Moctezuma - #blessed

Well fam, how is everything going in AZ... yes you might be asking why is Dana emailing AGAIN just to let  you know NO i am not a FRITA.... (mexi slang for a crappy missionary that breaks the rules).  No we have p-day this Thursday because we will not be having a p-day next week... even though we thought that this week was no p-day,  Presidente changed his mind again...haha 

 BUT...

 The Temple AHHHHHHHHHH! We had a big meeting about the Temple on Monday with all the sisters in the Northwest mission, and the Southeast mission and all of the area 70´s were there and also Eduardo Carbajal and I think he may have sent Grandma a picture.... but it was really cool and we got to go into the Temple. I can't even explain how beautiful it is inside... BEAUTIFUL! And it is just amazing how strong the spirit is and it isn't even dedicated yet. So it was super cool, all the 70´s gave us a tour and we were with Elder Piper and it was cool to talk to him and the fact that a 70 of the church was giving us a tour of the third biggest temple in the world!  The spirit was SO STRONG! It was really cool in one of the instructional rooms we had a little devotional and Elder Kent Richards, a different 70, gave a message about women and the priesthood and it was just really spiritual and a moment in my life that I will never forget! Then later that day we started giving the tour things.... we basically just stay in a room and welcome people and then show them a really good video of 10 minutes about temples and give them some of the basic info and send them on their way into the temple! It is fun because we are with all the sisters from our mission and our shifts are with the South East sisters too, but its fun because all 8 of us in the East mission have been able to get to know each other a lot better and it is fun.

To See a Slideshow of the Temple, Click Here

  So on Monday in the afternoon we started giving tours in the afternoon and then on Tuesday we went in the afternoon and it was cool because it was the VIP so important people in Mexico, like people from government or big companies and head people in the Catholic church in Mexico, and they made me do a tour thing in English and I couldn't do it....ahhh its so hard to talk about the gospel in English.... SO HARD! So yeah hahah it was in Spanglish but that's okay the spirit was still present! That has been the biggest thing that happened this week and tomorrow starts the open house for the general public so its gonna be crazy! We are way excited. Also it has been kinda hard to work in our area just because we have been at the temple a lot but yesterday was the first full day we have had in our area in like a week so we got some good work done and yeah it was great! 

Also there is gonna be a lot of work to do when the temple starts because there is gonna be a ton of references that we will get from people going! On Monday alone there was a huge stack, like massive of references and one of them we read said "I felt as though Christ was with me inside...how do I become a member of this church".... way cool huh? 

  As for the color scheme, Madre....it is a lot of white and browns and bronze...the baptistery is really cool and the ox are like a dark dark bronzish brown and it is super cool and the font itself had the Aztec design on the outside and then a massive mural on all of the walls of the mountains of Mexico.  Also the temple has escalators!!!!!!! Its so big and tall you have to take escalators haha we were like what the heck this is so cool, but I guess when its the 3rd biggest temple in the world you have to have those to get around.  The temple art work in the temple is so amazing.... when you walk in the entrance there is a picture of Christ with two little lamanite girls and it is now one of my favorite pictures ever... it is also the picture on the reference card so I will take a picture of it and send it you. The celestial room is really cool and white with lots of gold and cool patterns and the chandelier is so cool and different, I just LOVE IT ALL!  These next couple of weeks are gonna be just so so so good! 

Hermana Gantz is awesome and just so excited to be here and she is a hard worker so we are getting stuff done #holla

Oh also Hna Rhoten was talking to Presidente and 4 new hermanas are coming next month and there is only 6 of us right now...haha so all of us that are training are gonna not finish our training and get another hija and then one of our hijas is gonna train and then the other two would just go to together and finish their training together hahah so yeah that's what happens when there is no sisters in the mish its crazy! 

  Also all our investigadores are really good we have also been teaching a cousin of Valentin ...the member that is in our ward and she (Diana) and her husband (Ivan) are really interested and her little girl that is 9 (Camie) and then they also have a 7 year old (Sebastian) but we are gonna work hard with them to get them to the casa abierta because that is just what they need to learn about eternal families! We are also still working with Maricela and she is going great and then Mercedes, we haven't been able to find her in a while with our crazy schedules.  We have some great investigators right now and there is just lots to do! 

I love you all here are some pictures!

Us at the Temple

I saw Hermana Nava, one of my CCm teachers here at the temple.  It was good to see her and talk to her in pure Spanish #goalachieved!