April 28, 2014

Hello Family!

I see you are experiencing classic Utah weather. Have fun with that. I don't really feel like replying to everything you just told me about what is going on but thanks for telling me. Now I will grace you with the events of my week. 

It started with dinner and the usual game of Rook with Roxanne, Mary, and Sister Strough. Have any of you played Rook before? As you would imagine, I was terrible at it the first few times of playing but then I got the hang of it. Then oh oh I found some really cute shorts while volunteering at the thrift shop! haha the ladies that work there with us are so nice and just let us take things we like. So far I have gotten one dress, 1 skirt, 3 shirts, and now one pair of shorts from there. I obvi can't wear them yet but they are bermudas and they are white and blue stripes and they are free. Hmm we also taught Aurora a couple times this week. She is so great like always. We also told her that we never know what the weather is going to be so now she texts us the forecast every morning:) oh oh also, Angel is getting baptized this Saturday! He is Diego's kid and he's 11. That will be exciting. Diego is going to baptize him too:) Hmm really nothing super exciting happened this week besides a lot of finding but luckily something is finally coming of that! We have a lot of potentials that we are going to try and visit again this week. 2 of them are people who just invited us in right away which never happens so it was great! I'm really hoping that we will be able to pick up some more investigators this week because after Angel gets baptized Aurora will be our only investigator, ah! Oh oh we also broke our church attendance record at the Gouverneur Group today. 32 people came!! Thats more than the Ogdensburg branch had! There were a couple less active families that came yesterday! one of them being Patricia and her 3 kids. She is a less-active member who referred herself to the missionaries on mormon.org just last year and she really wants to come back and has been praying and reading the scriptures but its really hard for her to come to church because her husband is not supportive and she has 3 kids but we had a lesson with her this past week and we talked with her about it and committed her to come and she came! We are also having a relief society dinner this week and she came to the last one so we are hoping she is able to make it to this one too. Hmm and then today as you can see in the picture, I lived Man vs. Food. and I lost. Its at this place in Potsdam called the Village Diner and its called the Flapjack Attack. It sounded really fun and the missionaries up here tried it and told us about it so we were all pumped to do it. You have to eat that entire thing in 45 minutes. We told everyone about it throughout the week and were sure we were going to be able to eat it all but we didn't even get close! Sister Davis and Sister Langford met us there and Sister Davis tried it last week and didn't finish because of like 4 bites so she tried it again today and still wasn't able to do it! Poor girl haha so yeah, diet starts today. 

So it was a good week. Its going to be warm this week and we are going to pick up some investigators:) I miss you all and hope you have a good week! write me!

love

Sister Quinn Nilsson