Ch 36: Ackermans Funeral, Culture Night, Elder Chandler!

 June 10 and June 13th

Hey, this was a pretty eventful but sad and exciting week, and in next weeks email I'll go more into it. It was the last week of the transfer, we all worked hard as a district and got a lot of work done. Friday was Sister Ackermans "Funeral". No, she didn't actually die, it's just something missionaries here do where we have a fake funeral for missionaries who are going home. I wrote a parody to the song "Payphone" and sang it at the funeral. After the funeral, we had a culture night where tons of people from all over the world came to. We had a Sri Lankan dancing group come and perform for us, it was awesome. Afterwards we all decided as a district to do some karaoke together, it was super fun. We had transfer calls this week too. I'm going to stay in Turku as DL and Vanhin Chandler is going to be my companion! I don't know if I talked about him while i was in MTC, but I absolutely love the guy and he's a really hard worker and overall awesome guy, I'm so excited. This week had a lot of V booking, which is basically just missionary year booking but for transfers. We had pur final P day today, we decided to just hang out as a district and have fun. I'm really going to miss these people, they are all so awesome and God is so proud of them and their work. This transfer had a lot of hard times, but it was so rewarding, I would easily go back and do it all again. These people are amazing, and they're going to do so many amazing things, I can't wait to see them grow in the future. Finnish is coming along, I'm excited for this transfer since me and Chandler are about the same level so we're going to have to grow together which is going to be awesome. I'm really excited to see what this transfer brings.




June 10th:  

Hey everyone, I know this is a mad late email, but nothing too crazy happened this week. It was just the normal grind . Transfer calls are next week which is awesome, I'm excited for that. Finnish is growing every day, its awesome! But ya, like I said nothing too crazy has happened this week. Some DAs but nothing to really talk about, so hopefully next week is more eventful haha😅.  On P day we as a district had a lot of fun, we went to the Castle in Turku which is the oldest building in the country, it was awesome!  To get there we had to take a ferry which was awesome, then we had to ride some bikes for a long while, but then eventually we made it.  The Castle itself wasn't too crazy, since it was pretty small itself, but we had a lot of fun there! On pancake night, me and Olson made the mega pancake.  It had cinnamon, apple, chocolate chips, and more ingredients.  It tasted awesome and was super worth it.  


The scripture for the week is Philippians 4: 4-9

4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.  
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

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