.....Come on in.

Hello!

Wow, we had a busy week. It was way fun though. We had a meeting called MLC. That stands for Missionary Leadership Council. We usually have that every month. We had a grand time discussing the needs of the mission. But it was good to see all the buddies and go to the Temple. I am definitely going to miss the Finland temple and also being able to listen to it all in Finnish. the next morning we all went on a run and wow, I almost did not make it. I surely have been in the office too long. We are finalizing transfers though tomorrow and transfer day will be on tuesday, so we shall see what happens. 

We had two splits this week with missionaries. The zone leaders from Tampere and then the ones from Helsinki. They were both really really good. We did lots of Returning Member work. We had three of our friends come to church from that and then even one of our investigators! A young man named Tuomas. He is way cool. speaks so quiet that sometimes his lips dont move and no sound comes out. But that is ok. The gift of Tongues is real! He is doing way good. We have a lot of really awesome people we are working with right now. It is really cool to see how the lives of our returning members have really turned around after finding the light of the Gospel again. Two of them have now set the goal to return to the Temple and to get back on the path. 

We had a really cool tracting contact yesterday. We were following up with some people and there was one here and another one over there. And president Aura recently reminded the mission to not just do follow up, but to also tract around a little bit by each door. maybe a couple doors or so. So this thought keeps running through my head. We were in this area of town were there are a lot of immigrants. I love immigrants but it is really hard to share the gospel with them because they dont know english or Finnish very well. So I was looking for a Finnish name and we walked down a couple flights of stairs, and there we saw it. We knocked this guys door and at three different times we asked him if we could come in and teach him about the Restoration, but he always said no. So we just decided to teach it right there at the door, and wow, the spirit was really strong. He had never heard any of it before and he was super excited. He had looked for God most of his life and right now he does not have a lot of Happiness. At the end of the Restoration I asked him if we could pray with him, he thought about it for a second, and then said, "come on in". 

WOW. 

Sometimes you really need to give it your all and push past the no's. 
This message is the truth and will change their lives! 

All is well here in Finland. I am loving it. 

Love, Elder Christensen