How does a person enter the 1st bhumi In order to attain the bhumis a person needs to enter somewhere
so my question is pretty important in the way of the Bodhisattva. 
How does a person enter the 1st Bhumi?
It seems that one can enter the Bodhisattva way more easily than trying to attain the bhumis. Too much can be made of attaining, while not enough of serving others. I find the Dalai Lama's Book THE OPEN HEART to be a wonderful introduction to the Bodhisattva way. It is a book not only of words but pointing to action to free all sentient beings.

If you want more info on bhumis you will find it in this article that even describes the bhumis as "hyperbolic". Perhaps that is a hint that we should stick more to basics and keep things simple. The Buddha gave us an example of a simple life. Some of those that followed tried to make it more complicated than it was. Remember the Flower Sermon. The Buddha holds up a flower and smiles. That is the whole sermon.

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  The bodhisattva  path (with its descriptions of bhumis  so hyperbolic
  that they always amount to "there's work to do" no matter your
  attainments, even if you're an arhat! gplus.wallez.name/2Q5j3jM1oGC)
  is bringing back ethics into a practical approach:  you're not
  perfect, there's work to do, what matters is how hard you try and
  cultivate qualities…
  
  Life is dukkha  (1st noble truth), this is true even for ethical
  people (monastic or lay): failures will arise. What matters is to
  continue cultivating! The Mahayana approach sets extremely ambitious
  goals (when described with the bhumis)  and doesn't consider small
  failures as easily acceptable (a small moral failure might cancel eons
  of merit!), but it doesn't forget that even if the human birth is the
  most promising for Awakening, we cannot reasonably expect humans not
  to make mistakes! This is not about 'forgiving' lightly; instead, this
  is about accepting that amends (i.e. continued cultivation) are more
  important than snap judgements. If you did wrong, don't ignore it,
  what do you  plan to do to fix the situation, how do you take
  responsibility for it? This is, of course, perfectly aligned with the
  focus on emptiness, and on compassion as the root-quality giving rise
  to bodhicitta.