Wow, this has been a way good week. My very last here as an AP.
We prayed about transfers this Friday,
and no matter how hard I tried, it was not the Lord's will for me to stay. So for my last transfer I will be opening an area in South Espoo. There are two Espoo wards. I am currently in Espoo 1, or north Espoo. So tomorrow I will be transferring to South Espoo and opening up the area, and I will be training too! I was pretty surprised that it actually happened. We talked about it a few weeks ago but I did not believe it would happen especially because I was going to open an area and there were only three elders coming in, and I have also already trained. But it did, and I am way excited. I will also be District leader and work on getting everyone pumped. I will be in the same district as the one I am in right now. So basically no change. haha.
Also, there are 11 sisters coming from the MTC, because of that, I am going to stay an extra day as an AP and help transport all the missionaries from the Airport. I will also stay around that night at the mission home with all the trainees. That will be super fun.
For most of this week we have been organizing stuff to do with transfers and spending money with righteous judgement. I love this time of the transfer. Putting the travel together is a real task but so cool how it comes together. Also, for exercise in the mornings elder Krause and I have been going to play some frisbee golf a couple times...but never again... at least not at the place we went to. At first it was really fun, but quite quickly the course became our enemy. So many times our frisbees would fly into the woods. and I swear, every plant in there is poisonous, and that even if your sock touches it you get hurt. Bees, mosquitos, spider bites, horse poop, thorns, rain, and worst of them all, Ticks. We were attacked by all of these things. While "resting" two days later I found a tick deeply burrowed into my skin. I believe that I was blessed greatly and was able to pull it out with some tweezers, and not have to have to go to a professional to have it removed. But any way, I have had a few bad flash backs to that moment since that day. but all is well now in Zion.
The mission had its best week of the year. We had like 44 people in church as a mission and 36 new friends found, and 3 people baptized. We are all in high spirits!
This is veli rosenberg, he told me that I was an angel in his life and that he loved me. finns dont do that. One reason i served here was to bring him back! probably my best friend i have made in the mission.
I really love a quote that President Aura told us a couple days ago "You need to love change more than you want to stay the same." If you are so set on keeping everything, our grudges, our kindness, pride, etc...we will never gain anything. This life is not about what you are able to gain, but about what you are able to give up, because that is when we gain the most. I have noticed also how my desires have changed, or maybe the reason to why I do things as I have applied this during my mission. I have never been disobedient, but there was definitely a time when I changed from doing things just because I wanted to obey the rules, and to do them instead because I loved Jesus Christ and my Father in Heaven, and that I wanted to show my trust and love for them. That is when I began to understand why, that is when it became more meaningful to me.
Love you all! Enjoy last couple days of summer if it is still there for you!
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