Week 5 Prior Lake, Minnesota

Friends and Family!!

What another great here in Prior Lake and guess what!!!!! Today when we went to the library, it was warm enough so I didn't have to wear my big, black, coat!! it’s like 40*ish outside!!! This weekend the weather has been great..Sister Reber and I have been doing a lot of walking to take advantage of the sunlight that we haven't seen in what feels like YEARS!  It’s been awesome!! I'm hoping I can retire my coat until December..that would be so totally awesome!! The snow is started to show signs of wanting to melt and people keep saying that the floods are coming...I keep thinking that they should cause then maybe I can practice my swimming skills!! I was standing in a puddle of water Sunday afternoon and the thought came that that was the closes I was going to be getting to a pool until next year! It made me sad...who would have thought that I would miss the water so much?? 

Our new apartment is coming along..we have been using whatever spare time we can find to put things away and finish unpacking..I laugh as we do this cause transfers is next week and I can just see one of us getting transferred and having to repack yet again! (knock on wood!)  Our apartment is good size for the two of us..it has a good kitchen that I’m super excited to try out! Prior Lake betta watch out cause some oreos may be coming their way!!  It makes me so happy to be able to cook more! When we have been home for lunch this past week, I’ve cooked all kinds of things just because I can :) 

It has been a busy week..we have been going, going, going!! When it was time for weekly planning, it was crazy that we were planning for week 5..the time has gone by so fast! Our investigators are going great...however, some are moving along faster than others...we were able to have our investigator Sister K come to the RS birthday dinner on Tuesday..she even brought her daughter along too! it was fun to have her there and the ward was so great to make her feel like a part of the group..we did a service exchange and had dinner.  They had everyone write down a service they would offer and then we sat in a circle and as they read a story about how RS was organized we would pass the cards left or right as the story told us to do so...it was fun and I think that Sister K had a good time.  Sister G is progressing just wonderfully.  We stopped by to see her yesterday afternoon and she told us the coolest thing! So her mom was interested in learning more about the Mormon beliefs after Sister G son was baptized and so she started going to church off and on.  But we learned yesterday that she had started to have the missionaries over!! Sister G's smile as she told us about this was ear to ear!! It was so fun to hear how the gospel was being spread in their family all because Sister G started meeting with the missionaries!! It’s amazing to see that as we teach and talk to people we influence more people then we realize..it was awesome to see that the joy that the gospel brings to Sister G, lead her to share it with her family!

We met a really cool couple on Saturday as we did some finding..we were walking in a neighborhood when we saw a guy walk out of his garage..we walked up and started to talk to him..he asked us tons of questions about our beliefs and said that he wanted to learn more.  he told us that all he knew about Mormons was what he heard from a friend who took a trip to Utah back in high school...he told us that his friend said that he was chased by a group of Mormons in nice clothes, that drove big black cars, who tried to convert him..it was super funny!  As we talked his fiancé came out and joined in on the conversation..they were super funny and we are going back this week to talk more..it totally made our day! 

So, last pday was our district pday...so I guess the pday rule is different in the MMM..so in other missions you can hang out with the elders and sisters in your district each week, however we can only once a transfer.  So we did last week..we met at the church and the elders had set up a huge Nerf gun course though-out the gym..they had tables on their sides and the chair racks spread out..it was like real life Halo! We split into teams and battled it out...JACK!  The hole time I was laughing cause this was so how the elders coped with the fact that they couldn't play PlayStation and Xbox for 2 years!!  The elders were SO into it..like their get-up and all..like it was war! it was a lot of fun and a great exercise!  

Well...i don't really know what else to say so...............i hope yall have a great week!! Thanks for all the love and support!! it means so much!!     

PICTURES!! LOTS OF THEM!!!!!

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LOVE!

Sister Randi Hulet

xoxo