Week 33 in Helsinki (Doesn't everyone exercise with Motab in the background?)

Dear everyone,

The summary of my pictures for this past week are as follows:

(I'm sorry Mom I'll take more pictures next week I promise. I don't want to take pictures of the apartment 'cause we're in the middle of a massive cleaning session and when we're outside, we're doing missionary work)

Exchanges are awesome. We spent Monday(yesterday) in Haaga, and taught some awesome lessons there, whilst learning from Elders Crump and Kester. Love those guys.

Let's go over this week quickly:

-Tuesday: Visited Helsinki Main, tried to find some coathangers and a huge library. We found the coathangers.

-Wednesday: District Meeting! The Zone Leaders stopped by, we had great discussions, and had two great lessons with a cameroonian man and an arab guy!

-Thorsday: Gave a class of students a church tour! They had a ton of questions, but we answered all of them quite well! We also taught Finnish hour(yeah, the Americans who have been here for 5 months are teaching Finnish to foreigners, ha!).

-Friday: This was an interesting one. We had weekly planning, but this time, we've come up with a ton of great ideas for missionary-member relations(I mean, Neitsytpolku is only the largest ward in Finland, so that may be important).

-Saturday: We taught a man, with whom we set a baptismal date! We hope the best for him - we also taught a young asian man(awesome lesson, he has a fantastic outlook on life), and had sports night(My shoes are still in Kouvola, so that's a bit of a problem, but I liked getting my toes smashed by everyone in the room anyways)!

-Sunday: We gave talks! With our plans to improve member-missionary relations/work, we gave a joint talk about shepherds and our role in helping others come back to Christ.

-Monday: Splits in Haaga(Already mentioned this one)! (Also, Dinh, one of our member friends, was waiting for us to walk into the apartment building, and he scared all of us half to death)

-Tuesday(Today): As soon as we get done with emailing and shopping, we'll be heading to the temple(!!!!!), because we live close enough that we're allowed to go once a transfer!(Yes mom, we'll be sure to take plenty of pictures). We also hope to find that big library in Helsinki again, and to find a place called Ekberg(I've heard from multiple people, in Finland and out, that it's a legendary bakery!)(We also hope to clean out our apartment, it's quite messy.)

Well, that's all for this week, folks! Hope the best for you all, and stay strong(and warm!)!

Love,

Vanhin Bolingbroke