Moctezuma - What a Week

Well well well another week as come and gone and we only have two more left of my very first cycle aquí in the beautiful but sketchy Cuidad de México! I really do love it here and the Spanish has gotten better; like it just gets better every single day and I am able to understand a little bit more each day and speak more each day. So yeah it is great and I can´t tell you how much I love it here and being busy in the Lord's work is so freaking cool! 

So highlight of the week was for sure the Bautismo de Alisson! Oh man, I can't even express how much I love that girl. I think I have talked about her before but she is 10 and is now the only member in her family and she is so strong and I can just see her being an amazing member of the church and an amazing missionary in 9 years. For real, she is awesome anyways so her bautismo was Sunday and it went really well. Before that we went and passed by her house to pick her up and get a ride with some members to church. She is a golden child because she is always ready early in her cute church clothes waiting for us. usually we have to wake the people up because church is at 8:30 but no she is always ready and so excited to go to church. We were explaining how it was Fast Sunday and we had the opportunity to share our testimonies and she got super excited and told us she was going to. So she did and her testimony was so good and you wouldn´t think she was 10 if you didn´t know her. When she bore her testimony it was about how she was excited to get baptized and start her journey to gain eternal life and live with Christ again.  Hermana Rhoten and I were just so touched and honestly I almost cried, I was so happy to see how the gospel can help someone's life. Her baptism went really well too! Her aunt and two cousins are members in our ward so they helped and brought cake and drinks and we prepared a musical number and it was just really nice. Her Dad ended up coming and her step sister so that was good. The ward is awesome here and there was good support from the ward for her. We sang a Jenny Philips song "Happily Ever After" but in Spanish of course with her cousin Frieda and Tia and it was so so so good and she was crying and her dad (who is a cold cold man) even shed a tear or two! It was great and the spirit was so so so strong and then when she was entering the font the water was really cold and she was freaking out and shivering and it was so funny. When Issac (the member we live with who baptized her) finished the prayer she was like no it's to cold to go under but she did it super fast and it was really funny and I was trying so hard not to laugh too loud but yeah she is precious and I know her future will be bright because of her choice to become a member of the true church #holla!

Isaac, Allison, Hna Rhoten and Hna Heywood

Her hair was on point! 

Wow, amazing cake they made for Alisson's baptism day.

   This week we also went with the zone leaders to their area because they have some investigators who think they are rapists, so we went to show them that missionaries are not only boys and that we do not rape people lol so that was good! But man their area is sketch I can see why Hermanas are only in certain areas even though some strange things happen here too...like being flashed by nasty mexi men..ya know just grand stuff like that! But life is great! Also this week we were busy inviting EVERYONE to "La Noche de Cine" (a night of the movie) which is this Saturday in the chapel.  We will be watching meet the Mormons which not a lot of people have seen her because it just came out in the theaters a little bit ago here and its only in the visitor center for free! So a lot of people are excited about that and we will have refreshments and just have a fiesta! 

  This week we have just been super busy teaching all our investigators with a baptism date...right now we have 11 but only 5 went to church yesterday so yes lots of work there. A big focus in the mish and in the stakes here in the city has been keeping the Sabbath day holy because there is a lot of members but they are lazy and don't go to church or get there late because its early...or go and buy tortillas in the street and pan or yeah just stuff like that. Tell Chris he has been blessed immensely  by keeping the Sabbath day holy and taking the sacrament this last week. It will help him so much and that is something he can share with his investigators when he is a missionary how they need to keep the Sabbath day holy and his experience with this. Chris, one day you are gonna help people on your mission and you are gonna pray and fast that they can change their lives and obey the commandments of God so keep on doing the same thing and you will be able to help so many people and bless their lives. Also you are being a good example to your  friends that think football is more important than taking the sacrament pshh! 

Mom, to answer your questions. yes we eat with members todos los dias but we eat with them at comida which is usually like at 2 or 3 and it is the biggest meal here in mexi. We always have soup, totillas and then some kinda of chicken. Oh also this week there was another attack of the green chiles but Hermana Rhoten thinks is gastriets or something idk how to spell it so I took the medicine she had for it and BAM I felt way better and didn´t even have to throw up to feel better #holla #blessed. For breakfast I either make oatmeal or Hna. Rhoten will make me a smoothie because she is a saint and a great mish madre! Life is good and sounds like everything is good at home and no I don't think its a big mexi thing to cry when you see a hand made quilt idk people are too poor here to have the luxury of handmade quilts so maybe they would cry. 

 Oh also yes, we are starting to do a big family history thing with our ward. In the mish its not a huge focus but our ward is really good however there is never ward activities or anything like that so that is me and Hna. Rhotens goals here to unite the ward more and get more missionary work done with more activities. WE are planning a pioneer day activity and our ward mission leaders are super excited about it so if you have any good ideas we would love them! Also this next Saturday we are having a kick off type of thing because we are making a ward goal to have 2 names per person ready for when the temple opens so we can go as a ward and do temple work! NO we didn't get to watch the funeral but grandma sent me some good quotes from it. Also gracias for the pictures it is much appreciated! I just want to say that I love you guys so much and I am so blessed to have a family that is supportive in me serving a mission! 

We got ice cream today after grocery shopping and the banana split was super cheap like $5 in U.S. money so we split it and BAM it was so fancy and so good!

Love you all peace and blessings #swagindasistahood

Love your fav Hermana, 

Dana