March 31, 2014

Hello Family!

yes sorry i wasn't able to send a letter last week. it was a crazy p-day. we were at the Blackburns house in Ogdensburg for our district activity and i didn't have much time to write but i'll write a letter today! you're remodeling?? i won't even be able to come home to the same house? :( jk cool do what you want i'm excitied to see it when its done in 10 years. hows dad's car coming along btdub? i'm super excited for Nick to come home. i bet he's going to be way awesome. tell him he can't go back to Korea until I come home to see him! ok this week was actually eventful so i'll start the email.

Monday was p-day whatever. but i did get to go to walmart because we were in Ogdensburg so that was wonderful :) then Tuesday. haha Tuesday was interesting. our day started off with a text message from Erin (the cute girl who got baptized last month) telling us her cat, Baby, whom she has had for 14 years and is sick, was doing really bad. we gave her some comforting words and went to visit a less-active at 10. then on the way back we decided we needed to go see Erin and comfort her. she answers the door with puffy red eyes and a tissue and lets us come in. her cat is sprawled on the floor with its tongue hanging out, gasping for breath and Erin is just sitting on the floor next to her, crying and petting her. so freaking sad. then within 20 minutes of us being there, Baby took her last breath...SO SAD! haha its funny to look back on but it was so sad in the moment. so then we went out and got Erin a coke and a plastic tote for her to put Baby in. so that was Tuesday morning. Later that night we were able to teach this awesome awesome girl named Aurora. We met her once at a less-active family's house cause she is their landlord but we didn't really think anything of it. then a member in our branch, Jade texted us and told us that Aurora babysits her daughter and said she was interested in going to our church. So before we even started teaching her she came to church and loved it. Then we went over to teach her and she had already downloaded the Book of Mormon onto her phone and felt like she had already received her answer that this is what God wanted her to do because of the 2 Mormon families she knew and then us coming along. She is sweet. She totally gets the gospel and is like the most solid person ever. But then on Thursday our other investigator dropped us.  Well she is this really cool retired band teacher/now writes articles for the newspaper. she knows everything about the church and her extended family is Mormon so she was researching and meeting with us and was progressing but she told us on Thursday after 2 weeks of intense research she thinks that Joseph Smith was a con man and that he lifted the Book of Mormon and that the whole church was a scam. a;sofj;aigjsa;glknsd;gvls what. so that sucked. she also predicted that SIster Church would follow in her footsteps and realize the church wasn't true. the people you meet on your mission. so then I cried all that night which was weird because like you know, i'm not an emotional person (although this mission is turning me into a big cry baby) and i didn't even know her that well but it was sad to see her so confused. oh well. she'll come around someday. then on Friday we took Erin out teaching with us just to a less active couple and then we had tickets for the fish fry at the catholic church school so we went to that. it was really fun haha. they gave us huge pieces of fried fish and coleslaw and mac n cheese and dessert and i died because i ate all of it. it was fun to do that with Erin though. She and Diego just went to the temple with everyone last Saturday and they loved it:) then on Saturday hahaha we helped this family who broke Amish a year ago move into their new house. so we ended up doing that like all day and oh hahah when Sister Church and I were saying bye to everyone the two boys who were 17 and 14 tried to get our number and take us out to the New York Pizzeria. so awkward haha. we skillfully rejected them and got out of there. then sunday we woke up to 8 inches of unexpected snow. so we ended up shoveling snow all day. also yesterday was fast sunday so we fasted as well. probably not a good idea but we need blessings! so yeah. that was the week.

hmm for the box...? clothes/jewelry is always fun to get but don't feel like you have to go out and buy me stuff. i just like fun random stuff. ooh like letter writing stuff. idk just whatever.

ok i love you guys and don't forget to read your scriptures daily and don't be afraid to share the gospel with your friends! have a super week and write me letters!

love, sister Quinn nilsson