Monteczuma - Holla from Mexi

Hola family, 

  Well another week has come and gone and guess what I officially made it another month in the mish. It is weird because I feel like I haven´t been gone that long but I have learned so much things about myself, the gospel, Spanish etc. CRAZY. 

It was a good busy week.  We had a lot of citas and IDK if you looked up Valentins Mormon Message but we have been teaching a lot of his family. The thing about Mexico is families will occupy buildings full of little apartments so when you go into the building everyone that is family will come out and talk to us. Anyways, we were teaching his sister's family and all the little cousins came in and listened to our lesson and afterwards we counted and there was like 9 children just sitting in on a lesson haha it was funny and we felt like primary teachers. Also we went and found Rosa Maria the one who had the broken phone and she has a baptismal date for the end of the month and is so excited and wanted to know how long she had to wait to enter the temple and yeah she is pretty much golden we just need to teach her the word of wisdom lol. One of our struggles lately, is trying to get people married! We need to get Valentin's sister married to her novio before they and their kids can get baptized.  Nacho and Alma who we have been working with for a while...they need to get baptized and Nacho needs to stop smoking. But yeah we are working slowly but surely with them about eternal families and marriage etc. 

Oh but the highlight of the week had to have been when we met a profetes (girl prophet) yes that is right. We were teaching Anna and Jorge and then a lady for her church just happened to drop by and so we were talking with her and she just happened to be a profetes. It was quit the experience and she was crazy and it was kinda scary we think she had something in side of her because her eyes just did not look right. Luckily we had Valentin with us and his scriptural knowledge is like on point so we was able to answer and basically tell the demon lady she was wrong because he used scriptures. But it was jut crazy she was like testifying what she she believed or what ever and she was just basically yelling and you could not feel the spirit at ALL! But then when we would talk the spirit would be so so so strong so we are hoping Jorge and Anna realized the difference because right now their problem with not getting baptized is that she doesn't want to leave her crazy church that believes in the gift of tongues and crap like that. But yeah that was great. LOL

Mexico is great and Spanish is um okay i guess...it hard but I just need to open my mouth and have faith that the spirit will help me say something cohesive in espanol lol but its good. Funny things about Mexico are: the people here are TONE DEATH, like for real haha singing in church is funny because nobody can sing and so I sing melody and then I sound really bad because you all know I am not a soprano so yeah that is funny. Also at church Hna. Rhoten and I are always wiping lipstick off our cheeks because here you great everyone with a kiss and a hug so all the ladies at church always kiss us and then we have lips stuck on our cheeks until we realize and wipe it off. 

The food is good and the fruit is to die for. If Jared can he should send me the mango float recipe because mangos ahorita esta muy barrato and I want to make it and give it to the members we live with. I know there was sweetened condensed milk or something but what else? Sweetened condensed milk is super super popular here and people always put it on their postres. Also jello ahhh if I could tell you how much jello I have eaten haha I am getting more used to eating it but man, Parker and Dad would have been in heaven here because when ever we eat at a members house we have jello...and soup which is random but yes soup and jello are favs here in Moctezuma. 

Today we went to the gym that is across the street from us because it is only 30 pesos a day (super cheap) so we were there for a good hour and half this morning and it was a nice change from running in the cobble stone park! Plus the gym plays music so yeah its kinda nice listening to music while you work out that isn´t EFY songs haha. Oh also this Sunday, Alisson ,the linda 10 year old we have been teaching, is getting baptized so I will have some good pictures for that! She is so stinking cute I wish you could meet her because you would love her. But yeah Rhoten and I are really bad about taking pictures, so this week we have made it a goal to take a picture a day! She has the pictures from today so I will forward them in a little bit. But yes the work here is great and busy. WE are also teaching Cristian right now he is 19 and so smart and just get´s why he needs the gospel. He just needs to stop smoking but Hermana Rhoten and I have hope that he will go on a mission just because he understands why the gospel is so important. He also has family that are members that moved to Utah not to long ago. But yeah he is golden too! 

Another funny thing that happen this week was we were watching a movie with Nacho and Almo "Familias para Siempre", hoping it would want them to get married, anyways its an older 80´s church movie and the last song started singing "we can be together forever someday" like the same tune as the song we have to sing in the Forgotten Carols....anyways it made me laugh because it reminded me of Parker and how he always sings it! 

Sounds like summer is good and everyone is havin a grand old time. That is fun that Shawn came into town and got a nice taste of Arizona. 

Not much else happened this week just a lot of work and power-walking to citas that we were late for! Oh we also had zone conference and president gave a chart of the Book of Mormon and we have to finish it before the next zone conference so we have been reading out loud 11 pages a day in order to reach meta (goal). Oh and also Hna. Rhoten just extended to the middle ish of august because she didn´t want to leave before the open house started so yes I will have my mom for a little bit longer! 

Life is good and I am so grateful that I am able to be a part of the Lords work and for all the things I have learned. I love you all!

This picture is in the internet cafe we use every Monday and it makes me laugh...gotta love those Mexicans!

Hermana Heywood