I love my mission!

Hey guys!

Joe, congrats on graduating! Feels good to be done with it all, right? Nice work on all the cords there too!

Wow, it's been another crazy week here in Minneapolis. 

On Wednesday we were able to help out at Daniel's funeral. He was 24, and he had committed suicide. It was really sad, but it was cool to see his in-active family and a bunch of his friends come all together. Hermana Meredith and I played this gorgeous arrangement of "If You Could Hie to Kolob." The English elders have an investigator who owns a recording studio and he records Christian music and wants us to come over and record it, so we are going to do that which will be fun!

Thursday we had interviewsssss with Presidenteeeee! I love meeting with him and talking to him about the area, investigators, and how I am doing. He's the best! After interviews we all went to go get frozen yogurt :) Thursday night, the family who we had dinner with texted us and asked us to meet them at the river in Minneapolis! We were already in the city, so they brought us Chic Fil-A and we had a picnic with them on the river. Every Thursday night there is a show on the water from this group called the "River Rats" and they do like cool tricks on skis and acrobatic type of stuff. It was awesome. We definitely want to go again.

Saturday, the elders texted us saying that they are going to the temple and that we can go if we want to. All week we had tried so hard setting up appointments for that day, but not a single person texted us back or anything. We decided to book it to the temple and meet up with the other Hermanas. Unfortunately our Tiwi now works, but I prayed and prayed that I wouldn't get too many "Check your speeds" on the way there, and I got 0!! . The St. Paul temple is beautiful, and it was really nice to be there.

On Saturday I hit my 5 month mark. It's seriously gone by sooooo fast! I still feel like I'm brand new in the mission (which I kinda still am) but dang it's been the best. If I hadn't been on my mission these past 5 months, I really don't know what I would have been doing. Just these 5 months alone have stretched me and pushed me in ways that I had never been stretched or pushed before, but I have learned and grown a lot. I'm really grateful for my mission, and being able to see my friends and family going out on their's makes me so happy! I'm sorry mom, but I just want the time to slow down hahaha every transfer is getting faster and faster! 

Dinner at the Vega's last week

Happy early Father's Day, dad! I am sending you a card :) I think it's unfair how we can't call home on Father's day too!! 

I love you guys, thank you for everything! Have fun this week.

Love Hermana Nissinen