Week 10 in Mexico

I can't believe how much everything is changing. I feel like my graduation was yesterday, but it was a year ago! I hope you guys had a great time with all the visitors for the weekend with Hal.  I am glad that Hal passed all his stuff and it is crazy that he got to go through the temple. I was a little overwhelmed the first time I went through the temple too but it just gets better and better every time. I like how Allie is wearing my dress in the picture :) Things never change - ha ha ha!
I was also thinking about how so many people in our family are sharing the gospel with Mexicanos! I am here in Mexico, Hal is about to spend 6 weeks teaching the gospel in Mexico, mom gave away a Book of Mormon to a lady from Mexico, and because of Dad teaching world religions, a girl in the Spanish branch with her mom joined the church. It just makes me so happy because the last line of the blessing I got before I left on my mission was that my family would be blessed with the spirit of missionary work.  I have only been gone for three months, and it is already happening. I can't wait to see what happens when both Hal and I are on missions. Thank you for his email! I will be able to write him in Spanish pretty soon when we are both here in Mexico :)
I was also thinking about how every decision we make in this life has an effect. I remember I didn't know what other class to take, and world religions seemed to jump out at me and at the time it didn't really mean much but looking back it has been a great missionary opportunity. I don't know how many people Dad has gotten to talk to about the gospel because of that class, but it has been a lot. Every time I hear what the sisters are doing in the ward it makes me so happy. It always makes me want to try harder and teach more people because I want to teach someone's family the same as the sisters there are having the chance to teach.
This week I really learned what kind of member I want to be when I get back from my mission. There is a lady here who is the best. She comes out teaching with us every week, and when there is an inactive member or investigator at church she is always the first person to go talk to them and invite them to sit by her. It is so amazing. I don't remember the name of the talk but it is by elder Bednar and it is a talk he gave at the MTC about Christ. If you guys can find it, it is honestly one of the best talks I have ever heard. He talks about how when people get up and bear their testimony about their ancestors and the things they did in there lives, he always thinks that's good for them but what have you done recently? I thought a lot about that this week, and that we constantly have to be working on our testimonies and faith. One thing I really loved was when I was reading in the Bible dictionary about faith it says that miracles don't strengthen your faith. It is obedience and righteousness that cause people to have unshakable faith.
In the talk by Elder Bednar he talks about a woman who in all sincerity showed Christlike characteristics when her daughter and friend were in a car crash and her daughter died and the first thing she did was call the other mom to tell her that her daughter was still alive but in the hospital. Then in the talk he goes on to say that the woman was a Relief Society president and the day of her daughters funeral a lady called and was mad because she had a cold and no one had come to give her a meal. So the Relief Society president didn't say anything just made a meal and on her way to her daughters funeral dropped of the meal at this lady's house.
This week was pretty good.  We spent our P-Day at one of our recent convert's house. They were confirmed my first week here. It was the Dad's birthday so the family, the elders, and us made lots of food and spent time with them. It was so great-- there is something really amazing about new converts. They just have an excitement that I think a lot of us start to forget. We have the restored gospel of Jesus Christ here on the earth! It was really funny this week because a big problem we have here in trying to convert people is that a lot of people here worship Mary more than Jesus. My companion asked a good question to one of our investigators though.  She said "When you are sick do you go to the doctor or the mom of the doctor?"
Anyway, this week was great. I will send a picture of me finally on top of the mountain. One of our investigators lives on top of a mountain that takes us about two and a half hours to walk up every time we go to visit and unfortunately no taxis can make it up so you have to walk. A lot of people have donkeys that they ride to get to their houses. This week also our zone leaders had us have a zone fast. It was really interesting though because they talked about how when we fast we are always asking for something but they had the whole zone hold a gratitude fast for all the things that we are grateful for. It really does make things very different when you are giving up food to show your gratitude instead of asking for blessings. Anyway, i hope you guys have a great week. I know Hal will :)
Love, Hermana Jones