I hope you all have fun plans for today. This morning us and some elders are making chocolate chip cookies to give to the Ronald McDonald house in Rochester! Then we have a lunch this afternoon, another dinner tonight, and then all of us missionaries are going to the mall to do some Black Friday shopping! It should be a fun day.
It's been an awesome week and a half! It's always kind of hard to push back p-day, so I'm really grateful that today is finally the day haha. Last Tuesday we had Zone Conference and I had to give a training on having member lessons. It went well. Afterwards, we all had to go to Walmart and get our flu shots! Well, unfortunately the flu shot made me pretty sick. I was out the next 2 days with a fever and I just felt miserable! NyQuil cured me and I felt much better and back to myself after that. It was really not very fun to be stuck inside sleeping.
Guess what?! Remember Renee? She got baptized on Saturday! It was so special. Her family didn't even know about it until probably today when she is going to tell them. She asked me to give the talk on the Holy Ghost. Renee couldn't stop smiling the whole entire day, and the next. We had Stake Conference, and Elder Alder of the 70 asked her to come up and share her testimony and she just had the biggest smile the whole time. I'm so proud of her and I love her so much♥️
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RENEE GOT BAPTIZED!!! It was so so wonderful to see her enter into the waters of baptism. She asked me to give a talk on the Holy Ghost. I love Renee a lot. She is a really good friend. The next day, we had Stake Conference and she got asked to share her testimony. So cool!!
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We met a new friend a couple weeks ago named Vivik. He is from India, and use to live in California where he took lessons from missionaries there. He is doing cancer research at Mayo. We knocked on his door, and have had 2 sweet lessons with him since. We are really excited to what is going to keep happening with him! There's tons of doctors in my ward that work for Mayo, so we have been bringing a couple with us to the lessons and they have been great fellowshippers for him. Members are the best!
Saturday night and Sunday were Stake Conference. The overarching theme of it all was member missionary work. It was so good! On Sunday, Elder Alder went up with our phone number and the zone leader's phone number. He asked everyone to pull out their phone, and said "Brothers and Sisters, who do you wish was sitting next to you right now but isn't?" Then he said our phone numbers over the pulpit and had everyone text in a name. We got just about 120 referrals. We made a Google Spreadsheet (my fav) and put all of the names together with the ward. So cool! We have lots of people to work with from that. It's very exciting.
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| Sister Baker taught us how to paint!! We are finishing up the project in a couple of days. My painting is in the middle... lets just say I'm not Bob Ross |
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Sister Baker paints all of the sister missionaries a picture. I asked her to paint me whatever she wanted to, and she painted me a Louisiana Swamp. I love it, and I love her!
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Funny story: Saturday afternoon we had a lesson with a guy named Jessi and his girlfriend in their trailer home. Well, their house REEKS of smoke. Ash trays everywhere. We were there for about an hour, and right after that we had dinner with President and Sister Barney, President and Sister Ferrara of the mission presidency, and the zone leaders. We got in the car, and our hair and clothes and coats just smelled so so so bad of smoke. It was very apparent. We didn't have any time to go home and change or anything, so we went to dinner and stake conference smelling like that. So embarrassing!
The Rochester Zone is having a competition with the Minneapolis Zone to see who can find more people in the month of November. They have 3 more teams than we do, but we are holding up! It makes it more fun to go out and tract honestly.
Last night we had a sweet lesson with Rigoberto about the Word of Wisdom! We brought a member with us and it went so well. He is progressing just swell :)
I'm learning how to drive in the snow. It's not very fun. Hopefully I get better.
My P-Day will be switched, again, next week to Wednesday. Our zone is going to the temple! Finally! Sorry my P-Days keep switching!
Be on the lookout next week for a letter of my 100 things I'm grateful for. Gotta keep up the Nissinen mission family tradition.
I'm so grateful for my family and friends♥️ Thank you for your support and everything. I am truly so blessed. I hope you all have a wonderful day.
D&C 78:19
"And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more."
Feliz día de gracias,
Hermana Nissinen
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