Welcome to San Rafael!

Hey!

First week in San Rafael down! I feel like this area is bigger than my last three combined. Haha. It's crazy. It took me four nanoseconds to fall in love with this area. Also, my companion is a literal Disney Princess. She is probably the sweetest person I have ever met. Her name is Sister Gardner and she is from Twin Falls! My first Idaho
companion  #Idahomies

We share a ward with Elders. It's actually super fun. Nothing is ever awkward because there is always someone chatting. Dinners are the best. We have some great Elders too. They came out with Sister Gardner, so all three of them just hit their nine month mark! Party
for days.

We had a really cool experience on Saturday! We were walking down the road and this man gets out of his truck and he's walking funny and his eyes are a little glazed. Having just come from Fairfield, my first thought was, "Oop. He's drunk. Let's go." We we start walking a little faster. He calls out to us in Spanish and we kind of wave and tell him we don't speak Spanish. He started asking us more questions, and though I'm wary of this guy, I don't feel in danger. Suddenly he says, "Mormonas?" And we were like, "Si!" "Missionaras?" "Si!" We started talking to him in Spanglish because it turns out his English is pretty
good, just his comprehension is only about 70%. His name is Antonio and he told us he has been looking for a change in his life and his friend recently joined the Mormon church and moved his whole family to Utah. His friend told him that his life had been changed 100%. Antonio looked at us and said, "Is that true?" We promised him that this was the change he was looking for and that it was true. The Gospel will change your life. He knew the address of the church building. He actually told us the exact address and said he had always walked by and waved, but had never gone in. He wants to come next Sunday though. We gave him the Spanish Elders phone number on a Prince of Peace card and then showed him the video. When it got to the part where it showed the pictures of Christ and his titles, he would look at the screen, and then to the picture of Christ on the card in his hand, and then back to the screen. It was like we could see the wires in his mind connecting. It was so cool.

This week was mostly just getting to know the area. Super pumped to be here. I hope you guys have a great week!!

Sister Julander