Querido Familia... este semana fue MUY BIEN!
LAUREN IS HAVING A CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYY
I am very very very happy that the fam is growing and that
when I get home I will have two new sobrinos... so crazy.
Ah conference was so so so good! But first I will
answer your questions madre... first, yes we have sufficente funds here in Mexico, we are able to buy our fruits and veggies here and there is a Walmart
that is a 15 minute walk from our apt! Two, we watched conference in the
stake center and it was cool because most of the people from the stake were
there because they don't really have WIFI in their houses and it is just more
fun to be all together. Way cool about the new apostales! Three, idk about the
whole hiking thing but we got permission from Presidente so yeah! And Luke...yes, rules do
apply in Mexico. I am very obedient! My comp tells me sometimes I am too obedient
which is not okay we are working on here to believe there is no such thing as
too much obedience!!!! Four, my favorite talks included... Elder Utchdorf, Holland, Pres Nelson (loved that one) and Bednar. I really loved his talk a lot. Yes, it was my first conference in Spanish and it was really good. I understood
almost everything... sometimes the story's were harder to understand! But I loved it as always!
Everything is good here in Izcalli... we have been working
on finding neuvos this week because we don't have a ton of investigadores and we
found 8ish so yay!!!!!!!! One is named Carlos, we found him on the street and I think at the time he was a little drunk but we went to a cita with him and
found out he has a problem with the word of wisdom and it trying to work on it
and wants to change his life so yay! He went to the priesthood session because
he had work on Sunday and wasn't able to go to the others but he is a good guy
and he has a baptismal date for the 1st of Nov. We also had a really cool
experience this week. We were walking to the chapel because we had to give the elders our receipts to get reimbursed and on our way we ran into a menos activo
member and she was like hnas I need your help this store needs to be dedicated
and we were like um okay idk if we can do that we will go ask the elders and
come back and anyways they didnt really think we could dedicate a tinda so we
just went and prayed with the store owner named Luz, the menos activa, and
luz´s daughters! After we were talking to her and poor thing... she has 4
kids... the oldest daughter is 10 her husband is in prison and she is pregnant!
We were talking to her about trials and she was crying and it was just really
good... so we went on Sunday and they are awesome and so receptive and Luz just
needs the gospel in her life right now and she knows it. Her cute two daughters
that are 8 and 10 also are really loving it and we are gonna try to take them tomorrow
to the primary activity and all that jazz! But we love them and they are doing
great. Also Magali one of our other investigators is awesome she is progressing
really well and we just love her and her daughter... we are gonna try to see if her husband wants to learn more because he doesn't really listen to our lessons
but we are gonna try to help him feel the spirit and have the desire to learn
more.
Oh, also funny story this week... we were talking to Luz
outside her tinda on Saturday to confirm our cita and there were these two
drunk men standing outside with us two trying to talk to us about the
"word of God" jaja any ways they were great drunks and we taught them
how to pray and in return they gave us this candle they were carrying with them
and it is the candle of st. Judas and they made me translate the prayer on the
back into English and I was trying so hard to leave their candle but they would
not let us leave without the our St. Judas prayer candle so of course we took a pic
with it haha! oh also this week haha this old couple in our ward gave us some
candies when we left their house they were like ohhh its chocolate and
vanilla... so we popped them into our mouths as we were walking home and I was
like umm this is not vanilla and hna. woodford was like yeah this chocolate is
not chocolate... so we looked at the wrappers haha it was rum and coffe
flavored! haha we were dying laughing! This old couple are the funniest people I think we have ever met... they just remind me of a movie or something! The work is good here, we are just working really hard to have more new people and
help out those menos activos. I am just so happy we had conference and I feel spiritually recharged to go out and baptize the world. One of our
investigators right now Itzel, poor thing, she has been investigating the
church for almost 2 years and wants to get baptized but her husband won't get
married so she can't and so this week we are gonna do a big fast with her to
help her husband have a change of heart and we want to start teaching him... so
if you would all like please fast of the husband of Itzel to have a change of
heart... because poor thing she was saying how she feels like she doesn't belong
anywhere because her family judges her when she goes to the catholic church and
then in the ward she feels like she doesn't belong because she has been an
investigator forever and feels like people don't understand why she isn't
baptized! Ahh I feel for her.
con amor, Hermana Heywood
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| Here is our Candle haha! |
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