It's October! Woohoo! You wouldn't believe it, but we have now started to wear tights. Here's to about the next 8 months of being cold :) We are all moved in now, and it's a way nice apartment! It's been fun decorating it and making it cute. We had 2 big couches, and none of the elders were able to help get it out of the apartment because of the angles and all that. We had to get them out though that day because the next day they were showing the apartment. So we called a couple guys in the ward, and at 8:30 Monday night 7 men in the ward came and helped move around our couches. I'm so grateful for them!! #roch3wardisthebest. We also couldn't figure how to turn the heat on, so this whole week we have been bundling up every night when we go to sleep but we finally figured it out :)
We had Zone Conference on Wednesday up in Anoka, which is about 2 hours north. A sweet lady in the ward with a 14 passenger van drove us all up there and back. The night before that, Hermana Hudman and I got a call that we were going to be giving a training at the conference about social media. We didn't have hardly any time to prepare, but I think it went well! President has asked us to go through our friends list on Facebook and message people who we think would be interested in learning from the missionaries. I'm pretty lucky because I have a lot of non-member friends, so I am going to do that this week.
Also, Sister Barney announced that our mission will be having a 5K next spring, so we are starting to train now! We go outside every morning at 6:30 AM go for a 30 minute run. I am so out of shape, but it's going to be good.
Friday night we went to our other apartment to check our mail and grab a few last things from there. A man named Jose was coming down the stairs right as we walked in and started talking to us. We have just said hola and a few things like that to him before, but he was just asking us lots of questions about the church and what-not. It was really cool! And super fun to speak spanish! He seems really interested and he has a young family, so we are excited.
Last night as we were out tracting, we knocked on this door and a lady named Emily just did not seem interested to see us there. Her husband came up and invited us in, and we got to talk to them for bit. At first they were really standoff-ish and just thought we were salesmen, but then we showed them the "Because of Him" video and their hearts were totally changed. Right after the video they were like "Wait, what church are you from again??? That's amazing!" So that was cool. They are young, just had a baby, and the husband got released from prison 2 years ago. Perfect family to teach :) haha. We have tracted quite a bit this week and on Saturday we were getting pretty discouraged after just finding for hours on end and having no success. We had only found 1 new person and we needed to find a couple more by Sunday night. We had a busy day planned for Sunday, but we made time to just knock pretty much an entire apartment complex and then we found the young family. Heavenly Father answers prayers. One of my favorite things to ask people when we meet them is to describe Jesus Christ in 1 word. A few responses this week were family, amazing, and peace. I love those! I know that because of Jesus Christ, we can have families and peace, and that He truly is amazing :)
OH! Guess who is coming to Rochester this Thursday! Yup, President Trump! Haha he's coming to the Mayo Civic Center which is in our area and is holding a rally at 3:30. We might just be goin over there to see all the chaos. Should be fun. Everyone is freaking out about it. Maybe I'll try to give him a Book of Mormon lol.
Thank you so so much Ninny for the sweet package!!! I love it! We truly have the best family in the world.
Have a great week. Keep truckin along Elder Nissinen! Please eat some chiliquiles for me :) They are my favvvv. Tell President and Sister Bennett I say hola!
If you could describe Jesus Christ in 1 word, what would it be?
Have a great conference weekend! Listen to what the Prophet has to say! It should be exciting!
Love Hermana Nissinen
Love Hermana Nissinen
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