World Wide conference and... Worms?

Dear Fam,

Yay for another epic week for each of you and for me as well. The mission, though loads of work is also a whole bunch of fun! Highlights of this week are in no particular order are, eating worms, going to a baptism with Jorge, World Wide Missionary Training Conference, Interviews with President Mecham, Strawberries and cream, lesson goals met, eating elote, weird paper traditional mexican treats, seeing a ward missionary come home, and making salsa. Pretty epic week.

One of the things on the list that was super cool was going to the World Wide Missionary Training Conference  We had apostles talk to us and I learned that Elder Oaks is chair over the Mission program for the church. Which I think is awesome namley because I love his talks and secondly because his voice is fun to listen to. It´s cool to hear his spiritual power resonate through his voice. We learned a lot of things like how repentance is truly key to everything that we teach and do. Repentance is the only way we are going to feel better about who we are or what we do because it is the only way we will ever truly change. Repentance has taken on a whole new meaning whilst being on a mission because its not just when we do things wrong but it´s also to continue to do things right. Cool things are being learned and applied. I hope that by the end of my mission I will be a Sam 2.0 just like Jack.

And then there´s the question all of you probably have. You ate worms??? Yes I did. I ate one whole and turned the rest into worm paste by squishing them with a rock to make a delicious salsa. That officially goes off my bucket list. And the funniest thing is that here they are a delicacy. A kilo of these things costs 1400 pesos..... Talk about expensive bugs!!! All in all they weren´t that bad. Not amazing but not bad.

More on food is the weird paper treats. They look like colored cardstock but for some reason their pretty great! It honey, a couple of seeds and the cardstocklike stuff. I love it! Super weird to eat but i love them!!!

And to finish off today I´ll talk about the missionary that came home. Her name is Sofi and she is literally amazing. She loved her mission and is so ready and willing to help us with the work here in Educacion. She says she has changed a whole bunch from her mission and that is my goal. Her testimony was so strong and she was so confident in the way she talked about the Gospel and her experiences. I hope I can be that way when I get home!

Love you all and thanks for the love and support! I can´t say enough how grateful I am to have each of you supporting through this adventure called a Mission! Thank you!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer