Hola Mi Familia!

This week has been a bit harder just because i have been sick :(  I think the food is finally catching up to me, haha. I feel like Kevin, I have been on a salad and fruit diet. The meat doesn’t settle with my stomach very well at all. Oh well, other than that, this week has been great!! We did see President Uchtdorf’s talk! It was really inspiring! I loved it so much! We have devotionals on every Sunday and Tuesday and I just love them. The spirit is so strong all the time. Being on a mission is awesome because you’re on a spiritual high all the time and always so happy!

That makes me happy you had the sister missionaries over for dinner and dad would talk the whole time ;) haha. It has been pouring over here too. This week we have had one storm everyday but they are just like Florida’s storms. They only last like 15 minutes then it’s gone, but they are so cool. There is always thunder and lightning but it’s a warm rain so you don’t get cooled off.  It’s fun because they said that when it rains the sisters can take off their shoes and walk in our bare feet, so we go puddle jumping a lot.

Aww, Kavir! I miss him and American Eagle! I am so glad that he reads my blog.  AE sweatshirts are the best just saying ;) I love the pictures of Danyon and Kassidy! They are so cute and Danyon is a stud as always! I hope he had fun!

Yes I can wait for my skirts :) We don’t accept packages anyway. Only ones from mydearmissionary.com. It’s okay. I am doing good with my clothes. Everything is working out perfectly.  Thank you so much for helping me prepare!! Yeah, I bought a laundry bag and yeah, I can buy candy at the store, but it gets old after a while.  I do have to say, they have some awesome cookies and chocolate bars stuffed with Nutella. I really want yogurt. That’s what I have been craving this week. Haha. But the food here is good and they have fresh fruit every day, fresh mangoes which is awesome.

That’s funny that Kerragyn said that. By the time I get back they (Kerragyn and Danyon) will be best friends! Tell Eben that I wish I could be there to watch him run track!! Tell him not to get discouraged and keep trying new events till he finds what fits for him. It took me pretty much my whole first season to find out where I fit and what worked best for me. It just takes time and soon he will be a champ! If he runs like me tell him to do distance! Is he still doing hurdles? He has a natural born talent he just needs to find what he likes best.

Sam said he loved the temple and I just cannot wait to go and see it and tell very one about it!! We get to go to the Mexico temple next week, but it’s closed so we will just be going to the visitor center which people have said is amazing, I am excited. Some missionaries here they said they have to travel a couple days to get to their temple and it just makes me so grateful that we have a temple so close and we can go anytime we want!

This week also has been a good learning experience for me as well. I learned what it means to really love your companion and the blessings that can come from it. The first few days were great but after being with the same person 24/7 for two weeks it can get really hard and soon things start to annoy you. I got frustrated one day with my companion and was kind of holding a grudge. But, the thought “love your companion” kept coming into my mind so, I said a prayer and I am really glad I just let it go. If I didn’t we wouldn’t have been able to have the spiritual experience we had that night. We were planning a lesson for our new investigator (we have two new ones now) and we made some bullet points on what we wanted to teach him. Then as we were doing our personal study, I kept having the thought that we needed to teach the atonement so I was like “okay” and studied that. Well, when we came together to share what we had studied and to work on our lesson more. I told her what I had felt and what revelation I had received and she said she received the same revelation. If we hadn’t forgiven each other we wouldn't have received that revelation and wouldn’t have known what our investigator needed to hear.

The Spanish is coming a long so good! My goal with our new investigators is to not use any notes, which was kind of hard to give up, but I had the coolest experience. A couple days ago when we were teaching and all these words kept coming out of my mouth and I remember sitting there thinking, oh my gosh, I am speaking Spanish and it makes sense! Ha-ha. It’s still a little broken but I have learned that as you study and exercise faith that Heavenly Father will bless you and bring all what you studied to your remembrance.

            Last Sunday was our first actual Sunday. The zone that we are in is our branch and we just meet in a seminary class room and have Sacrament. The scary part is that you don’t know who is giving the talk until they announce it. So you have to have one prepared every week just in case they call on you. In Relief Society we learned about disciples and who they are and what they stand for. A disciple means someone who lives according to the teachings of Christ. Jesus called us to be his disciples. Disciples are not people who just follow Christ because everyone else is doing it or because it looks fun they follow Christ because they want to follow with all their heart. In John 6:60-69 it talks about how some of his disciples left him because it was too hard but in verse 63 its says when things get hard the only that will help is the words of the spirit. I have learned that when things get hard we need to stay on target and remember what we are here to do. We need to be a disease, an annoying disease that will not go away.  Fight until the work is done. I have also learned that started are many but enders are few. What you told me mom about how I can always do one more day as stuck with me and has gotten me through the days I felt like giving up, "It is our work and our glory to bring to pass the eternal life of man" I took out the immortal part in that scripture because Christ has already taken care of that part.  It’s my job to work on the eternal part. Elder Christofferson said in a devotional on Tuesday that its better to be trusted then loved and I love that because it’s true. You can love the people you are teaching and they can love you but if they don’t trust you won’t get anywhere.

            I love and miss you guys so much!! Did you get the pictures I sent last week? Miss you! Hope you guys have a good week!! :)) Love Hermana Heacock