My maternal great great grandfather is Anders Johansson.
He was born and lived in Kokkola Finland.
Somehow he ended up a Mormon in Utah.
We visited Kokkola, saw a boat from the Crimean War, and we ate lunch at a tori.
My maternal great grandfather is Andrew Theodore Johnson.
He served two missions in Finland and Sweden.
During his second mission, in 1948, he and my great grandmother Mae Timothy Johnson helped to design and build the first Mormon chapel in Finland.
This is it!!
It is no longer a chapel. People live there.
They converted the baptismal font into their sauna.
During a remodel the owners found this original sign. It's hanging in the garage.
It's Tucker's birthday!!
He's standing on the place where Apostle Ezra Taft Benson dedicated Finland for the preaching of the gospel in July 1947.
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| Pretty lucky to turn 2 in Finland! |
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| The ground was covered in this lovely whitish green mossy stuff. |
Footwear compliments of the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel sauna.
Then we drove 5 hours back to our Yellow Hotel.
Jonah does not understand the building my parents are living in.
Is it an apartment or a hotel?
He knows for sure that it's yellow.
4 comments:
Oh my heck. I can't believe I missed day 3!
I had no idea that there was so much churchy stuff over there!
And how neat that you have so much personal family there!
I wish I could have turned 2 in Finland-sounds awesome.
Are you almost done?
How freakin fun! I'm so freaking jealous! I want to freakin go there! No freakin fair! Hmmm..... how can I use that again.... and ok it is fair because you guys graduated.....FREAK YEAH :) Ok I'm done..haha!! Glad you are having so much fun!
It looks like you guys are having such a blast on your vacation! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TUCKER!!! And Happy be-lated Birthday to YOU :) I was gonna send you a text on your bday but I didn't because of the time difference (I didn't want to accidently wake you while you were trying to sleep or something, haha!) But just know, I was definitely thinking about you! I'm so glad you are blogging about your trip, I love reading it.
Tucker is a lucky kid, no matter what...but having a birthday in Finland does make something extra special. I'm glad you are having such a blast...but, um...please come home ;) I need all your great motivating advice.
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