Dear Family!

            Holy cow! How come we were never that busy when I was home? ;) haha I am so glad you guys have so much going on! Makes me excited to hear how everything turns out! I was just thinking about Kerragyn and her piano playing a couple days ago! Glad she is sticking with it! I’ll tell ya, being out on a mission I wish I could play piano. It’s such a service here in the mission! Missionaries here always play the piano in their wards and in the MTC as well. It will defiantly benefit those you serve if you decide to serve a mission that is :) If not, it will still bring much happiness to your family and your ward. Cannot wait to hear about Eben’s field trip! Going to be sooo much fun!! I miss my mountains sooo much! In the MTC I would in get into arguments with people from Utah because they think they have mountains, pssh, no! hahah! I miss the beautiful scenery but I looove it here!! The sun is great and my fingers don't turn purple! Haha! Yes, you do get used to the humidity here. When you first get here you don't think so but it happens.

            I don't drink milk anymore, only in cereal and I drink like 8 glasses of water a day and I feel so good! Why did I like milk so much? So weird but yeah I cut dairy except for yogurt and cheese that's all I can handle or I get sick. I love buying food and I am doing good thinking of meals. I am a bargain shopper with food. Who knew you could get so much with $50!

            So we had another baptism this week! I will send a picture. It was awesome, such a good experience. We weren't able to go to the sealing of a family in our ward but we get to go to the temple on the 20th so I am counting down the days! Let’s see, so, more about my area. Hialeah is a really poor area. There is no such thing as a two story house here. It was weird this week, I went on an exchange with the sister training leaders, they serve in Pines which is 20 min away but it is one of the richer areas in Florida and it is amazing. It’s amazing the change in just 20 minutes from really poor to really rich. When I was in that area I was thinking why couldn’t I have been this blessed to serve in this area with a nice apartment, nice people? (it was an English speaking area) But then I found out how hard it was. Because people there think they have everything and don’t need God which made tracting or as we call it harvesting really hard. When I got back to Hialeah I was grateful that I am serving in such a humble area where people listen to us and want to know more. Where we are able to have success even if it can be difficult at times.  I wouldn't trade for anything. So everyone here as a mango tree so we just pluck mango and eat them. Sooo good!! When people great each other they kiss. That was hard to get used to but now it’s fine and I am not that weirded out by it. We don't do it with the boys obviously, lol.     One thing I found out about my companion is she snores really loud so, I have not have had a good night sleep in a while and will be buying ear plugs haha! But she is awesome and is helping me so much with Spanish and teaching me how great this work is!

            A quote I want to share with you is “Give us mountains, give us these challenges. Accomplishing the purpose God has put us here to achieve, will bring out promised blessings that God has pledged to give us. God is blessing you for the mountains you are climbing and the people he trusts you with because of your obedience and diligence in opening your mouth" I like this because God gives us mountains so we can grow learn and fulfill his plan. I agree with you, we need challenges. It’s what makes us stronger and if our kids see us struggling they can learn too. They can learn how to handle a situation like that when they are older. What I have learned is that trials are good because they mold us into what he wants us to be. Also some scriptures I like are 1 John"7-8 and Helaman 5:10-11.

            This week has been hard with appointments and finding new investigators. We only have one progressing right now and had to drop a lot of our other ones. People have been rude!  It was just a hard week but as me and my companion talked we realized that Christ had people spit in his face, say rude things and reject him completely and yet he still loved them. How can we expect this work to be easy if it wasn't easy for him? We learned that we need to love and serve everyone because that's what Christ did and we are representatives of Christ so we must follow in his footsteps even when it is hard. Oh and one more thing they have guava and leche donuts! Okay back to spiritual, I know with all my heart that this work is true and that miracles do happen. This week we were given a mountain but I know through our love and service we can overcome it and find new investigators and progress in our work! I am so glad Heavenly Father asked me to serve. I read a scripture in Moroni 6:4 and it says Christ is the author and finisher of our faith and I have a strong testimony of that. This week we were teaching a Jehovah’s Witness and she was telling stuff about her church and we were sharing stuff about our church and as we testified about what we believed we could feel the sprit sooo strong. She said she would not change and even though the lesson was a bust we realized that maybe it wasn't for her but for us. Because of that experience my testimony grew as I realized that this church is true what I am teaching is true and I am so grateful for the knowledge I have. I love you. I can tell you one of the greatest services is missionary work. :) I love you guys sooo much! Miss you! So glad you liked the package!! :))))

Love Hermana Heacock. 

This is Anthony. We call him the Spiderman guy. He has a Spiderman car and dresses up like Spiderman and does car shows. Needless to say he loves superheroes haha! And he is the one who got baptized on Sunday :)

​Elders doing there favorite superhero poses. Haha! The one who looks constipated is the hulk.

People here have weird mailboxes haha!

​This is Nimoni and Nicole. They are awesome!! We started teaching their family but the mom and dad weren't interested very much so we started just teachings the girls.

They are awesome, so elect!! :)