Chapter 43: IKEA, Church investigator, Tracting Goldmine!

 Friday August 2, 2024

Hey everyone, we had a semi eventful week this week. One of our members who we had done service for took us out to dinner to a Vietnamese restaurant for a DA, it was super good food. On Friday we had a like second P day, out mission president challenged us that if all the missionaries in the mission made an ad in the span of like 3 days then we could get 6 hours of free time on Friday, and needless to say we all did it and so me and my district went to tour a smaller cathedral here in Turku, it was awesome to be in such a big and spacious church like that. Sister Christensen from my last district here in Turku came here for splits with sister Helske and Klingonsmith. It was good getting to see her again. We had a lesson with our friend Mikail who we met last week, he also brought his friend Kennon. We had a great conversion about God, Jesus Christ, and the Book of Mormon with them. The only hard part is the languages that we have to deal with, Mikail speaks Finnish and Turkish, Kennon Speaks English and Turkish, and we speak Finnish and English. So its a lot of us switching between languages depending on who we're talking to haha. On Monday we were able to go tracting with the district at the Turku Student housing which is the biggest one in Finland. The last door we knocked was a catholic family and they let us in. We had a really nice conversation and we gave them the first lesson and bits and pieces of stuff from other lessons. It was a really good discussion, and the man of the house was incredibly interested in the Book of Mormon. Its always awesome to see the strength and testimonies of people from a different faith. Finnish is getting a bit easier, still hard of course, but way easier than it was before. We're still doing a lot of finding because we don't have too many friends anymore, so pray for us about that. Overall it was a great week. Love y'all and take care








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