Hey Fam fam!!!
Guess what? I got your letters this time, Mom! So that´s
pretty awesome in and of itself. Also this week has been super interesting.
We´ve had some major ups and downs but overall it has been awesome. It´s fun to
here that you guys are still up to some fun even though I´ve been gone. It´s
nice to know Julia got a new toy and Gretchie got an Instagram. How many
followers do you have already? How fun to have taken Kevin and Julie and their
crew out to paddleboard! I sometimes wish I could be on the water but then I
remember that serving the Lord is awesome and it´s all good from there. Sounds
like you guys got quite the load of peaches. Good luck eating them all! It’s
also nice to know that I´m at church with you guys again! Thanks for choosing a
good pic for my plaque! It´s crazy that Shawn is home already and different. I
hope I come back different too, changed into a better disciple of Christ,
that´s my goal.
I loved getting letters and emails and everything! It was so
nice. This week was just full of tender mercies of the Lord. For one, I got
letters. For another, we´ve been waiting all six weeks here at the CCM to get
baby hymn books in Spanish and they hadn´t come the whole time until yesterday.
It was literally one of the best days for my whole district and they all got
packages too and it was super exciting. Another is that our teachers have been
so kind and sincere in how they care for us. We´ve just been so blessed!
So, remember how I said we had some downs this week, well
I´d like to share one of them because it actually helped me realize more about
who I am. So, Saturday while me and Hermana Zierenburg were off conducting our
week Hermana interviews as part of our duties as Sister Training Leaders, our
Elders got into a fight. A big ole verbal brawl and we have a lot of very
opinionated elders in this district and so it was pretty nasty from what I
heard. So me being me, I stepped in after the interviews to deal with the
aftermath. Usually that is the District Leader´s job but he was part of it so something
else had to be done. I sat the primary offending Elder down and we had a nice
long chat in which I learned some new things about him and was able to help him
and the other elder talk about their differences and move on. So in the end
everything worked out but for me the most important part of it all was that I
learned something about myself. I really enjoy listening to people´s problems
and doing my best to fix them. It´s a talent I have come to develop and I am so
grateful to my Father in Heaven for blessing me with this ability! I am so
excited to use it in the field!!!
Another thing that the CCM has been really awesome for is
helping me recognize how I feel the Spirit. I have never been very good at
recognizing feeling the Spirit but my time here has taught me that I feel it
mainly in these two ways, a burning or warm sensation in my chest and a
thundering drum of my heartbeat. I know now that I have been feeling him all
along and just not recognizing him when he is there. I have also learned how crucial
it is to have him with me all the time and especially while I am here on my
mission. The Holy Ghost is so powerful and I am so excited to develop a
stronger relationship with my Father and Christ through him!
I also had some other cool insight this week. You know how
the world uses the phrase to "hit rock bottom" when you go as low as
you can go? Well i was thinking about it and how interesting it is for them to
choose that phrase because of how true that is. We can only fall onto our Rock
who is Christ our merciful Savior. We´re built on His rock and we cannot fall
any further. How blessed are we to have that knowledge!
So, on another note, I got my green card and am now
technically a Mexican Citizen for the next year until we have to renew it. I
leave the CCM at 5AM on Monday. I get on a bus and drive out to my mission for
however long it takes traffic to get there. And then I have no idea what´s
next. I will finally be a real missionary and I will get to testify and teach
and serve all the time. And even though I don´t feel ready, I know I can do
this through Christ who strengthens me.
The CCM has been a unique experience and although every week
was challenging at some point I know that I am supposed to be here. I know that
this gospel is true and I know that constantly using the Atonement of our Lord
to improve ourselves is the most important thing I need to use in my life to
continue and improve. I know I am not perfect but Jesus Christ is and he can
help me become the person I want to be. I am so excited to go out and serve all
the people of México City and bring them closer to Christ!
Until next week,
Love,
Hermana Hyer
The floating missionaries of the CCM
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