Week 49 in Rauma (July the 4th, Trench coats, and driving in the Baltic...again!)

Jeff Bolingbroke
Jul 12, 2018
2 min read

Get ready for some stories, this week is full of 'em!

Well, let's see - Last Tuesday, we visited...

a modern art museum?

Yup we did! I'm not sure all of it was art, but it definitely was modern... and there's a bunch of funny little museums all over Rauma, so you'll be seeing more of these in the future..

On Wednesday(The FOURTH OF JUUUUUULY), we had a little party/district lunch!

Ah yes, the wonderful little Turku/Rauma district. What a crazy bunch we are!

Aaand, the day right after that, we had splits with the Tampere Zone Leaders!!! I got to do some work with Elder McOmber, my old companion, and Elder Jacobsen, my old District Leader!

(Also, let me give my thanks to Morgan Jensen, who gave me a recipe for Jalapeno poppers - they turned out fantastically. I made them as our appetizer for our dinner with the ZL's, and they loved them!)

We also did some lawn-mowing for a member, that was fun. Felt just like I was home again(I'm looking at you, dad).

Saturday, one of our members asked us to come and visit his mökki! We headed out there, and found that his mökki is out on an island in the Baltic. Fortunately, there were a series of bridges, so we made it out there. Shared a spiritual thought, and got to take a picture with his car:

What a beauty. (And for those of you who have no knowledge of cars beyond "the thing with four wheels", that's a Bentley Continental GT. Yes, I'm still obsessed with cars, even though I'm a missionary.)

Monday afternoon, we visited with our Bishop an old member - I'm not entirely sure how the conversation got onto this, but her late husband owned some pretty cool coats, and she had no use for them, and they just so happened to fit us perfectly. Result? This: