This week not a ton happened but we found so many lakes and parks and they were beautiful! There are lakes EVERYWHERE here! We are almost always driving along a lake. You just see all these docks from people’s backyards going to the lake and I think that is just so fun! We went to all these different lakes around our house and would walk in the morning and we would go to parks and do our calls and sit up by the lake. It’s so beautiful! There are benches on all the docks so you can just sit right up on the water. We found this one lake that has sand up on it and it was like a cute little beach.

I haven’t had dunkin donuts in forever and they are kinda all over the place so Hermana Erickson and I finally went and I was so happy!! I got the munchkins and they are so good! HAHA

There is this cute Mexican market down the street from the church called la casa market and Hermana Erickson and I walked to it and again I am so in love with these little markets!! I need to find them when I get back home! We went to go get little treats and drinks for a 5 de mayo party we were having as a district. Everyone in our district each brought something for the 5 de mayo party. We made tacos and had pingüinos and the jarritos drinks. We got little decorations and all just all celebrated together.

We visited a lot of members in our ward this week and it was so fun to just get to know them better and talk with them! Every family is just so different and I just absolutely love the members in our ward with all my heart. They are the best! A lot of their sons play on a soccer team together and they invited us to come watch one Saturday. We went to the game and everyone there was Latino. It was seriously so fun haha. They’re kids were like 10 and they were good. It was fun to just be there. Also there are the cutest little houses in Minnesota. They just look like these little cottages with vines all over. They are soo cute! 

The sunsets are so beautiful and the clouds always look like the toy story clouds. Hermana Erickson loves it and she is always taking pictures of the sunsets and the clouds. Minnesota really is just so pretty. There definitely are some places that are a little rough haha but mostly it’s so beautiful. ALSO everyone has a dog. EVERYONE! Anyone walking outside has a dog, it’s nuts! 

We have a missionary correlation meeting every sunday at the church where we talk to the mission leader about the needs of our friends and just things we need help with and this last meeting he just randomly goes I got 1, 2, 3, 4 girlfriends hahah. It was so random but the best. I love you all so much and I hope you all are doing AMAZING!! You are all in my prayers!!

Favorite scripture of the week:

Alma 5:48

48 I say unto you, that I know of myself that whatsoever I shall say unto you, concerning that which is to come, is true; and I say unto you, that I know that Jesus Christ shall come, yea, the Son, the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, and mercy, and truth. And behold, it is he that cometh to take away the sins of the world, yea, the sins of every man who steadfastly believeth on his name.

Hermana Olsen<3