Baptism!

Howdy Y´all! How’s everybody doing? Things are great over here in the good ole´ Finland! Crazy week, saw a Ferrari, ate a Reindeer pizza, said goodbye to Jefferies and at the end of the week I got all wet! But more about that later!

Judee: Never be embarrassed about you hair. It looks good no matter what!

Grandma: love you too, keep having fun!

Mom: I can tell you are running around like a chicken with its legs cut off! ;) (anyone? anyone?) but its good that you are busy. Keep being that patient loving mother you always have been!

Dad: You’re a good man. Keep me updated on the tree. I hope mom lets you tear it down soon and do that circular driveway we talked about! And that SLC broadcast sounds sweet! We didn’t even hear about it! 70,000 missionaries is nuts!

Dallin and Aubree: You too are great. The hot air balloon ride sounds sick!

Taylor: Keep working hard at Rainforest. You have it good there!

Cameron: Put some sleeves on “for craps sake”! (Sons of Provo movie?) There gonna make guns illegal for that reason!

Devin: you stud you! Rainforest is pretty sweet to work at! Keep working hard and keep your sights on going on a mission!

Well I’m not gonna lie this was one of those weeks where I wanted to go into my room and cry for a solid 2 or 3 minutes. Jefferies left and I took over Mikkeli. My new companion is about 4 months older than me in the mission so our speaking is about the same. I organized baptismal interviews and a baptismal service all by myself! It was super hard to work with the members because I don’t speak very well yet. They are very patient though.

As far as the baptism goes, Jegan was baptized this week. I planned the whole service played the piano and did the actual baptizing! I really did want to cry by the end of this week! Also Jegan asked us about white underwear. We went to the church to check if we had any and we didn’t. Well it was a holiday this week and all the stores were closed. So, I called every single member in our ward and asked him or her if they had any. I then sat down wallowing in my failure to plan and said a prayer. Then literally the next person I called was Veli Ojalja and he met us at the church and we tore the place apart. Well, upstairs in the back of a random closet we found some white underwear! It was a huge miracle in my eyes!

For our last P-day together, Jefferies and I went to a Pizza place and we went half’s on a Perhe (family) size reindeer pizza! It was delicious! Quite a bit of food though and I’m not proud of the fact that I finished the whole thing! After that is when we saw the Ferrari. Also in this mission we do a thing called a vierraskirja which is basically a memory book that you get all you companions to sign and put pictures in it and stuff. It’s pretty sweet so I bought one so I can pass it around to companions and members while I’m on my mission.

We had quite a crazy week here as far as missionary work goes though. We found 8 new investigators! it was crazy! One was right after the interview with our baptizee. The district leader and I were on splits together and we were riding back from it when we passed a girl on the street. We kept riding but we got the impression to go back and talk to her. I knew it was gonna be super awkward but we did it anyway. Well we shared a little with her and we she became an investigator on the spot. We have an appointment with her on Wednesday!

We are preparing for a 4th of July celebration here with the district as well that of course you know I’m excited for!

Well even though I wanted to cry almost every day because i felt like it was all on me, it has still been one of the most exciting weeks of my mission. I don’t have much else to say other than this church has to be true. It has to be true or else we the missionaries would have destroyed it a long time ago! I hope everybody has a great week this week!

Love, your favorite missionary from Gilbert in Finland with the last name Tippetts!

Vanhin Tippetts!