Week 59 in Rauma (Return and Report!)

You want pictures? Good, I'm about to give you a thousand of them.

What a week! We had District Council on P-day, and since Elder Hale and I stayed in Turku that evening, we had a District Dinner! The smoothies were a bit of a disaster, but it was otherwise awesome!

The next morning... ugh. Our train left at 7.05. Our plan was to send Elder Hale and Tracy via bus to the station while elder Viitanen and I rode bikes(they only have two bus passes). Well, they left, and we figured out that one of the bike lock keys was missing.

So we started running.

Look this up on your map: the distance between the LDS chapel(it's pretty close to the Elders' apartment) in Turku and the Turku train station.

Have you looked it up?

We ran that distance in 10 minutes.(On the way, we called the Assistants, because we didn't think that we would make it. You know what they told us? "Keep running, and call us if you miss it.")

10 minutes.

My legs still hurt.

We got to the station, and the train had been delayed, 15 minutes. We made it just in time.

Coincidence? Nope.

Aaaand, we spent the next few days at the mission home, at Return and Report! I got to see a ton of my old missionary friends, and we took a boatload of pictures. Let's go through them:

One of our dinners, with a bunch of snacks(to introduce the new missionaries to the candy culture of Finland, of course!)

I have way too much fun with this camera...

The Temple! We assumed that we wouldn't be able to go, because the Temple was closed for maintenance, but President Aura talked to the Temple johtakunta, and we were able to get a personal tour of the Temple! It was wonderful!

We went running one morning with President Aura, that was awesome!

On the way back, I also got to pick up my birthday package! We opened on the evening we got back, and here's some of the spoils!

When all's said and done, we did a ton of awesome work this week! We're having an absolute blast here, and the work is going so well! (We also just might have a baptism coming up in three weeks!)

I can't think of anything else at the moment... but I love you all! Keep in contact, and stay strong! This Gospel is not only true, but it's awesome as well!

Love,

Vanhin Bolingbroke