I hope that everyone has started the year off great! And that we all have some good goals to work towards this new year.
This has been a weird week for us. Dec. 31 and Jan.1 are both "holy days" so we couldn't tract or do much those days.
Personal study:
This week I read a lot in preach my gospel and the good old testament. Been reading about Noah and the Ark. As I read, i notice that God has givin Noah specific instructions on what to do...(how to build the ark, what animals to get, exact measurements...etc) God gave noah these instructions to keep him safe and happy and to preserve the world. If you think about it. God also gives us similar instructions. You could even say that he gives us exact instructions on how to be happy and safe in the world today. They are pretty basic things to do: primary answers. Read scriptures daily, always pray, serve others, repent and improve, go to church.....these are all things that we can do daily and weekly. They are also...every single one of them...a commandment from God. He isnt really asking us to do these things..he is commanding us to do them because he knows they will make us happy. But we still have our agency to choose what we are going to do. Lets make some goals to choose to always do these things this year.
Good week this week. We gave our first Book of Mormon away. we traveled to this far away rich farming village called heikkilä. Pretty cool place. There was this horse arena farm place and these two horses were basically attacking each other. they would bite each others faces and feet through the fence and do headbutts. pretty crazy. We watched the battle for like 5 minutes. Heikkilä was a pretty cool place, we walked like 3 miles in total because the houses are pretty far a part. Some super rich people live there too...you usually dont think of farmers as rich, but these guys are. We are going back to Heikkilä today and are going to do a walk about. Take some sweet pics we shall.
We had talks assigned for the 31st of december! My birthday! i turned 19. I talked about service in my talk and how we can use what we learned in the light the world campaign this month and apply it to the entire year. We cant just serve in decemeber. Use what you learned and go do some more service. One of the things on the #lighttheworld calendar was "not getting an answer to your prayers? Ask to be an answer to somebody else's prayer" This is something that is very easy to do. I have made the goal to do this daily....the hard part is looking for ways to serve throughout the day. Yesterday, i was walking past a pizza shop...pretty hungry. And i saw this bike that had fallen over on the ground. So we kept walking but then I turned around and picked it up and leaned it on the wall. That was probably one of the littlest acts of service I could ever do...probably made no difference at all...nobody saw us...we couldnt turn it into a finding investigator moment...but I felt the spirit so strongly after that. If we all try to do little things like this, than I promise we will make a difference in others lives.
Another service opportunity we had this week was to help a member move from her apartment. This was the hardest workout i have ever had. I am still sore and it was on friday..today is tuesday. Everyone that was going to come pulled out...so it was us and two really old guys. No joke, the boxes were each like 150 lbs at least. And there was this cabinet that I think was the heaviest thing I have ever tried to lift. And we carried it down like 3 flights of stairs and then up when we got to the apartment. Onetime it fell on the stairs and crushed my fingers and like landed on my comps legs. We almost died. We would load all this stuff in the trailer and then ride our bikes to the next apartment. I think it took 5 or 6 trips. 7 and a half hours. I talked about it in my talk and how sometimes service is hard to do. It is all worth it though in the end. It made all the difference to her, that we could help her out.
cool things about finland:
Finland is pretty clean from trash and stuff. The cans and soda bottles are called pontii, and you can turn them in for money. There are machines in lots of stores that suck the cans in and print you off a receipt. People go pretty crazy to get the cans off the streets. There are sort of hobos that get tons of them and make some good money. We pick them up to when we see them. we cashed in last night and bought ingredients to make chocolate muffins...ended up being chocolate muffin cake.
We had a warm week...around 26-32 degrees this week.
didnt have any wipeouts
I love you all...church is true. Go and abound in good works.
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