Shurtz Start to Finnish

On Monday morning, when we went down to breakfast,  we were surprised to see that we had the breakfast room all to ourselves. More people came before we were finished, but we started off alone. On Monday evening, the Lehtinens picked us up from our hotel and took us to dinner. We had such a lovely evening together. At the end of the evening, we found out that it was their anniversary. It was so kind of them to spend their anniversary with us.  We really hate to leave them. They have become such dear friends! Oh how we are going to miss them! (I was so sad when I realized that we forgot to take a picture! I took this one of them from facebook.) On Tuesday, it was the Helsinki zone conference.  We had just started singing the opening song, when Elder Shurtz got a phone call.     It was Elders Bäckström and Koch up in Oulu. They had a flat tire. Elder Shurtz helped to talk them through just what to do, starting with where to fi...

Too bad I didn't have the good camera with me so you could see this better.  But this photo will at least be a reminder for us. One morning we saw hundreds of geese around the perimeter of the golf driving range.  As we were looking at them, dad said yeah and just look at all of those golf balls that they laid. This week was transfers, so it was a very busy week for us. On Tuesday, the departing missionaries came into the office to drop off their luggage,  pay their office debt, and for us to say a last farewell.  The only good thing is that we will see many of these missionaries soon   because many of them will be in Provo going to BYU or UVU. This was a big group, so they came in shifts and we got pictures of just a few at a time. Elders Moats, Bolingbroke, Weeks and Shurtz; Sisters Shurtz and Saarnivaara.  Sisters Kristensen, Jarvis, Hollingsworth, Johns, Saarnivaara and Shurtz; and Elder Shurtz. The sisters in this de...