MISSIONARY PURPOSE

My purpose as a missionary is to “invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end.”

PROGRESSION LINE UPON LINE

Thoughts after arriving at the MTC: "It's been super awesome hearing about all the mission calls everyone is getting! The work is moving faster and faster every day! It becomes more and more apparent when you see 1,000 missionaries come in every Wednesday!"

Thoughts after leaving the MTC: "It’s a testimony just knowing that the church is right. The things that we’ve learned are true and real. The way I talk about the gospel now is different. The gospel is something that requires action and action is what God wants. It is real. This is what the world needs and I am engaged in the Lord’s work!"

Thoughts after 18 months: “I feel like I can handle anything now! I've learned how I will have a burning witness of the restored church until the day I die. That will be done by constantly seeking out answers to my questions.”

Thoughts after 24 months: "..."

Monday, August 4, 2014

Wow, never a boring week!

Happy Missionary Sunday Email Night!  Oh man was this an awesome email.  You will love his stories this time.  The energy he has is so electrifying.  I can't believe the things he accomplishes each week.  Spencer is on fire and their isn't anything going to stop him. Only 7 more Fast Sundays but who is counting!! :)  Enjoy!


Dear Family & Friends,

Wow, you guys literally never have a boring week! 

And apparently neither do we! 

I tell you this story for historical documenting purposes.

We ran a Mini MTC at this years "Festinord". Festinord was held in a nice little city called Naantali, which is 20 minutes outside of Turku where we have 4 sets of missionaries. After a long monday of meetings and minimal Pday stuff and a tuesday of saying goodbye to members for Elder Heaney we left tuesday evening for Turku to stay the night so we would be ready for Wednesday. We arrived in Turkuat 10:00 pm and were getting ready for bed when we called the Turku district leader who was in charge of all the logistics of the event. He asked us, "hey you brought three cars for the mass splits mania were gonna do after right?" We looked at each other and said "WHAT?!?!" We literally never heard about three cars being needed. Well, after more discussion and prayer we determined that it was absolutely needed that we go get two more cars. Now this is not normal missionary work, this is the APs trying to make things smooth, so Cameron don't follow my example. We left back for Helsinki at 10:30pm and raced to the temple where we park all our unused cars. We arrived there at 12:30am and then all hopped in a seperate car and drove back to Turku where we arrived at 2:30am. We slept until 5:30am and then woke up and went and threw the best Mini MTC that ever happened! The participants loved it. And after the MTC we had a mass splits happen where they all got to go out with real missionaries in Turku and do work! Nobody had any idea that we had even done that! 

Small success. And don't worry the sun never went down so we were driving in light the whole time! 

Thursday we planned and said goodbye to more members with Elder Heaney and we sent him on his way that night. He had been here for 8 months! 

Elder Kiuttu and I took over the area and things are going quite well! We found 7 new investigators in 2 days no thanks to ourselves. They were all referrals! One we had a church tour with so we told her we would meet at the Metro and wal with her to the church building. She was late and when we called and asked she said I am bringing my friends. She brought 2 friends and all three of them were in church on Sunday! Then our Filipino member invited us over for dinner and she told us while we were eating that she had invited friends over! The friends arrived. We taught them. We got 4 new investigators... 

Referrals are the only way missionary work happens these days. I have found over 60 investigators in my time in this ward and not a single one is still being taught. 

Sunday was great. We had church and a few lessons then we headed for the office and did a ton of work in order to keep the mission going for a couple weeks! Seriously like 4 hours of straight office stuff. We killed it. Then we picked up my old companion Elder Christiansen from the train station. He will be leaving tomorrow to go home! Super weird

Today we will be running the Mini MTC for the Mini missionaries. After that we will be running around with our departer and see some things in Helsinki. Then we have dinner at the Watsons! We are also going to be doing some planing for transfers! We have to open 4 new areas next change so we are going to decide what they are. Super exciting!  

Its gonna be another long week without a real p-day but thats life! I feel like I am really being blessed. Earlier on my mission, I thought I would die without p-day. Now I don't have it almost ever but somehow I am still happy and have energy. Small blessing but makes a huge difference. The Lord has literally carried me through this far and I don't see Him stopping anytime soon! 

The church is true! 

Love, 
-- 
Elder Spencer Tippetts
Finland Helsinki Mission
Neitsytpolki 3 A 4 
Fi-00140 Helsinki
Finland 

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