Our Liahona!

Moi! We had a wonderful week! We also took a couple pictures this week, so that is an improvement. It all started with Halloween! We ate so much sugar that day...I felt so sick after it. My companion made caramel covered apples which were so good! And it was district meeting day, so we met with all the other missionaries and everyone brought muffins and candies and cookies. And then we came home and made peanut butter cookies. So we aren't going to eat sugar this week :) 

One of the holidays here in Finland is Pyhän päivä. It is this day where they celebrate their ancestors. Super cool. Once it got dark, which is like 5 or 6pm now days, people began to go to the graveyards and to light candles everywhere. Really cool. And it was fun to go around and ask people to share a little bit about what the holiday is. 

The work has been going really well here in Pori! This transfer has been great so far, and it is fun to be in a trio! 

This week we had a lot of success tracting! That is the best! Nothing like sharing the gospel. We met this really cool family from Nicaragua! They just moved here and they don't speak any Finnish yet and the wife speaks English but the husband doesn't. They have a very well behaved two year old son too, which is awesome. we talked with them about families and the Book of Mormon. They are already catholic and do believe in God. They were really interested, and invited us back! We will be teaching them tomorrow! I know that Heavenly Father is aware of the work here in Finland. He is preparing people to send us to. We are so excited to meet with them again. And what makes it better, the one family in our ward that has kids (we have like 25 members all old grandmas) is from Mexico! and has the same last name as them! Perfect :)

Pekka is still doing good. we taught him twice this week and he is really excited still for his baptism in January. He didn't come to church this sunday because it was stake conference and there would be no sacrament...but i guess that  means he really enjoys the sacrament!

We spent a morning this week doing service tracting. we brought some rakes and headed out into the village to look for people to help rake up some leaves before the heavy winter snows fall. There was actually a mom that accepted our help. they had a way big yard so we only got to do hers. But it was still fun and a good activity! Hopefully she remembers the three hard working boys when she hears the church name someday.

For a spiritual thought this week, I have been reading in first Nephi, yesterday I read the chapter where Nephi brakes his bow. That chapter is chuck full of great verses. So many things to relate to ourselves. One of my favorite verses was when he was describing the Liahona, he said that it led their family along and through the fertile parts of the land. This got me thinking a lot, that this is exactly what is provided to us today! We have commandments, we have a living prophet and living apostles, we have personal revelation and prayer and scriptures! This is our Liahona! And if we follow it...we will be in those fertile parts of the wilderness!

thanks for everything you guys do! 

love elder christensen!