We started Skype TRC last week, and that was pretty much awesome. Our 'investigator' taped our lesson, so if you want to see my comp and I speaking Finnish, here you go!
I hope it works! If not, just imagine that my Finnish is perfect and I looked impressively attractive in that video. Yup. That's totally how it happened.
Aside from my broken Finnish and increased amount of confused looks on my face, Finnish is definitely coming super well. It's all in the gift of tongues, I promise you. I've been reading the Book of Mormon stories book in Finnish and understanding most of it, so I'm proud to announce that my Finnish reading skills are approaching those of a young child. *bows*
I used the ghostbuster vacuum in service last week! Whoever said missions weren't fun was a complete liar, I swear. Best day of my life.
I played a musical number in sacrament meeting, accompanying a Swede on the violin who left on Monday. That was cool. Music brings in the Spirit so well! (if it's good music)
I watched the Testaments movie last Sunday. Man, it was good! 10/10 would recommend.
Cool experience! So on Monday I was working on our TALL language program for so long (I did about 100 words) and it just kept going and going and no one else in the lab was working on it but the gift of tongues only activates when you work! So I kept working until 9:00 pm like we should be as hard as I could, and when we took the elevator down we were talking with our teacher in Finnish and someone asked him what his major was. He responded in ridiculously fast Finnish that no one understood, but somehow I understood that he said 'I'm majoring in international relations' and no one else got a word of it! I also had no idea what he said (i.e. I couldn't repeat it back to you) but the phrase just directly translated in my head, and I was like, 'wow, international relations!' right after he said it and he was really impressed. Gift of tongues is real, my friends! That was awesome.
Also, for the Tuesday devotional, Elder Nielsen (the previous BYU quarterback in like the 70's) and he brought Janice Kapp Perry (who wrote We'll Bring the World His Truth and I think the music for As Sisters in Zion). That was awesome. She was soooooo funny, all she wanted to talk about was football and Elder Nielsen was like 'what is going on' and she brought her signed football and refused to talk about hymns for like five minutes so she could talk about how much she loved BYU football. I love that woman. Elder Nielsen talked about how important the Book of Mormon was. Hey all of you, did you know that the last thing President Monson said in conference was that we should read the Book of Mormon every day? Well, he did. Are you? I certainly hope so. If not, start today. Read that book every day. I promise that you'll be blessed for following the words of the prophet. Please do so.
We got our flight plans this week! We leave on December 4th (ten days) and fly from Salt Lake to Dallas, then to London, then to Helsinki! So basically yo boi is going to England in ten days wazzup. I'll get some pictures.
We taught Karina that day! We talked about how faith is a principle of action. You can have all the belief in the world but if you don't do anything about it what gives? You aren't going to get anything from it. Act! You'll be blessed! I certainly am!
okay then but THANKSGIVING THOUGH!!!!! 1. My sister turned 13. Wooo! 2. Elder Bednar came and gave the best devotional ever. 3. We did service packaging food for hungry children. 4. We watched Love, Kennedy (best movie ever) and I fell apart bawling. Four times. 5. The Nashville Tribute BAND (whaat?) came and gave a concert (whaaaaaaattt???) 6. They turned on the Christmas lights here and they are SO PRETTY!!!!! And played a bunch of music! 7. We had egg nog during our thanksgiving lunch and it was pretty awful, so I guess that happened. (I don't know why out of all the subject lines I chose that, but that's what you get). 8. I brought in one of the band member's mother! (she thought Finland was basically Ukraine, and having been there I had to sort of help her out with the difference, but she was super nice) 9. I bought some Powerade! (okay I'm done)
THE SPIRIT IS REAL AND CHRIST DIED FOR US AND I LOVE THE CHURCH READ THE BOOK OF MORMON EVERY DAY AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED I LOVE YOU ALL!
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Elder Hancock
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