I'm glad you all had a great Thanksgiving and ate a lot. My Thanksgiving trickled into like 4 days because everyone had left overs and so they just decided to have us over for dinner to eat all of it.
On Friday, Sister Paris and I decided to do some service and go give blood at Mayo. She had never given blood before, so she was pretty nervous. Mine went totally fine (I took my iron supplements mom!), but Sister Paris' didnt go so well! I'm not sure what happened but 5 nurses had to come in and help her and what not. Now her arm is completely bruised. Poor girl! They gave us a free shirt and water bottle though.
We do service with a lady named Anna at Salvation Army. She is the main cook. She grew up Amish, but left when she was 22 years old. We have been asking her questions and talking to her about it, and she said she would take us to go to the Amish community and check it out. We went on Saturday morning and it was so cool! They were all riding around in their horse and buggy and working and playing outside. Reminded me of Little House on the Praire. Her cousin owns a furniture store there, so we went and bought a couple of things. It was really cool to talk to Anna about her background and then share what we believe as well.
Sunday night we had an exchange with the other sisters in our zone. I went to their area for the day! It was fun being able to go with them and help train them on some things. I really like being an STL and getting opportunities to work with other sisters.
This weekend the Rochester Stake is doing the annual "Wonder of the Nativity" event. It's a HUGE production. About 250 nativities from all around the world are displayed throughout the building, with live musical performances, food, and the whole building transformed into a winter wonderland. Our stake is pretty much the ultimate party planner, holy cow! I will be sure to take lots of pictures this weekend of all of it. We have been helping out a bunch this week already setting things up. They always cater in a dinner the night before with the mayor of Rochester and some other top people at the church to kick it off. About 3,000 people will he coming over the 2 days. It's going to be so amazing!! I can't wait!!
Speaking of the mayor of Rochester... a lady in our ward is good friends with her, and she texted in her name a few weeks ago at Stake Conference. We talked to her about it, and we are now starting to teach her! Pretty cool, right? She has pretty set beliefs, so we are going to take it slow and gentle but it's cool.
I'm so glad you got the picture of us last night! The Rutledge family is the best. They are amazing member missionaries and take great care of us :) Their 11 year old daughter even told the mom last night that she wants to serve a mission now because of us! Woohoo! I love being a missionary with all my heart.
Glad to hear you are doing so awesome, Elder Nissinen. Awesome job on taking over the area and being the only one to speak Spanish! That's hard! Good job for being the leader in your companionship and talking about things. It's hard to do and can be so awkward, but it is also really important. Ask Hermana Grey (I think that's her name, the blonde one in your district) if she remembers me from the CCM :)
Love you guys so so much! We get to all talk to eachother in less than a month! I'm so excited.
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Have a wonderful week, pray that I will stay warm haha!
Love Hermana Nissinen
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