Primera, felíz día de los padres! I hope you had a great Father's Day, Dad. I love you!
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| I found Oregon! |
My week has been super great! We have been able to see some cool miracles, and we are seeing quite a few people progressing. I love working with Hermana Meredith, she is very much a go-getter and we have a lot of fun just getting things done and making things happen. I think we are really starting to build the ward's trust a lot. When members see you work hard, visit every single person Bishop has asked you to see that week and report back, real missionary work happens. We have seen that this week.
On Wednesday night, we had dinner with this new couple in our ward, the Cook's. She is from Chile, and he is from Utah but met on their missions. They are so cute and super funny! They whole time we talked about their missions (they served in Kentucky). Hermano kept talking about what a good missionary is and what a bad missionary is. He challenged us to ask 10 PEOPLE to baptism by Sunday... We were like "Holy cow! We have never asked that many people in just 3 days!" But he told us to ask everyone we meet. We left that dinner super pumped to do the work, and right after we went to a lesson with a less-active/part member family. It's a really sad situation, but they are a young family and the mom was just taken away this past week. We didn't know that when we went over, but we taught them. Sophie, one of the girls (who looks just like Dora lol), wants to get baptized (another 9 year old, haha woohoo!). It was just cool to see how right after our dinner, we had the opportunity to teach about baptism and ask her to be baptized. She is getting baptized this Sunday!
We got asked to help teach Activity Day girls on Thursday night. It was on journal writing and the importance of it and the blessings that come from doing it. We were asked to share a few journal entries with the girls. Reading through my journal, I realized how sucky I had been at writing in mine. All I had written was things that I had done that day. I never really wrote things I learned or cool experiences I was having. I decided then that I wanted to be MUCH better at writing in my journal. It's so important!!
We have a new investigator, Ricardo, who the elders have been teaching a bit but he just moved into our area. He's older, and he has cancer and altzeimers, but he still comes to church every week! It's really sad because he wants to be baptized, but he literally can't remember anything we teach him. We decided to buy him a notebook and have him write down everything important in it so he can read it later. He is super funny and a really nice guy.
A few weeks ago we met a guy named Kevin. He seemed pretty interested and wanted to read from the Book of Mormon. We set up an appointment with him but he wasn't there. Throughout this past week, in a few different places I saw Kevin 3 times and talked to him a bit each time. We set up an appointment for Saturday, and we decided to bring the English Elders with us. When we showed up and got out of the car, he saw us and went right inside his building. We were like "what the heeeeeck." So we run in and knock on his door and no one answers. We keep knocking and yelling his name and his mom says through the door that he is somewhere around the building. So all 4 of us missionaries are runnin' around trying to find this guy haha. (He's probably like 30 something years old). I look through the window in the building, and I see him walking down the street on the other side. Haha we ran back out there and sat down and had a lesson with him. It was awesome!! The Elders even told us that he came to church yesterday. It was a real funny night.
Oh my, it's getting SO HOT here! Okay I know that Ghana was probably hotter and more humid, but its definitely really humid here. A lot of people's apartments don't have AC so we just sweat buckets haha. Minnesota also has really cool thunderstorms.
So Pablo dropped us this week. Long story short, he thought us misioneras are on a salary or something??? Lol we told him that this is what we do everyday, but he thought it was like our job and that we get paid more money every time we teach him, so he doesn't want to be taught anymore. We kept trying to explain it to him that we don't get paid but he didn't understand. He doesn't live super far from us, so we always bike to his house. He said he felt bad that we just had bikes and not cars so he only wanted to visit with us because he wanted us to get more money to buy a car. Lol very strange.
Yesterday at church I ran into a guy named Will who lives in Bloomington and served his mission in Guadalajara! I asked him if he knew "Elder Michael Long" lol (Choncho) and he totally knows him! They came home together! It was cool and I think he sent him a picture of us.
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Transfers are next week... we'll see what happens! I hope to stay in Minneapolis!
Love you guys bastante! Church is true. I love it with todo mi corazón ❤
Have a great week!
Love Hermana Nissinen
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