Good Morning, we welcome the sunshine here in Finland as it's been hiding for the past few days behind dark billowy clouds! But we had a great week of finding as well of getting to know other missionaries better and our companions better. Friday and Saturday we were in the apartment all day because of Juhannus (midsummers), which is a holiday as sacred as Christmas in Finland. On this Holiday we celebrate the midnight sun, meaning that the sun doesn't go down all day in the northern parts of Finland. Here in Helsinki it goes down, but in the north it doesn't. It was also kind of a bummer too because you wouldn't be able to see it due to all the clouds. But for this holiday all the Finns leave town and go to their summer cottages and won't be coming back until the end of July.
This week we went to Espoo for exchanges and had a fun time there with those Elders. A tri-panionship on exchanges is always a bit awkward to deal with. Oh yeah, I may not have mentioned this last week but we got another companion in our companionship. Elder Jaccard from Pleasant Grove, Utah is with us now. We had some mid-transfer transfers because a missionary waiting for his visa finally came into the country after serving in St. George for a week of 2 waiting for it.
In our ward we have started a sports night as an activity to strengthen ward relationships as well as to find new investigators and to just get people to the church. We weren't planning on playing because we were on a tight schedule s we showed up in our suits, and then ended up getting roped into playing a game of sähly (floor hockey) and it got pretty hot pretty fast.
Well that has been my week this week, not the most exciting week but a busy one going from place to place. Also President and Sister Watson leave this week on Saturday Morning at 6:30 am and President and Sister Aura come in that morning to take over. It will be a crazy time, just happy that I am not an assistant!
Have a great week! Love you!
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