Hello, 

Well this week was good.  We did lots of things. 

Well, we have Rodrigo who is going to be baptized 

on Tuesday, and Sharon and Adrian on the 31st.  

Today we have a zone activity, and we´re going to 

play volleyball with water balloons! So that's exciting.  

Also we decided to star up our English class again in 

the church on Saturday mornings. It was really fun, we 

taught how to pray in English, and then how to introduce 

yourself, and we practiced some verbs.  Then we played

this game where you have a sticky note on your head

with an animal in English, and you have to ask questions

to guess what animal you are...it was hilarious.  

Well, I'm looking forward to this week because Rodrigo is 

finally getting baptized!!

Have a great week!

I will attach some pictures of the view from our roof of our area :) 

Well, things are going good.  Yes, I'm enjoying it.  Sometimes it's weird to think that I'm in Mexico, and I just spend all  day 24/7 with one person walking around talking to strangers in a different language.  haha but I'm having fun and learning a lot.  We have three baptisms  planned for this month that are pretty set and sure.  Rodrigo, for next week Tuesday, Sharon for the 24th...she is 17 and has all of the lessons from elders who live where her Dad lives, but she actually lives here in our area with her Grandma, and she wants to be baptized, So she came to church with us yesterday and needs to have three attendances in our ward to be baptized here.  And Adrian...he is 13 and his Mom is less active, the missionaries taught and baptized his family 7 years ago, but he was too young to, but he is really good, it's sad because their family has a lot of problems and he can't read either...we are going to try and help him learn, and  help reactivate their family.  

Love you too!

Mariah

Weekly Email

Wellllll, this week was very good.  My new companion and I are working well together.  We had a lot of lessons this week, Hermana Eyre is very good at talking to everyone.  Which is great, for me its still a bit uncomfortable starting off...but It always works out good.  So we have a few new people and families to teach.  We also helped a family move, so we got to wear jeans...it was weird! They are a less active family and are going through a lot of hard things.  We are working to reactivate them...and they have a son who is 13 named Adrian, and we are going to try and get him baptized within the next couple weeks.  We went to the visitors center on Saturday with him and Rodrigo, and the other Rodrigo, and Antonio (who is Claudia's little brother) (I'll attach the pic) It was really fun and we all felt the spirit.  Rodrigo is going to get baptized in a week we think.  Today, Hermana Marcela made us crepes with cream cheese and blackberry jam and lechera (basically sweetened condensed milk) and they were heavenly.  Well that was my week in a nutshell :) have a great week!

Love Hermana Young

the first pic is me and Sylvia..shes an investigator that works for the govt here so she wears a yellow vest

And one of hna medwin, claudia and I the day hna medwin left

and the visitors center

New Companion

Well, this past week was really great.  After waiting alllll day on monday to find out if we would be having transfers, we finally got the call at like 10pm! And we found out that Hermana Medwin was leaving Zaragoza and I was staying here. So this is my fourth transfer in this area, I love it though so Im happy. After this transfer I'll have 6 months here.  Anyway, I got my new companion, Hermana Eyre, she is from Utah, and she has 9 months in the mission.  She has been in my zone for 3 transfers and we had exchanges together twice before, so we already knew eachother pretty well.  She is very nice and we get a along really well, and work well together.  And the funny thing is that the majority of the hermanas in the field are in the same stake because it's the area that's most safe.  So Hermana Medwin got transfered super close, like 10 mins away, and we´re still in the same district. And Hermana Eyre´s previous area is literally the other side of the street of our area...we could walk there.  

This week we found two new families to teach and I´m really excited about that.  Also Angel still has his baptismal date for the 10th of August and Rodrigo is going to get baptized on the 5th! Yesterday, Rodrigo had his baptismal interview and he is super ready! He loves the Book of Mormon, he excitedly told us about a cool part he foud and explained how it is like a powerful manual for life...haha Yes! So Im excited for that.  And we are going to go to the visitors center with him on saturday.  And Yaxkin, Alberto, and Nelly got confirmed yesterday! So things are going really well, I dont want to leave this area....but I have at least 5 weeks left here.  I think I will probably get transferred after this because usually you have no more than 6 months in one area.  

But yes, everything is going well, I am very happy and learning a lot! Missions are great.  

Have a great week! 

Love Hermana Young

Baptisms!

Well this week was great because guess what....YAXKIN, ALBERTO, and NELLY GOT BAPTIZED yesterday!!!!! After three months of working with them and several road blocks, they finally got married on Tuesday morning! And we celebrated with them, we ate tacos :) And then they all got baptized as a family on Sunday after church.  It was funny though because in order to have hot water, we have to turn on the boiler....but apparently there was some kind of bacteria in the boiler that made the hot water smell like rotten eggs, so we had to settle for cold water.  And we didnt want to tell them that it was cold...especially Yaxkin, she´s kind of a drama queen.  But Alberto went first...no complaints.  Then Yaxkin....and the instant she got in the water, she was like AHH its freezing hahahaha.  But she did it lol. An then poor Nelly, she is 10, and I don't know why she never mentioned this before, but she has a fear of water...she started crying and once she put her foot in the water, she just turned right back around. But Rodrigo (our recent convert) was the one who baptized them, he helped her and told her that Heavenly Father was with her and that she would be okay... and she calmed down and she did it. :) And they were all so happy, it was such a good program too.  Afterwards they all got up and shared their testimonies...even Jesus the 6 year old.  It was so sweet.  And Hermana Medwin and I had bought a ridiculously beautiful oreo cake from this bakery called Esperanza on Saturday. And last night after the baptism we went to their house and surprised them with the cake and we watched The Testaments.  

Other than that this week was pretty good, my companion got sick though with some kinds of stomach flu :( so we had two days where we didnt leave the house.  I took advantage of the time to study and watch some church movies and study some more.  It was fine..although I was going a little stir crazy.  But she´s better now. And we also went to a elementary school graduation that Claudi´s little brother invited us too, he graduated 6th grade.  It was fun, they really go ALL out for everything, they had choreographed dances and costumes, and even released a dove! haha it was funny. And today we will find out if we have transfers...I had a dream last night that I was leaving, so I'm pretty sure I'm getting transferred to a new area.  But I'll let you know.  

Have a great week! 

Love Hermana Young

weekly email

Well this week started out kind of disappointing, but it ended good.  Remember the woman Cinthia...well I was so sure she was going to progress a lot and get baptized. But she texted us on tuesday during our zone meeting and said that she had received an answer to her prayers, that the Catholic church was true and told us we could come and pick up their books of mormom.  We were so sad, I just felt so sad and confused too at how she got her answer.  So we went by her house that night and of course we didnt take the books back, but we talked with her and mostly just listened.  She explained how she went to a mass and felt something really special there. She was so sure about it too and happy with her decision, so there wasnt really anything we could do.  And that whole day it just seemed like everyone we talked to was just rejecting us and didn't want to accept anything we said.  Missions arent easy.  But I tried to keep a positive attitude and remember my testimony and why I´m here.  And when I think about how much Ive learned, and grown, and the people that Ive met and learned from in these past almost 6 months, I feel happy, because, yes there are bad days but there are much more good days. 

And although the week started out not so great, we had some great lessons this week with our investigators who are progressing.  And we had some good lessons with some less active members too.  And on Saturday, Rodrigo came on all of our lessons with us...usually he comes with us whenever he isn't working, its great.  And he introduced us to one of his friends who is 19 and his name is Angel, anyways we talked with him a little and he said he would come to church. And he did! And now he has a baptismal date for the 10th of August.  So we are very happy.  And Yaxkin and Alberto had an appointment at the delegation to get married this morning at 8am....we still havent heard whether it happened or not but I am hopeful....and then their whole family can get baptized on Sunday. 

This morning we had a zone activity and played soccer (well not me bacause I hate soccer), and threw a football and a frisbee around and volleyball too and then we ate dorilocos...they are doritos with lime and carrots and cucumber and spicy stuff and peanuts and basically everything you can think of....they are kinda gross.  haha but it was fun. 

Well that is all for now :)

Have a great week

Love Hermana Young