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