1) Mom you asked for the name-tag :P
2) Sisar Dickerson and I outside the consulate in California!
Well! I have been here at the MTC for one week! Its been pretty busy but such is the life of a missionary! My companion is still amazing and we tell each other everyday how thankful we are for each other :) My Zone is made up of Finns, Danes, Swedes and Nords! They are a bunch of lovable goofballs who know how to work hard and have TONS of fun in the process!
Here at the MTC we do ALOT of studying/ Of the language, of how to teach and how to feel the love and support of our Father in Heaven. My teachers are amazing, even if they sometimes speak crazy fast so I get about two words of the Finnish. The language is coming pretty slowly and I get really frustrated when I can't understand or answer the way I want to. Our second day at the MTC we met with our investigator Saara who is from Finland! We have been teaching her everyday about the gospel and the love that Heavenly Father has for his children! Its pretty funny because we will ask her a question and then she answers, but of course we get like 1/2 a word so we just smile and nod and say kiitos :) Which means thank you. She is so kind and has started to act some of the things she says out so that we can understand her :P
On Tuesday this week my District (or all the missionaries going to Finland) traveled to sunny California to the Finnish consulate for our Visas. We woke up at 2:45 to make it tothe airport and were back at the MTC at around 5 that same day. While we were there we traveled by passenger bus. If any of you have ever said that Utah drivers are the craziest.....you're wrong. I honestly felt like we were going to just plow into 10 people or hit a lightpole. When we got out of the car, we all hugged a pole because we were safe :P On the way back to Utah we traveled in a little plane with two seatd on each side. I sat next to a man names Brother Bible. Brother Bible was very drunk. But may I just say that was the most fun conversion with anyone I have ever had?! We talked about everything under the sun. The church, his life, his kids, why I was in a dress, how Mormons and Amish and Jews were not all the same thing. It was so fun! At the end of the hour and a half plane ride he promised me that if he saw any men in suits with a black name tag that he would wave and say hello :)
Its weird to say, but I truly felt the love of the Savior for Brother Bible. Yes he was drunk and would occasionally spit a piece of pretzel on the seat in front of him or on me, but he is a child of God. No matter what he has done, or will do, Heavenly Father loves him perfectly. He loves us perfectly and for that I am so grateful.
In one of our lessons this week we learned more about the power of prayer. In 3 Nephi 13:32-34 it says that Heavenly Father knows everything that we need. But we have to be willing to follow his commandments and choose good things to receive the joy and peace and answers from our Father in Heaven.
In a mission there are so many rules. Some that may not make sense to us, but its our duty to follow and to be obedient and I know that if we do, we are blessed beyond anything we can imagine. Prayer has helped me so much this week to feel the love of the Savior. I know he hears us and wants so badly for us to talk with him and pour out our hearts. To thank him and ask for the things we may need. Im grateful to be able to talk to the One who knows me perfectly and loves me just as perfectly.
I love it here and have loved receiving letters and packages!! Thank you so much for all your love and support :)
Stay safe and always dance in the rain :)
Rakastaa,
Sisar Phipps
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