Hello from Finland

Always look forward to waking up to Spencer's emails.  Sounds like he is working hard and finding success.  He will never cease to amaze me at how much he accomplishes in a week.  I love his attitude how it is always filled with a little bit of Spencer's humor.  Gosh I miss that son of mine. Enjoy!   #43days!

Dear Family & Friends,

This week was ordinary but extra ordinary! We set new Standards of Excellence as a mission which are basically to have 15 member present lessons and 6 new investigators in a week. This week we had 4 member present lessons which was a huge stab to me because we killed ourselves to get things set up but they just didn't work! A positive thing though was we found 10 new investigators which has made this week get a little bit busier! We already have 6 lessons set up for this week with investigators so if we can just make sure these all go through then I am projecting by weeks end we can get 10 member present lessons. It will be the same amount of member present lessons this whole district had together, last transfer cycle. These goals that we set as a mission have been changing us soo much! The goal is just to not take any steps backward until we get there! 

As a mission we raised our vision to something higher than what was previously thought to be possible. As President says, "When the tide comes up, all ships rise." As a few have caught the vision, it has changed all of our perspectives. We have doubled in productivity statistacally as well as what one can actually see. It is quite amazing to be here right now. 

A quote that has been with me for my whole mission was from Elder Tadd R. Callister "with increased vision, comes increased motivation" If we change what is possible in our minds it becomes that way! 

It was a brisk -18C this morning so not too bad (-1F ish). We decided to take a short cut across the giant frozen lake to get to the church today! It was pretty cool! (haha do you get it? cool?) :)

We had some great experiences that I can't remember very well right now but I will do my best to re cap them! 

We searched the area book as part of the routine stuff and came across an older couple. We called them and ask if we could come over. They said yes and we went! Our member made sure to cover Abraham sacrificing his son as well as reasons for baptism by authority and how the church encourages us to get an education. We gave him 55 minutes and we took the other 5 to tell about our lesson. Over all it was delightful to be together with them. We are going back on Thursday. These are the types of missionary problems I am not sure if I will miss or not yet! haha 

We played basketball today which was fun. Watch out Cameron, I am getting good! 

Well, I think that is all the good stuff this week. We should really kill it this week! 

Oh and I also got to have lunch with Elder Kiuttu who is now serving in Lahti after the Zone meeting. It was great! 

Okay now I am done, Love you! 
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Elder Spencer Tippetts

Finland Helsinki Mission

Neitsytpolku 3 A 4 

FI-00140 Helsinki

Finland