How's your past couple of days been? Haha mine has been pretty good!
First, I'm super duper grateful I got to see the Nelson's!! We went out to Culver's. It was so fun to meet up with them and chat. I really appreciate them coming and taking us out to lunch!
This past week during personal study I have been studying different motivational missionary talks. I'm sure some of you have read them before, but my favorite one was the Ricciardi Letter. Joe, GO FIND THIS LETTER ONLINE. It's super good, and it has made me do some things differently in my missionary work, especially with training. I highly encourage you to read this. I've been focusing this week (and will continue to focus) on making the most of every hour that I have. While planning, I ask myself, "what is the BEST thing I could do in this hour? how will this help my investigators or help me fulfill my purpose?" Thinking this way has made me be a lot more productive. While it may to hard to go and knock doors until 9 to 9:30 at night, I know that Heavenly Father will bless me for my efforts, and I will be a much happier missionary!
Ughhhh we have met so many interesting people this past week. There have been times on my mission where I just want to be able to share exactly what I believe when people say many unkind things about the church or Mormons, but I know that we aren't really supposed to because it just causes contention. It can be very frustrating!! This kind of thing happened Saturday night. I was just sitting there, listening to these men tell us very unkind things about the Mormon faith. I knew that if I brought anything up and tried to defend, it wouldn't have gone anywhere. So I sat, smiled, thanked them for sharing, and then went to the car and just screamed! Haha but I know Heavenly Father gives us little opportunities like that to test our faith. I could have left feeling mad, angry and hurt, but instead I left and just knocked some more doors. Definitely a testimony building experience.
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| I made red white and blue layered rice crispy treats for the 4th of July BBQ! They turned out great! |
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| Yogurt Lab is sooo good :) |
This week we had zone conference! It's fun to see and meet other missionaries. Our mission has set a goal for each companionship to teach 15 lessons a week, and to work on teaching members the lessons. We have set up a ton of appointments this week, so I really hope they all go through. That's the toughest part. We set up appointments, confirm, and they aren't there. I guess it's just the way missionary work goes haha.
We have been praying and working with many less-actives. You're right B, they are seriously gold mines. Yesterday at church, 2 families that haven't come in FOREVER came!!! MILAGRO😊
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| Victor y Christina Sari. Favorite people! I love them! And their baby Jacob is ADORABLE. I just want to hold him so so bad. I will take a picture of him this week. We go over to their house every Sunday night for Noche De Hogar. |
So it freaks me out to say it, buuuuuut 6 months ago today I left home. I didn't want to know exactly what day I go home, but an Elder told me the other day... July 10th, 2019. Seriously CANNOT believe it. I wanna make this the best year ever, and I wanna work harder than I ever have before😊
I'm so grateful for these past 6 months. There were times (especially in the CCM), where I really didn't know if I would ever make it this far, but I know with Heavenly Father's help I have been able to. Haha it's so weird - sometimes in the car I just look around and I'm like "holy cow, I'm really in Minnesota!" Or I look down and see my nametag and realize that I am a missionary. Idk, it's just weird haha but I love it.
I love you guys so much! Have a fabulous week.
Xoxo Hermana Nissinen
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