First, Mall of America was sweet! It's huge. A bunch of us missionaries went and shopped around and had lunch all together. I splurged on some Bath and Body Works hand sanitizers hahaha you can never have too many.
Hermana Winterton were getting pretty discouraged this week. We were having a really hard time finding Hispanics when we were out knocking doors. We couldn't find any, so we asked our district leader what we should do. He asked what our goal was for the week for new investigators (which was 3) and he told us to double it, and only count the people that speak Spanish people. We accepted the challenge, and went to work! We set a goal to knock 25 doors on Saturday. We knocked 26 and found 4 Spanish investigators! So we didn't meet our goal of 6, but we knocked 26 puertas and still found 4. We were pretty proud of ourselves.
There is this sweet lady in the ward who actually reminds me a lot of Ro. She's got a bunch of cute girls, and her name is actually Berta haha. She loves having the missionaries over, and so she invited us and the elders to breakfast Friday morning. It was HUGE. Chiliquiles, (Ask Kim about them, they are SO good. I asked her to send me the recipe too), pancakes, sausage, potatoes, and fruit. The whole time she was telling us to "come más, come más!" Basically the more you eat the more you are liked in Hispanic households. Haha everyday I'm becoming more of a Hispanic missionary by the way I eat/joke around with them. It's so fun!!!
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| Jensen let me hold his guinea pig. |
Our cute little Jamie is getting baptized next month! She is so excited, and we are so excited for her. I guess slime is like a really big thing going on right now with kids, so she always gives us slime (she makes the best kind). We went over the other night to teach her and her family, and they had laid out all the stuff you need to make slime and taught us how to make it! It was really cute and we had a good time all together.
We received a referral from a sweet lady in our ward the other day. Referrals are the best! So we went over to this guys apartment. His name is Miguel. He wasn't there, so we thought we would just continue knocking on his floor since we were already in the building. As we were about to leave, he was coming down the hall and noticed us. Long story short, he let us in and he's seriously so golden! He's met with missionaries before, but didn't feel like it was the right time to be baptized. He feels that now is the right time in his life. So I'm gonna ask him to be baptized at our next lesson on Friday :)
At the beginning of last week, it snowed a bunch! I think around 6 or so inches. The next day as we were out doing stop bys and finding, we decided to do some service and help people shovel their driveways and sidewalks. It was really fun and a good opportunity to talk to people about who we are.
So pretty much the Minnesota Minneapolis Mission is THE best mission ever! As you all know, we get to go to the Twins game today. I'm not sure how many missionaries are going, but pretty much anyone within about an hour of the city gets to go. We are SO excited! It's gonna be real cold, but real fun. Tomorrow we have zone conference and I'm accompanying one of the Hmong sisters! I'll try to get a video of it so everyone can see.
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| This is Elder Shauers. I was great friends with his sister at BYUI and her and I were in the same English class! It's a pretty small world haha. |
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| I absolutely LOVE Hermana Winterion. She is soooo witty and I love her more and more everyday. I want to be her companion my whole mission. |
Minor/Major accomplishment: one of my personal goals last week was to not bite my nails. I did it for an entire week, and now I've gone a week and a half without biting them! I'm too far now to stop haha.
My personal studies have been really cool this past week. I've tried doing different things within that hour, and it's been really cool!
Don't have a lot of time to email today because we have had a crazy morning trying to get everything done and then we are gonna be at the game the rest of the day, but I'll have my next P-Day on Monday!
Love you guys! Thanks so much for the emails! I absolutely love the dress mom. I'm wearing it today :)
Hermana Nissinen
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