Yellow, how ya blue´n

Spencer's email had a little more to it then last week.  For that we are grateful.  Spencer continues to work hard and attempt to accomplish the most he can in his remaining time left.  We love his enthusiasm of hard work.  Enjoy.  15 days left! :)

Dear Family & Friends,

Where do we start? We had a lesson with this family we found last week and because these types of families dont come very often we wanted to make sure we had the best member with us. So, we called up the stake president! He is soo amazing. I can confidently say he is a better missionary than I am! We invited them to be baptized and it wasnt going very well. So, he just went for it and invited them to church! It was super cool to go on a teach with him! 

Then we had another lesson with an older couple and we needed a really good member. So, we called the Stake Patriarch! The lesson went great and he testified of the importance of baptism! 

We are for some reason bumbing into the same barrier of member lessons. The goal this week is to just break that and then its open space after that! 

Maybe its my old age but, I have developed a love for raw tracting! Just knocking on doors until you are too cold to continue! I get such a rush! We have been finding tons of investigators that way. 

Our members are also setting us up with their friends. We have an appointment with one member familys friends on march 2nd! That will be super fun! 

We are sharing the spiritual thought at the YSA family night tonight. We had our most solid investigator (who we found while knocking on doors!) coming but he called today and cancelled!!! I almost cried. He said he doesnt want to meet anymore. So, thats the heart break of the day! Elder Kontinen and I decided to go to Subway and splurge a little bit. Subway in Finland is actually more of a nice resturaunt. Same quality food as in America just nice resturaunt price. 

I have been studying the ministries of Ammon and Aaron. I like these two a lot because they had problems like I do! Mine are for sure not as bad and my middle name is the same as their name! But, What I noticed is the whole time they are teaching king Lamoni and his father respectively, they are serving and doing things for others. Not only are they teaching the Gospel but they are just plain doing good in all the spare time. I believe that is a attribute of Christ. They are always willing to stop and do something for someone else even though they might have been tired and hungry. I hope to develope those types of traits in myself. 

I have hard times on my mission but for some reason I am still happy about it all! I maybe am even a little proud of some of the hard stuff. Either way, The times when I have forgotten myself the most are when I have had the most joy and have found myself! 

For real this time, have a great week! 

Love, 

Elder Tippetts