Pachanga!

Hola!! Como están? 

Wow! I've had an awesome week! I know I always talk about the weather, but it's actually warming up now! The other day it was so warm, (compared to the freezing cold), I even went tightless and coatless for the first time here! Pretty big step haha. Our zone was supposed to have the car fast this past week which is where we all go as much as we can without using the car, but with all the snow still on the ground they changed it to this week. I finally get to bring out the bike :)

Our week began out kinda weird. We had a ton of lessons set up, and all of them cancelled👍 Woohoo! We have just decided now that we aren't going to text to confirm appointments, we are just going to go over there.  It's so annoying haha. It was National Volunteer Recognition Week at CEAP where we volunteer and help teach English every Tuesday! They gave us a sweet card and flowers. One of the Spanish students moved on to the next level, but we saw her leaving at the end of the day and we talked to her and she invited us to come over for tamales and to play soccer with her family sometime! We aren't allowed to teach in the class, but outside of class we can😉

This is my desk! We got cute little plants at service
and I thought it looked fun on my desk.

Onto the best part of the week: So the STL's texted us, and they decided that they wanted me to go down to Bloomington for exchanges and have Hermana Winterton stay here again! We were really surprised, because I thought for sure I would be staying. So Friday night I went down to Bloomington, and I had a lot of cool experiences there! At dinner Friday night at a member's home, the AP's were also there eating dinner. It was our turn to give the spiritual message, so Sister Wilkinson and I gave it. Afterwards, one of the AP's told me that if he hadn't known that I've only been in the field for 2 months, he would've thought I've been out for way longer. That was such a huge compliment!! I also went to their ward coordination Saturday morning, and learned a lot how their ward focuses on missionary work. I even brought up some of the things in our coordination meeting on Sunday. Sister Wilkinson and I did some finding, and we knocked on this lady's door and she doesn't speak any English. I got to do the whole doorstep thing in Spanish all by myself! I think I did a really good job! Haha I literally offered her a Book of Mormon, a Restoration pamphlet, and our card. I wanted to share everything with her because I knew it was my time to just be able to speak in Spanish all by myself :) So fun!

Exchanges with Sister Wilkinson. She's adorable!!

After exchanges, I came back up to Minneapolis and we went to a wedding! There is this couple in our ward named Victor and Christina. They are both members, and just had a baby a few months ago whose name is Jacob! Hermana Winterton and I got to visit with them a few times and then they got married! Yay! It was definitely so much fun. We got to help set the gym up and everything. I have lots of pics and videos! Haha 12 missionaries came, and it was a party (or pachanga as they call it). It was also very hard to not dance to all the music! Like I've said before and will probably continue to say throughout my whole mission: Hispanics throw THE best parties. Idk what it is about them but they are the best.

We are working really hard with our few investigators. There hasn't been much progress with them the past little bit which has been slightly frustrating. If only they knew how much this Gospel could change their lives! UGH! Our numbers for sacrament meeting have tanked this month because of general conference and then the blizzard and then stake conference this next week, and also because none of them came to church yesterday. So yeah. Haha but we're still goin strong with cute little Jamie for her baptism next month! We made her a "Baptism Preparation Chart" (I'll attach the picture) to get her all ready to go. 

We are preppin for Cinco de Mayo next week. Our ward mission leader wants to set up a stand downtown where the Mexican Market is and have us missionaries there handing out stuff and talking to them all about the church. We don't know if it'll actually happen, but he seemed pretty excited about it and we are too!

I love my mission so so much! It is the best!! This morning we went to breakfast at Berta's house with a bunch of missionaries and today we are going to hang out at the church and make a bunch of desserts and watch movies all together or whatever. Should be good! 

The lady in the gray jacket next to me is Berta, the one who reminds me of Ro. All 3 of these ladies fed us this morning for breakfast. So good!! I love all these women so much!

Thank you Taunya and Henry Beltran for the package

Have tons of fun at Disneyworld! Have lots of Mickey bars for me please. Travel safe and I hope to see lots of pics!

Love you guys so much!

♡ Hermana Nissinen