Great week!

Pretty good week. I wish I could tell you about everything that happened but I am soo tired I want to cry! 

It is hard to top a week like the last one but here I go! 

This week we did... uh missionary work? haha We met with one of our Investigators who was struggling with receiving answers to his prayers. This is the same one that we taught a lesson with President Rawlings. (We will call the investigator Juha) President asked Juha to pray about how he could help his mom and then after one minute he asked what did you get. Juha explained his answer then President explained that that is how answers to prayers feel like. So, Juha went home and we met up with him on Wednesday and talked about how his prayers have been going. Juha told us "I have received a very strong testimony of the Book of Mormon; it is Gods word and I need to be baptized". So we will be having a baptism in two weeks,

It is quite interesting how we expect answers to prayers to be as magnificent as the Prophet Joseph Smiths was. Although I guess thats possible, the most common answer is subtle peace and sometimes they are thoughts that just feel good! 

We had dinner at a members house this week. That was fun. This is a shout out to the Rozsa family. They feed us Half-baked chocolate cake and Ice cream! I was trunky the entire time I was eating it! 

I found a new hobby. Learning Idioms like "kill two birds with one stone" In Finnish it is "Saada kaksi kärpästa yhdellä iskulla" It means litterally "to get two flys with one blow" I bought a dictionary that is awesome. Underneath all the words it gives example sentences and sometimes idioms! It is great fun! 
Some more examples "nousta sängystaä väärällä jalalla" "to rise from bed on the wrong leg" 
"Meillä on kädet täynä työtä" "we have our hands full" and finally "Silmänräpäyksessä" "in the blink of an eye"! 

We had General Conference this weekend so the whole district came here to watch it. The first session wason saturday night at 7 and then we went home and came back on sunday to watch priesthood and thesaturday afternoon recordings. the we got to watch sunday morning live at 7pm. I still havent seen the sunday afternoon session but we are watching it next week. 

Pretty intense how The Prophet, who holds the same authority that Moses held, from The Saviour, was speaking this weekend and millions of people had no idea about it. How crazy would it be if the prophets of the Old Testament were here? Well the same thing just happened! Something that was spoken in conference was the "Family Missionary Council" I think the Tippetts family needs to hold a council of our own and start telling people about this. Invite the missionaries over and ask them to teach you how to invite people. They can help you understand how easy it is and how big of a blessing it will be to the person being invited! Do it for FHE tonight and report back to me in your emails next week!

Also I found this book here with all the missionaries who have served in Finland. There is 4 Tippetts' in there! One is named Gary Tippetts and he is from Mesa! Also a David H. and Carlyle V. and James Leornard Tippetts. Crazy! 

Lets remember what President Uchtdorf said, "You can do it now!" Do it!!! 

Rauha ulos ja hyvää viikoa teille!

Rakaudella,

Vanhin Tippetts

ps. This is a lake just outside the center of Kuopio.