Hey Family! This week was one hectic week, we traveled a ton, saw all 4
seasons in one day basically and found new people to teach while
teaching older investigators too! This week we traveled to Seinöjoki,
Helsinki and Espoo and then back to Oulu. All of these train rides and
plane rides have put us through the wringer and made us super sleepy.
unfortunately from what I see from parents, older siblings and friends,
it appears that life doesn't slow down after the mission. I have even
heard my mission president say "just get used to being tired, you'll be
tired the rest of your life", I hope he is lying about that. But amongst
all of this travel and whatnot we have been with great missionaries and
met awesome people so that was a blessing in itself let alone seeing
the beautiful country side.
We saw all four seasons
of weather I believe on Sunday when we woke up to a good amount of snow
on the ground, came out of church and it was raining a cold fall like
rain, then the sun came out and warmed us up feeling like summer was
here and then later the flood gates of spring rain hit, it was quite the
day.
Today in Finland, the 1st of May is
actually a holiday called Vappu. I asked a Finn today what the holiday
was for, and he said "ahh, it's just a day for us to have work and
school off and for everyone to party haha". That is a very true
statement. Due to unusual high amounts of alcohol consumption during
this holiday we as missionaries are not allowed to proselyte, just teach
investigators and members and then make our time productive around the
apartment if we have nothing else to do. We were safe today and even had
a great productive day in teaching people. Super sad though because we
taught a less active member who hasn't been to church in years and
realized that he basically knew nothing about the church or God for that
matter. It was pretty sad.
But it was a good productive week, so we are happy about that! Have a great week, I love you!
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