So this week has been great! I love Mexico City so much! Everyday is quite the adventure! I think riding the Metra is my favorite part
because you never know what is going to happen.
This week I got dragged on with a bunch of people. I looked out the window and my companion was
still outside! Luckily my companion had
already went through with me what to do when that happens. It is so crazy in there. My companion is so funny. The very first thing she taught me when I got
on my mission was how to call a taxi and how to find the microphone in the
Metra Station. I found the loud speaker
in the Metra Station and called her name so that she could find me.
The longer I am here the more I love
it. I don’t feel like my Spanish is
getting any better. However, the ward
members keep saying how much better it is getting so that is encouraging. We go to Hermana Dulce’s house all the time
for family home evening and other stuff.
They just got baptized three weeks ago and their family is amazing! Her daughter is our age and goes out teaching
with us about 3 times a week. Her son is
about 10 and says my Spanish sounds about like a 1st grader with a really bad
accent sooo... :)
I have a new best friend. A lot of people can’t understand my accent
or my grammar. However, there is a 6
year old boy who understands me perfectly even when I am trying to sign out
what I am saying. He translates for
me.
Another fun thing that happened this
week was I am always afraid to street contact because I can’t speak very
well. My companion said I had to street
contact this one guy. I was really
nervous but then he came up and talked to me about the gospel! So that was definitely a tender mercy!
This Sunday we were so sad because we
went to go pick up our investigators for church and none of them answered their
doors. Then when we walked into church there was someone who just decided to
come so we got a new investigator. Getting
our investigators to baptism this week was super hard. It seems when someone is making progress all
of a sudden everything goes wrong. One
of our investigators got chicken pox. In
Mexico when you get chicken pox you have to stay in your house for at least 3
weeks so that you don’t spread it to everyone. Then the pregnant lady I talked about last
time is having difficulties with her family and wasn’t able to get baptized
this week. We only had one baptism this
week. Even one was amazing though. It just makes me want to work harder so other
people can look that happy when they come out of the font.
This week church was so funny. It was fast and testimony meeting and they
told people to stop coming up after ten minutes of the meeting. It still went for 2 hours because so many
people wanted to share their testimonies.
Hermana Magaña and I also went up to bear our testimonies. We went straight from sacrament to relief
society.
I love all the ward members here though because
they are super involved. The young women
leaders came with us yesterday and we went and visited all the inactive young
women in the ward. Then on Sunday the
young men leaders came in and had us talk to the young men about missionary
work. From that experience we are going
out with the young men and their moms.
We talk to their friends and less
active young men. This week we are scheduled
to go with a different young man and his mom everyday this week. It is great when members want to go out with
us. It is so much easier to get someone
to come to church when they have a friend. The ward is also amazing at giving us references!
This week we got 32 references to go visit.
As for danger it is not that bad. There are a few areas that are a little bad
but our mission president is super involved.
He refuses to let us go to those areas alone even in the morning. He will either come with us or send one of
his counselors out with us. As for you
praying for my safety I will laugh if you prayed for me either on Friday or Saturday
night. Don’t worry though there are plenty
of experiences where I am just so surprised how much Heavenly Father is
protecting us. We will make decisions
that don’t seem to have any reason or significance and then the next day it
becomes very clear that those ideas came directly from the Holy Ghost.
I am so happy because my companion and
I get along really well. She says I am
her favorite one to train because I don’t cry at night or complain when we are
working like a lot of the other people she trained. I think it is just because I am having so much
fun. I really don’t think I have had this much fun in my whole life as I
have had in just two weeks here. Everyday feels like I am eating at a restaurant
and you just never can expect what will happen the next day. The people here are so nice They love to help me withy my Spanish and random
people will come up to me and try to say things in English. Usually it is “Ello” as in “Hello” or “Bi” as
in “Bye”. It is actually super funny. It makes me hope that is not what I sound
like to them when I am trying to speak Spanish.
I also love this place because I haven’t
gotten sick yet. It is super hot and I
have gotten some pretty bad sunburns but it is strange because I never feel it
when I’m out working only when I get home. I know Heavenly Father is blessing me with
strength here on my mission. I have
never been so exhausted in my life. There
have been a few days I get home and literally collapse. I woke up the next day in my dress.
Oh also I am the first American my
companion has trained. She thinks it is
so funny because I say some things so wrong. She says it is like teaching a kid because I
accidently swear a lot. She try’s not to
laugh. She just corrects me. If she laughs, she is worried I will always
be afraid of saying it wrong. It is just
hard because normal words in English like stupid. If you say the Spanish version of it
apparently it is a really really bad word. Also I was pretty proud of myself today
because I ordered food for the first time by myself. They understood me!
Another good experience we had this
week is there is an inactive family who decided that they want to meet with us
again. Their son was invited to mutual. He told his parents afterwards that he wanted
to go to church with his new friends the next Sunday. It was really cool because the son was 16 and
his family hadn’t been to church since he was 8 years old.
Ok I just remembered the only thing I don’t
like here and that is their nasty flower water.
They give it to us all the time. I am always so thirsty so I drink it anyway. Literally
sometimes you can see pieces of flower petals in it. Other than that all the food is great!
I love visiting members because they
are just so humble they live in tiny houses but they are just so willing to
give you everything they have. I have to
go but I loved hearing about your week and I hope Dad makes it home safely!
Love you guys!
Hermana Jones
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