Vaasa life

Well here we are again, this week was a pretty fun and a pretty big change up for the mission. We had a meet and greet with President Aura, and his wife. It was super fun, it felt like I was receiving new parents or something. Not to say I haven't forgotten the ones back home, but anyways it was really fun and they are super great. They have so many high hopes for the mission and we are all excited to get to work with them. They talked to us in Finnish at some points and it really threw everyone for a loop and so that was pretty cool. This week we did some work with the members and had a really cool coordination meeting with our branch president where we identified a couple of less active members that we all are going to focus on. We had a couple of lessons that were no shows so that was a bummer but we still got some work done. My bike broke at one point and we had to meet with people who lived pretty far out of the city so we also did a whole lot of walking. Like so much I was seriously starting to empathize with the pioneers. That is probably not fair to say but regardless my feet hurt. This week we also went on a little tour of Vanha Vaasa with someone we have been meeting with recently. It was a lot of fun and we learned a lot because he knew so much about the history of Vaasa. At one point a long time ago some guy burned down the whole city of Vaasa because he feel asleep smoking his pipe. So we got to tour some of the ruins of the old church and what not. It was really cool. Well that about sums up the week in general. I love being a missionary because we get to meet people from all walks of life. I've definitely seen that this week as right before I came here to email some drunk man stopped me and asked me to look at his ripped pants. stay faithful. 

Elder Lewis