Martin Carrera - Bienvenidos a El Papa

Dear Fam BAM! Well well well this week was crazy with the Pope and everything. We had to leave our area last Thursday and we didn't get back in the area till Sunday night! But I guess it was crazy and all the roads were closed and a lot of the people here were not happy with his visit because it was so much money for him to be here. But hey its all good. Well before we got kicked out of our area we had a good two and a half days here in Carrera.

Here we are with our nice gifts.

   We have been focusing on all the people we have found in the last couple weeks and getting them into teaching and what not. One of the new couples we are teaching are named Gilberto and Patricia and they are cool. Anyways fumy story this week we were teaching them and there Dad was sitting on the lesson and her Dad is OLD and CATHOLIC! hah anyways he was like oh you are Mormons i am not going to say anything to you guys I will keep my opinion to myself... so the whole lesson he didn't say anything just sat in the corner and listened. And then after we had ended with the prayer he was like OKAY can I just say something.... you Mormons are crazy and he just went off and he was like so I have a present for you girls because I want to help you and he gave us a alcoholics anonymous book and told us to read it and it would CHANGE OUR LIVES FOREVER! haha Our investigators were both just laughing so hard at us and they said, "don't listen to him he is crazy" and he was like NO this is your tarea and you have to read it and show me the parts you highlighted. haha So we have those books now! Everyone is doing good here we are just trying to get more people to accept baptismal dates!

   Well Thursday morning we had to go to CV and we went and were secretaries in the offices for a couple hours till presidente got out of a meeting to tell us what we are suppose to do. Well then we worked in the CV that day and it was fun! We did this thing called teaching center and its from mormon.org where is says they can chat... well when people do chat they are actually talking to hnas from the CV all over the world. So that was cool and I chatted with some interesting people. Then they can also call and my settings were in English and Spanish so I did both and it was so weird to teach on the phone in English.  I mean I was totally talking spanglish. Its hard to use gospel vocabulary in Englias but it was fun. We also gave one tour in the CV and it was fun. Mine I gave yesterday; it was a couple that meet on internet they are both members and their first date was yesterday at the CV and it was valentines day and they were talking about when they were gonna have their sealing and me and the hna were like WHAT .. today is the first time you have meet physically and you are talking about marriage! Crazy

With our home girls; Dias and Cordova

   The rest of the time we did divisones with the hnas in their areas because they either go to their areas in the morning or in the afternoon. It was fun to learn from them and also because they are all latinas so they helped me correct some of my spanish grammar errors! I worked with hnas Rivas from Ecuador, Hna Diez from Hidalgo Mexico, Hna Candido from Brasil and hna Hernadez from Mexico. It was fun and they were all so fun and different and they think me and hna woodard are crazy jaja buts its just because we are happy! While we were in the CV we taught the hnas how to use a dishwasher because none of them knew what it was hahah. We also got to wash our clothes and I was able to take a hot shower for like 30 mins it was CRAZY! Also guess what we saw the cat on our roof the other night that peeded on everything ahhh dang cat. haha But all is well here in Mexico , I hope you are all doing good and everyone is happy. LAUREN FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS! And happy late valentines day! Love you all here are some pics!

love Hermanita Heywood

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Our suitcases are filled with our laundry!