Tack

Well this week was a super fast week and really just filled with a bunch of weird random experiences that I really enjoyed. This last week we did some service for the district President. He is a super great guy so I felt genuinely blessed that I had the opportunity to sweep his patio for him. We cleaned up a lot of his yard and I swept his driveway. There was so much dust I'm fairly certain that I still have some of it in my lungs, but that is the type of sacrifice that I am willing to make for others. 

This week we also had an experience where we had a lesson planned with someone but it feel through so we ended up knocking some doors in the area. We met this man who we had met before and he was having a pretty rough day so we sat down on a bench with him and we talked about life. He was struggling to understand why everyone can't just believe in God because everything would be a lot better that way. We talked about how we can only control what we do and if we take care of ourselves then we are in the position to help others. He was a super genuine man and we are going to go back and teach him later this week. He was pretty confused why we wanted to teach him and not go searching for girlfriends, but he is still excited to meet. 

This week the World Market fair came to Vaasa. We met a guy who runs this Italian booth and he had had many encounters with missionaries before. He called out to us, and when that happens it either means that they are heavily intoxicated or they have some relation to the church. Usually it is the first so we were pretty surprised that he wanted to talk with us and then he gave us some pasta. We agreed to help him take down his booth at the end of the week. It was a lot of fun and now I have an Italian friend so win win. 

The work here is going pretty well. We have an investigator right now who has been taught for awhile but is between jobs and is moving around to different cities for work. He is from Cuba and really wants to be baptized so we are trying to figure his schedule. He is super cool and came to church last Sunday. We are really excited to get to know him better over the next several weeks. This week it also rained a lot. We walked around and got pretty soaked. It reminded me of the General conference talk this last session where the mission President told his missionaries to look up not around. and even when its raining look up, and drink it. I took this pretty literally and tried some water from various rain spouts but I was told it was unsanitary so I had to stop. Anyways I like the message in this because when we look up to Christ then it doesn't matter what is going on around us because we are focused on Christ and nothing else.  I know that looking up to Christ is what we need to do to be happy in this life. That's my week.

Elder Lewis