Wow! this is my last week with elder Fielding! We have transfers tomorrow..(that's why p-day is on monday) I am staying here in seinäjoki for another transfer. I am getting elder Lewis as my new comp. I have heard he is way cool...he has about 6 months left in his mission. He trained elder enlgund (mtc friend..the swede that likes soccer) in the city called Rauma. I am excited. Elder Fielding is going to jyväskylä...a city just about and hour and a half below seinäjoki. We are going to be in different zones though so thats sad. He is going to be district leader there. We are both excited.
I will have to learn the city though..now I am the one who is going to have to lead us everywhere...I only know how to get to a couple places...piikki pizza, church, lidl (food store), Smarket (food store), train and bus station, and Samburger. Speaking of restaurants, we have eaten out 21 times this transfer...! Thats a record breaker. I actually have been fasting this morning because we are going to a piikki pizza after this...need to have maximum room because it is a buffet...the greasiest pizza i have ever had...so good. Also, last p-day after golfing..a member took us to this pizza place and order us pizza with pickles and salami and tuna and spam on it...probably the grossest thing i have eaten...didn't know pizza could be bad. In Finland, they don't cut the pizza in slices...it is served as the full circle...you use a knife and fork to cut it.
It was way cold this week. (i actually had to use my beanie...i hate wearing those things) and My comps bike is broken, so we walk everywhere. (i had to pull out the thermals) It takes a lot longer to get everywhere, but gives us a good chance to talk to people on the streets. I feel like when we aren't on our bikes zipping around, they are less intimidated by us. haha
We are still working on finding investigators to teach...We had another great fast on sunday so that others will be able to find. January has been a really good month for missionary work in Finland. there was 3 or 4 baptisms. And there are more scheduled for february! As president Aura says, a baptism for one companionship is a baptism for everyone. We have some work to do still. I have got a feeling that this next transfer is going to be a way good one for seinäjoki!
Personal Study:
I have been reading a lot in Alma this week...I am trying to keep up with the seminary kids...but they already passed me and are gaining even farther ahead everyday. I read a lot about the rameumpton...i have been waiting for this day for a long time. There is this one huge Lutherin tower that stands high above the earth in seinäjoki...the great tower of babel.
I love alma 33:21_ O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish?
The people could have been healed if they just looked at the sign..but they were so prideful that they wouldn't even do that...If that was me...I would want to be one of the very first ones...I would look as fast as I could...All I would have to do to be saved is look at something. Such a steal of a deal. It is so important that we are humble enough to be able to do the easy things and then even eventually the hard things that we are asked to do.
Alma 37:46 "O my son, do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way; for so was it with our fathers; for so was it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live; even so it is with us. The way is prepared, and if we will look we may live forever."
This verse is way good as well. Sometimes, for some reason...the hardest things for us to do is the easy things. The easy things are easy to do...lets do them. They prepare a way for us to be able to do the hard things. I know that this is true...If we focus on being obedient and continue to build our testimonies on firm ground...we will never fall away and will be able to live happily eternally.
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