Hey Fam Fam!!!
So, again, I love Love LOVE getting emails from you guys
every week! It just makes me so happy to hear from each of you! I´m glad I was
missed on the City trip because I would be so sad if i wasn´t. Cuz I miss you
guys! And rock climbing is so awesome! The most extreme sport I get to do here
is volleyball and although I really enjoy it I´d have to say that rock climbing
takes the cake.
So the answer to Dad´s question of where my companion is
from is that she is from Moorpark, California. Pretty cool right? California´s
a cool place. Gretchie, i got your letter but I didn´t get Mom´s for some
reason. Will you try again?
Do you know what else is a cool place? The México City
Temple!!! We got to go and visit it today and it was gorgeous! Unfortunately,
the temple is under renovation so we didn´t get to go in but the visitor´s
center is pretty cool! They have a small statue like the one in Salt Lake and
some pretty cool exhibits. They also have a tiny distribution center where I
bought a Mayan Book of Mormon. I wonder if i could possibly learn to read it...
That would be cool!!! They also had this other store and I bought a cool
mexican blouse that I can wear all the time! I´m gonna be here a while so i may
as well dress like the natives. Cuz their culture is so cool! The temple has
some Aztec elements to it on the outside because México city is part of where
they used to live. The Mayans lived further south in Guatemala and such.
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| A cute exhibit |
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| A really cool picture in the visitor's center that I liked |
So, here are some random things I did this week. I ate a bag
of habiñero potato chips and afterwards I felt like I could literally breathe
fire. It was soooo spicy!!! And i kind of love it. I hope i get to eat lots of
spicy food in the field!
Also, we did something this week called TRC. I´m not
entirely sure what it stands for but it´s pretty cool. It´s a time set off for
every Saturday where we teach volunteers lessons of the gospel. Up until that
point we have only been teaching our teachers who are taking on profiles of
investigators they once had. So i hadn´t been all that nervous to teach my
teachers but teaching real people is a whole different ball game. So we taught
a member who turned out to be the ward mission leader in his ward and it was
pretty cool! Two days and i get to teach somebody new again!!!
This past Sunday was fast Sunday but here they did fasting a
little different. We started Saturday afternoon right after lunch and then
fasted until the next day´s lunch. It was a little weird but it was a great
fast! I was super blessed because I did not even get a little bit hangry the
whole entire time. Usually I get hangry (hungry plus angry) within the first
couple of hours or so but that was not the case and I am super blessed! Also, I
got up during Sacrament Meeting and bore my testimony entirely in Spanish. It
was soo great! And I was thinking of you, Gretchen, the entire time. I promise
to keep bearing my testimony each Fast and Testimony meeting as well as every
time i get the chance!
Missions are such spiritually uplifting times. I have such a
great opportunity to feel the spirit and be constantly learning and gaining
revelation. So tuesday there was a world wide MTC devotional and President
Russell M. Nelson spoke to us. It was beautiful! (and totally answered my
question of who was going to be the new President of the Quorum of the Twelve)
He said that the revelation given to them to lower the age for missionaries was
to give more of the youth a chance to go. Something he also stressed was
something borne to us by Jeffery R Holland a couple of weeks back and that was
to make sure we come home with one convert "and it better be you!!!"
This has been my focus as of late and another devotional by David A Bednar
taught me that the best way to do that is to lose myself in helping others. I love
the Apostles and their words of strength to me! I am soooo blessed!
I can´t believe how fast this time in the CCM has gone by.
It´s crazy to think that I´ll be in the mission field in a week and a half.
Though i don´t feel ready (and i know i never will) I hope to make you all and
my Father in Heaven proud.
With love and gratitude,
Hermana Hyer
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