Whoa that's a big number in the subject line. It has been around 100 weeks since I embarked on my mission,although I am fairly sure that that number is off. Anyways whether it was the 100th week or not it matters not because it was a great week! Last P-day we got to tour downtown Helsinki so that was great to do! We made it Suomenlinna (Finland's castle) but it is actually a sea fortress. It is very beautiful full of old cut outs of the hills for places that cannons can be used. It was very pretty as we got to see the beauty of Finland in the fall two with leaves changing colors. Along with our trip to Helsinki we went to some of the famous churches in the downtown and had a great time. A great member here took us all around showed us all the cool places and because of that we accomplished way more than we could have on our own.
This week we also had a really cool experience is following the Spirit's guidance to hasten the Lord's work. Heavenly Father blessed us with 2 new investigators during the final hours of proselytizing on Sunday night. We were tracking at a certain complex that we have visited often where a few potentials were. As we were tracting I saw someone come out of a door and leave, and that thought just stayed in the back of my mind. With time we got to that same door, noticed that it had not been triangled yet(meaning hadn't said no), but we kept on walking thinking "ah, the owner isn't even home". We walked past the door and down the stairs but something said in my mind, "hey just knock the door anyways, you never know". So we turned around and knocked the door and immediately a man opened the door and without us saying a word he said "Tulkaa sisään (come in)"! We weren't passing this opportunity up so we quickly came in. We taught the restoration, his wife join us half way through (she was the one I had seen leave earlier) and they both became new investigators. We are just in awe every time we realize that the Lord has had his hand in our life and in his own work.
Another great experience that we had this week that resulted in following the Spirit goes as follows. We wet to follow up with a less active which took us to an area that we weren't familiar with which is always good. Anyways the member wasn't home but his daughter was home and we spoke to her through the door (she didn't open it, she just talked through it) and that's how we knew he wasn't home. So we went on our way to our next person to visit and actually passed two Jehovah Witnesses on our way out. It just so happened that we were heading the same way and ended up being right behind one another on the street. we stopped to talk to someone and they crossed the street. After the contact ended we kept walking and realized that we were walking pace for pace with the Jehovah Witness missionaries on the other side of the street. We looked up and saw a man walking towards us, he saw us, then the Jehovah witnesses and we figured that this was his worst nightmare. He walked towards us but didn't stop when we tried to talk. I believe that he faced every Finns worst nightmare, trapped between the JWs and Mormons. Anyways not feeling like this would be the best situation to contact people we turned off onto the next possible road and started heading towards what looked like a dead end. At the end of the road we ran into the wife of the less active member whom we had just tried to visit. It was a great little miracle because we set up a time to visit.
Anyways the Lord works in mysterious ways! It was a great week for me, I hope that it was great for you all as well!
Love,
Vanhin Robison
1. Elder Smith and I at the big Lutheran Cathedral in Helsinki
2. Sometimes when you have too much money you buy an island in the Bay of Finland and built a little cottage
4. Looking out of one of the cannon spots
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