What a great week in Rochester! I have so many things to talk about so I hope this letter isn't too too long.
Monday night was the start of bike week. We had dinner with a member at the mall, and we had a lesson at 7 that night. We got home and quickly grabbed all of our bike stuff and started riding to their house. I had never been there before, so I had the phone in my hand with the directions. Well we started biking, and Hermana Hudman's bike went nuts. A few days before, the Elders had tightened her brake super tight or something and so she wasn't able to turn it. Her front tire was also completely flat. I jumped on her bike and started going, but about halfway there I couldn't go any further. It was so much work hahaha. We finally got to the lesson, only 25 minutes late (lol), and we looked like a wreck. After the lesson, the guy took our bikes in his garage and fixed them all up for us. SO NICE. They also took a pic of us and sent it to you so that was so sweet of them! It was a huge miracle for our first night of bike week. After a couple flat tires and a super ghetto fender on my bike, our bikes held up pretty well the rest of the week.
To bike to the church, you have to go up with super long, pretty steep hill. We decided to bike to district council on Tuesday. Man was it rough. Going up the hill, Hermana Hudman was crying and I have never said so many prayers in my life, but we did it! We got up without dismounting. It was so hard but we were really happy once we got up there. You're right Joe, we CAN do hard things!
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| Pic of me biking one morning to the church. We decided to bike there for exercise, and we brought our skirts and dresses and makeup and hair stuff in our backpacks so we could get ready at the church! |
Tuesday afternoon we went to Winona (don't worry, we drove with the Zone Leaders) for our blitz with the sisters there. It was fun! Sister Paris and I were companions for the day. We had dinner and taught 3 lessons. The Winona sisters just have 2 beds and 1 couch, so Hermana Hudman and I thought that we could share the couch for the night so neither of us would have to sleep on the floor. Her head was on one side of the couch and my head was on the other with our feet right next to each other's heads. Every single time I rolled, she woke up, and every single time she rolled, I woke up. I also woke up to her cuddling my feet haha. It was the worst night of sleep I've ever had!! We probably got like 2 hours total haha. It kinda wore us out for the rest of the week, but we continued to work hard.
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| Sister Paris and I delivering food! |
It has also been pretty darn cold this week. It's been in the high 20's/low 30's so we have been bundled up! You wouldn't believe it, but yesterday it snowed ALL DAY. Yep, October 14th. It's going to be a looooong winter. Everyone was so upset and I was just so excited haha. We biked all night in it.
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| Our little snowman that we made after church! |
There a guy named Rigoberto who is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (😉) but his wife and kids are. We have only taught him a couple of times, but missionaries have been teaching him for years. During weekly planning on Friday, we were like "Hmmm... who could get baptized right now?" and Rigoberto came to our heads. We had a lesson with him that night, and he is getting baptized October 27th. You wouldn't believe how happy we were. His wife was like "We were waiting for what Hermanas were going to ask him!!" It will be great. The ward is so excited and I'm lucky to be a small part of his conversion.
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| A little girl named Sophia that we met a couple nights ago. |
Renee fed us dinner this past week! She fed us our favorite foods that we hadn't had in a long time: orange chicken and parmesan chicken. Haha she is so cute. Alexa also took us out to dinner at El Super Gallo #1 which is just a store with really good Mexican food. We are going to go there today and buy some Mexican food.
Saturday night was the ward Trunk or Treat. It was so fun! I dressed up as Mary Poppins and Hermana Hudman dressed up as Belle. We had fun passing out candy to all the little kids. A member bought us candy to hand out to them, and it was like the GOOD candy, so now all the kids in the ward think we are the coolest. It was a great night. We get to teach sharing time this Sunday so that will be a good time I'm sure.
ROCHESTER DAILY ZONE BIKE CHALLENGES
Monday's: Who can wear the most reflective gear??
Tuesday's: We forgot to make one, whoops.
Wednesday's: Who can wear the funkiest glasses?
Thursday's: Take a selfie with a random stranger.
Friday's: Street contact without dismounting
Saturday's: Hand out a pass-along card to someone without dismounting.
Sunday's: Make a snowman!
I've been studying out of the Book of Mormon a lot this week. I'm reading in Alma right now. One of my favorite things to do is have gospel discussions with other missionaries about things we are learning or questions we have. I honestly like never talked about the Book of Mormon before my mission, now I love to talk about it!!
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| I had a really bad ingrown toenail that was just hurting so bad, so Hermana Hudman did some surgery and took it out. OH MY GOODNESS it was horrible!!! |
Thanks for everything! Best fam ever.
(And yes, we have already started listening to Christmas music)!
Love Hermana Nissinen
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