Hey!

So I don't leave until thee 31st of March so I still have a week and a half left.  The only thing I would want before I leave for Mexico is pictures,   If you guys would be able to do that, I kind of want some family pictures, some Chicago pictures, BYU pictures like the fall ones that we took, or just any other pictures that you want to send :)   Just so I can fill up my little book with pictures and have them before I leave for Mexico.  Thank you so much and I hope that you guys have a great time on spring break!  I am glad to hear that Mormon prom went so well and that Audrey had fun. I am glad that she was able to find a dress. From Rachel's letters it sounds like Hayden's girlfriend was having a hard time finding a dress.   Hayden texted Rachel asking for dress advice and I guess a little later sister Moffat asked Rachel too.  That is good that everyone had fun and that Logan went! Take lots of pictures while you are in Switzerland and Italy so I can see what it was like:)

       So there isn't that much that has changed here at the MTC .  Except my companions and I are now the new sister training leaders for the Zone.   So we get to greet all the new people and show them around.  So that is cool :)  Also at main campus they have a huge map of all the missions in the world.  Hal has the smallest mission I have ever seen!!  We could hardly even find it because it is such a little dot!  It was so funny.  Also I met someone who served in the same mission as me and he told us all about Mexico.  It made me so excited to finally get there!   He told us that we should never take any medicine that members offer you when you get sick.   He made that mistake and it made it way worse. They gave him a pill that turned out to be pure coal.  It was supposed to get all the toxins out of your system but it made his whole mouth black.  He talked about how amazing the people are and how great the food is though.  So it is worth it to be sick a few times for it :)  

 

So other news we went to the temple today and did some sealings.  That was pretty cool. Missionaries are only allowed to act as the siblings and during sessions they are not allowed to be in the prayer circle.  It was cool to get to do those again before we leave.  We only have one more P-Day here in the MTC.  We will probably spend most of the day doing laundry and packing.

 

The funny story for the week is we practiced street contacting....but we are surrounded by a fence and the only people inside are members so we had to practice on our teacher and random missionaries that walked by...and on a random duck in the pond.  It was pretty great though!  I can't wait to start doing it for real.  Another thing is we have a teacher who is literally obsessed with Dan Jones.  He has us practice Dan Jonesing.   So we will go to a random place, stand on something and start teaching the gospel in Spanish. It sounds really weird.  It felt really weird the first time but now it is one of my favorite things to do.  It is just so fun. He went to Guatemala on his mission and he would do the Dan Jones approach all the time.  He would go to the front of the bus and start preaching the gospel.  I guess he did it enough that people started to recognize who he was.  He was so happy when I told him that I had a brother named Dan Jones but said Dan Dan has big shoes to fill :) 

 

Other news I guess this week someone broke into one of the girls apartments here at Y-view and assaulted someone.  So now there are roving security guards all night long. It is a little freaky because none of the missionaries have a phone to call if something bad happens.  I am thankful now that I have two companions living in our apartment now instead of just one! Everything is going great here at the MTC though. 

 

I am still learning a lot.  Since we are going to Mexico the investigators that we have are really good.  They try to make it like people that we will meet in Mexico.  Some are really Catholic, one can't read so it makes it harder for him to have a testimony of the Book of Mormon.  I got the picture book version of the Book of Mormon and read it with him at the beginning of each lesson.  We have some people who commit to baptism and never show up to church.  It is frustrating,  However,  I am glad they are giving us experience with all these different kind of situations before we get out on the field. I love the MTC but I am just getting excited to finally get out on the field.  Especially because the guy I was talking to today said in Mexico City they speak so much slang.   You will never learn how to speak how they speak here at the MTC.  Also I found out that there are only a few other white sisters in Mexico City West mission.  So all sisters go out for 1 transfer with their trainer.  Then they all become trainers because there are so few.  There are so many sisters coming into Mexico City this summer that sisters have to become trainers early.  So I hope I learn fast.  I kind of hope I end up with a native speaker at the beginning so I am forced to learn the language faster.  

 

That's pretty much all the new news I have for you guys and I hope that you are having a great time! 

 Love,  
Hermana Jones