It Has Begun...

We love Sunday evenings! Sounds like Spencer is doing great and continues to love his mission. Looks like he is going to be very busy this transfer of 13 arriving and 13 leaving. Orchestrating all their activities has got to be quite the chore. Spencer thrives on this kind of stress though. We even got a few pictures this week. Yeah! Enjoy!

Dear Family & Friends,

Well you know how when you are on a roller coaster and you get slowly to the top of it right before you just plummet to the earth and spin and flip and go crazy. Yeah, so that happened this weekend...

I am staring at a giant tidal wave. Bring it on!!!!

This week we were in Espoo on exchanges and then we flew to Oulu to do the same.

While in Oulu, we taught an Investigator. While starting the lesson it beautifully articulate Finnish, I explained why before my mission I was I was addicted to TV and it would really help me if they turned the TV off while we taught. They said no. We asked one more time and she replied, "It doesnt bother anyone!" So, I told them that what we have is very important and will change their life. So, if this tv program is more important to you we have other places we could be. hehe They turned the tv off. I remember getting a little fired up but I realized that the restoration really is the most important thing to talk about with missionaries. Anything else could potentially be wasting time. The Gospel is so important. Much more important than the less important things! haha

Then all the change calls went out and everyone was excited. Saturday we posted up at the office and bought all the tickets for the transfer. You know how I love doing that! Ill send a picture of my General Patton esque planning!

Starting today we are going to rent a trailer from a local trailer rentaria and get the temple van and its trailer. This is in preperation for the 13 arrivers we have tomorrow and 13 departers we have the next day!!! It's gonna be huge!! This is what we live for though! We have been training. haha Im super excited but nervous about how it is all gonna go down. We also have to prepare a baptism in the middle of all of this!!!! Oh and we have MLC (missionary language conference) on Friday to top it all off!

These are the weeks where it is crucial to remember to take vitamin D!!!

Since we are leaving our ward, I had to say goodbye to everyone. It was soo sad! Marjaniemi has definitely been my favorite ward so far! I got a welcome back from the S family. They said when we come back we can stay with them! They are awesome!

Ah! I love my mission. It just doesn't get better than this. I also found 6 names on my family tree to take to the temple! There is tons to do with the family search website.

Anyway, have a great week everyone!
--
Elder Spencer Tippetts
Finland Helsinki Mission
Neitsytpolku 3 A 4
Fi-00140 Helsinki
Finland

P.S. We also found out that Spencer and his companion Elder Richards will be moving to Espoo. It is the city where the mission home and temple are. They need to be closer to where the president lives. The mission home moved back in July but they stayed living in Helsinki. They knew this move was coming and had been planning on it.

Here are a few pictures he sent:

This is Spencer with his companion Elder Richards.