Tender Mercies

Hola hola hola!!!!!

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 Sorry this email is a day late, the internet here wasnt workin so Presidente said we could and should email today! So here i am. 

The past week has been amazing! Lots and lots of work, President's  goal for us is to teach 40 lessons each week and we are really really trying! He has also said that we need to talk to every person in the combis and calles which at times is terrifying but we gotta be obediente and go for it. At times people really dont want to hear what we have to say but we simply smile and say Tenga buen dia! 

And the start of this week was pretty intense just because yesterday was the day we find out if we have cambios and well I have some news for you all…for the next six weeks I will be serving in…GUERRERO…with…Hermana Sanchez! Haha okay so nothing has changed for us but we are super excited to be together and work in Guerrero. I guess they told us before but (clearly I didnt understand) because I am telling you all now but I guess we are the first SisteR Missionaries in Guerrero in 20 years so the Ward is super happy that we are staying with them because we have work! The members here are so sweet and every day we have a different member who feeds us comida. Things are really good here and I am really loving it. My companion and I also found a new way to exercise in the morning and for those who know me know I am really excited about this. She is teaching all of the dances here…salsa, bachata cumbia cumbia sonidera banda y duranguense! I have been loving it, at times it is really funy because I am way taller than her and she is the [hombre{ and sometimes the dances dont go to our church music but it has been so fun! So that is something new.

 I am not fluent or anything but a lot of your emails and tips and advice have helped a ton! And I am niot fluent or anything but I can get by…somewhat haha I still say a lot of embarassing things but hey it leaves room for improvement right- But i dont know I have just learned to also not worry about it SO much. As long as I have the spirit and give it my very all I know it is enough.  It is amazing to see how ready some of these people are, it is like they have been waiting exactly for this góspel and are so willing and ready to change their lives and follow the Savior it is amazing. The trestimonies of some of the people here are just so strong and some of them barely have anything but they are so happy and love life because they have the gospel and that is exactly what it does, it giveas happiness the world cannot give. There is a family we are really close to and we had FHE or noche de hogar and the mother was going blind but she knew that all was posible with the Lord and so she read her scriptures and prayed everyday with the faith that she would be able to see and she now can see and said The Lord is her medicine and is her doctor and she doesnt need anybody else and the spirit was so strong and I feel like I am constantly meeting amazing people here and am just learning so much. I am also being taught piano every Monday by one of the members here who has offered to  let us use her washer, and so while the clothes wash we get to learn piano it is so amazing. I am really grateful to be here, this work is very intense but there is nothing like it and I continue to grow cada dia! OH! And Rosario is getting baptized next friday )the lady who cut her chicken open) ah it is so awesome and we really love her so i am happy about that

 I am thankful for your love and for the tender mercies and miracles of the Lord, seriously everytime we have prayed for a ride up this HUGE hill with our ropa or grocvereies or something the Lord has been there and blessed us with rides and I know He is always there for me and all of us. I am thankful for you all and I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Stay and be strong,to believe and live the góspel isn't easy but it is soooo worth it! 

Love,

Hermana Guerrero

Happy Easter!

Hello Family and freinds! HAPPY EASTER :)

Did you know that in mexico they start celebrating easter on thursday?

 Well this week was pretty amazing! A lot of things happened this week! I taught English classes for the first time ever this week! It was really fun and the people seemed to really enjoy it. I had a lot of little ninos come and I was terrified before but I really enjoyed it! We also had out first baptism yesterday and I gave my first talk in Spanish yesterday

 Our ward also had a HUGE all day activity on Friday for members and for everybody to invite their friends and for us to invite investigators and we had three! So that was wonderful. It started at 9:00 in the morning and I guess it ended at 2:00 in the morning because they really like to dance! It was fun there were sports and many activities and comida (TACOS!) and then there was dancing! Margaita, who was baptized yesterday, came and I think she really felt the love from all the members.

 We were all excited for her and her baprtism was so beautiful, it was very very spiritual and I am thankful to have had such an experience. I am sending pictures!

 An updATE on the mailing situation...i RECEIVED FOUR LETTERS today from special people! Thank you to those who have written me and dear eldered me. Dear elder takes a little while but i heard it is free? I love you all and I am feeling really happy and have really been loving it. It is hard and I embarrass myself a lot with things i say and accidentally do but it is all part of the experience! just so you know...derecho and derecha are different words and one means right and one means straight...helps you out if you dont want to slam into a door haha

 Today we had a really fun zone activity just because we will be having changes next week and we dont know who will be transferred but we had a lot of fun and even had an easter hunt and played futbol and kickball and haha you guessed it ate tacos! But i feel that i understand a little bit more and I am finding the joy in serving theLlord even if the numbers arent always great! II LOVE YOU ALL AND i HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL EASTER.

 I am learning so much and i know my testimony wouldn't be they way it is had I not decided to serve, it is so true some people don't need to serve i truly believe that, but i know Heavenly Father called me to serve because I wouldn't have a testimony of some of the things I do now, or i wouldn't vierw it the same. I hope that makes sense and I am so thankful for all of your  love! I am safe and I didn't feel the earthquake at all so please know i am safe and okay and loving the little puebla Guerrero :)

Hermana Guerrero

Getting Adjusted

Hola Everyone! 

Sorry I wasnt able to write an email last week but I have one for you guys this week!...Well that is, if the computer doesn't shut down on me! But I am doing good!

 Last week we had interviews with Presidente and Presidente and Sister Egbert came and visited us and it was so awesome! I really needed them and it was nice to talk to them and get guidance and help. And Presidente made me realize that I haven't even been out here for a month and so I shouldnt worry to much about not being fluent...haha, I guess I just want to talk and communicate and I will :) Just takes time and hard work.

 But this week was pretty good! We have a baptism this Friday for a sweet sweet lady named Margarita and I am really excited for her. She is just loving everything and has such a sweet spirit. I am also teaching English classes this Wednesday and Saturday...kind of nervous because I am not fluent in Spanish but they want it and we think it would be a great way to get people to come to church and get to know more of the people who live here in little Guerrero. And speaking of Guerrero, it has been killing some of the members that I dont know where exactly my Guerrero side of the family is from so Mom please let me know :D As for now I just tell them that we are all family and it is good.

 I am finally starting to feel adjusted to my new life here in Mexico and I am not completely there but I am a lot better! But even then that doesn't mean I dont make mistrakes...lets see..this week I accidentally said a young boy names joseph smith was 40 years old insteasd of 14 haha and then I said God is our mother in Heaven! aye yay yay! I am CONSTANTLY humbled and every single day I pray to Heavenly Father and ask Him to be with me. I am so weak without Him and I need Him to do this! But its been so fun and such an adventure!!! Hahaha dogs here are crazy and so many of the meals I eat here have cactus and insects in them and it is just crazy! Oh and the lady, Rosario who cut in animal in front of us is getting baptized and we are so excited!! We have baptismal dates but our investigators have to attend church 4 times before they get baptized so we are just waiting out and seeing what happens! I got a haircut today and we are in Tepa right now because it has stores and such so Mondays are always crazy adventures! But I am doing good and Presidente has given us the challenge to reasd the BOM in a month and talk to EVERY person we come in contact with! Its terrifying but exciting!

 I am so excited for Kayla, Josh, and Andrea!!! That is so awesome!!!! I am excited for you all and send you my Congrats and love!! Lets do this!! I hope you all are doing well in the States and I send my love from Mexico!  Oh and yesterday was such an awesome day because I bore my testinmony in Spanish for the first time! I love you all! And with God nothing is impossible! Not even Spanish!

Fear Not, Doubt Not 

Con Amor, 

Hermana Guerrero

A quick message

I loved General Conference!  Especially the music because it was in English and I could understand it!
I don't have time to write an email :( my computer started way late but I guess I still have to get off :( Even though my companion had a ton of time but hey, I will have extra to tell you next week so sorry I feel terrible but I give my love and I know this church is true! I know my testimony wouldn't be like this if I didnt decide to serve, its still hard but I have the Lord with me and one cannot fail with Him afterall he is our ALMIGHTY GOD!

Love Hermana Guerrero

The Chicken Story

Hello Hello Hello!!!

Out serving the Lord

Life here in Mexico is pretty crazy!!! Theres always more and more work to be done and I don’t think I have ever gone to bed not feeling  tired! There are two wards in Guerrero and I am in Guerrero 1! I don’t know if I have told you this but almost everyone here is a Guerrero, everyone is family and everyone knows everyone. And because I am a Guerrero people assume that I am some expert in Spanish and let me tell you, everytime I introduce myself…a story is required of where I am from and who are my parents and grandparents. And even though I cant speak much Spanish they are all really nice…it is just that I wish I was fluent but I know it all comes with time

. A lot of the work this week was teaching inactive members just because everyone is a member but a lot of them don’t attend church. We have also taught a lot of lessons about eternal families and how it is important to be married. We have a lot of families where the Mom is either a member but the Father isn’t or the other way around. Lots and lots of teaching! Our ward had an activity on Friday where the ward was going to play games, eat, and dance, so we could get some inactive members to come and feel welcomed and comfortable with the members and it turned out great! The ward is trying really hard to get more people to come to church and I guess the fiesta didn’t end until 5!!! I wouldn’t know because we had to leave early but awhhh I so badly wanted to dance…hahah but it was okay I am here for the Lord! But yeah it turned out great and members here really know how to party and have a fun clean activity! So yeah that has been great and members have been really helpful and feed us each day for comida J

Doing Laundry

 Interesting story for you all….ready? Well this week I wintnessed a chicken getting sliced open so an investigator of ours could take it the food it eats each day and it was…..quite the experience…here we were walking by saying hello and they next thing I know I am in this room watching this chicken getting sliced open by its owner with a razor and then she starts pulling stuff out of its body…my I was thinking wow! Am I really watching this?! But is was fine because I originally thought she was going to chop its head off because I cant understand Spanish that well and she had an axe in the other room! And the best part is that we had comida right after…but the chicken is doing fine now…she sewed it back up and well I hope it gets better so we don’t have to keep helping her but if she needs it we are here for her!  Spanish is still extremely difficult to me but I am trying.  I get emotional a lot during my prayers because I really need Him and just because I have never struggled this much. But I love the Lord too much to stop and though I may feel like I am not making a huge difference, I know He wants me here and that I am at least converting myself more and more each day.

Studying the Gospel in Guerrero

 We have a working shower now and I am so thankful…I cant believe how blessed I was to have a washer and dryer and a shower constantly with heat and for….SO MUCH!! Its different but I love it because it is all apart of the experience of serving our Lord! I am learning to find strength in Him and though it's hard I know he doesn't give us things we cant handle….I am weak and struggling beyond belief but I know HE can and will help me. I love you all and thank you for your support and love…it keeps me going!

 Now here's a quote that continues to help me and helps me to keep going, “ You only get one chance to serve a mission; it is your responsibility, your duty, to use it to your fullest; to give every last ounce of energy until you collapse in exhaustion at the end of it all. All the hardships, all the tears, all the hard work will be looked back upon as the best thing you’ve ever done, not because you enjoyed it, not because you baptized everyone, but because you gave it everything you had, even when you didn’t think you could, and especially when you didn’t want to. Live your mission to your fullest, work harder than you have ever worked before. Let people know that this is the most impoirtant thing in the world to you. If you do not run until you have nothing left to give, and then keep going on anyway; cry and pray and work and sweat and plead until you are so drained that all you can do is turn to the Lord; if you don’t do this, then these people will not come to this joy because of you—their failure to come to Christ will be partially upon your head. Come ourt of your mission proud of what you have done, and this experience will bless the rest of your life” Jeffrey R Holland!  Helps me everytime!  I can wait for General Conferenece!  You all need to Watch it!  I love you all!  Have a great week!

Love, Hermana Guerrero