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Chapter 12: Hyvää Joulua!

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Tuesday December 26, 2023 Greetings you great folks of the world and Merry Christmas!  Christmas in Finland is amazing! (A bit too amazing but I'll talk about that later) This was a pretty wild week since last time because we had splits with the elders serving in a city called Hämeenlinna which was super cool.  We had a lot of fun and it was just overall a good time.  This week we gave out 2 book of Mormons, a couple of contact cards and got someone's number, so overall an amazing week, the Finns were definitely more talkative around Christmas time, it was funny how one day there were Finns out and about, and then for the next 3 days there was absolutely no one and the city was a ghost town.  So ya if you don't know, Finland celebrates Christmas for 3 days (24th, 25th, 26th) which is super awesome and keeps the spirit alive for more than just a day.  So the dark side of Christmas time, and just the dark side of my city is the fact that the Ward is so incredibly ...

Chapter 11: Zone conference, millennial grandpa

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Monday December 18, 2023 Hey y'all, not much happened this week to really talk about, just went and did the lords work haha, so other than preaching to the masses again (it'll be one of the pics below), on the way to zone conference we sat next to this old man who had his phone volume all the way up and we were just hearing meme sound effects being blasted next to us, it was so funny.  I also had my first McDonald's in Finland, idk how they do it but everything tastes healthy somehow and it shouldn't.  Street contacting still isn't successful but still super fun, I had to give a talk in finnish on Sunday and Imma have to give another one tomorrow in English so thats cool.  Um ya I honestly don't know what else to say, Finland is great, the people are great, Hyvinkää is the greatest place on earth, everything is the best.  I went to helsinki to get registered in the country and I saw Vanhin Olson which was epic, it was also just cool to see a bigger city, but ya ...

Chapter 10: The Arrival, FINLAND!, The right foot do creep

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 Monday December 11, 2023 YOOOOOOO WHATS GOOD YOU LOVELY PEOPLE, a lot has happened this week as I'm sure none of you are surprised, so on Thursday last week we wake up and get our luggage and head on down to the travel office where we get all of our bus, train, and plane tickets, we then make our way over to the airport via train and bus, I cannot tell you how weird it felt not being in the MTC and being beyond the walls after being stuck in them for 2 months.  Anyways in the airport we had actually food again,  and by actual food I mean panda express and Cafe rio, since we got there at the time we did we had 4 hours to wait until our flight so ya I munched hard.  We met the Czechs there because they were coming with us on our first flight so we didn't have to say goodbye yet.  The plane had three columns which was sick,  but what wasn't sick was the fact that my ticket had me not sit next to anyone in my district or near the Czechs, instead I sat alo...

I goofed, Bathroom Battle Series Finale, for real this time goodbye America!

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 Wednesday December 6, 2023 Ya so I totally messed up and thought that we were leaving for Finland today but its actually tomorrow so you guys still get one more email lol.  Nothing crazy happened yet... just a lot of packing and saying goodbye to people.  But tonight there's going to be a war in the dorm bathrooms because some of the guys got water balloons and so us and the Czech's are going to go to war tonight, it's gonna be epic, we're also planning on making a slip in slide in there which is going to both suck and be so fun, and dont worry we are going to clean it all up if we're still alive to do it ,btw I don't know if I've ever said it but the Czechs are our best friends here, they've been with us since week one and we're all flying out together,  OH and our first light is to Paris which is gonna be cool, but its gonna be a 16 hour flight, from there its only a 4 hour flight to Finland so yay  .  I'm gonna miss my district and the Czechs...