Hello
everyone! This is Vanhin Tippetts reporting live from the MTC in Provo , Utah Finland
Everybody:
there is no such thing as too much mail!
Last
night we had a special choir practice for the Easter Devotional. We don’t know
who is speaking, they like to keep that a secret until he walks in the door!
The choir song is called The Lord is my Shepherd. It sounds pretty awesome! The
best part about being in the choir is we get reserved seats for Devotional!. Oh
and they will be doing a MTC-wide Sacrament Meeting during the Devotional!
This
week has been much of the same. We wake up and learn until we go back to bed.
The routine is becoming part of my very being! I also am trying to eat
healthier but I’m failing miserably. I’ve gained 25 pounds since I’ve been
here... Just kidding! Haven't gained an ounce! whoo! Today is P-day and we have
it down to a science! we went to the temple this morning and are now writing
letters where after we have laundry and while that’s cooking we have our hair
cuts scheduled and it leaves just enough time to prepare a lesson that we have
to teach tonight!
We
are getting 7 new Estonian missionaries today which will be nice because the
Hungarians just left and it has been just us two Finn Districts for a few days.
Elder Durrant and I have a few things to do to help the new missionaries get
settled in so we are busy preparing that as well.
This
week, I learned the Ensiminen Naku (First Vision discussion) which was surprisingly
difficult because the literal translation is a little weird but i busted it out
in a lesson and the teacher started laughing at me because i was making grunting
faces. It was a little embarrassing but ill live! I also learned Moroni
So
I have mentioned that there is a spoken language and a written language. Well
some native Finns have been trying to show us the differences and it makes me
want to cry! Even the numbers are tonally different! It’s okay though because I’m
a missionary! All our teachers have been telling us not to worry because Finnish
is totally different in different parts of the country. Also all our teachers I
am convinced are going quorum of the seventy soon! Veli Hamner or Elder Austin
J. Hamner as he will be referred to as a general authority is a stud! I was
having a rough day this last week and he pulled me out and talked to me one on
one and I can say it redirected the course of my mission to this point.
There’s
a part in 1 Nephi where he is receiving the vision his father had received and
he is being guided by and angel and the angel keeps saying Look! Behold! and
Nephi will look and learn something totally crazy!
1 Nephi 11:32 "And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me again, saying: Look! And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was a taken by the people; yea, the Son of the everlasting God was b judged of the world; and I saw and bear record."
This is how I feel every
day. An angel is continually pointing and saying Look! and I’m like wow! That’s
it! That’s what i needed! I want so badly to be a great missionary like my
teachers were and continue to be. I know that everything I need I was born with
and I just need to figure out how to bring it out and let it motivate me to
work harder!
I
am sorry I don’t have much detail to share but this week was fairly normal and repetitive
of last week.
I
love all of you and love hearing from you! I hope all is well out there in the
real world!
Mina
Rakastaan Teita!
Vanhin
Tippetts!
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