(Actual date to 9/28)
Love to get our emails from Spencer. It was a really short one but we bask on every word. Sounds like he is back to missionary work full speed ahead. It is nice that things have slowed down a bit so that could happen. It sounds like his Finnish is doing great too. He has never once complained about how hard it is. I am in awe how well he knows it. The Lord truly does watch over his missionaries and gives them the help they need to be successful. The power of tongues is real. Enjoy!
I'm kinda tired right now because we stayed up late doing our monthly report for the area. It was very tedious. However, I wrote all the summaries which ends up being basically a 1000 word essay about the progress of the mission. It is good writing practice that you can't really get on a mission. I really enjoyed making it really spicy!
Pretty good week. It appears as if the craziness of bringing a new mission president and putting on one event after another is finally over! We had 7 full (AP days, so they weren't exactly full but still!) days in our area! This week though, with all this time was great to do some rebuilding. We found 4 new people to teach and taught 22 lessons! It felt great!!! It felt good to know that I can still do the missionary aspect of the work as well as the administrative part.
We taught *** this week who is easily one of my favorite people I have taught. She is rock solid but is having concerns about what the Gospel will do to her family. We taught temples and eternal families and commited her to pray so, its only a matter of time! We are working on getting her a friend because friends are really the only thing that holds a sincere person from joining the church.
I had language study every day this week! I can't even believe it! I have had more language study this week than I have my entire time in Helsinki! I never stressed too much about Finnish on my mission as far as worrying that I wouldn't learn it entirely but, the Lord has blessed me for sure because I can say and do almost anything I want in Finnish! Really cool! I can see how if I keep working on it until the end though I can get really good.
Also today, I will be writing a report to President Kearon of the Area Presidency about the challenge he gave us. I'll have to put my writing skills to the test!
On Wednesday we will also be leaving for Jyväskylä to do exchanges with the Zone Leaders there! That should be fun!
Well love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Spencer Tippetts
Finland Helsinki Mission
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