äs are being more and more frequent, we
thought that this was a great district meeting topic! While there in
Rovaniemi we stuffed our faces! A senior couple from the mission office
was up there for the day and they took us out to lunch at a buffet type
deal and it was really good! However we had already planned on eating
the legendary hamburger of Rovaniemi called the Tosi Miehen Burgeri or
in English the real man's burger! The thing was huge (probably self explanatory by it's name) but we had it for the experience! It was
painful but we got it all down, basically eating two lunch that day in a
row!
We got let in tracking to these 2 college kids, but
it was pretty awkward because they weren't interested and whatnot but
let us in anyways. We tried our best to teach them to their needs and in
a way the spirit would touch their hearts, but they were pretty non
receptive. It is interesting how you can see more and more when someone
is prepared and when they are not. It was still cool that we got let in,
it doesn't happen often.
We had our lesson in Swahili
today, that was exciting! About a month ago I met a lady on the street
who knew almost no Finnish and no English but she showed me her door and
made it very clear at what time she wanted us to come back. We showed
up at the prescribed time but no answer. Since then we have tried back a
few times and set up an appointment for today. We brought a recent
convert in our ward of a few months who is from Kenya, who speaks
Swahili, heäs the best! When we got in the lesson we realized that her
Finnish was not at the place where we could hold a coherent
lesson, so
basically our recent convert of a month taught her. He would translate
to us what she said and then we would tell him what to say back and
teach through him. It was cool because at one point he turns back to us
and said "let me testify to her" and he did. It was so fun! I don't
however thing that we will be going back there too often seeing the
language barrier is thick and even with the Swahili translation it would
leave her dependent on the only member who speaks Swahili in our ward.
It was a great lesson though, really fun!
In a nut shell that was my week! I hope your week was great! It is so nice to hear from you all each week! Have a great week!
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