Week 78 in Lahti (Help me, I can't remember what 'warm' means)

Trust me, right about now it's the difference between 'really cold', 'cold', and 'less cold'. 

Do we, lähetyssaarnaajat, care about that?

Nope! The work continues on, despite the frostbite and waist-deep snow!

I'm just kidding, it's not all that bad. I mean, this was the thermometer last night...

But yeah - it's been a fun week! Let us see what we've done!

Well, here's to the only pictures taken during the week: We went up to Jalkaranta, and tried to find people to teach, but we got lost in a forest of waist-deep snow. So, let me pose the question: What do you do when you're stranded in the middle of the finnish forest, it's -20 degrees celsius out, and you have no idea which way is north?

You take sweet pictures, duh.

Yes, my ankles were frozen within a few seconds.

But what do you do next? Call for help? Build a survival shelter? try to make a fire for warmth? begin hunting for wild hares and reindeer so that you can survive the winter that is utterly impending at the beginning of your hopelessly lost trek through the uncharted finnish forest?

Nope, you start running through the shnow like a charging moose. It was so fun.

No worries, we found signs of civilization(a.k.a. the highway) and trekked our way back to Lahti. 

Actually it only took about 5 minutes to find Lahti again.

But yeah, that was eventful. What else did we do? We went to Hämeenlinna! It was a pretty busy day, and we taught a few discussions there! Really fun stuff. We had to hurry for the train, but we made it home on time. 

We've also had a bunch of other work to do with the ward this week. We've been teaching many lessons, working with the amazing members, you know, all the great stuff of this wonderful work! 

Not much to report specifically, though - but tomorrow morning, we're heading down to Espoo to have Return and Report for Elder Vawdrey! We're so excited, and we're gonna get to go to the temple again! Anticipation galore. We'll see what life has in store then!

Stay strong, study your scriptures! Love you!

-Vanhin Boilgnbroke