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!

Valle - its raining and didn't bring my sobrilla

Hna Saylor gets a new selfie stick.

 Hey fam... sorry if this email is all over the place I am so tired but HAPPY! Hna saylor always gets mad at me for being lazy and NOT bringing an umbrella because she always has one that explains my subject line. So this week so was great! we had divisons with bosques and I was with mi hijita HNA WOODFORD! It was really fun to be with her .. love that girl and she has become quite the splendid missionary. Love her and it was fun to see her in action; talking Spanish with confidence and seeing what a hard worker she is! May I say family; we have seen miracles on miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hijita Hna Woodford love her

  Guess how many families we found this week.....like 7....I have lost track because we found SO MANY! They all are so willing to listen and we are just #blessed I LOVE VALLE! One of the coolest families is a reference from hna Layte... she gives us like 2 references every week no lie! So in this family the oldest son who is 21 just got part of his leg cut off because he had an infection... and he was a super good soccer player and a soccer coach and man poor guy his whole life changed but he is probs the happiest person I have ever met in my life... me and hna saylor were just like WOW he's awesome! Super cool family and they just need the gospel in their lives!  Good stuff happening aquí en fresa vill! 

Honestly we are tired because we have been all over Mexico City this week at the offices and doing divisons and helping other hermanas that arn't getting along and yeah just all over.  Also BREAKING NEWS... today is the last day with SERGIO... Presidente Anaya... Pres. Naumann gets here tomorrow and we are all just freaking out a little bit! We have a meeting with him Friday so that will be cool to get to know him and his fam... it will be interesting to see if his wife speaks Spanish! 

   Also all is well with our other investigators... we are just trying to help marry them all so they can get baptized! Jeny, Silvia. Armando... y mas!

We had to make a sign for one of the elders investigators

so she could propose and get married to get baptized

 I know this letter is lame but I just don't know what else happened this week... hmmm today we went to the tianguis and that is always fun... we worked on our bargaining so yeah! 

Lately I have been reading a lot of conference talks because we just got the liahona like a week ago and today I read Elder Eyrings about the holy ghost and I just LOVE THAT TALK! It makes me less nervous for the future because as you all know I am not looking forward to leaving the mission life but I know it will be good for me.  His talk just really helped me know that I will be okay and that the answers I need will come because I just don't know what I am going to do with my future but HEY its all good!

Something I do that Hna saylor always rolls her eyes at haha is that when people ask me how long I have in the mish I tell them ahh just a little bit more than a year because I have when people tell me ay hna casi se va a su casa va a ser trunky (yes they say trunky here) and so I don't tell them how much time I have... so fam please lets not talk about time okay! Sorry if none of this makes sense but HEY I will send some pics! les quiero muchsímo! 

hna Heywood

also shout out to maddie her teacher is totes the husband to one of my teachers from the CCM! small world fun!

This week we celebrated medio navidad... entonces feliz medio navidad! 

We bought some cool Mexico jerseys for $10 #killenit! 

Valle - Hush My Child

Hey there homies... if you are wondering what my subject is I shall explian! Okay so yesterday as it being fathers day and all (FELIZ DÍA DEL PADRE DAVID) after we said the closing prayer in sacrament the sec of the ward gets up and was like, "Hey we have a special treat for all of you fathers out there and then the bishop's wife gets up and sings an American song from Piano Guys in the chapel after the closing prayer and then people started clapping! The look on Hna Saylors face said it all APOSTASÌA.  Everyone loved it except for all of the ex missionaries y nosotros out there we were all like OH NO! so yeah you guys should listen to it and then you will know what went down in barrio Valle for fathers day! jaja

  

  This week was FAB! Umm lets talk about #milagros so a goal in the mish is to always have 15 familias in teaching which is super hard but this week we found two more families to teach so we are pumped.  They are like families of 6 so HOLLA! Also we are seeing miracles with Silvia and Armondo... his ex-wife but still wife because he isn't divorced yet is willing to see him and talk about it to have a good clean divorce!  So we are super happy! And I must tell you about Jeny she is are little miracle!

  She was in teaching with the hnas before and then she went on Vacation and then she got back and now she is doing awesome and is getting ready to be baptized the end of this month. Yesterday we went to the CV and it was a really spiritual experience and she was like bawling the whole time and it was so good. Elder Lines, the CV director from Gila Valley gave us the tour and guess what he know the original Dave Heywood.  I think he was his stake pres or something so that is cool and he loves me for it and hugs me and I am like hey that is not allowed! hah but yeah Jeny is doing great... she just has to decide if she is gonna marry her boyfriend or not right now he doesn't live with her but he was before.  Literally, I am going to be a married MASTER! Sometimes we feel like lawyers here divorcing and marring people. 

Also this week I went to Izcalli it was fun to be there with Hna Glauser! I got to see familia Peña who lives above the hnas!  I got hard core gastritis when I was there so that was fun... it just so happened that the district leaders of the hnas in Izcalli where helping us with a cita so after they gave me a blessing. and yeah all good things. 

Oh also this week we had our last Devo with Pres Anaya he leaves in two weeks :( it was really good and we just had a testimony meeting with our zone and me and Hna Saylor brought the zone funfetti cake so it was good. So because so much happened this week I was sad I didnt get to see Maddie in the temple... our communication wasn't great and we had to do divisons on Wednesday so I couldn't get to the temple... its like and hour and a half away from my area. But hey miracles happen once in a while when you believe... we could see each other maybe a diff day.  It was a fab week and I am super happy and tonight we are gonna do a fhe with Silvia and her fam and I think she may have invited the WHOLE WARD TO HER HOUSE! haha she is a very sociable person I just love her.

Tell marie congrats for me. I am pumped she is getting her exaltaion... whos next... luke jared.. okay lets be real, Chris is gonna beat all of us!  Happy fathers day also to Parker and Aaron; way to be dads! Katie a hna from our ward sent you some pics of you FB did you get them ... I think it was through chat or something because mom doesnt have FB... you should respond to her... she is my home girl!  I love you all so so so much! Have a great week and honestly the church is true so don't ever get lazy on the little things in life like praying, reading the scrips, going to church because it is not worth it to loose the small but amazing blessings from obedience! salé?  Peace and love to all

con amor,

hermanita heywood

Our Car to do all our Divisiones

Temple with Jeny

Hna Glauser... yeah the pic is nasty but I love her y Izcalli

Hna Saylor hit 9 months so I made her some pretty shameful pancakes!

Valle - Voy a vivir voy a Bailar

Sorry my subject is that because we have been hearing that song everywhere we go today! But hey how is everyone doing up there in AMERICA! Life is so good here in mexi... in las americas... or valle! So this week was kinda crazy because we had divisons with Moctezuma and its like an hour and a half away from our area... it was fun to be there. I got to see Nacho and he is doing good! and i got to see the Galicia's so that was fun to see them and yeah fun stuff. Funny story ... coming back from divisons we were just gonna meet up in a metro station and the metro was having MAJOR COMPLICATIONS and it took us 2 and a half hours to get back to our area... #mexicocityprobs jaja we were dying because in the metro personal space does not exist entonces fun stuff being smashed between a bunch on men with my stuff for divisons! 

 Well life is good here in my new area... the ward is AWESOME they acutally give us refrences and help us and yeah its great I feel #blessed to be here. our investigators are doing good. Silvia is literally the cutest thing ever and is basically a member she just needs to get married and we are working on it. It was funny.. this morning she called and she was like hnas why wasn't so and so not there yesterday in church should we go visit them and so and so are they sick should i help them with anything.... future relief society pres right there! And her husband was being dumb last week and didn't want to listen to us because he is frustrated about not being able to get divorced so he can get married to Silvia but this week he was doing a lot better and is on board again to get baptized! yay They are a good family... funny story... the other day when we were waiting for them out side of their house a bunch of 12 year olds... ok more like 16 year olds came up to us and invited us to their party and we were like ummm sorry somos las misioneras.. no podemos... tenemos citas... um perdon... haha it was very awkward because we are just white girls in Mexico and 16 year olds want us to come to the their party... hna saylor was like WOW MY FIRST TIME TO EVER BE INVITED TO A PARTY! hah Silvia thought that was pretty funny. 

Also Beto is doing good and his wife is actually really open to learning out everything... when I was teaching  him in izcalli he made it sound like his wife hated everything that had to do with religion but she is actually really cool! Also we were fasting with a recent convert this week to see if he should go on a mission and that was a really cool experience and he seems pretty animated and a little less worried about leaving everything behind for a mission. Also we are just looking for more and more new people to teach and help! not much else to say so yeah life is good.  how are things in Jackson and AZ and Idaho? Dad i am glad you gave me a little bit of info about the Tonys and also it is crazy to think that maddie is in Mexico city... the only thing is idk if i will be able to see her now... I now live in the edge of the mission.. the area furthest from the temple but hopefully we will find a way to see each other! I guis it is cool to know that she has now been to my mission! #MMEpride and haha okay to clear things up hermanita saylor is from Laramie or however you spell it not Lander lol! But yeah that is all ... also on sunday they told me I had to speak when I showed up to church so that was fun but there wasn't a ton of time so I just introduced myself and shared my testimony and experience of how I received my testimony of the Book of Mormon  so yeah good stuff!!! Well love you all so mucho have a great week and tell all of the fam hi for me! 

con amor,

hna heywood

zona ecatepec #killenit

Nacho and Alma and the fam in good old Moctezuma!!! 

Papa Galicia bringing us the goods during studies because he takes care of us.. oh how I miss them! 

This recent converts husband likes to look for old things when ever they go on vaction he is always digging and looking for things and LOOK HE COULD MAKE MILLIONS OUT OF ALL OF THIS STUFF

Nacho and Alma and family. 

They gave us chocoflan ahhh so good