Another crazy week in the bag!

Mondays are the best days to wake up and see Spencer's email waiting.  He continues to work hard and is just loving his mission.  I can only imagine how hard these next 2 weeks are going to be with his mission president whom he adores leaving and the new mission president arriving.  The experiences Spencer is having is just monumental for him.  Enjoy!

Dear Family & Friends,

Well sounds like a great week for everyone back home. I totally forgot that it was Fathers day. In Finland Fathers day is in November. 

I still sometimes am shocked that I actually live here. Every Sunday night we drive to the mission office where we put in the mission numbers. On the way we drive right through downtown Helsinki. There is a harbor with super nice Yachts and bridges and cruise ships, tall european buildings and cobble stone streets. It is seriously a dream. And whats great is its 10>30 at nigt and its still bright as day outside! 

We are coming up on the longest day of the year ehich means everybody is gonna be drunk! not good for us... dont worry we are prepared.

We are making all the final arrangments for President Watsons arrival. We have our second to last meeting with President Rawlings today so no Pday this week! President Watson will arrive on the 27 of june and president leaves on the 1 of julyand President Watson will take over at midnight. 

Everything should be still moving to Espoo. We saw the final signing papers for the new mission home. Espoo is a way nice city. Its where the Temple is. In fact the mission home is supposed to be 5 minutes away from the temple. There is also a huge possibility that we get switched to that ward so we will be closer to the mission home. We have no idea yet though because it is up to President Watson. President Rawlings decided not to move us. 

I have been writing Derek Hatch. He is in the MTC and will be coming next week. He sounds super stoked! 

This week we had the Helsinki Zone Conference and the Tampere Zone Conference. Both were incredible. We drove to all the zone conferences so we have had some fun rode trips recently. 

Cool story was the day after we got back from the last conference in Tampere, we looked at our schedule and every single thing had fallen through... We had commited to follow every small prompting that came to mind that day. It was just Elder Kiuttu and I for this day because Elder Heaney was on exchanges in Turku. We prayed that the Lord would guide us through this blank day scenerio. Well after choosing a few names form the area book Elder Kiuttu looks up and says I think we should go to the X family. We really had no reason to go there because it was a little out of the way and the sisters were teaching them. But, we picked up some chocolate to bring over to them and offer some help. Well, we did that and it was super nice. Then the very first person right outside of the apartment of the X family catches our eye. So, we stop him. Long story short we have an appointment with him on thursday! The Lord can really direct us when we approach every moment prayerfully.

This week Elder Kiuttu and I will be going to Oulu and Kemi which are the 2nd and 3rd northernmost cities in Finland. We have 2 days there and then we come back to do eork for a day when everything shuts down because of the crazy holiday then we buy tickets for the next transfer which means we have to pull an all nighter to get them all in time. 

We are haveing tons of fun! the church is true. 

Have a wonderful week. 

Love,

Vanhin Tippetts