Martin Carrera - Hola

Hey there fam bam... well life is so so so good here in Martin Carrera. We have a ton of work right now and we are pumped!!! Baptizing week to week has been a goal of mine since I got to the mish and this Sunday will be the start! Carlos will be baptized this coming Sunday between conference sessions! He is pumped and he has invited all of his family! Then next week Naomi is getting baptized.. she is the cutest little 9 year old. We just started teaching her this week and she has been going to church with her cousin who is the primary presidente... her parents are both less actives but we are trying to get her mom back... her mom doesn't go because her husband is alcoholic... and she works to support the family.. she works a couple jobs so that is why she can't get to church. They both are really excited for the baptism of her and so are we she is such a sweet heart and actually enjoys reading in the book of Mormon! Then Rogelio should be baptized in three weeks and he is really excited... he just need to get mas asistencia and we need to finish the lessons with him. but he really is someone prepared for the gospel and yeah good things coming... also GUESS WHAT! 

   We just heard today that Elder Dallin H Oaks is coming to the mish in three weeks!!! the 16th of April! We are PUMPED! We thought something was going down... because pres asked hna Mortenson to lead music at a special meeting that is coming up and told us he had to send the agenda to salt lake and we were like... hmmmm something's going down! So yeah we are really excited!! 

Also everyone else is doing good... Orfe still has doubts about which church is true but left today for vacation for a week so we will see her on Saturday! Angeles is doing good but we saw her smoking the other day in the street so we will just work with her a little bit more to help her!!  This last week was vacation here and this week is too... so that means NOBODY IS HERE! haha it just makes missionary work a little bit harder but all is well! Funny story this week we were helping Niyeli and Osvaldo get a blessing so he can stop smoking drink etc and we got to their house late so they left real quick and we were there with the elders .... and then they came back and Osvaldo had his dang bird on his shoulder... they went to the market with is bird on his shoulder... actually last time we had fhe he wanted to bring his bird ahah! Honestly this week was really fast. 

The traditions here are basically for the catholic church... so the whole week is celebrated especially fri, sat, sun. On Friday they go from church to church... on Saturday its called sabado de gloria... Saturday of glory and what they do is go around in the street getting people wet to baptize them or that is what is symbolizes... anyways he figured we wouldn't walk on certain streets so that we wouldn't get wet.  We walked down one we didn't expect and there was a bunch of grown men chasing each other with water balloons, water guns etc and then they started yelling gueritas gueritas... SABADO DE GLORIA! and we were like crap... and we walked faster and then we heard them behind us and so I cringed expecting a water balloon thrown at my back and then they all started laughing and saying... gaurita es broma es broma no se preocupe amiga... and then we laughed with them and went on our way... but yeah close one there hahah! Then on Sunday here is just normal church and fairs in the street with a whole bunch of drunk men! haha so super fun! 

Sounds like everything is good at home... the womens conference we got late to and I was really confused as to why there was a whole bunch of black and asian women in the Salt Lake choir... haha! One of the hnas said.. this is deff a hand picked choir! hahah After hearing some of the talks, I got it, refugees and all! Sorry I don't have a ton of fotos today.. we went to a mall looking for crocs and we couldn't find any.. mom would you be willing to buy some for me... I heard you can buy them on amazon.... just some black ones that are undercover would be great!!!!! let me know if you have questions! Know that I am happy and we are doing good over here in Martin Carerra! jaja love ya fam... have a good week! and well THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!

love hna Heywood