yo yo yo familia
well I actually remember stuff to write this week!
so first of all Minnesota is actually becoming pretty to me! Cuz there are no mountains the sky goes on FOREVER and it's cool to see with all the fields and trees. And all the rivers and lakes are really pretty too! I will send a pic I took last week of a sunset over a random lake in the middle of nowhere haha. We were driving on this highway and there were no cars so we just stopped in the middle of the road to take the pictures.
So we were in a town called Le Center, and we don't go there very much so we went finding and found this mom and her 2 kids and taught them. Her kids were SO cute. Actually, all Hispanic kids are. When they speak their cute little Spanish....I want to die because its SO CUTE!! Sometimes its a bad thing because its gets me excited to be a mom haha but that will have to wait. Her little boy who was like 2 was such a talker. He would repeat everything like 100 times and we let him look at our restoration pamphlet and he pointed to Jesus on the front and said "Es Jesus" and it was soooo adorable. One of our investigators has a little daughter who is probably 6 and whenever we come she gets so excited and just yells "CRISMOS!" Which isn't really a word haha. Oh one more story about kids. You always see little kids who are really chunky....well they ain't got nothin on this one little Guatemalan guy. probably 15 months old.......looks like a sumo wrestler. like the kid's gotta be wearing like 6 year old kids clothes he is so big. If it was appropriate to take a picture of him....I would haha seriously....a sumo wrestler.
We had a super good lesson in relief society yesterday. The RS president talked about the Spirit and how it guides us to do missionary work and she told us that a few months ago there were only 2 missionaries in the Mankato ward, and then there was a stake conference where the stake president said "Mankato will be a stake of Zion" and soon after that there were 8 missionaries in the ward! It's just a cool thing to see how big things are happening here and I get to be a part of it! The crazy thing is that the Mankato ward boundaries are HUGE, it's hard to imagine there be a stake here really soon but we are doing our best to make it happen!
My first day here we had a little orientation at the mission home, and President C said that this mission is a foreign mission in the united states because there are so many people from around the world. And it's so true! There are so many Africans! Not in my area, but there are some. We talked to a lady from Somalia the other day, and she told us a lot about her country and the wars going on there and it was just super cool to talk about her culture. And of course I get to teach the Hispanics, but I've learned so much about different parts of the world. We are even teaching someone from China tonight so that will be fun.
Speaking of cultures......the other day we went to visit some recent converts named C and M (they are brothers) and we walked in to see 6 dead chickens just sitting on the counter!! They had just been plucked and they were starting to clean them and get all the meat out. Haha M just went to a farm and picked the chickens as they were running around, and then the farmer killed them and gave them to him.... 3 for 20 bucks....I guess that's a pretty good deal for a few chickens haha. I will send a picture. We went back later and got to see all the blood and guts, it was kinda gross.
Sometimes I am AMAZED at how different the latinos view time. I don't even know how to describe it. It's like time doesn't exist to them. They can talk for literally hours on end and they will stop whatever they are doing to talk. And they also are late for EVERYTHING haha. It's so hard for me to understand sometimes but asi es.
So sometimes it stinks here and I don't know why, but I swear everyday I say something like "it smells like poo" well the other night we were riding our bikes and as we got home I just thought to myself "It smells like poo" but I say that so much so I didn't say it to my comp or anything. well then I am walking inside and it really did smell like poo so I looked at the bottom of my shoes and they had dog poo ALL OVER THEM! It was nasty. luckily I found it before I walked all over our apartment! So never say that phrase or else it will happen to you haha
So this week we went to a restaurant in Mapleton! Yes there is a town called mapleton here! It is owned by some members of the ward and it is a barbecue place. They had a yummy pulled pork, but not as good as the smoking apple. But they had these REALLY good sauces to go with the pulled pork, like this one peach flavored one. It sounds weird, but it was SO GOOD!!!
I finally had an authentic Mexican meal! our investigator F wanted to feed us so of course we said yes! He made homemade tortillas, some Mexican saugage with eggs, frijoles, and then me and Hermana W made some salsa in a molcajete! It's like the one we have at home. I told him that my family had one and he asked me a ton of questions about it haha. It was really yummy. I wish I could have it right now mmmm
We went to Mankato to go shopping today, and I got a super cute skirt and shirt from target. the skirt is a pencil skirt that is pink and has a cute design and the shirt is leopard print! They were both on sale so I couldn't pass it up. I also got lots of good food. We go to Mankato to shop whenever we can because there is only one store in St. Peter and it is pretty expensive. BUT there is a shopko opening up here, and I think it is just a grocery store. but yeah, it's crazy because then there will be 2 grocery stores......st peter is growing!
Up at gustavus there is a building that looks like the provo temple so I am going to try to take a picture of it when I am there tonight to show you. It's crazy how much it looks like it! Excpet instead of a moroni and the top there is a cross because it is a Lutheran school.
J came to church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited because this whole week he wasn't drogado or drunk all! and since he came to church he will receive blessings. ANd he is still planning to be baptized on the 23 woot woot!
Pretty sure that is it. I can't believe it snowed in Utah because it hasn't snowed here yet! Just rain which is so weird
hasta lunes!
Hermana Jones
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