Last week

Dear Fam,

Guess what? it was my last week and i am sad because it was awesome and i am going to miss this but happy because soon i will be home. Real soon.

We saw quite a few miracles this week and even had the chance to see the miracle of fasting. Yesterday/today we did the most ridiculous fast that I will tell you the details about later but just know that it was crazy. We didn´t do anything dangerous and we only fasted for 24 hours so don´t be worried. However, we fasted for things like finding new investigators and guess what? We found them. It was awesome. We found 3 in a less active´s family who´s name is Wong and they are going through a trial that only the Plan of Salvation can help with. They are the wife of hna wong and his two kids, Liu and Liang. And then we went to Elizabeth´s house who is an investigator that hasn´t been progressing too much but to our surprise, she brought two young adults named Gabriela and Mauricio to the lesson and they want to learn more about God and find out how he can help them in their lives. MIRACLES!!!! Man, the Lord is willing to bless us so much when we make sacrifices it´s amazing. They all seem like really promising prospects for converts so we are really excited. It makes me happy to know that I´ll be leaving the area with lots of potential progress and the Sisters don´t have to start from scratch.  

So not much happened this last week except for we found out who in the ward really loves us and are willing to work with us. Which is something i would have liked to know before this point but whatever. Hna Gifford will be able to continue the work without me. We are both sad to be parting but we know that we´ll be seeing each other real soon seeing as she´ll be going to BYU when she gets back. An hour difference is not that long of a drive.

I have been sooooo lucky to have been able to serve a mission. It´s really one of the greatest things like everyone always says to those who haven´t gone. My testimony has grown so much and i have too. Honestly, I am way different than i used to be but it´s a good thing. I have learned so many skills and am way more confident in myself therefore, it was totally worth it. I´m going to miss Mexico but the border is so close that i know I´ll be coming back soon. I love you all and I´ll see you soon!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

P.S., the pics will be given at home for lack of time. Love you!

Centro and Christmas

Dear Fam,

 

It was nice to see you guys yesterday even though you felt a little weird but it´s probably just jitters for getting home.

This week was a good week over all. We had the Baptism on Saturday and it was great. The musical number we did actually turned out alright and the whole Young Women’s group showed up to sing for Daniela and even the Young Men´s president showed up for Luis, which is rare so that was awesome. Their whole family came too so that was really nice for them. It was definitely the longest baptism i have ever been too but it was cool to see the ward do their part. We got a really good response from the Wonder Kids so that was nice.

As for the rest of the week it was a little rough. Hna Gifford got really sick on Friday. So sick that her fever was up to 38 degrees Celsius which is apparently very dangerous. I´m not sure how much that is in Fahrenheit but its big according to the Mexcian people. Saturday and Sunday it was really difficult to find people and that wasn’t fun but we got through it safe and sound.

However today at the center it was really fun. We ate some great food and had some serious fun. Luis, Daniela and Monica their mom took us there and it was really fun. We went shopping and it was exactly how the describe it in the Shopping Song by BNL. I bought myself a Catrina and a Catrin that are actually really cool looking and I hope they make it home without any problem.  You´ll have to wait a week or so to see the rest of the stuff i bought.

I love you guys and hope to write on monday but if not, I´ll see you soon!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

And they shall be Baptized

Dear Fam,

So life was a ball these past 2 days. I have a lot to say even though it was only 2 days.

     Saturday was very eventful because we had an activity called Viaje a Hawaii. It´s a cool activity because we make one of the rooms like a plane and then we take off, we crash and everyone dies. SO then we welcome them to the spirit world and give them a tour of the places they could end up after the Millenium. We had missionaries as actors in each of the rooms and they exhibited the glory and what they did to get there. After their presentation we had a Q&A session to see if they had any questions. After we visited each glory we returned to the plane and we sent them back to earth because the ambulance rescued them. It turned out really cool. We had a small turnout but we saw a change of perspective in all of the people that showed up. We had a few investigators there including the Wonder Kids and it was a really good time. We basically spent all morning at the church preparing but it was worth it.

    Sunday, we went to church and had a good time too. Hna and President Mecham showed up after church to deliver Hna Gifford´s christmas package and we have been very happy with what they sent. Plus we have a sister in our ward that loves us and served her mission in the states so as an early Christmas present, she bought us a sixpack of cream soda, mac and cheese, cookies and toffee peanut popcorn. We were really happy because each of those items are difficult to find here in Mexico and they were delicious. Sunday was also a good time because the Wonder Kids had their interviews and passed them (not like we were worried or anything) so they will for sure be getting baptized on Saturday the 24th. I am soooooo excited because they will most likely be my last converts in the mission and definitely my best ones. They are so in tune with the Spirit that i thank my Father in Heaven each and every day for the opportunity I have to know and teach them. 

    So life is great. Love you all and I hope you have a great week!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

The Longest Week Ever

Dear Fam,

So this week has been LONG and awesome but definitely long. Too many days straight. I´m writing so late because it was party time at 11 today as a mission so i´ve got to write afterwards, i.e. now. Cuz the party was literally all day long. Sports and movies and fun. It was awesome. Lots of food and we watched the new Star Wars movie! Not the one that came out yesterday, the one that came out last Christmas. It was worth literally every second. I was Really really happy with it. Totally a tear jerker with Hans and i almost cried but it was awesome nonetheless. I will have to see it in English when I get home because I didn´t catch everything but it´s good.

So the pics will explain my life as a missionary so I´ll just describe what happened according to the pics.

Nevermind, just bullet points then And a short synopsis.

So,  rundown of this week´s happenings in no particular order,

1. FHE 15 people- we had a great time and helped our new investigators find friends.

2. Ward Christmas party. frida and alex, singing christmas carols Pics with everyone. - we found out that we are loved. frida and alex are grand kids that may become our investigators, they really didn´t want us to leave the party because they wanted to hang out with us.

3. Hulk hands- they are Alex´s and we took pics with them.

4. Intercambios ermita- with Hna Martinez and Hna Valdez

5. Wonder Kids- Our new amazing investigators, their names are Luis (16) and Daniela (14). Their story is rough. The mom, who´s name is Monica, was a less active that was married to a non member who died of brain cancer a month or so ago and now she has decided to become active and the first time we saw her she told us that she needs her kids baptized as soon as possible. Amazing, the second week they go to church a member walks up and asks, > Luis can you pass the sacrament? "i´m an investigator." was his response. That day President teaches with us and says "those are the most prepared kids i have ever seen" <Do you understand the magnitude of that sentence? He taught hundreds of people on his mission and for him to say that, means it´s a really big deal. He told us they can be baptized whenever, so that´s next week. we made cookies with them and brought Dana and she is now Daniela´s best friend. They are literally the best thing that has ever happened to me on the mission and they were worth the whole wait of my mission.

6. Guadalupe day- as a fun part of the week we came home early sunday night because of guadalupe day. It was nuts because we got home at 5:30 and there were already drunk people outside and there were fireworks all night long... Good stuff right?

7. How do you live without internet?- turns out, the new generation of kids can´t imagine living without internet or Xbox. Dana, the bishop´s daughter, has no idea what a board game is and i felt old and sad.

8. We acknowledge that the servant´s presence they don’t know how to react.- Luis and Daniela have a cleaning lady and when we said hi to her and presented ourselves, she didn´t know how to act. it was really funny because her face was like. "Are they talking to me?" because nobody does... 

 

9. Lady from salt lake- So we had a shadow on tuesday this week that came to all of our lessons and interviewed our investigators. It was way fun. Her name is Angela and she is 25, served in Panama 7 years ago and works for the Church Research section of the missionary program and came to do a study on how the investigators are receiving the teachings in all the world. Cool right? it was fun.

10. cleaning the pack rat room- We helped a sister clean out her 8 year old daughters room of all the freaking toys and i realized how glad i am that mom never allowed us to be pack rats. My word, that room is an organized person’s nightmare. We worked for 2 hours and didn´t even get half done. it was crazy and I learned a life lesson so it was worth it.

11. Chilaquiles drug us- so we ate some chilaquiles and they made the both of us a little loopy. We have no idea why but that’s what it is.

12. expensive pizza- we got taken to pizza with real meat on it and it was delicious.

So this week was a blast. You guys should check Hna Mecham´s facebook to see some of the other stuff that went down during the party.

Love you all and I´ll be writing again on monday so we´ll see you then!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

December 6, 2016

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone! Life´s a ball here in Jardines de Ermita. Sorry I didn´t write yesterday, it was our monthly Leader Counsel so P-day is now today instead of yesterday. Rough, and Another P-day issue is that I won´t be writing you until next Friday. Why? Because that´s when we will have our Christmas party so P-day will be then not next Monday. And next monday in the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe which means, life is gonna be nuts anyway and nothing will be open. Yay for traditional holidays in Mexico! SO, don´t expect an email until next Friday. That´s all.

So, the world is now full of the "Lighting the World" program by the Church and it´s been really fun thus far. It´s called Ilumina El Mundo in spanish and it´s been super fun. Making an extra effort to do service has been really rewarding. We haven´t really kept with the program but we are doing service every day. For example, the 1st we went and painted a house as a district and it was really fun!!! We had a great time. And then yesterday, I did something I have never done before. We went to a less active´s house who is also a recent convert and her daughter had a makeup exam and need to finish her project on somebody´s face and that somebody ended up being me. Totally out of my comfort zone but worth it because the recent convert´s daughter and her husband which aren´t members now trust us and will be listening to us. So i´ll be sending a pic in this email to show you how it went. I mean it looks good but i am way happier in my own skin.

Speaking of individual worth, I feel like sometimes in life we decide that we aren´t worth much but i´m here to tell each and every one of you that actually we are worth a ton in Heavenly Father´s eyes. He sacrificed His Only Begotten Son so that you and I could have the chance to come back and live with Him forever. And He sends each and every one of us proof of who we are and what we are worth through other people. I´d like to invite all of you to recognize the worth of others by serving and doing the Lighting the World program. Please do it!

So, that´s all for this week. Enjoy the pics and serve diligently!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

Hello Reality

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone! Hope life is great and home and i hope you stuffed your faces for me. Cuz, thanksgiving doesn´t exist here in mexico so we just taught people about it and made hand turkeys about how we can show our Heavenly Father that we are grateful through our daily actions.

So me and my companion are having sooooo much fun here in Jardines. We are working so hard to make our part of the goal of 100 Baptisms and it´s been rough but we´ve seen miracles through our efforts. We´ve seen people progress that we were sure that weren’t going to and we´ve been able to help families come back to church. One thing that´s really cool is that Hermana Gifford has already served here in Jardines and it was for 6 months so it´s a miracle that she´s come back here to help me out. She was here for 6 months and then went to bosques for 6 months and now is back here. One year and two areas. It´s way rare that something like that happens. But we are soooo happy here.

But, reality check, I have basically no time left to have fun in the mission and in mexico. It really hit me this week how short our service to the Lord really is as missionaries. However, how truly worth it it is to serve. I have learned so many things and been able to help so many people that otherwise i would not have met or served. My whole perspective on life has changed and my relationship with myself and with the Lord is completely different. How blessed I am to have this opportunity and i hope and pray that Others will understand the greatness of the calling and choose to serve.

Life´s great! And I´m loving life and the people here in mexico as a servant of Lord.

Love you all! 

Hermana Hyer

El Ultimo Cambio

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone. My last cambio and i will be with Hna Gifford from Seattle Washington. We still have our same assignment and life is gonna be nuts but it will be fun. Hna Gifford has already been here in Jardines so she will be a great help in all that we need to do here. Life is gonna be great!

As for this week. It was a real reality check. I mean seriously. Hna Escalante goes home wednesday and left my side here in the mission today. Life is crazy!!! I don´t think i can really handle all of this but I know that the lord will help me with adjusting and saying focused while i´m still here.

Our area has lots of potential and as a mission we had the goal of 100 baptisms in December and we are working so hard to accomplish them. We have a few investigators that we are pretty sure that they will progress to a baptism. Elizabeth is one of them that came to church yesterday and I am really excited to see how everything goes.

Not much to say this week but just know that we are working really hard and getting lots of things done. I hope you all have fun on Thursday with Thanksgiving!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer