Week 55 in Rauma (Finally got that ancient camera working...)

Jeff Bolingbroke
Aug 24, 2018
2 min read

Well well well, what have we here?

Pictures! Pictures have we here! Let's take a look at 'em:

A few test photos for the camera - featuring Elder Ames, Yours Truly, and Bishop Vesterinen!

Elder Olsen, Viitanen, and I, heading to the mission home to pick up our trainees(to be fair, this was two weeks ago)

My lovely little missionary son, Elder Hale! He's from Mapleton Utah, and speaks like, 7 languages. We've already taught a few discussions in French and Romanian(I'm the moral support, anyway... my high school French gets me nowhere)

So this camera won't turn flash off...

Our district started a ton of goals this transfer!

I didn't take too many pictures of this week, but I've purchased a new camera, and it should be arriving within the next few days(call it an early birthday gift)!

-We found a new investigator! She was a member referral, and we taught her with said member. Super shy(as is your average Finnish person, especially around missionaries), but super willing to learn! In the words of our member, "Veljet! Opetus meni tosi tosi tosi tosi tosi tosi tosi tosi tosi tosi hyvin! Se oli täydellinen!" Super cool!

-Zone conference was last week(what a wonderful conference, too!) - the pictures from that should be on the mission's Facebook or something...

-The Vesterinens, for dinner, treated us to some nice, American Corn on the Cob. Tastes like home(Although admittedly not as good as our home-garden-grown corn)!

-Ooh, and I can't forget, here's a story! So, let me explain:

1: The Lutheran church owns the Finnish translation of the Bible(eli, 'Raamattu').

2: The modern(1992) translation is the generally circulated version.

3: The old(1933) translation is generally accepted as the better translation(except for the fact that it just leaves out a few verses[14, to be exact] from the collection of books. Just cuts them out. Since when can you pick and choose your bible verses?).

4: I decided that I wanted a 1933 translation, but you can imagine how common those are. So, I asked one of our older members, where could I find one?

5: He offered me one right then and there. Said that we could stop by and visit them that week, and when we visited, he gave me an extra copy of his!

BUT!

6: Not only was it a 1933 Raamattu, but it was a Finnish quad. Old+New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine+Covenants.

7: They don't make those(quads) in Finnish anymore.

Long story short, one of our incredible members gave me one of the rarer books in Finland. It's freakin' awesome, and I'm so ridiculously grateful to him!

Here are some pictures of the masterpiece!(Side cover, and open to Alma 39)