Hola Familia!!
I know you are all dying to hear how things are going in Richfield. This week has been sooo crazy trying to get settled and figure things out. I will start from the beginning. So last Monday and Tuesday I got everything packed and ready to go. It was super sad leaving everyone I love so much in St. Peter but it was also happy and I promised them all I'd come back so I have no other choice now! :) Then Wednesday we went to transfer meeting and also the training meeting. After I went and worked in Bloomington for the day because my Hermana didn't get in until 9 pm that night! So we got to the mission home and my hermana was talking with her parents....she was a little homesick but we were ready to roll! We got things in the car and I didn't even know where our apartment was or have a Gps...you all know how good I am with directions! So thanks to the awesome ap's they gave us there Gps. We made it home and by the time we got home it was like 10:10 and we have to be in bed at 10:30 so we got as settled in as we could and got to bed. Oh and I guess I should tell you about my cute cute trainee. Well her name is Hermana Hougaard and she is from Cove Utah. She graduated 2013 and went to USU as an ambassador for a year (sweet huh?) she has an average size family and she loves them a lot! She also cheered in high school and we are practically twins. She is about the cutest thing and I just love her to death! Its so fun helping her with her Spanish...I remember those days. She is very paranoid about being obedient because her grandpa was a mission president and I guess scared her about the rules. I told her that's why you got put with me! ;)
Richfield is so great. Everyone here is pretty much Hispanic like holy cow. It is a COMPLETELY different world than little safe St. Peter. You hardly see white people. I love that. Its pretty much just a suburb. I am getting to use so much spanish haha especially because my comp doesn't know the language yet! We are in the twin cities spanish ward. It seems like it will be a great place to be. It was so exciting to be there and have church all in Spanish yesterday. I felt bad for Hermana Hougaard she by the end just tuned it out hahaha.
So the elders that were here before us......they tried hard to clean but our apartment was really filthy. I didn't even feel safe showering. Apparently they took 2 days cleaning it and there was still mold and hair everywhere. This morning we did a good clean. It still has some to go..but at least I now feel comfortable. Also there was one progressing investigator here so pretty much our teaching pool is 0. BUT with that being said we are here to find the prepared and baptize! I know its going to happen. We had a super cool miracle this week we were going to visit a less active part member family but we saw a man named Joel out working on his car. So we talked with him and we were able to teach him the restoration and find out he's came with a LA member twice to church and he lives with this Less active member! He is very interested and excited to learn more. His work schedule is pretty crazy he works pretty much from 8 to 10 at night. It was a miracle because his car was having problems and the day we found him was the first day his boss let him off early to work on the car. He even recognized that, that we were sent there at that time for a reason or we would have never met him.
Gerado Rodriguez is a 9yr old boy who is the son of a recently re-activated mom. He is getting baptized November 2cnd!!We were able to teach him for the first time yesterday (that's who the elders were teaching) and he has a really good understanding and is very excited to have his sins washed away and receive the Holy Ghost! So thats really exciting! His dad is a non-member so we are hoping to start teaching him as well and complete the family in the Gospel!!
This is a really long letter this week but I have a really great story to tell!!! So our church is in Minneapolis and wow let me tell you I will never live there haha. So we were driving trying to find the church and I was lost. There are sooo many people out on the roads and I have never drove in any thing like it! So I made a quick left hand turn and all the sudden we feel something move the car. It felt to me like we ran over something. It was really weird so I kept driving and then a man behind me honks so I thought oh no we just got in an accident and I didn't even realize it! So we pull over and our first instinct was to lock the doors and just roll down the window a little bit. The man got out of his car and was swearing at us and so I felt really bad like It was my fault or something so we got out of the car. Let me remind you this is hermana Hougaards first day in the field. So we start talking to this man and he's like did you not feel that? We said we did but didn't know what had happened. Apparently he hit the back of our car which had hermana hougaards bike on it. He had a white scratch from the bike on the front of his car. He told us it was my fault and I was in the wrong lane and yada yada so I felt awful and for some reason believed it. He said it's fine we don't have to get the police involved but do you have some money on you? That was a red flag that went off for me. I immediately said no we don't he's like 20 bucks? I said no we don't sorry we are missionaries representatives of Christ in the area and he started to get uncomfortable. He said oh don't make me feel bad..meanwhile he was smoking some sort of something. We both felt uncomfortable so we said sorry bye and got in the car and drove away. A few minutes after the experience we called our mission president and told him the experience. Not to freak you out mom but he told us he has heard a lot of sad stories of things happening in situations like that. Sometimes they do that on purpose as a tactic. That man had other intentions and the accident was his fault. So of course we were freaking out a little bit hahah poor hna hougaard is scared out of her mind on her first day and so was I but I tried to act fine. In the end I was soooooo grateful nothing happened and that we were safe. Heavenly Father protected us I know and I now know some more safety procautions! I have the pepper spray g-ma gave me on hand all the time hahah. The cities are a big change!!
Well that is all for now, I love you very much!!!! I hope you have a great week and remember the reason for everything. Our Savior, Lord, Redeemer and King.
P.s. here is my new address:
080 12th Ave. S. #111
Bloomington MN 55425
xoxoxo
Hermana Pentelute
Pictures from Richfield:
1. Elder Berry from PG
5.The Spanish missionaries in the cities at our cultural activity
6. I got to see the temple for the first time
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