Goodbye Vantaa....Hello CAR!!

Well, it was a grand last week of the transfer! This transfer was 10 weeks long, but it has gone by pretty fast! They just get better and better. I will unfortunately be leaving Vantaa. I have really enjoyed the past 6 months and have met the best people here! My favorite investigators too! My new area will be Pori, which is over on the west coast. I heard that they have a really nice beach there, and we get a car (just in time for the winter :) ) I will be in a trio with 2 elders going home. That is going to get intense. I already served with one elder that went home. It is an experience. that is all I can say. You kind of feel like you are going home to...it takes some recovery time to get back to normal haha but there is nothing like continuing the Lord's work here in Finland! I have loved every second of it! 

We had a great last lesson with our investigator Risto! My favorite guy ever. He will get baptized someday! Hopefully next transfer. We invited him to be baptized on December 8th, but he doesn't feel that he has enough faith yet. But he said "we'll see" and that he will pray about it and get back to us. 

This week I started to read the Book of Mormon again from the beginning. That is one of the answers that I got from General Conference! It has been such a blessing for me so far! I love the example of Nephi! I have also been studying a ton about the attribute: Knowledge. How can I get more knowledge? I really like what Nephi does, every time he is wanting something, he goes to the Lord, and actively seeks it, he is obedient. I am pretty sure that he didn't start with everything already being known. It came little by little as he searched for it. I know that as we do just like Nephi did, then we to can come to know all of the mysteries of God! 

We had a way awesome experience last night when we were street contacting. We stopped this girl, she was in a rush, but we really wanted to share the Book of Mormon with her. So we asked if we could share a really short message about the book with her. We talked about how reading the Book of Mormon has really helped us come to feel God's love and to know that he really is our Loving Heavenly Father. She took it and we read a little of the introduction with her. And when she left she seemed really happy. There is so much power in this Book! As missionaries we get to tell people about the things that have blessed our lives!

I hope that you all had a wonderful week! Love elder christensen

These are from picture night a while back.