Semana, Conference weekend (What number is this?)

So things are a little bit of a rollercoaster right now with the companionships in my area and conference and Hermana Escoto´s ankle and whatnot. Let´s just say this week was a little dramatic but it wasn´t anything we couldn´t handle.

First, background info: Up until this week there have only been four missionaries in my area, me, Hermana Escoto, Hermana Sanchez, and Hermana Villafranca, and we were/are basically the best power quartet of missionaries ever. We always have lunch together at the member´s houses have had a grand ole time with them. I have made it through my first six weeks of training and so I have to have a test. And this week was week one through our new transfers.

So, Tuesday strikes and I find out that I´m going to have a test on how to be a missionary and basically panic. I have never been so nervous for an exam in my entire life, including finals for college, and I´ve come to understand that this test really is the only one that matters because it tests how good of a missionary I am and how much I know about the Gospel and the skills I may or may not possess in sharing the word in a simple manner with others. So naturally, I was very very very nervous for this test. As you can tell from this email, I am alive, I made it through the test and they didn´t send me home. As it turns out it wasn´t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Obviously, I still have a lot to learn but as of right now all is well with me in the missionary world.

Friday comes and Hermana Sanchez and Hermana Villafranca recieve their third missionary to complete the trio. Her name is Hermana Cordova from Ecuador and she is not part of our mission but her residency permit has not arrived so she can´t leave DF and so she is stuck here with us. She´s great and I love her but the other Hermanas are having a harder time accepting her. Which is sad but I don´t know if she acts the same in the house so my opinion is pretty much void on the subject but whatever. We are now five sisters in a small area.

Hermanas Escoto (Honduras), Sanchez (Mexico), Villafranca (Honduras), Cordova (Ecuador) & Hyer

Saturday begins conference and guess what? I listened to all of conference in Spanish that day. Yup. All of the Gringo Elders got to listen to conference in English and I was in Spanish because I am the only English speaking sister missionary in my stake and I cannot sit in the room full of Elders without another sister with me. But I´m not bitter about it at all because I actually understood 90% of what was said and so I´m pretty proud of myself. After the first session the Elders informed me that there was indeed another female member present in the English session but it didn´t matter because I enjoyed my time in Spanish. We watched the second session at Mama Susuki´s house and I enjoyed a second testimony to the fact that I am getting so much better at Spanish!

Sunday I got to watch all of Conference in English and was particularly struck by the talk about ponderizing. First let me say that all of us English speaking missionaries got a kick of trying to figure out how on earth they were going to translate that talk into Spanish but they did just fine from what my companion tells me. On the spiritual side of this talk it was basically an answer to a prayer and question I have had for a long time. My goal is to follow the advice and "meditezar" a passage of scripture every week. My goal this week is John 14:12-14. I´ll let you know what I´ve come up with next week! And I promise to go over more of my conference thoughts as the weeks progress. I´ll get a copy of the Liahona next month with everything in English and we´ll see how I did at understanding everything.

My nickname is brujita which means little witch in spanish.

I love you guys so much and can´t wait to hear from you again next week! The Gospel is true and I know that it changes lives. I hope you will share how it´s changed yours with me sometime soon!
Love,
Hermana Hyer

After cleaning the church the bishop took us out for monster sandwiches.