The new nords and swedes left again. So we got even newer ones. Elder baugh was a nord. Funniest guy ever. Me and him and elder Reed would always hangout. We are definately going to miss him. He went to byu before he came on his mission and also worked at a mentally disabled place aswell. Very cool guy.
On sunday, after the devotionals, as a parting gift for the nords and swedes, we went to the new t4 building and created a smiley face using lights with the windows. It worked better than I thought. There were a couple of weirdos who turned off one of the rooms thou and then vanhin Jordan had to run back up and turn it on again. We all had to time our lights at the right time so that we could have the picture show up all at once.
The sunday devotional was really good. At one time during it, someone was talking about their favorite scripture and they used Alma 57:
25 And it came to pass that there were two hundred, out of my two thousand and sixty, who had fainted because of the loss of blood; nevertheless, according to the goodness of God, and to our great astonishment, and also the joy of our whole army, there was not one soul of them who did perish; yea, and neither was there one soul among them who had not received many wounds.
I really like this verse. The Stripling warriors were obedient to exactness to Heleman and therefore they were blessed. One part that I really like is that it says that there was not one soul among them who had not received many wounds. Sometimes we think that as we are obedient, that God wont give us trials. For example you might say "how could you do this to me?" And than start a rift with God because you are mad at him. Every single one of the strippling warriors was injured. God gives us trials to help us grow and to test our love for him. With obedience however, God does promise to bless us, and in the end to live with him again. Welcome trials. Just like in sports, you grow more when the competition is fierce.
Me and elder lewis got to go on splits this week on monday. Elder Englund (the swede) got to go to Temple Square because he is an international missionary. All of them go once while at the MTC. We had quite the experience together. We got to teach a lesson together which was really really good. I learned a ton form being with him, and got to implement some of the stuff i learned into my own companionship. That night we taught Jussi again. It was a very special lesson. he was struggling with understanding prayer and the atonement. We went completely off what we had planned for him. When you listen to the spirit, you can teach someone...not if you just give the lesson that you planned. We shared a mormon message on the atonement with him. And he said after, that he now understands what it means to feel the spirit. (Something different in your heart.) Hopefully this lesson is the turning point with him.
Thanksgiving was such a wild day! We started off with a devotional with elder Bednar. He did the sort of question and answer thing that he did with our stake awhile ago. Very good talk. Than, we went to lunch and had the classic thanksgiving food. the stuffing was really good. The BYU eggnog was the grossest thing ever. It was like drinking boogies. After lunch we had a great service project. We basically went to the underground parking garage and made food bags for hungry kids in Utah. Then, we watched a really really good movie called : "love kennedy" it is so good. You should all watch it. It really puts into perspective that God has a plan for all of us, and that you attitude matters a ton. Then, we had an wacky band called "Nashville tribute" come and sing for us for about an hour. All I am going to say is that it was one of the things i have ever heard. The MTC presidency sent us an email today saying that they were surprised that some of the songs were very wild, and reminded us that we shouldn't listen to this type of music. It was a counrty band and people would get up and clap and dance.
cool things this week:
I got a new haircut. Haircuts in Finland cost 70$ so I tried to get a new style where I can just have my companions do it.
We were studying up on 6th floor watching some guy fly a drone around the MTC. He was hanging out for a while, but then the cops came to made him leave.
Finnish elder named elder Helske. He is from kemi, Finland...very cool guy. we always run into him. He is going to france on his mission. I am not sure he likes us very much though. We always try to talk to him.
We wanted to do baptisms for the dead this week, so we got on our family search and found some names. You have to use your own family names if you want to do baptisms. I helped elder reed and viitanen figure it out so that they could find some too. If you aren't doing family work...you should start now. People always say that "mine is already done." thats what I thought too, but every time i look i find someone.
Vanhin Jordan and I write about volleyball everyweek to keep everyone updated on our gym time. This week was pooop.
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