Anyways on Wednesday last week I had to watch a drivers safety video made by the church, so you know church made films are always 10/10 haha.So we watched that and I had to fill out a bunch of papers...so that was just a party. Then we had a lesson with one of our investigator. The missionaries here have been teaching him for a while and he has so many questions that its taking a long time to teach him. But he asks the most random questions too, like about polygamy and then he will all of a sudden start talking about a massage that he got this past week. Real nice but little strange old guy ahah. When we first walked in though he handed me a rubik's cube. Now, I have no idea how to solve one of these things and this guy loves these. So I tried and got my usual of one side down but that was it. So I decided to start learning how to do the cube so that the next time we meet with him I can actually do it! So I've had Elder Reed teach me how to solve it. Then for that night we went tracting... we go to the student housing a lot cause the students are a lot more willing to listen to what we have to say, and let us come back and talk to them more about things. I placed my first Book of Mormon! Granted it was to a guy who spoke English, but still... I was proud of myself cause it's hard to get people here to accept a book and have them be willing to teach them. But we also have a lesson with him on Friday! Then like 10 min later we met this guy and talked to him at the door and he let us in! So we got a walk in and we gave him a mini lesson, then got a lesson set up for later that next week. We also went out street contacting and we met some guy who just talked to us about how much he loved his cocaine and drugs hahah, met a few drunk people which are always interesting and then we found some sober people and had a good night haha.
Thursday not much happened except that night we were street contacting and met this Thai guy who speaks some dang good Finnish, and we got a lesson set up with him as well. Other than that we just walked around the streets and got ignored by a lot of people and got to talk to a few. Sometimes it's hard to street contact in the center of the city at night cause it's literally a ghost town, nobody is out there... but we manage to find some way cool people and sometimes get them as potentials, and that's great cause the more we get the more lessons we are able to set up, and the more we get, the more people we get to teach this wonderful gospel to.
Friday, was a really good day. We got to have a lesson with one of our potentials from the Carribean and he speaks English. So thats good for me cause I can help out more than I would be able to in a Finnish lesson ahah. But he is such cool guy, he is studying in school here, and so we gave him the restoration lesson and it went really well! He also told us that we could come back and teach him again and chat, so that is a good sign. It's so fun to be able to just talk to these people and get to know them. Everyone you meet has some sort of a story and it's always so fun to hear it. Especially when you can understand it haha. That night we had a lesson with the guy that let us in when we knocked on his door and let me tell ya it was a little weird. So last time we met him he spoke Finnish, but then this time he was speaking English, so we were a little confused but just rolled with it. Turns out he is trying to get a job in the US and wants to practice his eEnglish. So we were giving him the restoration lesson and here is what's weird. So in a back room in his apartment you could hear music but not really good so you couldn't really tell what type of music was playing. This guy lives by himself so you know that no one is back there listening to it. Well as we are giving the restoration lesson the music slowly gets louder and louder. The music that is playing is this full on screamo music where you just here screaming and loud guitars and that jazz,but majority of it was screaming. Now I don't like that music cause I don't think its music and it's a little disturbing to be honest. Anyway we keep teaching and he is accepting the information really well, he is super interested cause he told us that this was all new information to him. So the lesson is going great, and now we are about to teach the first vision and this music keeps getting louder and louder. By the time Elder Reed is about to tell him the first vision the music is literally at a constant scream, that is all you could hear. We get through the lesson, he was way interested in the first vision and thought it was way cool what Joseph did. Again the music is still screaming, we start to say a closing prayer and the music stops, and it changes keys to this like calm classical music. Just super strange on how it changes that much right as we close the lesson, obviously satan did not want this guy to hear our message, but we are meeting with him again on Friday, so it didn't work ahah.
Saturday, we had been tracting all day and knocking on tons of doors talking to people, and we had a lesson with our investigator from Africa, and its so fun to teach her and her family. This was our second lesson with her and she told us that she knew that the church was true and that the Book of Mormon was true. And we were like that's great and so we continued to teach her the second lesson about the plan of salvation and at the end she was like oh this is all true, this plan is true, the church is true. And that was cool to see how quickly she had come to know. We gave her the baptismal invite and she told us she wanted to think about it some more, but who cares if we didn't get the baptismal date set. The whole point is to bring people to Christ and the gospel. I think a lot of people think of them as another number than people. But we were talking to her kids and they said that they wanted to come to church. So that was great for us, we also have a member come with us to teach her and seriously the members here are amazing. They help so much in the lessons it is so amazing. But that was about it for that day other than that we just hit the pavement again and went to go find more people.
Sunday, here in Finland it was daylight savings so that was great to get an extra hour of sleep:) We met our investigators at church and just talked with the members. The ward here is awesome and we got a dinner appointment! So that night we went over to this familie's house and oh my gosh they fed us so much food and they kept telling us to keep eating and eat as much as we wanted. We got to have potatoes and stew, some salmon thing in potatoes which was really good, some pizza roll type of things that she made, salad, and then she fed us desert. And I was so full but she just kept putting food on my plate and I felt bad for not eating it so I ate it all ahah, Next time I definitely gonna have to slow down my eating, but it didn't help that it was late and had been a while since lunch, so I was really hungry haha. But then we gave a quick spiritual message and went on our way. This family is so funny and they are the nicest people so that was a ton of fun.
Monday: today was a service day cause we had to go help to members in the ward. So we changed some snow tires and then helped a member fix the tire on his trailer and pump it up. So that took a part of our day and then we went tracking and met a lot of cool people and also met a less active member from another city in Finland! How crazy is that! You never just tract into members cause we know where all like 15 of our members live haha. But also we had a district goal to find 10 potentials per companionship in between our meetings, and we had just barely over a week. Our goal was 10 and we found 14!!! And out of those 14 we already have lessons set up with 5 of them! We have been so blessed to find all these wonderful people willing and ready to learn. It's been a great week in Kajaani and we are excited for this week cause we got a lot of lessons to teach!!
Love and miss yall
Elder Love Out
I keep remembering stuff that happened this week ahah. But another experience that I want to share. Here in Finland you meet a few Russians here and there, but not a lot. I decided to carry a Russian Book of Mormon with me just in case we talked to another Russian. Well I've been carrying this book for over a week and was thinking about not bringing it. But I decided to bring it for one more night. Turns out I stopped a guy on the street to talk to him and he spoke English which was amazing cause I could understand him ahah. But he told us he was from Russia. And we started talking about the church and the Book of Mormon and I pulled out our Russian copy. And we gave him the Russian copy and he said he would be interested in talking more about it! how great is that! Always listen to that still small voice cause sometimes it means that you can give someone a Book of Mormon in their native tongue. How great is that!
aight thats all haha have a great week
Austen bought a new winter coat:)) From one of their many drives...and him and E. Reed
Austen bought a new winter coat:)) From one of their many drives...and him and E. Reed
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