Week 72 in Lahti (A bus, a burger, a snowy week, and a few other quirks)

It's the most awkward moment when you get on your email and you realize that you took a total of TWO picture this week...

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Well, this was a funny one. On Wednesday, we had interviews with President Aura! I was really glad to talk with him about my personal conversion and work ethic in Lahti. However, that evening, Elder Owens fell ill. He was bedridden for a few days, and we both went insane. Thursday, Friday, most of Saturday were spent in the flat, and while Elder Owens took some well-needed rest and recuperation, I busied myself by updating papers/calling people/doing every single bit of missionary paperwork that could possibly be done. After I did that in about 5 hours(I'm a bit of a workaholic...), I got to work and cleaned every inch of the apartment. I mean, we do have a small, two-person flat, but when it's a missionary home, it tends to get... dirty. Sometimes. After a few hours of that, I laid on the floor and went crazy from claustrophobia.

Nah, it wasn't that bad. But I was able to get some good housework done, and we had some fun while Elder Owens got better.

But hey - we got some pictures from a dinner a while back that we had with a member family!

They took us out to a place called Bus Burger - one of the best american joints this side of the atlantic!

Featuring an actual school bus from New Orleans(They really like the fact that school buses in the U.S. are bright yellow)

And these burgers were actually really good.

Like, they weren't just another European ripoff of a burger, but someone actually studied burgerology in America and brought it to this place.

Awesome.

What else happened? Oh yeah...

We got transfer calls! Silly me, I forgot a bunch of my stuff, and the recording that I made of the call is sitting at home... forgotten. Oops. But, suffice to say that I'm a dad! I'll be training again! A new missionary will be coming to good ol' Lahti, and I dunno who he is yet, but we're gonna have a blast together! I'll be heading down to Helsinki/Espoo tomorrow to pick him up, and Wednesday, we'll be back in Lahti! I'm so excited!

In any case, we had a pretty simple week. Ah well! Hope you all know that I love you, and Merry Christmas! Next email will be after that(it'll be on Thursday after Christmas), so we'll have more then! Love you all!

-Vanhin Bolingbroke