Moctezuma

Well, I made it into the field and its crazy. My comps name is Hermana Rhoten and she is from Washington state. She is super awesome and paciente with my terrible Spanish. 

Hermanas Heywood and Rhoten

I loved talking to all of you this past Sunday; it was so good to hear your voices! I left on Monday morning at 6 and I didn/t really sleep much that night because Beck had to leave at 3 am and Turner at 5 so we all packed together till like 1 and then we took a power nap till about 2:30ish and then I didn't sleep after that so I was SO tired the next day. Also lo siento this computer doesn´t spell check my English, so sorry mom you will have to edit it. But we got picked up from the assistants around 6ish and then we drove to presidents house which is in the west mission or something. So it took us about an hour and a half to get there. At his house we had a breakfast full of eggs, rice, beans, this tortilla thing and cheese cake...yup I am officially in Mexico real life. Also the had the BEST horchata I have EVER TASTED IN MI VIDA! So yeah; I had a spanglish interview with President and it was good. The biggest thing he told me to do was start reading El Libro de Mormon cover to cover and not to worry about the meaning of everything but just to read it out loud. So we will start doing that during language study. My area is called Moctezuma and it is pretty big I believe for the mish... I mean our mission is really small but its a bigger size for the mission. I guess in total our mission is 13 miles long yup! But everyone here lives on top of each other and some of the houses I have been in are just one room with bunk beds where the whole family sleeps, eats, watch´s t.v ect. Our area is fairly poor but the people here are so nice and always listen to my terrible Spanish. We taught a good lesson yesterday with this women named Rocía she is way nice and it was her 1st lesson with the misioneras. She saw the movie "Meet the Mormons" with one of her friends and invited us over. Ah I just love her and she even can speak a little bit of English so that is great. 

   We live with members and our casa is orange and cute. Its a nice house for Mexico and we even have a couch. The bathroom is small and for the kitchen we have a stove, microwave and a fridge! So yeah its nice here. My 1st day we didn't get to the offices till like 2ish and then we went straight to a dinner apt with the members that live in the house with us. He is in the stake presidency. We also had dinner with an hermana from this mish who just got released over skype and her parents are here. Her mom took a pic of me and tried to tag someone from our family on FB but we couldn't find anybody. My spanish is bad but thats okay. Not gonna lie the 1st day when we went out to do contacts is was HARD and i was really frustrated. But slowly my ear is adapting to the people. In lesson I don´t talk a ton because I dont know what they are saying half the time but yeah its only my 3rd day so it will get better. But Hermana Rhoten is great and really good at Spanish. And all the people I have met have been supér supér nice! 

Sounds like everything is good at home and that volleyball is doing good. I wish we would have been able to talk longer on Sunday but that's alright we can talk in 8ish months. Hm Rhoten said they were only allowed to skype for 40 minutes so its not like the field is all that much better. Pero esta bien. Leaving the ccm was sad and it was hard to say goodbye to the district but that's alright we have a big email group and everyone has emailed a little bit about how hard it is here. Like yeah its hard not gonna lie but I know there is only up from here. Also 11 sisters just left the mish on friday and then me and one sister from Provo came so now in total only 11 sisters are here. Pero 4 go home in June and 5 in August....yup so basically after august I am gonna be one of the old hermanas and train.... so yeah it is really important I get more confident and learn Spanish fast!! If anyone has any good tips please please please tell me and please pray for the gift of tongues for me. But everything is really good I have met a little bit of the other missionaries here. They are all super nice. Leaving the CCM, I was the only sister (because the other one was in Provo that's why I couldn´t find her) and the rest where latinos so at presidents house everything was in Spanish besides my interview... Also this Saturday we have Elder Christenson coming here and so I will get to meet the rest of the Hermanas here. 

Life is good and mom I don´t know if you heard but Lisa got her mission call to Orlando Florida English speaking so that is exciting. And I heard from Ash (Trinidad Tobago Mission) and she sounds like she is good and she is working on all her Visa stuff right now... oh guess what else I have a green card here in Mexico...its kinda funny but they keep all the important stuff in the mission office...which is right next to the temple. My area is really close to the airport and so there are a lot of planes that fly over and stuff. Oh also if you are wondering I am just in a little internet cafe and you pay 2 pesos an hour so its really cheap. Oh also rainy season is just starting so my hair is crazy curly and its kinda cold at night. Yesterday is basically rained all day. But everything is good here today we went to Walmart which is out of our area but we can get permission to go and get groceries. Anyways here are lots of pics from this week. I love you all and I hope Luke was able to pass his test and Jared likes his job a little bit more. Please pray for my Spanish because right now it sucks. Love you all!!!

1st mexico house!

La Cocina