Juhannus!

Well let's get started already I've got a lot to talk about today. So as you can probably tell this week we celebrated the Juhannus holiday. The  weekend of the Summer Solstice is called Juhannus and basically it is just a nice big party for everyone in Finland. Most people go to their Mukkis or cabins and spend the whole weekend there, so we aren't able to do to much work. And besides that everyone who stays in the city usually drinks way more than they should. So on Friday we were able to go with one of the families in the ward to their Mukki. It was super fun we grilled some sausages over the fire and visited with everyone. The mosquitoes were pretty much everywhere but it was worth it. Because it is one of the longest days of the year, you think it is like sometime in the after noon but no its like 8 o'clock and you're not even tired. So that was pretty cool.  

This week we also went to Oulu for exchanges and that was a lot of fun. I forgot what it was like to ride in a car and so that was pretty cool. I tried to climb a giant stack of logs but I stopped because I didn't want to cause some collapse and kill myself. Anyways we had a good time.
This week we were also asked to water some of the plants for our neighbors because they are going out of town for the summer so that made me feel pretty cool. To think someone trusts me with that gave me a pretty big boast of confidence. Although I think we might have already messed it up... Anyways it is raining again today so that is pretty fun. It is probably going to ruin our plans for playing basketball with a member later but that's ok because we are going to go grill some burgers if we get rained out, so win win I guess. This week in church we talked about home teaching. One member shared how important his home teacher was in his life. He talked about how he had some hard times and his home teacher was always there to support him and to simply be his friend. I guess I don't really do home teaching now but it really made me want to always be someone who people can talk to and look to for support during rough times. Well that's all she wrote.

Elder Lewis