I feel like I say that every week, but they usually are. Each day is so different even if you just go tracting for 9 hours. To start off, knocked on this older, less active guy's door who lives in our ward. He was home and we chatted for a while and then we started talking about Florida, because that is where I am from, and believe it or not, this guy served his mission in Satellite Beach, Florida. He lived there for 6 months and attended the very same Melbourne ward. That might have been one craziest/miraculous things on my mission. We are hopefully going to start helping him come back to church and feel again the joys of the gospel! It is so amazing to me that God places us in positions to help certain people at certain times.
Also, this week we had zone conference. We visit all the zone conferences every other time. This time we didnt, but next time we will make the journey around finland. Zone Conference was really good and we talked a lot about inviting people to be baptized. We really want to invite people to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized. That night after zone conference Elder Weeks and I had a first lesson with this man, and we decided that we were going to invite him to be baptized. During the lesson, he has this 3 or 4 year old daughter, and she was jumping around the whole time and laying on me and sitting on me and wow it was bad... but eventually she got off and started coloring with my companion, and we began to invite him to be baptized. The spirit was definitely there, and as we testified, he knew that he wanted to do it and he said yes! We are way excited for him!
This sunday, our ward got split in half. It reminds me of the time my ward back home got split. There were 2 full wards in this tiny little building. Usually we meet at different times, but the third ward is taking members from both, so we all went at the same time. Every seat was taken and the rest us of just stood there right in the middle of the room with the line going all the way out to the exit doors. It was crazy. Me and my comp just inherited the biggest part of the city though, so we are way excited.
Also, another cool thing, was that on sunday, it was some kind of holiday that the Lutherans have. You eat pea soup on that day and this special pulla thing....like a cinnamon roll with out frosting....kind of. I love pea soup, none of my comps have ever liked it, so I eat it for lunch at least twice a week on my own. Also, the pulla was so good. We put raspberry jam and then also tons of whip cream and ate it like a sandwich. I will have to make it for folks back home sometime.
For those wanting to know the schedule, we usually are in the office on mondays and wednesdays. We also have a special meeting with president, as well as district meeting. Tuesday is our pday. Thursday - saturday are usually normal days though, unless we have special meetings and stuff. We usually do every week have something. Like this week we have a thing called My Plan. That is when we get together with all the missionaries going home this transfer and everyone discusses after mission goals and stuff. The mission is going super well right now! I love it so much. Unfortunately no spiritual thought today...but next time!
Love elder Christensen
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