Honesty

Hello to the family,  

Things are going good here, the week has been a good one, I have enjoyed it. The weeks really go by so fast its weird to think that it is coming so soon. We went to the meeting this week for all the missionaries about to go home and it was really strange but also really fun. We had Juhannus this week which is midsummer and it was really fun. We grilled a bit and that was super tasty. I also lost my planner at this park and last night some guy biked up to us on his bike and told us that he had found the planner and had placed it in this box somewhere in the park and so that was cool. Honestly the people here are so honest its crazy, I think the poor man has been combing the streets on his bike for like the past 3 nights looking for us so he could tell us where he put my planner so it wouldn't get ruined by the rain. Pretty cool huh?

We also had a good lesson yesterday with that investigator from Russia. She is really pumped about the church but the boyfriend isn't and they kinda need to get married before we can baptize her so we are trying to help them with that. We also found a really cool mother last night who is raising her 2 kids all on her own and wanted to learn more about what we teach about families and how we can be together forever pretty cool I must say. Things are going well and we are just getting outside and talking to people so I really like that. Send my regards to Jake and Adam 

Stars are aligning

Hello 

Sounds like a good week. We had a pretty great one! well not out of this world great but seriously I am just loving life right now. Well we found a new investigator from the Philippines and she is way funny. and unique. She loves the BoM so that is cool. Anyways for some reason all the stars are aligning and should be finding another 2 to 3 other investigators this week. Since summer is now here people have a lot more free time and that is always fun. We are hopefully going to teach this guy today that runs a chinese restaurant just a couple buildings over from our apartment so if everything works out well we are going to start eating a lot of chinese food and get this guy baptized. 

We also had a really fun district conference this last week. So i got to see a lot of the members from the Vaasa branch. It was really fun and really cool to tell people thanks for all their love. So we had an area seventy member come and he talked about his conversion story, he was an exchange student in california and lived with members there. Anyways it was funny because the District president, President Aura, and himself were all converts in their youth like around their 20's due to being an exchange student with a mormon family so that was pretty cool. I got to see Jonathan Vennerholm, he was my companion my first christmas. He is now married and just got called to be the 2nd counselor in pietarsaari. So that was pretty fun I will send a picture. 

Now that it is summer we have spent a lot more time knocking doors in house neighborhoods so that is pretty fun. people are more open to talk and we have actually had several conversations were we sit down with someone on a bench and chat for a bit. Its pretty fun. So we are going to keep that up. 

Have a great week!

Heyo

We had a pretty busy week and this week seems to be busier. One of our investigators who we actually haven't met with for awhile came to church yesterday and she really really liked it. She cried during sacrament meeting and told us after that this is what she has been searching for. It was super cool and we talked about some of her questions for a bit. We are actually going to teach her tonight so that is pretty cool. hopefully it all goes well. We are going to go hiking today so that should be really fun and I bought a big ol chunk of samon at the store today because it was half off. I paid like 7 euros or so for about 850 grams of salmon so i don't know if that is good by utah standard but hey its pretty cool. That is about all I have for this week, I have been getting pretty good at the piano now that I play most weeks but I also don't get to practice too much so sometimes I have some pretty bad ones. Anyways I gave a talk this last week and it was good, I was the closing speaker so I got to finish with a good 25 minute talk or so. I talked about prayer and used the examples of nephi, enos and the brother of jared in the scriptures. Take care and enjoy the sun shine

I will just let the pictures explain themselves this week so you might have to guess some things​. The first picture is our banana bread challenge.