Transfers? Nope. We get to be the same.

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone! I hope you guys are having fun at home and whatnot. Hope the weather is great and the school loads aren´t that big. I hope life is good because my life is great right now and I´m about to go crazy because next week I will forever be done being a teenager. Yeah, I´m getting old. A little scary to say the least but I´ve got no other choice but to face it.

So this week was good. We did a ton of walking and searching and whatnot in the cold and the rain. It was a good experience. and i got to use my boots again which I am grateful for because they are super comfortable to walk in. We also got to do lots of service which we haven´t had the opportunity to do in a while. This week we also had the opportunity to have interviews with the President. Wahoo! I actually enjoy having interviews with him. Probably because he tends to give me exactly the answers to what I need to do in the mission to be a better companion and teacher. Plus he also expresses how much he cares about all of us missionaries and that makes me feel really good.

This week when we went to the mission office there was an awesome quote on a sticky note next to our map of the mission. It didn´t say who said the phrase but it made me ponder. it goes like this

 "If you want peace, just stand for nothing."

How true that is! If we just stand by allowing everyone to do whatever they want, right or wrong, we will have peace, but the world would be so much worse off than how it is right now. Satan likes it when we condone what´s wrong by not standing up for what´s right. It helps him fulfil his evil purposes. Doesn´t mean that we can be un-Christlike in standing up for what is right but silence is compliance. I hope we all can continue to stand for the right and allow nothing to stop us.

I love you all and hope you have an excellent week!

Hermana Hyer

General authorities and Progress

So explanation of the title. We got to have a conference with General authorities, and not just any general authorities, Elder L Whitney Clayton. From the Presidency of the Seventy. That´s right, ya´ll are jealous. It was probably one of the coolest things in the world. We got to take a picture as a mission with him and it was really cool. Then we all got to shake his hand and sit and listen to him talk. But what blew my mind more than anything was this, He gave the entire conference in Spanish. I was totally expecting there to be a translator and whatnot but no, he surprised me by speaking in spanish. It was awesome!!! He taught us a bunch of cool things about being missionaries, told stories and even had a question and answer round. It was awesome!

Progress, well I am seeing major progress with our investigator Ismael. We taught him the word of wisdom and he gave up coffee (his only problem) right away. We saw him on friday and then saw him again on sunday at church and he looked super tired, so we asked him, Why are you so tired? And he says, i gave up coffee and so im really tired. How cool is that? I love how happy he seems when we teach him and everything. We´re seeing awesome progress!!! I just hope i dont get transfered next week so i can keep teaching him. (Because next week is transfers again... Time is flying!!!)

The Gospel is completely true and if we live it´s precepts, we can become more like our Savior Jesus Christ. The more we live the Gospel the happier we will be. One thing that I noticed watching Elder Clayton speak is that he radiates a light and a semblance of happiness that I would certainly like to have as well. I know that if we each live up more fully to our baptismal covenants described in Mosiah 18 that we will be that light and have that happiness more fully in our lives.

Love you all!

Hermana Hyer  

A new Hope named Ismael

So we found two weeks ago an investigator named Ismael. He´s a dad of 5 and comes from a really rough part of Mexico called Michoacan. So that means he´s lived some tough things and so he´s got a different perspective on life. Due to this new perspective, all he wants to do is get closer to his Savior Jesus Christ and change his life. He came to General Conference, loved it, we asked him to be baptized, said yes and is preparing for the 14 of May, went to church yesterday and wants nothing more than to keep on improving. It makes me so happy to see the changes people make in their lives to become closer to our Savior. Ismael has such a strong spirit and I am so privileged to get to teach him.

Also, I have come to be friends with a parrot this transfer. His name is Terugo and every time I arrive at Noe and Fatima´s house, our other investigators, Terugo goes crazy. He says Hi and dances and lets me pet his pretty little head. It’s a blast. And then there´s Fatima and Noe. They are just awesome people. So kind. they want to help us with anything and everything that we need and we are planning to go and help them paint their house because being a missionary includes doing service projects and I like to paint!!!

I have made it to 9 months in the mission and it´s impossible to believe it. How has time flown by? Well, the only answer is through very hard work. We work work work work work all the day long and it’s the most rewarding thing to come home at night dead tired because you gave it your all. I love the mission!!!

I hope you all have a fabulous week!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

General Conference and New Adventures

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone! Happy to hear from you. It’s always a treat to read my emails of the week and see what´s going on in the lives of you all. Mexico is quite the adventure I must say. But first, as a disclaimer, Sorry for not letting you all know that we changed our preparation day this week to tuesday... I had every intent of doing so but I forgot, so sorry about that.  I hope none of you worried about me because of it. I still love you all and won´t be ignoring you, I promise.

So, the adventures of the week. This week we found a new investigator named Ismael who really wants to change and progress, so much so that he went to general conference and afterwards wanted to know literally everything that has to do with the church and how he can change. Super cool is an understatement because things like this don´t usually happen to us. We also found a less active this week that nobody had any idea about and we found him because my companion had a hankering for bread. We invited him to come to conference and he came and loved it and said he wants us to visit him all of the time and will be back next week. Yay for miracles!!! I am so blessed as a missionary!!!

More fun of the week, guess who is starting to tan? you guessed it, Me. I have joined the farmers tan club and my membership is a platinum. You should see my lines. My little sunscreen gluesitck has become my best friend this week. It’s pretty awesome.

General Conference was amazing as usual and I got to see it in English which was a real treat and a privilege. You never know how much you enjoy hearing the prophet´s or the apostles voice until you can’t anymore. The talks were amazing but for me, Holland takes the cake. His expression of God´s love for us was exactly what I needed to hear in those moments. I am so grateful that we have apostles and a prophet who teach us the will of the Lord and help us become better disciples of Christ!

Finally, today we went to Coyoacan with a member named Elizabeth and it was a blast. We ran around a giant cathedral and also went to the Frida Kahlo museum. It was awesome. There were pieces by her and Diego Rivera who was her husband and the Museum was in their house. My favorite piece that we saw is called La Quebrada by Diegro Rivera and was a gift to Frida Kahlo 2 years before she died. And my favorite quote from her was "Who needs feet when I´ve got wings to fly!" I love art now and it was such a treat to go and learn more about Mexican artists and culture!

I love Mexico and I love being a missionary!

Hermana Hyer

La Casa Azul

The Giant Cathedral

Last week's ice cream adventure!

and the catholic demonstration outside our house