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Hola Familia! 

What a change it is being up here serving in the cities! It is very beautiful in a different way, I love it! There are so many missionaries up here and you get to see everyone a lot more its really fun. In st. peter we were like the outcasts haha which isnt always a bad thing but its good to be getting this change. Its super fun! 

Let me first tell you about Gera. He is just the cutest thing ever. He is such a smart 9 year old. Yesterday was the primary program and he was soo nervous to sing in it because he isn't a memeber and doesn't really know the songs. I told him just to say watermelon the whole time and no one would notice. He looked so handsome and did a great job! (just like my bros do) I am SO EXCITED that he is getting baptized this upcoming Sunday. His baptismal interview was yesterday and he did great. We were able to take him and his dad who isn't a member to 
President's fireside last night and the spirit was great there. We are still working on softening his dad's heart to change. Elder Carlson is doing a tour of our mission this week and so he was able to talk last night. He opened it up to questions from the crowd and it was awesome because there were so many non members there. 

Things have still been hard here but we are getting more ground under our feet and we are running with it! There is a lot of work to be done here in the ward to strengthen it and there are a lot of other challenges here right now but I know that we can do. I am learning very clearly about patience and humility. I am nothing without God. I am everything because of him. I am learning that we have no other choice than to rely on him completely! Also we have to exercise our faith and not just wait for answers!

This week we were trying to work with the members as much as possible and get to know them and gain there trust. I also had been praying all week to find a family to teach by the end of the weekend. We stopped by a LA families house Saturday night around 8:00 pm. When we pulled up it looked like no one was home. It was pitch black and I was getting nervous we weren't going to find our family because our Sunday was full of plans. But we had trust and we prayed to find that family even though we didn't have time. When we went up to the house someone came to the door, a lady who brought her whole family into be taught. We found out they weren't the LA family they were Catholics. The missionaries had visited them before but stopped coming. We were able to teach them and commit them to coming to a ward activity and to learn more from us. I know Heavenly Father always provides the way! He always answers prayers! And he is always there for us! Our prayer was answered and I know he has good things in store for this cute family.

I love you all VERY much! Thank you for all of your support email, letters and packages. Sorry if I don't always respond very fast. I will eventually I promise things are just super busy but you are important to me! 

Make it an awesome week. See miracles :)

xoxox

Hermana Pentelute :)

Feliz Noche de Brujas!

Pictures:
1.  We had a bday party with a member and their daughters so cute and fun!
2.  Our zone put up 2,000 feet of fencing around lake Calhoun this week!
3. We got cereal from a member but didn't want to leave there apartment so we could find and because it was a lock out we just hid our cereal behind the door, hahahahah