Post #9: Joulupukki/Santa Claus

Today I wanted to talk about where Santa Claus lives, and if you guessed that he lives in Finland you would be right!  Santa lives above the Arctic Circle just outside of a city called Rovaniemi.  Santa Claus lives in his own village where people can go year round to visit him.  People come from all over the world to see him.  While I was on a mission in Finland I had the opportunity to go and see it myself.  There were a ton of reindeer and elves there.  When you go you also get the opportunity to go in and visit Santa and tell him what you want for Christmas.  Santa knows many languages; he can speak Finnish, Swedish, Russian, German, English, and Dutch just to name a few.  I am sure that it is a very high paying job to be a multilingual Santa Claus.  When we went we gave a present to Santa instead of expecting one from him.  We gave him a signed Book of Mormon.  It was a lot of fun.  So the next time someone says that Santa lives in the North Pole, just remember that what they mean to say is he lives in northern Finland.  Thanks for reading!