Hola on a Very Loco Day

Today has been super weird. We woke up in the morning and had a lovely problem in the bathroom and the landlady says that we will need to have it all fixed and will take about a week. So good news.. We're going to go live with other missionaries for the week. Hermana Guevara (past companion) and a newbie, Hermana Baker. We'll see how that all goes, but I'm sure it will be a lot more stress and craziness. It's all good though. So we have been trying to work out all of this all day.

Besides that it's been a good week. We had intercambios on Thursday that went for a day and a half. It was super great and I had a great time! It was fun to be with Hermana Rodriguez (not my past companion - different one). She's a great missionary and we worked super hard and what's cool is that their area is in downtown San Cristobal. This week was a cool week with a bunch of stuff going on so it was a fun experience. I have some great pictures of a man dressed as an Indian dancing around. Pretty funny. :)

Besides the long, but fun, intercambios, it was a good week too. We had great experiences finding new people, talking with a sister in the ward who was living in West Valley for a few months, and having lots of other good things to do. So it's been a good time.

I hope you all have a fun week and are happy and enjoy the cold (and snow?... I've heard it was supposed to snow this week, but I am not sure because I've just heard it from people who looked it up who live down here on the other side). Either way.. enjoy the day!!

Hermana Humphrey

Hola Utah (and a few other states, maybe)

Hey everyone. Here I am in San Cristóbal. Woo!! It's so lovely here. The mountains and the palm trees (not quite as many as in Tapachula though) and all the other cool things. It's really great and the weather is pretty fun. We get cold in the morning. Hot when we go out to work for a few hours and then cold again. Sometimes I walk outside and think.. where's the snow? But that supposedly doesn't exist here.

It hasn't been a super eventful week, a little bit, but mostly regular. We did have one weird day though. We left to go teach the people and as we were on our way my companion hurt her toe enough that she could hardly walk. So we went home and rested for a while. She still couldn't walk later on in the day, so we were at home the whole time. We did go nearby to a restaurant because we were told that the member who was going to give us food gave money to the RS president and didn't tell us that we would be having someone else give us food. Later (after almost finishing eating) we were told that we had a member who would give us food. She brought it to our house though because we couldn't really walk there very easily. It was all just an interesting day.

Besides that we have had a lot of walking, teaching, talking, stuff such like that. It's really great to see the people who actually care to learn and are progressing bit by bit. I hope you all have a fun week and maybe next week will be a little more eventful to tell you all about.

Other news, I saw a bunch of people dressed like Indians or something like that dancing and singing and playing weird instruments. San Cristóbal is really a pretty cool place. We'll have to come back here all together to see it. :)

Hermana Humphrey

Very Short on Time

Today I'm very short on time, but here's a bit for you all.

This week has been very weird for me. It's strange suddenly being in a place that is cold. I feel so weird. It's good I didn't send ALL my cold weather stuff home after the MTC. I'll see how it goes for me this week. At night is the hardest because it's about 60 degrees in our house at night. But I have lots of blankets and such. I'm thankful we have furnaces at home! It's really hard getting to know a new area. The last time it took me about 2 months to really feel good about where I was and find my way around. And this area is a lot bigger.. It's a process and also getting to know all new people is difficult, but I'm learning.

I sure miss my ward in Tapachula. My companion. The great members. My area that I know. All that stuff. After nine months it's hard to leave knowing I may not be coming back. (But I do plan to one day). I do really like that we have cold weather and that it actually feels like winter!! But the drastic change is hard sometimes.

It's really a cool place here in San Cristobal. It's smaller than Tapachula (but not way small). It's a bit of a tourist area. So in downtown part (not in our area, but we went today for our P-day) there are a ton of people from all over the world. It's cool to see them all. And the markets are great! For Dia de los muertos the market by our house was fulllllll of flowers. Tons and tons and tons! It was really pretty cool to see. I'm excited for the Christmas stuff that they'll put out in not too long. :)

Anyway I hope you all have a fun week and I'll talk to you all later!!
Hermana Humphrey

No, I Didn't Forget About You

Dearest people,

Today I'm writing very late because today we had transfers. They told us all where we're off to last night and I left at 9 or so in the morning for the other side. I'm now here in Canada...or was it San Cristóbal? Yep. I am in San Cristóbal. When I got my call I was hoping to come here and even more since then. So it's pretty exciting. Maybe I will actually have a cold Christmas!! It's actually cold here as weird as it may seem. So I'll be going shopping next Monday for another coat/jacket thing a little thicker than what I have now. This will be okay for now, but as the colder months come, it might not be. :)

My companion is Sister Lion (Hermana Leon) and she really seems like she'll be a good companion. Different, but in a great way from what I can tell. More on that later and have a fun week!

Anyway. I really don't have any time to tell you much more, but I'll write more next week!

Hermana Humphrey

Hola Amigos

Hey hey hey!! How're you all?? I hope everyone is doing super! This week has been quite an interesting week. We've improved in a lot of things this week. It's always up and down and we're making it back up right now. :) I would love to tell you all about all that happened in the week, but I'll just tell you the most important of the week. We've been working hard and having a bit more success. No baptisms this week, but that's not all there is to success. We have goals in the mission and we finally got to the majority of them for the week... but missed it by that much. The contacts are what kills us, but we're working on it. Some weeks are great and others not so much. We found new people in different ways (like references from members for a change!), but the best is Octavio. He's an investigator that other Hermanas were teaching, but he moved to a new house. He's super interested in learning more and he came to church yesterday too! Woo!! It was funny because we had a lesson with him and the other hermanas to pass him off to us and he seemed so sad to have to change, but afterward they said he could leave with us and so we started heading towards our next lesson and he decided to come with us. We were also with another member. So we all went to the next lesson together and it went well. And the last hour we just went from one house to another of our investigators that weren't home. Usually the people who aren't members don't come with us to the other lessons, but it was good and now he's more okay with the fact that he had to switch missionaries.

We had a few members with us for the lessons this week, not just once or twice. That was pretty nice! It's just been good and yesterday we actually had more than just one person come to church of our investigators!! Woo!!

Anyway. It's been good and I am hoping this next week will be too!! Have a cool week (probably literally up there in October means fall land). :)

Hermana Humphrey

More rain!!

A bag of churros

Clothes borrowed from a member after being soaked (even though it's normal to be soaked)

Hawaiian themed ward missionary activity (actividad misional del barrio)

Hna Humphrey and Hna Agustin

Huge tree that's not so huge anymore since it was struck by lightning a few months ago

Quake Number Who Knows

Well... today at 3:30 in the morning I was rapidly awakened with another earthquake. It was the fourth one I've felt and known for sure is an earthquake, but they all say that it's almost always quaking down here. Supposedly Chiapas is winning in seismic activity in Mexico right now. It was quite a freak out moment when I felt the earthquake this time because I was lost in sleep and woke up suddenly. It only lasted about 5 seconds this time, but it was a big one. I felt like it was still quaking for about ten minutes with how loco my heart was going!! What an experience! (Note from Holli's mom: this earthquake was 4.7 - the one in July was 6.9)

Anyway.. This week has really been quite great! We've worked hard and had a good time. We also took a trip to Hawaii! It was our missionary activity in the ward. It went really well! And also we were able to go to the baptism of Keke (I have no idea how you spell that). He's the brother of Hanny (who was baptized in August). It was so great! Even though it doesn't count as one of the baptisms in our numbers as missionaries, it sure does count as a baptism up in Heaven! And it was great because we were the reason why they started coming to church again. :) It's great to see lives change like that!

Thursday we had a great zone conference and during the week we've found new people to teach who are really excited and ready to learn. I hope we can keep teaching and helping them and that they'll come to church pronto! That's the best way for them to really see what blessings come from the Gospel. I know it's true and that the church is what keeps me going. Without the Gospel in my life I'd be a lost cause... But look at me. I'm not completely lost.

I hope you all have a lovely week!
Hermana Humphrey

A Conference Week

This weekend was quite nice because we were able to see general conference! Definitely a nice thing to be able to do! Again I watched in Spanish, but it was a lot easier to understand this time. And it was cool to be able to listen to a few of the people give their talks in Spanish - from their actual mouth. Two of the speakers spoke in Spanish and Richard G. Scott also has his talk pre-recorded that comes from his own mouth too. So that was pretty nice. I am looking forward to when I get to watch conference in English again. And I would love to see conference in the conference center. Everyone asked me if I've been their for the conference and I can only tell them no. But one day I will get to I hope!

It hasn't been a super eventful week, but it's been good though. It was really hot this week and my body wanted to fall over and die, but no worries. I'm alive!! We did take a minute to sit and rest though so we wouldn't have any incidents in the middle of the street. It's so weird having such a hot October. I feel like it's still July with the weather how it is here, but then I remember that it's not.

We have had some great lessons. On Friday when I was just about to die and my head was pounding, we went for a lesson at 5 and Roberto told us that the day we contacted him, he saw us talking to someone and crossed the street so that maybe we would talk to him too. And if we didn't then whatever. So really he was prompted to talk to us, but didn't want to make the first effort. It's good that we made the effort to talk to him.

Also on Wednesday, we stopped by house of a girl who is reactivating in the church so we could go the the RS activity. And her cousin wanted to go too. So we all went and since then she has shown a lot of interest in the church. We're going to keep teaching them both and the others this week and hopefully we see more progress soon!! It is a great thing to see how the Lord works in different ways we sometimes don't expect. And when we make an effort to see the miracles He sends, life is just that much better!!

Have a really great week!
Hermana Humphrey

Sunset

Intercambios (splits)

Hna. Agustin's birthday (hooray for chocolate cake!)