Thank you all for emailing me this week. I love reading your emails and letters!
Every day here is something crazy, but I love it. We never really know what is going to happen or who we are going to meet when we wake up in the morning! A lot happened this week, so I will probably just do a little re-cap of each day.
☆ Monday - A bunch of missionaries (maybe like 20-25?) went over to the Hicken's house to watch Coco! They have a huge house, and we got to go in their theater room and watch it. Afterwards, we played basketball in their indoor gym and lots of ping pong! It was a really fun day.
☆ Tuesday - Every Tuesday we go to this place called CEAP to volunteer for a few hours. We go in a classroom and help a bunch of adults learn English. They are from all over the world, and it's a pretty cool opportunity to go help them. There is this lady there from Ghana, and when I asked her if she likes Fufu and Banku, I immediately became her new best friend. Haha she was so excited that I knew that. Tuesday night's we also teach a music class for the ward! This week we taught them how to lead music :) It's a pretty hilarious class honestly. We enjoy it.
☆ Wednesday - I hit my 1 month in the field! Bien loco! We had a cool experience while finding this day. We got into a locked building (they tend to keep the back doors unlocked so we sneak behind there to get it😉) and listened in on the doors to see if we hear someone speaking Spanish, a Spanish TV, or Spanish music. Haha we walk so quietly down the hallway and always whisper so they don't hear us right outside their door listening in. Well, we really didn't hear anything, but we wanted to knock at least 1 door on the floor we were on. We saw this door that had an English Easter sign on it, so we decided to knock it. Lo and behold, he was Hispanic! (We were so excited). He seemed interested, and we gave him a pamphlet and our number. Hermana Winterton and I left and started walking to a different building, when we both stopped and felt like we should go back and give him a Book of Mormon. We knew it would be kinda weird to go back right after we left, so we pushed the prompting off for a few minutes. But I KNEW I would regret it if we didn't give him one! So we did the "inspired coin flip" technique. Heads we go back, tails we don't. Haha and of course it was heads! So, we went back, gave him one, and testified of it. I am really glad we went back. He is a cool guy.
☆ Thursday - District meeting which is always fun. Our district leader loves to cook, so we all went to the clubhouse of their apartment after and grilled up some burgers and played pool. It was our district leader's birthday on Sunday, and I guess it's a hispanic tradition to smash their face into a cake for their birthday? So we made a cake and did that :)
☆ Friday - TAMALE DAY! We made 1,500 tamales. 1500 TAMALES. It was so fun. My clothes and my hair all smelled like tamales the rest of the day hahaha. The ward gave us a bag full of them, and man they are so so good. Nothing better than fresh tamales with a little Valentina ;) I also ate watermelon with Tajín chili powder on it... SO good! Makes the watermelon taste way better!
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Stirin some tasty stuff to put into the tamales. It smelled soooo good. They went to Mexico and bought
this huge pot and then flew it back haha!
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☆ Saturday - We did a ton of finding this day! We met this super sweet lady named Kelly. She started talking to us in English, (and when people do that, we have to talk to them back in English), but then she started to close the door and said that she doesn't know very much English. We asked what language she speaks, and then immediately started talking to her in Spanish. She was so impressed! She said she had been telling God that she wanted to go to a church, and she knew God answered her prayer when we showed up. She even came to church yesterday! Whoop whoop!
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| My district and the zone leaders. We all sang yesterday in an english ward for their choir, and we all decided to match with blue florals! |
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| I love Hermana Winterton :) |
☆ Sunday - soooooo not entirely sure what I ate, but I felt sick as a dog. Hermana Winterton got food poisoning a few days ago, and it hit me hard yesterday too. We really don't know what it was, but it wasn't fun at all. I asked the Elders for a blessing at church, and then had to go home because my stomach was hurting so bad! I am feeling better now though thank goodness. Haha that's the thing about eating at different homes every night- you really don't know what you are eating, you just eat it.
Spring is slowly on its way, yay! We shouldn't be getting anymore snow. I am excited to not wear big coats and boots anymore.
One of my goals this week is to just give everything to the Lord; to just lay it all on the altar. I know that this time I have here to be a missionary is short, and I just want to use it to its fullest and give all my time and effort and energy to the work. We have every minute of everyday planned from 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM filled with studies, visits, finding, and backups. You all know how much I like to know what the plans are for the day (right mom and dad?) haha but I love having it all planned out everyday all day here. I want to work really hard this week.
One of my favorite conference talks that I read is "Obedience Through Our Faithfulness" by Elder L. Tom Perry in April 2014. The story reminded me of Papa and the boys.
Anyways, sorry for the long letter but I just have so much to tell!
Have a super fun time camping this weekend. I am so excited to watch General Conference this Easter weekend. I hope that you all have a special day remembering our Savior❤ Good luck with school and work and everything else!
Love always,
Hermana Nissinen
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