Happy December!
I can't believe it is already the month of December! December started off Saturday with a big snow storm that continued into Sunday. We have quite a bit of snow now. I absolutely love it! Still learning how to drive in it, but there are snow plows EVERYWHERE so all the main roads are totally fine. It's just the side roads that are a bit slippery.
It's been an exciting past few days since I last got to email!
There are 3 other sisters in our zone who were in a trio. They were having some difficulties, so we had to do an emergency exchange with them a few nights ago, and President decided it would be better if one of the sisters came with Sister Paris and I for the next 2 weeks of the transfer. So I'm in a trio now! Our new companion's name is Sister Kohler. She is from Montana and also has had a very humbling, hard background. Left home and church at the age of 16, but then found her way back. She is a really sweet sister and has only been on her mission for 3 weeks. It's a very interesting dynamic now with 3 of us. 1 is going home next week, I've still got some time, and 1 is brand new. It's been good though. We had interviews with President Barney on Friday and the first thing he said to me was "So, you have been in this area for quite some time now" and I was just so nervous. But then he asked, "Do you think you can do one more transfer here?" And I just shot up and said "YES! PLEASE!" He told me he is keeping me here another transfer. Woohoo!! That means it'll be 6 months! I am so very happy :)
This weekend was the "Wonder of the Nativity" event. I have never seen a church event as amazing as this one, holy cow. Thousands of people came. It was actually a huge fire hazard Friday night because of all the people. Wonderful choirs and bands came and performed Christmas songs and shows, lots of treats, amazing decorations, and beautiful nativities. It was truly a magical event to ring in the Christmas spirirt! I wish you all could have seen it. I wanted to take pictures, but there were so many people that you wouldn't have been able to see anything.
This past weekend was pretty stormy, so they canceled church yesterday! We didn't know what to do, so we decided to go to the all black Baptist church in Rochester! It was so cool guys! The people were so friendly and welcoming. Everyone came up to us and gave us hugs. They also gave us lots of food. They were so nice.
I hit my time record for the amount of people who dropped us. Last week we met some people, last Saturday we had return appointments with them, and 3 of them dropped us within a 20 time span. Woohoo!! Haha guess they weren't the elect.
This Saturday night we have the posada, which is a Mexican Christmas party. We helped a lady in our ward out this week by making 800 tamales for it! It was awesome! I can't wait. It's gonna be a real pachanga.
I want to say THANK YOU so much to everyone who contributed to my Christmas package. WOW! I feel so loved! It was so fun to open it and see all the hilarious ornaments. I have the best family in the world. Thank you so much for everything. You are so kind and generous❤
Keep lighting the world everyone! I love you all a lot.
God bless,
Hermana Nissinen
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