Tikkurila is the best, I am having a blast here. So much to do! I will start with some details on the city. It is really big, so there are tons of trains and buses. Many times we run so that we can catch them....some times we miss them...but a new one will come in like 20 mins...so we are good. We had this one experience were we just finished sports night at the church, and we left to go to the train station, but while walking we realized that elder jacobsen didnt have his pass or his coat...but we were holding tacos in our hands that we were going to eat when we got home. We laid the tacos down on the grass and ran back to the church, then we ran back, picked up our tacos and ran as fast as we could to the train station...We were so tired, i was running behind elder jacobsen and he was carrying his taco like a paper scroll our something and lettuce and food chunks kept flying out the back of it...it was so funny, I started to laughing but then started choking, so i focused on running...we ended missing the train by a couple of seconds. We basically run everyday for either a train or a bus. Keeps us healthy.
We have english class and Finnish class and then also sports night. Sports night is the best, we play chair soccer...way fun. Kind of hard to explain...but there are usually like 20 people there. Mostly investigators or potentials. Once you get out you can pick up the ball and throw it (but you cant leave your chair) At one point, this guy (our investigator..more on him later) picks up the ball and throws it two handed like an Ape throwing coconuts or something. It used so much force that i think i saw him float off of his chair...and he released the ball midflight. It was a close range missile, probably like 100 mph and nailed this guy (our other investigator) right in the face. I think everyone was in shock for quite some time. The other guy did recover though. Anyways, sports night is the best.
We also played Sähly last pday, it is basically street hockey. super fun. I was sore all this past week.
Sundays here are really fun, we have a big ward and three sets of missionaries. Also, there are many english speakers because lots of immigrants are baptized. We teach a less active member a couple times a week named Hien, we talked this week about missionary work. He really wants to go to the temple also, so we have been focusing on getting him to church. He came this sunday! and he brought his really good friend! So that was super awesome. Members are so important to missionary work. (now is the time to start). I had to translate for a different Vietnamese guy for priesthood session, and I made the whole thing up. I had no idea what they were saying, he is an investigator, so I talked about challenges in life and how we can overcome them with the gospel. He speaks just about as much Finnish as i do, so hopefully he didnt catch on...but I think it went really well.
We taught alot of really cool lessons this week, and found two new investigators. Edward (the guy who got hit) and Osas (the guy who threw the ball) They are from the Ivory Coast and Nigeria. We had two really good lessons. They both have a strong faith in God. Their parents taught them well. It is so important that as parents, you teach your family about God. This is part of our job. We shared the Book of Mormon with them both and talked about the blessings of it. We are going to meet with them again this week and are very excited for them. There is a little problem though, One of them doesnt know how to read, so we are going to have to figure something out. If anyone has got any ideas.
We also found a really cool less active named lucky...he got baptized awhile ago up north, but got lost somehow when he moved down here. He was so cool and was super happy to see us. He is also from nigeria and is way buff and manly. At one point he pulled out his phone and started playing EfY(Especially For Youth) 2010 music and singing along to it and says he still listens to it all the time. The rest of his family aren't members though, so we are excited to be able to teach them and help him to find his old testimony again.
Cool/funny things this week:
-At English night, we invited this turkish girl. and she showed up like 50 minutes late, so she was only there for like 10 minutes. But we left outside to go welcome her in and I shook her hand and she gave me a nice kiss on the cheek. My comp was way jealous.
-There are lots of bunnies here. They just chill in peoples lawns and stuff. We spotted some eating grass or something a couple feet away from us.
-Yesterday, someone blew up a trash can in the city center, it was pretty cool. A fire truck was trying to get in but the people wouldnt get out of the way. But no one got hurt i dont think, so that was good.
spritual thought:
I heard this quote at church on sunday : "You cannot sit on the fence for too long, soon your bum starts to hurt and you must pick a side to get off on." I loved that quote so much. It is so true. We cannot be on God's team and also oppose him at the same time. We must pick either one. It is so easy to try to do both. We know the answers but sometimes want to experiment a little. Stick with God's team and everything will turn out ok!
We also eat dinners with this family every sunday, and they are sort of like this. They know what to do but dont really want to do all of it. Also they are having trouble with forgiveness and repentance. Sometimes we are forgiven and we just need to forgive ourselves and let it go. We are going to tell that to them next sunday. They are super cool and always make the best food.
I hope that everyone has a great week!
love elder christensen
Our homemade cheese soup.
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