ELDER CAFFARO MADE IT TO FINLAND!!

Elder Caffaro and Elder Robinson
Elder Caffaro helping at the marathon
The Elders bedroom...
The living area

The kitchen
Elder Caffaro using to the pressured water to squirt off his leftovers... ha ha thanks johnny!!

Hey Family!
Wow I love finland it is so dang fun. Ok let me get started on what I want to share with you this last week.Maanantai-(Monday) I left the mtc and it was really weird to be driving to the airport not gonna lie haha but way happy to leave

Tiistia- (Tuesday) Arrived in finland met the mission president and the ap's with a hug. They are awesome. I was just in shock looking around the country as we were driving to the mission home everything is so so dang green, because it pretty much rains 24\7 here. Wow this keyboard is so weird to write on. Later that night we had a little spiritual meeting and ate and then went straight to bed i went to bed 8 at night i was so dang tired.

Keskikkiivko-(Wen) Woke up had breakfast went to the mission office and filled out all our mission stuff that was not fun at all haha. We get a 180 Euros a month so its not much at all cause everything here is so dang expensive. Than at 11:30 am we had lunch had a new missionary training meeting and we met our new companions. My companion is so so dang tight as I was telling you last week in my letter he is a major stud. We left and and went and became a citizen of Finland than later that night we had to make about 75 phone calls to contacts we have met on the metros, trains and buses to have them come to american night. I am an out reach missionary so what me and my companion do is we meet and contact people within the age groups of 18-30 and invite them to american night where we play american games and after try to talk to them about the gospel and set up appointments its so much fun i am totally meant for this place haha. Elder Robinson is from Oregon he is 21 and goes to Oregon State is that enough info mom? HA he has been out a year and is a great missionary also his finnish is way good. We went to the apartment put my bags back down and went out food shopping its so weird to shop for yourself but hey its a great experience so its all good. The First thing i put into my shopping cart was Protein powder yeeeyaaahhhh thats what i am talking about. As you all can tell with My MTV crib that we've got the nicest joint in finland haha. I worked out the first night i was in our apartment i felt like i was in heaven I loved it. Ok ok you guys Toilet paper is just nasty i will never use it again i love using the BAaday however you spell it. It was so weird at first shooting pressure water up your butt but its so nice cause your not smearing it everywhere! I would for sure look into it if i was you. I won't be using toilet paper for the next two years thats for sure haha.

Torstai- (Thursday) Well i finally started the regular schedule of a missionary in the field we wake up at 7 in finland so thats really nice, we go straight to the living room and start working out to MOTAB i am just happy we have a bench bar and dumbbells that really is freaking awesome. Then after that we shower and get ready for the day and have individual studies than we have companion studies those are fun after that every thursday we have weekly planning sessions those last for so dang long i wanted to shoot myself but oh well its all good. We finally left around 2 is or 3 and went and checked out some gyms that we can sign up for and its only 7£ a month thats so cheap!! Than we came back to the apartment ate lunch than headed to the Metros its like the subways and we began contacting, i tried it a little bit but than i couldn't understand what they were saying at all but you all know me being daring and all. Ok no one speaks English here at all they all speak finnish they only speak english if you speak to them and its not even that good english so i was way taken back by that but it was way cool to see that everyone is speaking finnish. Next we met at the train station at 6 to pick up our contacts to come to american night we usually play american games and do a bunch of fun things like that. The out reach center is the bomb we have huge plasma's, pool tables and xbox360 but no missionaries play it just for the investagators and we bring all of our teaches there so its a way nice place i am really glad that i get to serve so dang close to helsinki.

Friday- Was fun we helped out at the Helsinki City Marthon and that was held in the Finland Olympic center so it was dope we handed out some of the shirts to the runners i was saying.. Moi Mitä koko ja kirjekuori haha that means hello what size do you wear and i need to see your runners envelope good finnish huh?! I thought so too. We all got shirts they are freakin sweet, Elder Robie has 5 different kinds for helping in so many so I am excited. We than came back to our apartment made so food and went over some finnish phrases for a bit than went to bed.

launantai- (Saturday) Was way fun again went to the marathon and helped outside giving out ice cream helping with the gatorade guys giving away so much stuff it was pooring rain i made so many friends with the venders like dannon yogurt, the banana man the the cracker man so we are stacked for the next two weeks on groceries and than some people hooked me and my companion up with nike polo's and nike shirts dang i am already getting the connections here in finland i love being a connection man haha. we stayed at the marathon til 10 at night. I was so so tired and cold.

Ok sunday was NUTS NO JOKE i had the worst headache after 3 LONG LONG hours of finnish i didn't understand much at all sad huh but its ok all the members are so dang nice i love them all i have to speak in church next sunday for about 2 or 3 minutes and talk about myself boy oh boy is that going to be nuts... but i can do it haha they call me the ISO MIES BIG MAN feed him so we have 5 dinner appointments this weeks crazy huh. Ok let me tell you all about my first DA it was all in finnish this old couple only knew finnish wow it was so dang hard to understand so i just let my companion do the talking and i was just packing down the food. The food is so so amazing and the ice cream was way good. I tried to talk the most i could but it was no good oh well what can you do haha. So after that we went back to our place and changed out of our suits got into our tracting clothes and went tracting for four hours.. i love tracting i talk as much as i can and when i get lost or totally can't understand them i just look at Elder robie. We go by robie and giovani on the metros haha funny huh.

Well life is freaking amazing, i don't know if i ever want to leave this place nah i am just kidding but the work is totally moving forward the lord blesses so many amazing people. We have 2 baptisims in the next 2 weeks we are way excited about that i love this work and more importantly i love the lord and you guys so very much. I am so blessed to have you all as my family thank you for everything and know that i am out doing the lords work and having a lot of fun while i am at it yeah buddy haha. This past week went by so fast. Well everyone i love you so very much... don't miss me to much but i miss you, have a great week and PEOPLE start sending me emails or letters or something gosh i haven't heard from anyone yet.

Love you Vanhin Caffaro