I love you all!
We didn't have a super successful week, but está bien! Poor Hermana Winterton wasn't feeling too good, so we laid low for a bit and took it easy after our crazy last week. She is feeling much better now and we are both ready to get back to it this week! We are visiting a bunch of less actives and progressing investigators and we are hoping to get a few more date sets which will be great.
Some of the apartment complexes we go into aren't the saaaaafest ones around town... (North Minne Spanish is known to be the most ghetto area out of all the spanish areas), but really it's not too terrible. We just have to be careful where we go finding later at night. We have definitely ran into some interesting people here haha. Hermana Winterton and I are good about noticing when it could be a not-so-safe situation with someone or a certain complex though. We'll leave those places to the Elders!
One of our neighbors, 60 year old George, is a "bachelor who is a self-employed photographer" (that's what he calls himself) and who literally only wears a bathrobe every time we see him... sorta reminds me of Uncle Eddy from Christmas Vacation. He lives directly above us, and he loves his sleep. So, I guess when we shower at night, the fan in the bathroom wakes him up and is super loud. We weren't aware of this until we received a note from him Tuesday afternoon. It was not a very sweet note. After reading it, I went back to my studies, and had a thought that we should bake him a cake. So, we did. We threw a cake in the oven, wrote an apology note, and walked upstairs to give it to him. Boy was he surprised! At first he started complaining to us, but we just stood there and nodded and smiled, said sorry, gave him the cake, and walked away. Next day, he came down with the plate all clean and a note that said thanks, and then offered to help us out whenever we needed anything. He has been so nice since! It was a small little act of service, but to this man, I think it meant a lot.
My new goal for personal study every day is to read one General Conference talk and continue reading The Book of Mormon. I started to read it from the very beginning again this week and write down in my study journal my thoughts/impressions. I have really grown to love reading talks from General Conference. If you'd like, I can write in my letter home every week my favorite talk that I read and have you all read it for FHE or whatever!
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| Some quotes I love! |
One of my favorite days of the week is Friday's. Our district meets together at a restaurant called Currans for their $2.50 breakfast that actually isn't half bad (you get 2 pancakes, eggs, and hashbrowns). After that we have our district meeting, and then we go to the Veteran's Home for a few hours. Its SO fun. They are hilarious! Typically we sing a bunch of songs, play bingo, visit, and have treats. But last Friday, they had me put on a little recital for them! I didn't have any other music besides church music, but they loved it! I also played the patriotic songs out of the Hymn book and they all sang along and it was a blast.
This past weekend was the party weekend! We got invited to some birthday parties (Hispanics really know how to throw a fiesta) and then we crashed a huge bridal shower that literally looked like a wedding reception when we went to the clubhouse to get Wi-Fi hahah. There were limos, men dressed up in tuxedos, and super loud music. It was pretty great!
Sunday was a bien loco day. We got a referral to go teach a lady named Flor in an Addiction Recovery center. We met her, and she is really sweet. Very hard life. She has 4 kids who she isn't able to see, and she is pregnant. We taught her about the Restoration and she loved it. I then asked her to be baptized, and she said she wants to. The spirit was really strong in the lesson, and I was starting to get emotional from hearing about her experiences and how she was feeling! It was really cool. That night, the Relief Society President called us and asked us to go to the hospital and visit a lady in our ward who is lonely and sick. We ended up being there for a few hours, but it was sweet.
We had "New Missionary Training" this week. I absolutely adore and love President and Sister Barney. They are the sweetest people I have ever met. Every week, he replies back to all of the missionary's emails individually. I have a lot of respect for them and I am grateful and lucky to have them as my mission presidents!
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| The mission office gave me a Finnish Book of Mormon!! No idea how to read it but I thought it was cool. |
A few days ago at dinner at a member's house, I needed a napkin. The Spanish word for napkin is "servilleta." I asked the Hermana if she could pass me one... but instead of saying "servilleta", I said "cerveza"!!!!!!!! Which is BEER. They all just starting laughing and then I finally realized what I said... haha whoops.
Anyways, nothin too too crazy this week. Did you know that Minnesota has the most amount of Target's per capita than any other state?? I truly am supposed to serve here😄 Also, Hermana Winterton and I realized this week that we both grew up watching old shows! She knows all the Brady Bunches, Gilligan's Island, and even The Andy Griffith show. I love her so much!
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| I made a little collage of some pictures and things that I like and have collected so far. This is above my desk |
I got your letter, Kim! I wrote you one back and sent it a few days ago❤
Thank you for all of your support. The MMM is the best, and I am getting taken care of very well here. I love it here so so much I want you all to come here sometime it is the best place ever.
Have a great week! Love you guys!
Hermana Nissinen
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