More adventures in Haaga

Haaga is good, everyone keeps talking about how the warm days are over and summer is over and I didn’t even know summer came... But that’s okay! I’ll take this temperate weather any day

We had kind of a rough week this week, but don’t think i am sad or anything cause i say that, we have been laughing all week long! It’s just been a week :). I will tell a bit about what has happened to us. So last Tuesday we were contacting a man that had a strong belief in the Bible, and he was preaching to us for like 10 minutes and going on and on, so we testified of the Book of Mormon and he said he doesn’t believe it cause Joseph Smith wrote it. So we started to explain what the Book of Mormon was and where it came from, and I like using the pictures in the front, so I opened up and talked about how it is another Testament of Christ. Then I turned to the next picture which is Joseph Smith, and there was a water mark on his forehead that looked like a really bad symbol. The man freaked out and yelled "WHAT IS THAT?!"  We didn’t have an answer, and so then he ran away from us. We were so shocked and didn’t know what to do. Then we laughed so hard and felt so bad. We were thinking, of course it had to be in this copy of the Book of Mormon. Right? But it was funny, and we turned the book into the office and it’s all good now. Then on Saturday Sister Nelson lost her bus pass (which is how we get everywhere, it’s for buses and for trains and they cost like 230£) and we couldn’t find it anywhere. So we have been walking this week, and it has been raining, and we have forgotten to bring our umbrella's this past week. But that’s okay! We love the rain because it makes everything green. :) Then we got ticketed on the train to the mission office yesterday because Sister Nelson didn’t have her bus pass on her. The fine was 80£, and they wouldn’t listen to us and ticketed us anyways. It was super frustrating and none of them spoke English, so I had to try and explain it all in Finnish. Anyways, that wasn’t fun. We went to the train station today and got a new pass and talked to the people there about the ticket and they cancelled it.  J And that was a super fun adventure for us! Oh, also, the other night we saw these refugees that didn’t speak any English or Finnish trying to figure out the train system. No one would help them and they were asking everyone, so we went over to help them. We rode on the train with them to their place and realized that we were in a very wrong place for us to be and that we were very late getting home. And so, a lot of miraculous things happened and we made it home safely. Anyways, we made it through this week! and we both smiled an laughed the whole time! I’ve got a great companion and we have had a great time doing the Lord’s work! It’s so cool to see his hand helping us every day. 

 This picture was taken by Rick and Lynne London on 8/18/16. They are serving their third mission as a senior couple and this is the second time serving in the Finland, Helsinki Mission office. Lynne was Jessica's second grade teacher and we absolutely love her and Rick. We are so blessed to have them serving in Finland at the same time Jess is serving her mission there.  This wonderful couple made room in their luggage to take a pair of shoes and treat for Jess. This meant a great deal to us and we are so thankful for them! Here's a few lines from Lynne's email to us:

"We finally got the package to your beautiful, happy daughter. It is soooo good to see her. This is the stairway to the second floor just outside her apartment. We lived in her apartment when we were in the office before. It is a nice apartment on the ground floor. When we do the apartment inspection, I will send pictures."