Vanhin McMullan's Mission to Finland!

 Tuesday August 20, 2024 Hey everyone, this was a legendary week for sure! I went to Muumi World!!! If you've been following my time in Finland for some time now, then you probably know about my obsession with Muumi, and luckily in Turku, they have a little amusement park type island that's everything Muumi, and it's only open during the summer, so we were already so lucky, but we also had a friend whose a member here in Turku and she works there and got us in for FREE! It was awesome, it was a really fun time and a great day all around. We played volleyball with a ton of people in the city for pros that night too. On Wednesday, we as a district went over to a members garden that grew tons of vegetables and berries and picked them, it was so fun! They also made us some amazing smoked salmon which was delicious. After that we met up with Our friend Jere who came to pancake night that night as well and I got to say goodbye and all of that. On Thursday we got Transfer news! I...

 Tuesday August 13, 2024 Hey everyone, I hope ya'll had a great week! This was a fairly eventful week, with a lot of fun things that happened. This week started with ZL splits, we headed on down to Tampere and met up with Nielsen and Suman. I was with Nielsen for the day. We had a lesson with a kid from Vietnam, Tri from Hyvinkää helped us translate, it was good getting to see him again. We also had a lesson with someone who I also taught forever ago on splits with Elder Rawlings during my 1st or 2nd transfer, but she's on bap date now which is so awesome!! The rest of splits was great but not too much to talk about. This week we also had the opportunity to be given a tour of the giant Cathedral here. It was super awesome to learn more about its history since its one of the oldest buildings in the country. On Friday I probably had my favorite DA ever, it was with our friend Ream, he's such an awesome guy and he made amazing food. It was such a great experience and one to be...

 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 F...

 Friday August 2, 2024 Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well, this week was pretty good, we had a lot of cool stuff happen this week! To start it off we had Helmi from Hyvinkää come to visit Turku this week! We went with Sister Nelson and Slaughter and her to a pizza place. It was really awesome! This week we also had president interviews! It was awesome to get to see Pres and Sister Lehtinen, they're awesome people. It was definitely my favorite interviews so far, me and president talked a lot about the changes that the mission is going to go through over the next few transfers, and my time as a district leader. After interviews we headed to the tall ships race market. Basically every four years, there is a race with sailboats from different countries all over the world, and Turku is one of the ports that the ships dock at during the race. There was tons of shops set up that were really fun to go to, there was even an american shop set up with like a 1950's vibe. It w...

 Tuesday July 23, 2024 Hey y'all, not too much to report for this week, just a lot of grinding trying to find people who want to hear our message.  A member from Hyvinkää came and visited Turku for a few days, she's the same one that died my hair last time, and she offered to do it again, so of course I had to accept, only this time she accidently used a far stronger dye and turned my hair bright ginger, so I had to do a lot of hot showers to get rid of a lot of the dye so now it's ok haha.   We had some 1st lessons this week which was good.  Over all not too much of an eventful week except for the hair, but I love finding weeks, so it was really enjoyable.  I'm trying to increase my Finnish knowledge a lot more now, trying different strategies to do it, so pray that I can learn this language.   There's really not that much more to say though, so I guess i'll talk to you guys next time, take care everyone, love y'all!

 Monday July 15, 2024 So being the person I am, I wanted to set a goal that the first thing that I'd do when I was 19 would be to workout, that it would be the first decision I make in my mind. So I was sleeping on the 2nd when all of a sudden, at 3:37 am July 3rd I woke up, and I was not about to break my promise, so at 3:37 am, I jumped out of bed and instantly starting working out, it was hauska. After going back to sleep after the little workout I did, the rest of my birthday was really fun. Elder Chandler had decorated the apartment which was super sweet. After another workout at 7 am, we went to the Church and the sisters made pancakes for my birthday, they were awesome! Later in the day we went with Luka to a buffet that was super good, we talked about his baptism and what that was going to look like the next day. He bought a cologne for me as a gift, it smells awesome. We ate again later that day with a member who prepared a cake for my birthday. The member really likes to ...

Wednesday July 10, 2024 Hey everyone, we got a crazy email today! An absolute ton happened this week! The week started out with a full day of service with a family that lives out in Naantali (a city in our area). They had chopped down tons of trees, so they wanted our help to move the wood. It took the whole day because there was just so much. On Wednesday we had our pancake night to which thankfully Luka was able to come, we need him to meet members since he doesn't really know any. But later that night he called us sobbing about some challenges he was facing, while he was going through this, the thought came to his mind to just open his scriptures, so when he did that he opened up to D&C 68:6. That was shocking to him so closed it and tried again and this time opened up to D&C 88:126. He then opened up Gospel Library on his phone and it opened to a youth album (he really likes them) and the song that came up was "Hold onto me", throughout this call we continued ...