Martin Carerra - La Virgen

Hello a todos!!

I found this picture on CNN. 

   Well this week was CRAZY! We were not allowed to be in our area for 3 days because well, it was Virgen day on the 13th and it was really crazy around here... there was so many parades and its was sad but funny at the same time! So people here LOVE the virgen and they were literally in the streets carrying massive statues in their hands with their virgen T-shirt and if their statue was too big of the virgen they had a glass box strapped to their back in order to show their virgen pride!
Jaja and our area was crazy because we have the biggest catholic church in Mexico or even Latin America.. not sure but it is 5 mins from our house in the neighboring ward so nobody from our zone could be in their areas for that time. So we got sent to the CV and we stayed in the dorms with the CV sisters and and we worked in the areas of one of the sisters since they can only be in their area 4 hours a day and then we worked in the secretary's area for awhile to find them new people to teach. So it was fun but it kinda stunk because we didn't get anything done in our area but that is okay this week we have a lot to do so yay! 

Here is the Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe; One of the most important pilgrimage sites of Catholicism, the basilica is visited by several million people every year, especially around 12 December, Our Lady of Guadalupe's Feast day. (From Wikipedia)

  And sorry mom, my camera was dying so we didn't take very many pictures.  The CV dorms have washers and dryers so it was so nice because we got to wash our garments not by hand!!! Man that was so nice and we dried our towels all I can say is we are #blessed! jaja  The sad thing is I don't know very many people here. WE did meet this cool family and only one of the teenage girls is baptized so we are working with them and also the cutest 7 year old that turns 8 in a couple weeks... his grandma is a member so she always takes him but since he wasn't born under the covenant we have to teach him... his name is Iker and he is so so cute! Also today hna woodford emailed me and Isabel and Augustin got married yaya!!! I don't know when her baptism is but I hope I can get permission to go! Also Odalys and Vanessa are getting baptized on the 27th so I will call pres to see if I can go... if not, I will not be happy and they want me to speak so I better get to go haha! 

Oh also we had the temple of Tijuana events this week so we went to the cultural celebration and it was good... haha a little weird because they were playing worldly music and we had permission to listen to it but the dancing was good and it was good and the dedication was really good. WE only got to go to 2 because the other one was at like 5 pm and our stake wasn't showing it! The temple looks so nice we will have to take a road trip and go and do a session there! Oh also sorry mom I didn't take pics of the house because it is messy because they are re-doing one of the rooms and we are living out of our suit cases so yeah I will send pics next week! Oh also hna Woodard is awesome and we get ALONG really well and yesterday was her birthday so we made cake and it was fun! Also um I will email you next Monday about what time to skype and everything if that's okay! But yeah that is about it not much happened besides la virgencita is ruining our time to find neuvos haha but this week we will find a ton and we are planning on baptizing week to week in January so we need to find a lot of people that are ready for that! I love you all so much and I loved all the pics you sent and have fun on all your vacations and also dad send Carmel my condolences.  Love you all and talk to you next week!!!

love hna heywood