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, February 2, 2015

This week was soo hard!

It sounds like Spencer had a tough week but always seems to have a positive outlook about them.  He is in a tough area so it is really to be expected.  At least he is teaching and planting seeds.  With hard things comes great blessings!   Enjoy! #30days!  :)


Dear Family & Friends,

I hope you have all had a good week. We are emailing early because we are leaving to interim training tomorrow in Helsinki. We are very excited for that because its 3 days with President and Sister Watson. 

This week was soo hard! I love looking back at it because it was crazy how many rejections we got! But, if I have learned one thing on my mission it is to never give up! If we didnt just keep going despite the failures, we would have missed out on the greatest blessings. 

We were cold and tired but we kept going and we met a family from Italy that is soo excited for us to come back and teach them! We also found 7 other new investigators. 

Church was really good yesterday as well. It was kind of funny because we were mentioned three times in members testimonies! We keep running into the Stake presidents daughters friends and giving them cards or something. Then in her testimony she said that she had been praying for more opportunities to shard the Gospel! Weird how she started praying then we started meeting all her friends who then went and asked her more about the church. 

Elder Kontinen is extremely afraid of speaking in front of people. So, when I could feel his nervousness I leaned over and said, "Ill go up with you!" So we bore our testimonies and it was great. He did really well. I have a hard time being sensitive to him though because he speaks Finnish fluently! haha I give him a hard time for that! 

We ate kebab today. It was alright...

I have been reading my journal entries from earlier on my mission and I read about a time when a man came up to us and said, "Christ chose to carry his cross to his death, so too we must choose!" Something like that and I remember thinking about that a lot. Chirst made the decision to do hard things so, in order for us to be like him, we too must choose to do things that sometimes seem hard. We can always be comforted to that, He went before us and has experienced it all! 

Have a great week! 

Love,
-- 
Elder Spencer Tippetts
Finland Helsinki Mission
Neitsytpolku 3 A 4 
FI-00140 Helsinki
Finland 

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