What a Week!

Hola to everyone! I hope you are all doing well. Sorry because last week was not much of anything that I wrote. But as I recall I did mention that I would be training. It's true. I'm a trainer. Only one other person from my "generation" is training. The others all have more time here, so it's weird. I am definitely learning a lot as a trainer. My new companion is Hna. Rodriguez and she is from Ecuador. Things have been really rough for her since she's been in Mexico (3 weeks ago now with MTC). We have received many calls because she hasn't been so happy (calls from the zone leaders, district leader, sister training leaders) and all the time too. It has been hard for me too because I just want to help her and there isn't much of anything I can do, but I'm trying with each day and all I can do.

It's weird not having my past companion, but I'm learning many things. First is that I do know a lot of Spanish - not necessarily entirely fluent. There are still things I don't understand or know how to say to be easy for others to understand, but now I will really progress because my companion doesn't speak English. Also I feel weird because I'm a senior companion. I have to know more things and be in charge. It's weird, but it's good though.

Anyway it's been quite a week, but we've also been working as hard as we can. It's been a more successful week than I expected even though it hasn't been super awesome or successful. We're doing what we can! I'm still a happy camper here in Mexico and hope my companion will become one too in not too long. :)

That's about it.
Have a wonderful and happy week!
Hna. Humphrey

Hola Rapido

Hey I just wanted to be sure to give you this time rapido so that I could tell you all that I'm doing great! We recieved transfer calls last night and I'm staying in my area (training!!!) It's crazy, but I'm excited and very nervous. I'll definitely learn many things and I may be super stressed this next week, but it will be good for me. I find out in about an hour who my companion is and here goes with this new experience!!

I hope you all have a wonderful week and that everyone is happy. I'll do my best to answer all of your emails next week, but it'll probably be many to answer, so no guarantees!

Also I saw three people from my district today!! Happy day!! I'm off to receive my companion in just a few!

Talk to you all next week!
Hermana Humphrey

Week of 10-year-old

What happened this week? That's a lovely question that I would like to answer. Not a whole ton, but something that DID happen is the baptism of a cute little 10 year old. We had a bit of cramming during this week to be sure she was completely set for baptism. We were able to teach all the necessary things and have the interview and baptism. It was so great! She was so happy and just beaming with excitement for her baptism. Her mom was there too which was really great because even though her husband person (they're not married like many of the people here) and all of his family are members, she has never been to church. (He is very inactive so there's some reason). She came though and it was great!

Something funny that I learned while we were giving prep interview was that the Sabbath day is Sunday because Jesus died on a Thursday and was resurrected on a Sunday to go to church. So now we go on Sunday too. I think she misunderstood a bit, but we got it all clarified. It's so funny to hear the things she says because she's ten and that always leads to funny things. Anyway I'm really happy about that and I don't have a whole lot more that happened this week. It wasn't super eventful, but fairly full - not as much as the past few weeks, but still good though, so no worries. :)

Also I learned how to clean and fill the baptismal font. It was quite a process because usually someone else does it and we never have, so we had to learn how on our own and just do it. But it's all good. It worked out (after a bit of work and calling and such). So there's my week. Have a good one friends!

Hermana Humphrey

Another Week in the Land of Rain and Tortillas

This week was kind of really long, but yet also very quick. Time here is just weird and abstract. Supposedly there was a storm in Guatemala not far from us so we had some solid rain for a few days (with some time without rain too). It wasn't quite as much as I expected from what people were saying, but it was a lot too.

I'm teaching piano again which is pretty fun! I'm teaching a member who is pretty much my same age and it's really weird because I have no idea where to start really, but it's actually going well, so that's all that really counts. :) I had the lovely experience of trying a very strange foreign fruit. It's quite tasty too! It just looks so weird. We had another zone meeting this week and it was lovely.

Saturday the other missionaries in our ward had a baptism so we went and it was lovely. It kind of threw off our day though we were about an hour behind for everything and then we had stake conference that night (and Sunday morning). So it was a crazy day, but good though. And at conference we had a couple who are new-ish investigators come and it was just great because even though they don't understand super lots they are just great and have a desire to learn so that is what is important!

Yesterday we had quite an experience too. We learned what it feels like when there is a bad spirit with you. We felt it in the house of a new investigator and brought it with us to a member's house. Luckily the Priesthood exists so we were able to receive a blessing and also we sang so that we could have the bad spirit leave the house. It's all good now and we feel great! So that's important. It was definitely a learning experience! (One that I don't want to have again.)

That's pretty much my week. Nothing super exciting or strange, but it was a good week though!
Hna Humphrey



Here I have three pictures of the fruit we ate. We bought a bag of 20 or so this morning for 10 pesos (less than a dollar). That's pretty cool. They are fun fruit and I'll certainly miss all these strange fruits that exist here. Supposedly these are very unique to here. They don't exist in Mazatlan. Only a few other places have them, so that's fun! (Note from Holli's mom - I think these are rambutan. We tried some last summer, and they were delicious. I can only imagine how yummy they must be when they are really fresh!)

Happy June!!

Once upon a time I looked at the calander and poof! it was June. It's like magic, but not. Anyway.. this week was a week - mostly good, but also had some not so good, rather sad things. I'll start with the sad so I can end this happily because I really am happy, there were just some sad things. The sad things were that we had an investigator who we (at least I) really loved. She's 18 and super ready to have the Gospel. She accepted a baptism date and everything, but then she told us one day that her uncle won't let her go to church or continue listening to us. So we lost her just like that. Also we had another who was super great who told us that she talked to someone from another church and agrees more with them and so we lost her too. There have been a lot this week that have just been falling, so we're down to few investigators. So we have a lot of contacting to do, but that's supposed to always happen. Yay!

On to the more happy stuff. I'm basking in the loveliness of this day. Why? because it's raining (yes right now). Usually it doesn't rain much in the day time but today it's been raining since we got up. So I'm not even cooking or anything. It's rather nice, except for my wrinkled toes and feet. We've had a pretty decent amount of rain this week and I've certainly gotten a bit wet a few times.

Other than that I really don't have a whole lot to tell. We had a lovely district meeting. I used to be the only American, but now we have four. That's a change. (This was our first district meeting with the new district because of our weirdness of our meetings so far). And we're having a pretty decent amount of lessons, even though they aren't all super ones (like with people who are falling). Fifteen of those were with less actives and recent converts though. What a week!

Have a fun June!!

Hermana Humphrey