We got on the wrong train!

What’s up everybody! How is everybody? It’s sad to hear about the fire and plane crash. I actually saw someone reading a newspaper with a picture of it on the front and asked him what happened! Sounds like everyone had a fun week in Utah! Totes jelly over here!

Don’t worry about not getting the letter to me before I checked my email, I only cried for an hour! Speaking of crying, whenever I hear a baby crying in church I think to myself, "I know exactly how you feel!" I’ve been there! But this week was pretty good!

So, we were out in an area where we used to have 2 members but now have 4! ;) There is a nearby forest that we walked through and guess what we stumbled upon?! A field of wild blueberries! It was sweet, literally! I plucked up a few and had a little mid-day snack right there in the middle of the forest!

It has been a little cooler this week, we have actually had to start wearing suit coats again :( its okay we look good! We are trying to build up our investigator pool again and it is proving harder than we though because everybody is going on vacation for months at a time! Fins take long vacations; everybody takes huge month or two month vacations right in the middle of summer! They just leave somewhere! It’s crazy. Very interesting people we are dealing with over here!

We just returned this morning from a District meeting with President Rawlings! He came and had a 6-hour meeting with us! I also got to have an interview with him while everybody was setting stuff up. I asked him some really important questions and I learned some pretty sweet things! I found out he was a big lawyer in California and has only lost 2 cases in his career! We also talked about how unless members are finding for us we are not going to be very successful. During my interview, I have never felt someone care about me as much as President does. It was a very spiritual experience!

After that we went to catch our train back to Mikkeli which is about an hour long. My companion, (who is not very familiar with the area) says the train is on track 7. I respond and say sweet! We go to the train on track 7 and sat down. It starts to move and the intercom comes on and says first stop Lappenranta. We both just sunk... We realized that we had gotten on the wrong train! Its really my fault, I should have checked which track it was on too. So, we rode it out and arrived in LPR or Lappenranta and realized that was the last train for the day. Luckily we have friends all over the country! We stayed with the missionaries there who happen to be our district leader! Then we boarded a bus and arrived back home this morning! You should go and see how far apart these three cities are. Kouvola, Lappenranta and Mikkeli. That is our district. The only time we see other missionaries is at District meetings. It’s pretty intense!

Great week this week and I’m lovin it!

Love,

Vanhin Tippetts!