Teotiwacan

Hello!!

This week was super hard. Our baptisms didn't happen and a lot of horrible food that was eaten. In the brightside my zone is bomb!! They recently divided the zones and now they are a lot smaller. My zone Ixtapaluca went from 18 companionships to 8 and now they have cool names, Ixtapaluca is now Teancum.

I wanted to share a little bit about Teotiwacan, the pyramids that I have  twice while on the mission. There are two huge pyramids that are the Pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun, then there are a ton of little pyramids all over the place. These are the grades of glory in the Plan of Salvation. First going down you see all the pyramids of the stars, just a bunch of little pyramids. Then you pass by the pyramid of the Sun, then at the end of the trail you have the Pyramid of the Moon. It is super symbolic, if you were to lay down on the trail your head would point to the pyramid of the Moon, and your heart would be at the Pyramid of the Sun. To represent the people that are in the Celestial kingdom are the people that have their covenants in their hearts. As we strive to have our covenants written in our hearts we truly become converted, we become the people that the Lord intends us to be. I have really felt the spirit and have felt really guided as I have strived to remember and to live the covenants I made with The Lord. 

SHOUT OUT TO THE BEEHIVES FROM MY WARD. I loved loved your letter! 

Have a great week!!

Hermana Sanchez

General conference!

Hey all,

This week was great and ending with General Conference was bomb. I watched it in English, I know lame! GUESS WHAT THOUGH? I am dreaming in Spanish!! My companion said she heard me last night talking in my sleep about my investigators IN SPANISH. haha Our invstigators are doing well. This week we felt The Spirit so strong in our lessons all because we are applying the principle of praying with more faith and sincerity. Keep Candi, Adela, Abraham, Efred, y Elizabet in your prayers that this Saturday they can finally be baptized. They are super great. We taught Efred and Elizabet about the word of wisdom this week and man do they have so much faith. When we taught that coffee is naughty all she said was.. I could do without it. Love that couple, seriously they are super awesome. We also talked about her baby Jesus that she has. For reals though everyone here has a baby Jesus and they baptize it in the Catholic Church and then just sit in the house for protection and blessings. That was a little harder for to accept ahaha. But we came to the conclusion that she can bring it out in her nativity set. ahhahah. Oh Mexico and your Catolicismo.  Candi and her children are getting super excited for their baptism, her children are super smart, I love teaching them. Also my neighbors are less actives and they always invite us over for carne asada, makes me miss home. We talk to a lot of drunk happy people, mostly because it is fun. We always give them the word of wisdom pamphlet, it is great. 

Anyways this week I really learned about having faith in our prayers and in our hearts. Faith takes three things really we read in Alma when he compares faith to a seed. In verse 43 he says that we shall reap the rewards of our faith through diligence, patience, and long-suffering. I love that, as we really strive to lose our selves in the mission and do The Lord's will not ours we have faith that through our work (diligence), patience in the Lord's timing, and just learning from every bad and good experience, ANIMO (long suffering).  Love this gospel and love my mission. MEXICO CITY CHALCO MISSION IS THE GREATEST MISSION IN THE WHOLE WORLD. 

Love you all have a great week.

Hermana Sanchez

Greeting from Ixtapaluca

Greeting from Ixtapaluca,

This week was great. My companion and I always have a blast together but really. My companion is so fascinated by the United States, she is always asking me the weirdest things like: The United States is so far ahead of us here in everything....Do you guys have microwaves that you can place silverware in yet? Or whenever anything is a lot of work she asks if there is an easier way in the United States. Today she commented "you guys probably don't even have to mop over there! Talk about a poor people thing to do" I usually respond with making something crazy up. This week we pullled a prank on our zone leader because they actually live in our area and we are seriously are always with them. I sent a photo. we found the doll in the road and wrote his name, my companion is so crazy, she cut the dolls ear and put it in it's mouth. hahah Transfers are tomorrow but for the first time on my mission I am staying! Woo! I really love this area and the ward. 

This week we found tons of new people to teach, seriously they are so prepared. First we found a young adult named Caren (people here love American names) she sold us some super cheap skirts and well we visited her this week and she is super awesome. She is a single mom and just wants a better life, she has so much faith that we can help her. We were supposed to have 2 families get baptized this past week but they have to have to asist church 5 times before and this Sunday guess what? They slept in. Satan you suck and they can't get baptized this coming week because of General Conference, which I am super stoked for, so they we have to wait for the 11th!! Ahhh But they are awesome and have testimonies that seriously streghthen mine. Elizabet and Efred have demond babies who are always crying and super crazy. I love visiting them because they are a great time always. 

This week I really learned about the importance of a really good scripture study. How application is everything! Really though sometime I fall into a rountine where I just love sharing my favorite scriptures but this week I really tried to apply the scriptures as well as find new ones. I felt the Spirit so much stronger in my lessons and really felt The Lord guiding my words and guiding me to the people that I needed to contact in the streets. This is His work and I am so grateful to be a part of it. 

Love you all!!

Have a great week and remember to study the sciptures! lol

Hermana Sanchez 

Full timer

Hey

I am so sorry I stink at writing. haha This week was so great, I really learned how to be a FULL TIME missonary. It consists of my heart!! That is the key and it sounds so easy huh? haha There are so many people here that are so prepared and really I love teaching them helping them and most of all testifying to them what I know is true. My companion and I work super hard, and I love it!! But I was missing the things The Lord wanted me to learn. In the MTC they tell us that the mission is the MTC of our lives and I have really learned that this week. The Lord is constantly giving us oppertunitites to learn and to progress and our part is to be humble enough to recognize those oppertunitites. 

Candi is progressing super well and is the sweetest thing to see her with her four young children. Another testimony that a woman's faith is so powerful. She is preparing to be baptized and her kids are super excited to be officially apart of primary. lol. The other family that we are teaching are super awesome, seriously another great example of a great mom. Her kids are crazy, just absolutely crazy. Like my nephew Mazzi times 10. But she completes every assignment and just does everything and unlike tons of other people we teach she never makes her children an excuse. We had a Family Home Evening with them this week and it was a blast totally won the game. The Lord is so great. Also 2 people that we contacted on the street are preparing to be baptized, seriously The Lord is hastening his work. Thankful to be apart of this. Areli one of the contacts is a young adult of 23 years of age and is super fun, we found her with her dog and at first she denied us then I commented on her clothes and we got talking....It is history from there because she is progresssing awesome!! So thankful for the confidence the Lord has with me and these people. Love this work. 

LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!!!

Hermana SancheZ

We went to the pyramids again today. This is really how my companion I are. 

My area 

Viva Mexico

VIVA MEXICO!!!!!

Today is Independance day here in Mexico, which means we will rest from our duties. haha. This week was a good one, there is so much work here, I love it!! Our investigators are awesome, Angel always plays soccer with us and is just super prepared. We were going to drop him as an investigator this week because he didn't want to keep the Sabbath day holy but instead we decided to fast for him instead. And guess what happened? He didn't show up at Church, we were so bummed, we visit him atleast everyday. But wait today he came to play with us all injured and said that he recieved his answer playing yesterday. I guess he had a terrrible game and totally made his team lose plus someone injured him. THERE CAN BE MIRACLES WHEN WE BELIEVE!! Seriously and now he is all, plus I can't play soccer forever and later when i am old I will repent for not doing stuff more worth my time. He is so great and his baptism is coming up soon. Keep Angel in your prayers. 

Funny story:

In Ameca I was in a super ghetto apartment and plus so was my companion. She was a little odd. One night I woke up because the light was on and looked over to my companions bed to see her sitting up watching me. Totally freaked me out, I asked what she was doing up and why the light was on. She responded with "He's here". So here I am exhausted because we had an awful day which included tons and tons of walking and my companions telling me that someone is in our apartment. I responed with "Go to sleep, I locked the door." That is when she totally creeped me out with saying "You don't feel him?". The most uncomfortable situation in my life, I decided to ignore what happened and to sleep but it took a while. The next morning she told me that something was trying to enter her body and oh it was weird. 

I love my area it is tons of fun. The food is delicious as well. 

Hermana Sanchez

My district leaders and I 

Last day in Ameca

Loving the area!!

Hola!

I love my area!!!! I never want to leave! Seriously our area is somewhat small but tons and tons of people. We are teaching awesome poeple who are super prepared. My companion and I have a ton of fun, sometimes too much! hahah We play soccer for hours on pdays and the members are totally bomb! I make my companion run with me every morning and now 3 sisters from our ward have joined us. It is just so awesome. There are tons of exmissionaries in this ward and it is a blast to do divisiones. 

Laura, Angel and their daughter are a family that we teaching right now. Seriously there are so prepared but are just saving up their money to get married then baptized. They own a vegastable stand and are just super humble and excited to be apart of the church. Angel is really good at soccer I found out today. They are a young couple like 28 years old and their daughter Kimberly is super sweet but she still doesnt want to be baptized....that child!! We are working on it, she is 9 years old. It is super awesome to see people with so much faith, no joke. This week we taught them the Word of Wisdom and they told us that they only drank on holidays and they felt like it wasnt that bad. That is when we reminded them of the experiences theyve had in these last couple of months, they have really seen miracles through prayer. Their veggie stand wasnt doing very good but that is when they decided to pray right there in the stand and right when they finished they looked up to see tons of people coming towards the stand. They sold everything! After remember they both committed to live the word of wisdom. I love these people, they are so much fun and so easy going. 

There is another family well a single mom named Candi and she has 4 young children. Seriously her life has been like a soup opera. She has lived a hard life, but she said that she has never felt anything like what she felt going to church. She wants to be baptized so bad and seriously her faith is amazing. Her children are al little rebelious but I am winning her son little by little with soccer. Keep them in your prayers. 

The Gutirrez Solis family is super awesome and also super prepared, she has family who are members and just loves learning. They are the first investigators that have noticed the answers to their prayers by themselves and are also preparing to be baptized soon. 

I am learing tons in this area, The Lord really is preparing His people. I am really learing charity in this area, I know that the Savior loves us and it is amazing how dear these families are to me and I have only known them for a short time! My companion is really teaching me how to really enjoy my mission. 

Grateful to be a missonary and grateful for the oppertunity I have to help these people come unto Christ. 

Have a fab week!

Hermana Sanchez

First week in Heroes

Hello all!!!

Well I am now in Heroes, Ixtapaluca.  Its the city and there are tons of poeple and dogs, of course. Our area is small but has so much work,  the ward is great in helping us. There are 3 pairs of missionaries in our ward, I love it because eating is so much more fun now! My companion is Hermana San Roman from Vera Cruz, they have the weirdest slang there. haha She is really sweet and just super excited to work, love that about her. Our house is pretty big and nice. This week was the most stressful week of my life, both me and my trainee were getting to know the streets and just going off a ward list in finding and meeting members. Plus our house was super dirty, and we do not have time to clean until Monday. AND GUESS WHAT? There is a track like half a block away from my house, running helped a ton with the stress. 

We found some super prepared people who are planning on getting married and baptized soon. They are Angel y Laura, they have suffered so much but love the feeling that comes from reading the Book of Mormon.....again super prepared. Super excited about this area.

Sorry about this lame e-mail I promise I will do better next week :)

Hermana (bad at writing) Sanchez