Valle - TURN DOWN FOR WHAT

Why hello there fam bam! How goes everything in good old burning hot Arizona?

Us on divisions!

   Sounds like life up there has been interesting with some fun adventures. Well as you all know life here in México is FABULOUS! This week was yet again full of miracles and  I couldn't be happier! First of all we had divisions and it was kind of a mess because the hnas got here 2 hours late but that is okay it was all good and we had lots of good lessons with our peeps here in las Americas. It was fun to eat with four hnas in the comida and to come home and have funny storys to tell to the other hnas.

We have divisons this week with the other hnas so it will be just great. 

   Okay this week was also EFY/ youth conference here in our stake. I guess it was more like a youth conference and it was cool because we got to help on Saturday. All the youth came with the missionaries and we visited less active members. So I went with 3 young women to a  cita and it was so good. They were so cute and it was super spiritual and the hna was crying we visited and the jovens and I was glad they liked it so much! It was cool because yesterday all the youth shared their testimonies in sacrament and I guess that act made a huge impact on all of them.  We saw major miracles all the less actives that were visited CAME TO CHURCH! Man there is such a strong power in the youth here. 

   So funny story when I was there in the stake center when it was ending I accidentally peed on my skirt (don't ask how just accept it) and tried to wash it out and man oh man had to ride home in a combi (public transportation that looks like a rapist car) with my wet skirt. Ya know classic me moment and hna saylor was like oh my hna why do such weird things happen to you.... so that was fun and now hna saylor just makes fun of me. 

  Also Beto and Gabi are doing AMAZING! Honestly the first time we went with Gabi and her hubbie Beto she didn't want ANYTHING! But when she came to church last week she loved it and came again this week and LOVED IT! And we went last night and she was crying and saying hnas I didn't want anything to do with your church but...... I know its what I need and what God wants me to do. And they want us to come and teach their 16 year old daughter too because I guess she is a little bit rebellious.  We are so happy and they will be getting baptized soon... just need to get married 1st! 

This is what happens when the hair stylist next

door listens to her non spiritual music!! 

  Also funny story of the week... so we live right behind the hair salon in our little apt.  It has been closed since I got here... but now its been re opened with a new owner... and while we were studying they started to play music and it was the classic mexi banda that all of Mexico listens to and then we hear.... TURN DOWN FOR WHAT! we literally were dying and hna Saylor being ever so dramatic was like laugh-crying. Good thing it was just during our Spanish study time because the spirit was deff gone after that song ahaha! 

Also miracle: Vane (Silvia and Armando's daughter) who doesn't like the church went to the 1st day of youth conference and loved it!!! like LOVED IT!! She was showing us a ton of pics and was super happy... but then she got sick and couldn't go the other days :( but she said she will now listen to us when we come to her house so yayyy! Lots of good things going here. Lots of people are getting closer and closer to baptism and its has been amazing to see their process to change. I LOVE THIS GOSPEL AND I KNOW THE CHURCH IS TRUE! I think you all should take advantage to share the gospel with our neighborhood since not many on our block our members because everyone needs the gospel in their lives!!

Us with Vane today. we went with her and made some shakes

because we are trying to get her to listen to us more!

Don't judge....this is 7 in the morning, enjoying a strawberry.

Well love you all so so much!
con amor
hermanita heywood 💙

We are so sad the Anthonys just left this week because they finished

their mission we will miss them!!! They worked in the office! 

Have a glimpse of our lunch and our apartment

Caught in the rain

ps interviews got pushed back to next week so I will confirm the extension next week. péace and blessings

#blessed #milagros #ILOVEMEXICO

Elder Oaks!

Dear Fam!

   Well sounds like you are all doing good even though the world is falling apart! Sounds like some bad stuff is going down in the U.S. and around the world...everyone just needs the gospel in their lives! As for me, well, life is so good here! 

   Um this week was just great and we saw lots of miracles as always and it was just a great week! First of all you all remember Beto right (#1homie) well his wife has been listening to us for a little bit now and didn't want ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE CHURCH... but she came on Sunday and LOVED IT! When we walked in and saw her there sitting with Beto we freaked out and hna Saylor cried ahah it was that good! Plus, she said she is coming next week too!!!! 

Also Claudia and Ricardo and their two sons all accepted fecha yayyy the only thing is they want to get baptized Oct 1st because that is when the youngest son will turn 8. We will help them realize they should do it faster and then Ricardo can baptize his son... but we are just happy they want it so much. They are definitely people that are ready for the gospel.  They just love everything we teach them and their kids love it even more. The little boy Hasiel last night gave the first pray and asked for a cow and a dog in his prayer probs the cutest thing I have ever heard!! 

Also we are starting divisons this week... now the hnas are all coming to our area and spend a whole day here! We now have four beds in the house and lots of desks and yeah fun stuff! But not much else happened. We had another meeting with Pres. and I just love him and sis Neumann they are the best and I am so glad I can learn from them for a little bit of time!

love you all so so so mucho!!!

con mucho amor
hna Heywood

Oh and also....This is from Pres!!! Ahh I love him I didn't even tell him I wanted to extend but he is just so spiritual he already knows and probs because everyone told him hahaha!!! We have interviews this Wednesday! 

"Gracias Hermana Heywood. It is good to hear that things are going well. You briefly hinted this week that you may consider extending your mission. We can talk more about this during our interview. I am glad that you have felt joy in your mission enough to want to continúe this great work. You could extend until November 1st if you wanted. Just think about it some more and I promise that the Lord will speak to your heart. In the end, it is your decisión. 

You are a great Hermana. You have a great spirit about you and I know that you will accomplish great things in your life, school, etc. I am glad that I get to be your mission president for a few months.

Tenga una buenisima semana
Presidente Naumann

Valle - Todo Bien

Hey there fam bam! 

  How goes it in AZ! I hope that everyone is doing well and you are all enjoying the beautiful hot weather in good old Gilbert! Well we had another WONDERFUL week here in Ecatepec. LOTS OF WORK! 

   For starters after I logged off last week we got caught in the rain as always but we found Ziara and she accepted a fecha para baustimo so yay! She is super cute 18.... her mom got baptized right before I got to this area. And then we had zone conference in Estrella so that was fun to see the old zone... hna Mortenson is doing awesome! She looked super happy and guess who got baptized... Orfe! That makes me super happy! Zone conference was just so great... Presidente Naumann blew everyones mind again and man it was just a good conference. His family was there. His two kids are cute and they both bore their testimonies in spanish #champs 

The week was just full of lots of work! We went to the CV yesterday with Silvia and Armando and Vane. It was good and their hijita was like a little happy to be there... she doesn't like to listen to us... just a little bit rebellious or however you spell that! and it was awesome we went with familia Guerrero and they were awesome and instant friends with Sil y Armando and it was just great! ummmm I am trying to think what else happened OH 

Yesterday we went to Valle ... so our ward used to have elders also but now it doesn't so we can't really work in their area because its far and we have to take a metro bus thing but a less active asked us to visit her and her family because she wants to baptize her 9 year old son. Anyways last time we went our cita was TERRIBLE because the member that came with us was arguing with her husband about doctrine stuff and the we were there for like two hours because they were arguing ... anyways he didn't come with us this time and the spirit was SO STRONG! Her husband has listened to the missionaries for 14 years and yesterday was like awesome and we just taught the basic about the trinity and he just loved it and we will see if they are gonna progress but that got us really excited. Also this joven named Carlos who just barely hit a year as a member and we have been trying to help him get on a mish and last night he told us he wanted to and asked his mom if she would give him her blessing and she said no and he said well okay that doesn't matter to me I am gonna go so YAY we are excited for him. So as you can see good things going!

Oh also funny story so we didn't have service on the phone Saturday night at all! And with pres being new and all we didn't know how we was gonna do cambios... well funny story they did them Saturday night and we had NO IDEA! On Sunday morning when we were in a car of a member on the way to church the hnas called us from Moctezuma to see if we knew what was going on with the rest of the hnas for cambios and we were like WHHHATTTTT!  Ha yeah we totally missed all the cambio news but hey we stayed together we  are the only ones really that stayed together, a ton of people had changes!!!!!!!!!!!!! but yeah life is good the mish is GREAT... still have to ask pres to extend... we have interviews  in like two weeks so we will see what he says! 

Love you all!!! Have a great week!!

love hna heywood 

Today an hna taught us how to make flan!!!!  So I will make you all some when I get home

#soGOOD so good! 

Shout out to Maddie Heywood for leaving her extra pesos and a note for me at the temple! I was sad I didn't get to see her but I still love her!

Valle - LET FREEDOM RING #Merica

Okay as I was saying hey there fam bam how goes it??

 Presidente Naumann is so so so amazing. luckily we had a meeting with him on Friday and man oh man like he is a whole different level. I was like crying within the first 5 minutes when he shared his testimony and then my mind was blown by the simple doctrine he taught us like wow we are so blessed to be learning from him! He is just what our mission needs. On Wednesday we have zone conference so that way everyone can meet him! Me and hna Saylor are really excited to learn more from him! And his wife is super cool she is from Finland and has an accent in English.  They met on their mission when they both served in Florida. She knows a lot of Spanish but doesn't speak fluid yet. WE felt bad for her because with our meeting with them she looked kinda lost its just a lot of Spanish ya know. Then after the big meeting; us and hna Woodard and Houghton that are also coordinadoras had some questions for him about rules for us sisters in the field because we had some different rules for our safety and man it was fun we did it in English and I am pumped to see what him and his wife do to the mission. They are power houses especially when hna Nuamann can talk. so I already love them.. of course I miss the Anayas but I think the Naumanns are what we need right now as missionaries.

He taught us some cool doctrine about receiving answers... he used the bro of Jared story and talked about how the lord responds to the three different questions the brother of Jared has and how for the light he gave him a direct and clear answer and to get to the promised land he told him not to worry and about the light he told him he needed to find a way and then he would help him. and pres focused on how the lord wants us to become like him so sometimes he doesn't give us an answer because he wants to see what we choose. We know that our heavenly father had a lot of decisions to make in order to become what he is ... and if we are to become like him we also are to make decisions when he gives us the chance too. MIND BLOWN it really helped me because I have been thinking a lot about what I want to study and I know the lord knows that hey you need to make the decision.. so yeah it will help me and I am grateful and from now on I will always be grateful for when the lord lets me choose even though its easier to follow a clear answer from him... sorry lots of typos... pero ya ni modo! 

Also this week in the work it was good. There is lots of things to be done here... Jeny is no longer moving to Merida so now we are just helping her to decide what she is gonna do about her lame boyfriend! Also Pati we just started teaching her and her fam and last week she had a lot of concerns about the virgen and was sad we don't worship her... so we just told her give her praying to god a week and see what happens... well well well she was like HERMANAS DIOS ES MUCHO MEJOR DE LA VIRGEN HE VISTO MILAGROS!  We were like YES haha she was like I have always asked and asked and asked the virgen and she never does anything and the day I start asking god all these miracles started to happen! See why life is good!  I  love it here and I shall be asking pres Neumann soon about extending! But just know that I love you all and I know that the leaders of this church are truly called of god! 

love dana!!! 

ps be careful with the moose and the best pic award goes to Taylor and Chris's spill... also Brooke and Jared's was pretty good! duces

Yesterday we were waiting for an Hna to take us home so we took pics with her daughter and the other ninas!  So cute!

We had to sleep in the dorms Thursday night because the meeting was early and it takes 2 hours to get to the temple on the metro in the morning. anyway we found gems and we were a bit bored so this is what happened!

Zone

My Agenda today!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY FROM ZONA ECATEPEC! #godblesstheUSA

Me and hna saylor and some elders started a water fight and then everyone ended up getting wet so yay fun stuff! 

ps isn't my jersey the best thing you have ever seen... I am so proud of it haha!