We were able to go to Finland to renew our visas. We stayed one night at the Dormitory by the Temple. We attended three sessions. It is a beautiful Temple! It was a wonderful experience!

The Finland Temple at night...

This is one of the rooms in the Dormitory by the Temple. One room for women. One room for men. It only costs 7 Euros ( a little over $10.00) per person per night to stay there, great deal!

Baltic Sea

Harbor in Finland

We took a trip to Novgorod, Russia to do a project. We traveled on the train there and back all in one day. It took us five hours to get there.

We took the express train back and it only took us four hours. Did I say express???



It has a Kremlin which is a citadel or fortress
in a commanding position in or near a city.

We have made some great friends in our branch named Larissa and Victor Veselov, they are so good to take us places and to help us. They even speak English. Here are some pictures of a park in Puskin (a small city by Saint Petersburg) they took us to.

On the night of the Fourth of July Larissa and Victor took us for a walk by a river running into the Finnish Gulf.

A machine gun bunker.

Some of the standing water in Russia has this green film on top of it.

When we were walking by the river there were several men fishing on an old rusty barge. I heard this big splash and I wondered what they had thrown in then I looked down at them (we were on the bank above them) and saw a man in the water not in the river but in the filthy water that was on the inside of the barge. I said “look” to Larissa and she grabbed my hand and said, "let’s pray" and started to pray in Russian. The other men were trying to pull him out by this big rope but he kept losing his grip. I think he was drunk. Another man jumped in to help him. They got the first man out but I don’t know about the second one. We didn't pray for him.