Vanhin McMullan's Mission to Finland!

 Tuesday January 30, 2024 Alright so it may sound like a lot happened this week and to an extent a lot did happen but also not .  So we had District P Day this week which was epic, we got to play Secret Hitler, go to a Chinese buffet, and go bowling, so that day was great, this district is the GOAT!  Later that day we hung out with our friend in the Ward Tri and he took us to a Vietnamese restaurant that was so good,  however these two events led to some unforeseen consequences that we will see later...  The day after was apartment inspections which went well because we be clean boys here  !  I wrote in my journal that it was a great bicep day that day so let's go.   We had Interviews with Pres the following day which went well, my mission president is literally the best, if you say otherwise you are objectively wrong.  The only transfer doctrine we got from him is one of us is staying, I'm really hoping it's me because Hyvinkä...

 Tuesday January 23, 2024 Ok everyone this week has been insanely long and I'm very tired rn so let's do this!  Return and Report was EPIC, seeing the gang again was so fun and it was a blast.  The Helsinki Temple is officially the best temple of all time!  That night was so chaotic with all of us (the boys) in one room sleeping.  The next morning was pretty epic but eventually we all had to say goodbye and go back to our areas, for me it is obviously the great HYVINKÄÄ!!!!!! Although ngl this week I think we spent like 3 full days here.  So after Return and report we had Splits in Hämeenlinna 2 days later which was amazing.  Elder Nielson and Browne are the GOATS,  we had so much success!  We gave out 5 book of mormons and we found a family from Sri Lanka that was super interested.  So we pull up to their door, knock and thus like maybe 10 year old girl opens the door with her mother behind her and we start talking and this 10 year old ...

 Tuesday January 16, 2024 Hey everyone, not too much went on this week other than we had splits with the APs which was super fun and cool.  They're super chill and we had a good time, we were able to teach a man of the Hindu faith which was really fun and he's a great guy. We also went to a DA with this super cool Swedish guy and his family which was epic. After splits we went back and continued our usual Hyvinkää grind.  One day we went bowling with a recent convert named Markkus who is super cool and we always love hanging out with him.  We also had a game night with our bro Jan and he brought pizza that we munched on.  It was great.  2 days ago was Aatos' farewell talk and it was good I bet, I mean I still can't understand Finnish  .  We also that same day went to a ward members house because their daughter is leaving for her mission next week so there was a farewell party and that was super fun.  We also now have 4 kids who are getting re...

 Tuesday January 9, 2024 Hello everyone this week has had a lot of tragedies, but as always it's a great week because I'm in the service of God!  Ok so no I didn't actually break my ankle, I used that for click bait so you would read my email this week, however I sprained the crap out of it.  Basically I was running back to the apartment, I forgot why but I was.  So I turned a sharp corner and my left foot got stuck in this snow pile that was at am elevated position and the rest of me kept moving and it took my ankle out bad.  So walking was absolute death and on my first attempt to stand back up I fell back down  .  However about 2 minutes later after I checked my ankle Elder Torgersen asked me if I wanted to go to Hesburger which was a dream come true!  I had so much faith that Hesburger was going to be great no matter what anyone else said about it being really bad, and so with my destroyed ankle, we set off on foot to Hesburger (probably a lit...

 Tuesday January 2, 2024 Alright so this week has been nuts, we went on splits this week with the Zone leaders in Tampere which was super fun, it's always good in Tampere because so many people will stop and talk to you haha, so it's a good time, although the biggest "WHAT" moment came from this girl named Tina, she was the most perfect street contacting you could ever think of, literally the nicest and most genuine girl ever, she's from Thailand and she was only here visiting her sister but she told us how she would love to learn about our church, she said how she had tons of friends in our church back home and she's gone to the temple and she thought it was cool, and you can just tell she was being super genuine that entire time.  So at the end of it all we gave her our number and asked her to text us when she gets the chance and if it's ok if we give her number to the Missionaries over in Thailand so they could teach her, and she was genuinely intereste...