Well hello from the MTC! I have one thing to
say... my knees hurt [from kneeling] ... I used to think I was pretty good at this stuff but it
turns out I need more help than most anyone here! I have felt everyones love
and support from back home and want to thank everone for it!
All my BYU-I friends: Shout out! Thanks for writing me! BYU-I friends, I love you all!
What a week it has been in the MTC! Our minds
are exauhsted and are bodies are even more tired. I finished my last week as
district leader and Vanhin Durrant and I were made Zone leaders on Sunday.
What's nice about this one is we get to work together and just love everybody in
our zone! It also helps to forget about myself and serve others! our roomates
left yesterday and as far as we know Vanhin Durrant and I will have the entire
suite to oursleves!
Its been super awesome hearing about all the
mission calls everyone is getting! The work is moving faster and faster every
day! It becomes more and more appearant when you see 1,000 missionaries come in
every wednesday! Word of advice, you can never know enough about the gospel...
STUDY!
Because i just remembered, use 1 Samuel
17:47... I think, it has something to do about this being the Lords battle and
how swords and spears wont do anything against it. when you quote it you can
leave the part about "delivering you into my hands" out!
Dad, youre right, the teachers are great and
super nice to us but, the food isn't exactly thhe same! I have to admit every
day is a miracle here because they can feed all these people! Ive seen Mary
Hendryx a few imes and she is always checking to make sure i get enough food!
She's the best! Elder Hendryx is also doing good. Him and I talked for a while
yesterday!
Choir is probably one of the funnest things we
do here! We heard that this special easter service were gonna have hear might
have someone big speaking at it so Im pretty excited about that!
Our papa Finns [senior MTC missionaries] are leaving next week and we are
all feeling their excitement! They fly to chicago then London and have a 6 hour
lay-over and then they go to Helsinki! Im so jealous that they are leaving so
soon but also am ok with it because i do not speak nearly enough Finnish. Even
though I am not fluent yet I have already fallen in love with his language. It
is so complex, it makes things so much clearer when spoken in Finnish! For
example, look up the word for French Toast, its like 10 words long!
One of our "investigators" [MTC volunteers] has commited to
baptism! We've got one that was "baptized" when he was a baby and he's being real difficult! The third "investigator" just asks so many questions! Whats
amazing that is that we understand and are answering the questions [in Finnish]!
Well as always, time is short. I love you all
and love hearing from you!
Rakastaa,
Vanhin Tippetts
P.S. My key board is kinda funky so sorry for
any mistakes!
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