Hermana Heywood Serving in Mexico City East: Martin Carrerra

Alright family you will not believe what has gone down this week! I honestly do not know where to start so I will start with this.... today I hit 10 months on the mish... craziness! I don't like how fast time is going by!

In the metro waiting for divisions.

We had divisons on Wednesday and I went to Balbuena (its the same stake as Mocetzuma) and so it was fun to be close and to see some faces I already know! Then I was pumped because we got a call from the Zone leaders and said that all of the of us needed to go to the stake center to get trash cans to fill up with water because they were going to shut off the water in the colonia... anyways so we went and it just so happens you have to walk through Mocetzuma to get to the stake center so I got to walk through my old territory and I went and said hi real quick to familia Galicia in their store and it was all fun! I was with hna Chavez so that was fun... we always have a good time! But while i was gone for a day on divisones a lot went down here in a Carrera.........

First of all we have these two newish investigators that contacted us outside of our door one day and said they wanted to learn more... so our second cita with them was this past week and it turns out they are christian missionaries trying to convert us... the audacity! haha I guess they made hna Woodard do a weird christian prayer at the end of the cita and the cita was in the park so hahah yeah that was funny!

And then Javier (Micheal McClean) tried to break up with us! He came and tried to give back his book of Mormon and tell us he couldn't do it anymore but we put one more cita with him in the CV and prayed un buen! Well it turns out the next day we go to the CV and one of the CV hermanas taught him so good and so dang he was like "Okay I cant stop learning", and it was awesome! And the thing is is that is baptismal date was set for this past Sunday so we said "Javier you are ready" and he was like "no hnas" and we were like "yes" and then what do you know... we set a cita for his interview with our district leader and he passed and he got BAPTIZED! Miracle, right?

Javier's baptism!

Practicing for the slam dunk!

Of course something has to go wrong because the church is not as smooth here in Mexico as it is in the states and when we show up Sunday for his baptism there was no water in the font! haha So what happened is that we called the elders we share the building with the night before and told them to start the water when they got there to church (because their time is at 8 am) but they call us at like 10:30 (the baptism was suppose to happen at 11) and tell us they decided to clean the font and it just started filling up! The thing with the font is that it takes 3 hrs to fill up! So we got there and found every bucket we could and started filling the font with every bucket of water possible! We were using the water spout from the janitors closet thing... from the well... from the hose... EVERYTHING! And then at about 11:40 we started the baptism! Shout out to the 6 elders that helped us fill up the font, Javier was baptized by a youth in our ward named Gustavo!Another thing was the stake presidente showed up to our services that day for sacrament and for once the ward actually started on time (our services start at 12) so we ended the baptism with a prayer and we ran into sacrament and got in there for the last verse of the sacrament song and it was all good! He was confirmed after we partook of the sacrament and now Javier is a baptized man with the gift of the holy ghost! #HOLA

Also you would not believe what else happened this week.... So you all know how I just LOVE cats right? Well it just so happens that on Thursday night one got into our house... how who knows but it was in there and marked its territory! The funny thing was we woke up at like 3 in the morning because something was crying and I was like hna woodard there is something crying in our bathroom and she was like hna nothing is in our house and so we both went back to bed! Two white girls living in Mexico City hear something in there house crying at 3 in the morning and do nothing! You might ask why we didn't do anything well its because we were EXHAUSTED and we didn't want to move so we both feel right back to sleep. Well when we woke up that morning we were in for a surprise! The fetching Gato sprayed EVERYTHING... garments, bags, q-tips... EVERYTHING! So we got permisson from presidente to go use the washing and drying machines in the CV because it is free and we had so much stuff to wash and we can't wash garments in a lavandería so we went! WE washed everything and now it smells a lot better! haha but a dang cat got into our house..... we were thinking maybe it got in through one of the windows that was open but we don't understand how it got into our cement house that is tall and there is nothing for a cat to get down to ground level from the roof but yes it was a fun week!

A real dryer! It's been months!

So in summary for all of those who think I write too much... our Christian investigators are trying to baptize us, a cat sprayed on all of our stuff in the house, and Fransico Javier Casteneda Hernadez got baptized!

Also today we went to a mercado because we both wanted sweatshirts that are less expensive and hna woodard wanted a mexican dress! We went with hna chavez and Fuque and hno de la Peña from Balbuena drove us so that was fun he drove us past cool stuff in the mish i had never seen! It was fun and we are tired and we are pumped to work and find more people this week!

CV Sisters....you need to clean your lint traps!

Waiting for our dryer to finish!

All is well here in Martin Carrera and we are happy, exhausted and working hard! I love you all and oh Chris the mini-mish, that is sick! You should bring your fake comp a present because that is the best to get free stuff from members... you guys can change ties or something that seems to be the thing with elders and take him some of moms cookies or something! Have fun livin the mish life for a weekend and hey take pics and send them to me!!!!!!!!!! Also Mom I am proud of you, you are a champ for taking ice skating class and the trick to spinning is to spot on object while you spin and whip your head around to try to spot the object at all times! Well that's what it is like in dance anyways idk about ice skating! I gotta go but love you all and have a good week and keep on being happy living the gospel... la verdad its the only way to truly be happy! Love you all adios!

Hermanita Heywood