My new companion...

Saying good bye to Sisar Kokkonen

My new district

On May 16th Sister Kokkonen was transferred Neitsypolku in the very middle of Helsinki to finish Sister Burden's training. How fun is that? She gets to go be with one of my most favorite people in the whole world! My new companion is Sister Thayne. She is from SLC and  is awesome! We laugh all the time and we go out and do work. She really likes talking to people, which is fantastic because that’s what makes me the happiest out here. We work hard, and we get lost (only twice...my fault), but we figure things out together and it is super fun. 

    Tampere is so great! Oh man, I really do love it here! Last Sunday we were out contacting and I stopped a Chinese man outside of the grocery store. He said he wasn’t really interested and that we should probably go talk to someone else, but we gave him a card and told him to call us if he was ever interested. Then, on Friday night we were out contacting in the center and got a call from a random number. it was the Chinese man! We had forgotten about him... he told us that he had been pondering on what we said to him and that would like to meet the next day and learn more. So he met us at the church on Saturday and he told us he wanted to find out how Christ could help him in his life. He also told us that he didn’t think that he would be able to come to Finland, but that he really wanted to, so he prayed and asked God for help. And then it was possible to come, so he knows the God answers his prayers. He also said that he felt that when he came to Finland he would meet someone very important, and now he sees that it was us. He has met with us the last two days and read the Book of Mormon a little along with the restoration pamphlet. He says he knows that Joseph Smith is a prophet from God and that he wants to follow the prophet now because the prophet knows what God’s will for us is. He also said that he feels peace and comfort when he prays like we taught him. He is so great! He comes to lessons well prepared and basically teaches us the message. He has to go back to China next week, so we will meet with him until he goes and then send his info to the branch where he lives and have them take care of him. He is so amazing! We love him so much and we feel so blessed to have been in the right place at the right time taking every opportunity possible to talk to people. And now our friend has blessed our lives. Miracles happen every day and it’s amazing. 

Beautiful Finland