Martin Carrera - Holy Cow

Dear fam bam.... 

    Today I shall start with a story .... the other day we were teaching Iker the cute little 8  year old that is getting baptized the 10th of April. Anyways I showed him a pic of the Gilbert temple and he said... "what the F$"%" jajaja we were trying so hard not to laugh so instead we taught him to say holy cow... and we told him to teach all his grosero friends in school that that is cooler! But yeah his madre just gave him permission for his baptism!! 

   Honestly we saw un buen de milagros este semana! It was a crazy week but a good week. Well i think a couple weeks back I told you about Angeles she is Gibrons (recent convert) sister. Anyways we started teaching her and then she moved back to the state of Mexico and now she is back for good and she is also planning on her baptism the 10th of April! We had a super good lesson with her this past week about the plan of salvation... and man I love that lesson SO MUCH! It just strengths my testimony every time I teach it because I really know and understand my purpose her in life! And that I am a daughter of God! It was really good and me and Angeles are buds and I just feel like she gets me and I get her and I know we are gonna be GREAT BUDS! 

   Also there is this menos activo familia that is awesome but the dad has drug and drinking probs... so when he is doing that stuff the family doesn't go.. sometime his kids go with their grandma hna valdez but the wife and daughter don't go unless he is doing good!  Anyways he was like sober for 3 days and then yeah he fell again... but we had a killer lesson with him and we are gonna help him get back! 

Also we found some KILLER menos activos this week! One is named Elda and her story breaks my heart... she wants to come back but she has ZERO money and the church is far and she just got a job and now she has to go to work at 9:30 and we have church at 10 so we went to a different building and went with her at 8! I just feel such a strong spirit when we can see someone take the sacramnet again after such a long time.  Elda is cool and we are gonna help her son get on a mission... he is also less active. 

Also would you like to know why this week was crazy... well we had divisions and I went to Olivos with hna Houghten and when we were eating we got a call from the secretary and they said tomorrow I had to be in the offices at 8 to go renew my visa ... and well we were in the state of Mexico for divisons because their area isn't in the city so we woke up early... went to the offices ended divisons there and had a nice little feel of the rich city life! Got my visa so I will be here longer YAY and yeah. Then we got home ran around like crazy getting ready for our noche de hogar (FHE) and it was awesome! we played Jeopardy!

Later on in the week han mortensons knee was super bad so we went to the drs and today we had to go down town to find a knee brace that fits her!!! but it was cool where we were and we took lots of selfies!!!! It was a good week and man oh man I just love the mish... I hit a year this Friday! crazy! But honestly the mish has changed my life and I am so happy I am here serving these people! Sounds like everything at home is good!  Love you all I am about to send a ton of pics!!!

love hna heywood

I am not going to label all these; just know they are Hnas Heywood and Mortensen and are either at the Basilica or in the City....

Gustavo likes to go teach with the Hnas