Well all is well over here
in Maliki Finland. We have been super busy lately! We just set up our new
investigator classroom at the church building! We also secured a computer so it
could double as a family history center as well! It has been super hot here
lately and we have made the transition to short sleeve shirts! I only have one
so I wash it every night!
So let me take you through
a day here... I wake up totally soaked with sweat, then I work all day completely
sweaty and then I go to bed sweaty and start all over again! The humidity is
drastically different than home is and my body isn’t used to it yet! But I am
always well hydrated!
We had a great week this
week! We went down to Helsinki for a mission conference! President Patrick
Kearon of the Europe area presidency came and spoke to us! He told us "we
need to work faster, eat faster, think faster and pray slower in order to call
down the powers of heaven!" It was intense! He is from England and has the
Mormon message about the scorpion!
We have been seeing
miracles here lately as well! On Thursday night we prayed and asked what our
new investigator would look like. We felt like we should look for someone
wearing pants and a watch, a mom with a kid, and a man with a drinking problem.
We went to our visiting city and went to work. One of our lessons fell through
and we took our member with us. We asked him where we should go and he led the
way.
We then met this lady
playing with her daughter in the grass and set up an appointment with her. She
is now an investigator. We then knocked on a door and a drunken man stumbled
out onto the porch. We bore our testimonies and taught about the word of wisdom
and he cried then we set a baptismal date with him! He is now an investigator.
Also we didn’t realize this till after but on our way to the train station we
found another investigator wearing pants and a watch! It was a pretty
miraculous day to say the least!
Elder Jefferies is kind of
a health nut so I’m trying to follow his example. I know how to exercise but
eating is hard for me. Especially when you have the greeny hunger as bad as I
do! Don’t worry though, I haven’t gained any weight! Also the ward doesn’t call
me the “greeny” they call me the “golden”! I appreciated that. When all the
snow melted we found this sweet public track and field stadium! It has every
track and field thing imaginable so we go there and work out in the mornings
now!
Well I always felt like I
would be at a disadvantage learning a language but I have really been being
blessed! Elder Jefferies is a legend of a trainer and we are doing some serious
work over here!
Thank you all for your
support!
Love,
Elder Tippetts
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