My new companion is Elder Kimball. We are still unsure if he is related to President Kimball, but we are working on finding the answer to that though. I picked him up from the mission home on Wednesday, and have had a way good start to our transfer. Every single train that we took was running late so we had to do lots of running to catch the trains, we even missed one and had to wait for an hour and a half for the next one to arrive. I was so close to catching it too. I ran and was pressing the button to open to the doors but the train had already locked and then it drove away into the dark. But the start to the transfer has been so good!
Elder Kimball is a great missionary! He has a lot of faith and he sets way high goals. He reminds me of when I was just getting started and I set way high goals. But I have seen how slowly and slowly I have started to set goals that are a lot lower and it all starts when someone says that we wont make that goal. And I want my trainee to keep his faith so I am not going to tell him to lower his goals but we will set high goals together! It is so easy to say, ah man, we have not found an investigator this whole transfer, lets just set a goal for one this week. But I think that shows little faith. one day during planning I asked my comp how many we could find that day and he said 3, and I was thinking in my head "slow down friend, we only got 3 hours of finding today that we can use" but i agreed. and we worked way hard that night and Heavnely Father lead us to the right doors and to meet with the right people, and We found 4 investigators! And one of them even fed us dinner too! and we also set up a lesson for this week. It is a testimony to me that God works according to the faith of his servants. I am so grateful that I have this opportunity to grow here in Finland and to see Heavenly Father's hand in my life!
Christmas was so fun! we have basically only eaten dinners the past three days because we are so full. We ate at our branch president's home Christmas eve. They gave us each a super soft blanket. The president's wife is filipino, so we ate a lot of Filipino food. Some was quite good, and some was very strange. The dessert was a sort of purple goop that came from a root that can only be bought in one store in Finland. Then on Christmas we got to eat with our relief society president. She fed us the traditional Finnish food. potato casserole, sweet potato casserole, carrot casserole and rhubarb and kidney. And lots of beats. Very good stuff. I actually liked it this year.
And then yesterday, what a story, I have not eaten so much in my entire life. It just kept coming. It was very good food too. some meat that was flat like a tortilla that was rolled up and had some sort of purple thing in the middle. I am not sure if it was a chicken heart or a purple carrot but it tasted ok. But she is a 86 year old grandma and she loves to have the missionaries over. We had a great time with her. We laughed a lot and it hurt really bad to laugh. after the dinner it was getting hard to sit up straight because i was weighed over with much food. And she brings in the dessert. Smashed up prunes in a jelly form and some whipped cream. Very good stuff. I actually really liked it. but I just couldn't eat any more...just too full. So she went to the kitchen to grab some cookies so we looked around and found a baggy. so we took it and scraped our food into it and hid it in our backpacks. A Christmas miracle.
I am so grateful to be serving here with these wonderful people! I love my mission! I am so grateful for this church and Jesus Christ!
I love you all!
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