Week 43 in Helsinki (I literally haven't seen darkness for like, a week now)

Theme of this week: Finland is crazy awesome in the summer, because you go to bed, and it's light. You get up in the morning, and it's light. Midday, it's even lighter. You'd think that a guy would take a hint and put on a bit of sunscreen, but that's boring. Iiiinstead, I went and got sunburnt! Aurinko on paistanut minut. Luckily, it was during frisbee day with the ward, so I was wearing shorts and an athletic shirt, so it got my legs too. Awesome. It reminds me of swimming again!

But ah well, such is life as a missionary. BUT, let's take a look at what happened this week!

​I've taken up scrapbooking. As missionaries in Finland, we keep 'vieraskirjat', or 'guest books'(but we just call 'em V-books), which basically means that we do entries for our district at the end of every transfer. Cool Finnish cultural thing. But I decided to do a huge entry for everyone this transfer, so I've begun to use all my spare time in scrapbooking. Awesome. (Also, I dunno why, but I look really ticked off at the beginning of that video...)

​Tried to take some cool pictures from the bus window in downtown Helsinki. It looks so much cooler in person, trust me. Wonderful man we've begun teaching! We love his mustache, and he loves the Gospel. (Pretty good trade-off, in my opinion). ​I took much better pictures at Finnish Hour this time around! Such a fun group!

​This is what happens when your companion speaks Arabic...

Other happenings from the week:

-We got 'bible-bashed' from this interesting Indian dude. We're used to people throwing anti at us (it happens about 2-3 times a week, usually), but this one was especially funny. Apparently, according to our friend, 1: we all come from India. 2: The Jews actually came from India. Heck, Abraham himself came from India. 3: God himself, actually came from India. 4: The Mormons can't be right because they don't claim that their religion came from India.

Super intelligent guy... but that was the main theme of his argument. Ah well.

-We met an Estonian guy and his Russian friend. We taught them a bit, and he translated for her, as she didn't speak Finnish or English. And he had a pug!

-Yesterday, we had pizza with a man, who was, in my oh-so-eloquent words, high as a kite. Showed up for our appointment and he could barely stand up, so we directed him to a chair at a nearby pizza parlor, got a bite to eat, tried to talk with him. In his drunken fervor, he really wanted us to come to Africa to convert his village. I'm excited to meet him when he's not this high...

But hey! That's our week for you! Don't forget that this isn't an in-depth, step-by-step of my week, just some of the... funnier experiences.

Love you all! Stay strong, don't get burnt too badly!

Love,

Vanhin Bolingburnt