Week 75 in Lahti (Lots of learning this week)

Gooooodday, all! No, I'm not frozen just yet. In all honesty, it's not even that bad - the weather's hovering right around 0 degrees(that's celsius, people. I've adjusted to that one pretty well.), so we've been mighty cozy. In the process of our work, I realized just this morn that we didn't take a single picture(Sorry, mom). So we took a video at the church while Elder Vawdrey practiced his organ skills.

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(I didn't remember that Toccata in D Minor was a hymn...)

But since I neglected this week's picture journal, let's share a few stories from the week!

A few funny contact rejections we faced this week:

-A guy who responded to everything that we said to him in Spanish.

"Iltaa! Meillä on sanoma Kristuksesta-"

"Si, si!" *starts walking away*

"No jos sinulla on pieni hetki-"

"Si, si, muchos gracios!" *waves us bye*

"Wait what did he just say?"

-A lady who just sighed and said,

"ei nyt, mä oon todella väsynyt ja mulla on nälkää ja ehkä ensi kerralla, ok?"

not not, I'm really tired and I'm hungry and maybe next time, okay?

Quite funny.

-On Sunday, we had the first lesson in Pyhäkoulu about the new Come Follow Me curriculum! The lesson was awesome - and I loved the topic, on 'olemme vastussa omasta oppimisestamme'. I think that we have a lot of opportunity to learn with and from each other in this regard, so I'm adding that book to my personal doctrine library. In finnish, of course.

-We had a pretty firey lesson with one of our investigators this week. She's been working on quitting coffee, and she keeps telling us that "I'm too old, I won't be able to endure to the end!" to which I'm really tempted to respond "That just makes it all the easier! You don't have that much time left, so enduring to the end will actually be easier!" Ah, finns.

Well, that's a summary of the week! I hope that you all know that I love this work more and more each week. I'm so glad that I get to be a part of it, and that it can change my life, as well as others' lives!

Love you all!

-V. Bolingbroke