Despues de Navidad!

Dear fam,

It was real great to see all of your faces and hear you laugh and Dominic the Donkey and everything. It was awesome and exactly what I needed. Guess what? I finally got my package and I LOVE it! I love everything. The tights will never get to leave the apartment but that´s okay cuz I´ll use them in there all the time. I come home and put them on because they are super comfortable. I wore my polyester dress yesterday and I don´t know what the makers were thinking when they put that belt on there cuz it´s the size of a 12 year old´s waist and doesn’t fit mine but I replaced it with my white belt so it´s all good. I´m wearing the red skirt right now and i love it. So enough with my presents, cuz they were awesome, let´s talk about the rest.

So I had a bunch of awesome cool food and whatnot and it was great! I had pig leg stuffed with carrots and almonds and raisins and it was great. Fruit sauce and apple salad and sprouts covered in mole and a shrimp cake and it was great! We had an awesome lunch with Hermana Susuki and she was really impressed that dad wrote her in Spanish. Navidad here is super fun! I´m kind of in love with Mexico. We got to go to the center of Coyoacan and it was beautiful. Pinatas hung everywhere in a giant park with people selling authentic mexican stuff not made in china, it was great! My house when I get home and have my own house will be chock full of mexican stuff because I am just loving it so much here! I hope my future will accept the fact that I´m gonna be half mexian from now on cuz thats whats coming!

The work is really slow around this time of year but it´s worth the time that we wait and spend running around to help people come unto Christ. I am having lots and lots of fun and I can´t wait to let you know everything about it! I´ll try and set up the pics right now. Just know that I am alive, happy, healthy and enjoying every minute. Love you guys!!!

¡¡¡FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!

Dear Fam and rest of the world,
¡¡¡FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!
Have a happy American Christmas and I´ll have a great mexican one. I hope you enjoy the snow for those of you who get some and a happy green one for those who don´t. Have some hot coco and a bunch of candy canes and whatnot. I´ll explode pinatas for you guys and burn in the sun. It´s gonna be great! Lots of Good wishes and Happy Holidays from me to you!

So with that part overwith, I´ll tell ya´ll about my very interesting week. So this week I did quite a bit of running..... First off we went to our Navideña dinner with the ward that started late so we ended up booking it through the metro to catch the camion ontime and get home by 9. Next we had our awesome Christmas party where we got to play sports which includes running and had a white elephant, I got the luck of recieving a lobstar covered tie and it was great. Later this week we had two run ins with processions of walking around with the saints and Maria chanting and whatnot. Twice this week we visited some members and as we walked out the door we looked behind us and there was a bunch of people with their saints and their priests shouting and chanting. So we booked it from their cuz who knows if they´d be all that happy with two white missionaries with Books of Mormon in hand interupting their march. Then there was today running around to find Christmas presents for the little paper tree we´ve got in the house. All in all, it was a blast.

It´s a little late to be learning this but I just want you all to know that the scriptures are really an amazing gift that the Lord has given us. Personally, this week I gained some more love for the scriptures because they really apply to our lives. This weeks chapter that I feel in love with was 2 nephi 32. give it a read if you can!

Christmas is such a special time of year where we can express our love of the Savior by giving Him a gift this year. I would like to invite each of you this next week to find someone to serve as a gift to our Lord and Savior this year. He has done everything for us so the least we can do is serve someone else this Chrsitmas season. So take a moment and serve someone! Thanks!
I love you all and hope you have the best Holidays! The Gospel is true and the Lord loves us all!
Lots of love,
Hermana Hyer

Semana 17

Dear Fam,

You guys are literally the luckiest to be having snow right now. I wish I could stand in a snowstorm and just stick my tongue out to catch some snowflakes. That would be soooooo awesome. But instead I get a hot green Christmas. At least it´s not a brown Christmas becuase those aren´t any fun at all. Go do some wicked Skiing for me and we´ll see how tan I get being in the sun all Christmas. Also send some hellos and how are yous to Jack. That´s NUTZ that he is already home. cuz it didnt feel that long ago that he left...  Looks like time flies when you are preaching the Gospel.

So recap of this week, We got a bunch done. Lots of stuff happened like teaching new people and finally finding a family that wants to listen to us. They have a bunch of questions, especially the mom of the family because she´s christian and they believe a bunch of the same things we do. Down to explaining how a baptism should be and how it should have the priesthood authority and everything. So she could be a tough one when all is said and done but we´ll see if the Book of Mormon and the Spirit can change her heart, which i have zero doubt that they can so it´ll be great. 

Something huge here in mexico is Catholicism. It´s a big deal and Saturday was the day that they celebrate the Virgin Maria Guadalupe. So what happens is all the Catholics get together and have a big parade and shoot off fireworks literally all day and sometimes they march in the streets to the Basilica to go to misa and celebrate her birthday. Mary is a huge deal here. There are lots and lots of littel altars to her all around the city. Needless to say we were homebound at 5pm Saturday. It was pretty cool.

Also the Tiahuana temple just got dedicated yesterday and that was a cool experience to see. Uctdorf came and dedicated the temple and he said something really awesome that I´d like to share. He said that having a temple reccommend is basically our test of how we know if we are walking before God with all our hearts becasue the temple questions test our moral character of how much we are following Him. It is so true. I know that if we have the temple as our goal and are always worthy of a temple reccomend we can know that our Heavenly Father is pleased with us. So I invited you all again to have a temple reccommend and use it all the time. Please? Thank you all for writing me. The Church is true and the Savior loves each of us. The Plan of Happiness is indeed to make us happy and I know that the love our Heavenly Father has for each of us is real. 

Have an excellent week!

love,

Hermana Hyer

Semana 16

Dear Fam,

So this week was interesting. I´m finding more and more that I like Mexico and that maybe I´m not going to want to go home. We found some fun things and had some great experiences and it was a fun week.

One of our investigators was a missionary this week and it was probably the coolest thing I´ve ever seen. His name is Luis and he loves the Book of Mormon so much that he reads whatever we give him to read immediately and went so far as to give his small testimony to the random lady who walked by and now we have a new investigator because he shared his love of the Book of Mormon with someone. It´s so great to see this book changing lives. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary and see changes in people´s lives. I just hope this mission will change my life for the better. With all the new experiences I am having I know that I will change if I allow the Lord to change me.

Love you all so much and Hope you have a great week!
Hermana Hyer