Hola Hola!

Happy November! Can't believe it's already here.

Hermana Hudman and I are pretty much twins!

Transfer weeks are always so much fun. Last week just flew by. We had transfers last Thursday and then MLC on Friday all up in Bloomington. I already told you who my companion is, but I just want to say that I love her so much already and how excited I am to be with her for her last transfer! Sister Paris is amazing. I won't go into details in this letter, but basically she grew up in LA and had a difficult childhood and left home completely when she was 16 years old. She had to financially support herself and everything. She lived with a couple different people and on the streets for a little bit and then she bought a motor home and lived by the beach by herself. She got her life together, started becoming active again and then went to BYU-Idaho with the help from her Bishop. She did a year there and decided to serve a mission. CRAZY, RIGHT. She is a huge example to me! If she can serve a full time mission without any support from home, anyone can. She has a killer testimony and is so knowledgeable in the scriptures. Haha man she is the best! As a "zebra" companionship, I just do everything that is in Spanish. It is a little tricky just having to do all that myself, so I'm going to involve the Spanish ward members more to help me out. There's not a lot of Spanish in this area, but of course now that's it's a zebra area we have had more Spanish lessons this past weekend than ever before! It's okay though, I'll figure it out. I still do an hour of language study everyday by myself and I still say all my prayers in Spanish so that's good. It's very interesting!

Dinner with Brother Braun at the Mall of America! 

Haha we looked homeless for a little bit. We had to wait for the Richfield Hermanas to come unlock their apartment so we hung out out front and some people thought we got kicked out Haha! 

Thursday after transfers the Elders took our car back to Rochester so we didn't have a car all day! We hung out at the mission home with Sister Barney and then got to go out to dinner with Brother Braun! It was great to catch up. I'm really grateful that he took time out of his weekend to take us out to dinner. We stayed the night with the Richfield Hermanas so I got to stay with Hermana Winterton! I miss her! She goes home next month so it was fun to see her again.

We had a Mission Leadership Conference all day Friday. I'm not sure if you know what that is or if Jacob or B or Kim had it in their missions but all of the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leaders come together with the mission presidency and council together about our zones and what things we can do to improve. I always learn a lot from them. President Barney is an inspired man for sure! We council together about the baptismal goal for the month and how to implement the things we talk about. It's a great experience. 

Sunday we had the broadcast from Salt Lake. It was neat. Before it started, I got the chance to accompany a couple ladies for a musical number in front of the whole stake! They asked me last Sunday if I could play for them, so I went to their practice but I didn't know if I would still be here the next week because of transfers, so I'm glad I was able to do it! I kinda miss playing 5 hours everyday like I was a year ago at school hahaha.

Daylight savings actually really sucks because it gets dark so early and people get so mad when we knock on their doors when it's dark! We are going to have to come up with creative stuff to do at night when we don't have lessons.

Sister Paris and I got threatened that the cops would come and we got kicked out of 2 apartment complexes this past weekend just for tracting in them. Darn. 

We also came up with eating goals for this transfer! We are determined to eat healthy, and since she is going home in 6 weeks it's crunch time, so we are doing it together! Week 1: no sweets alone and drink 80 ounces of water a day. Week 2: no soda (plus previous week). Week 3: no rolls (thanksgiving week lol). Week 4: no dairy alone. Week 5: no fried food. Week 6: SALAD WEEK. Hahaha we know this sounds ridiculous and pretty crazy but we want to give it a try! 

Rigoberto chose the date he wants to be baptized which is December 1st. We are so excited. He knows the importance of this decision and we emphasized the importance of prayer on Friday night. He got emotional when we read 2nd Nephi 4 with him. He's a great guy.

I'm really loving each day of my mission a lot. It's not always easy, but it is so fun. Friday night we tracted all night outside in the cold rain and didn't find a single person to teach but we had a lot of fun doing it. Like I always tell the other sisters in the mission, "If you aren't having fun doing the Lord's work, you're doing it wrong!" God doesn't want us to be sad and depressed while doing His work. He wants us to be happy. I'm truly happy.

Love you all, have a fabulous week. Be grateful for all the small things we have.

Love Hermana Nissinen 

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