Hello Reality

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone! Hope life is great and home and i hope you stuffed your faces for me. Cuz, thanksgiving doesn´t exist here in mexico so we just taught people about it and made hand turkeys about how we can show our Heavenly Father that we are grateful through our daily actions.

So me and my companion are having sooooo much fun here in Jardines. We are working so hard to make our part of the goal of 100 Baptisms and it´s been rough but we´ve seen miracles through our efforts. We´ve seen people progress that we were sure that weren’t going to and we´ve been able to help families come back to church. One thing that´s really cool is that Hermana Gifford has already served here in Jardines and it was for 6 months so it´s a miracle that she´s come back here to help me out. She was here for 6 months and then went to bosques for 6 months and now is back here. One year and two areas. It´s way rare that something like that happens. But we are soooo happy here.

But, reality check, I have basically no time left to have fun in the mission and in mexico. It really hit me this week how short our service to the Lord really is as missionaries. However, how truly worth it it is to serve. I have learned so many things and been able to help so many people that otherwise i would not have met or served. My whole perspective on life has changed and my relationship with myself and with the Lord is completely different. How blessed I am to have this opportunity and i hope and pray that Others will understand the greatness of the calling and choose to serve.

Life´s great! And I´m loving life and the people here in mexico as a servant of Lord.

Love you all! 

Hermana Hyer

El Ultimo Cambio

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone. My last cambio and i will be with Hna Gifford from Seattle Washington. We still have our same assignment and life is gonna be nuts but it will be fun. Hna Gifford has already been here in Jardines so she will be a great help in all that we need to do here. Life is gonna be great!

As for this week. It was a real reality check. I mean seriously. Hna Escalante goes home wednesday and left my side here in the mission today. Life is crazy!!! I don´t think i can really handle all of this but I know that the lord will help me with adjusting and saying focused while i´m still here.

Our area has lots of potential and as a mission we had the goal of 100 baptisms in December and we are working so hard to accomplish them. We have a few investigators that we are pretty sure that they will progress to a baptism. Elizabeth is one of them that came to church yesterday and I am really excited to see how everything goes.

Not much to say this week but just know that we are working really hard and getting lots of things done. I hope you all have fun on Thursday with Thanksgiving!!!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

My companion goes home in a week...

Dear Fam,

Hey everyone. Sorry that this month has been a Little crazy about which days i´m writing home and which days i´m not. as crazy as my writing Schedule has been is as crazy as my life in the mission has been. Life has been a rollercoaster with my new assignment so I apologize for the craziness. Sometimes i just don´t have a choice as to what is going to happen so please bear with me.

This week was nuts. We had two zone conferences to teach and participate in and then exchanges and planning meetings and whatnot. If you look up on Hermana Mecham´s facebook you´ll get to see the incredibly fun exercise called "Chicken Fat" which you can also look up on YouTube and do for yourself if you´d like. It´s way fun. and it was super funny to see how hard it was for some of the missionaries to do it. Basically it´s a six minute workout and it was funny to see how hard it was for some to do it. Luckily for me, it was easy.

Today I´m writing you all because later we´ll be off to the Mecham´s house to decorate their huge christmas tree with all the other sister training leaders (of the which there are 10) and it will be lots of fun. Hopefully next week I´ll get the pictures to you. And speaking of pictures, today I´ll be sending the ones of Coyoacán for\mo Dia de los Muertos. SO don´t worry. you´ll be seeing lots of me. There are some cool offerings and giant skeletons and everything so stay tuned.

As for how i feel. I´m freaking out a Little bit because as the title says, my companion goes home in a week from today. Exactly a week. I have until monday morning with her and then we´re changed and I have a new companion and I´ll be starting my very last transfer.... AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! It´s driving me crazy! I never ever thought this day would come but apparently, it´s almost here. I´m so not ready but i´ve learned that if i work hard the Lord will do the rest.

See you all next week!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

What week are we on?

Dear Fam,

So as promised, I`ll be telling you guys all about the good stuff that we did on tuesday after I finished writing you all. We went to Coyoacan again and saw some really cool stuff. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera so I`ll be getting you guys the pictures next week. Sorry!

However, Coyoacan was really cool. Around this time of year they make giant sculptures of paper mache in the shape of skeletons and dress them up and paint them like their ancestors. It`s super cool. And they also put up a bunch of offerings to the dead which are really cool too. The offerings are compiled of Marygolds, because thats the flower of the dead, all of the food the deceased enjoyed and also things that are symbolic for them. Like if they were a farmer they but their tools on the offering and whatnot. They also tend to put their pictures of the person who died on their offering and then they spend all day and all night partying with their dead. Normally, they go to the cemetery and put their offering right on top of the grave and party all night there but here in Ciudad de Mexico, they don`t have cemeteries close to home so they put their offerings in their houses and leave their doors open all night so the dead can visit them. It`s awesome!

Funny story of when we went. We got ice cream while we were there and when we were about to leave, we walked past an elderly couple and the lady turned around and shouted in perfect english "ICE CREAM!!!!!" I laughed pretty hard because 1. its very rare that we see people from the US and 2. they had the same obsession of ice cream that we had. As they walked off I heard the lady talking about where they were going to find some ice cream and whatnot and I just had to laugh. Some things just never change.

This week we had some ups and downs and over all we saw a miracle at church. We had a couple of investigators that we didn`t count on show up this week at it was awesome. They just showed up out of the blue in response to all of the work we`re doing. The Lord really does help us out when we work hard.

I hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Hyer

Halfway through the transfer already?

Dear Fam,

Hello everyone i am glad but more shocked to report that we are already halfway through this transfer. That´s right folks, time is literally flying. it couldn’t fly faster even if you chucked an alarm clock from a jet´s window or you catapulted it from one of the pumpkin catapults that are becoming more and more popular lately.

So this week was fun. We ate a delicious hamburger and cake with one of our investigators named Maru and it was fun. We had a really cool activity this week in the stake where we did family history. it was awesome and i am now hooked. I helped a new member do her tree and it was soo fun. At the beginning of the activity i was real frustrated because our tree has been seriously messed with because of the millions of duplicates we have thanks to all the work others are trying to do but I learned some cool tricks about how I can fix the mess when I get home. But most of all, the joy of helping this sister find her great great grandparents and be able to take a name to the temple was the coolest thing in this world. The spirit of elias is awesome I´m really excited to spend my Sundays doing family history work.

That´s all for this week.  

I´ll let you know all about the dead traditions we´ll celebrate today and tomorrow.

Love,

Hermana Hyer