Tears of Pure Joy

Well this week was a good one like all the other weeks have been.

I took a walk down memory lane and I had intercambios (i have no idea what that is called in english) with the hermanas from Libres 2. They are Hna Gonzalez (my daughter) and Hna Cupul. We had to go all the way out to Libres again which was another 3 hours in bus but it was so worth it because I got to spend the day in Libres (A baby farm town) with my daughter for the whole day. I felt like it was back to old times, it was so fun. Hna Gonzalez has truly grown as a missionary. I was so happy to see how she has progressed and is doing so well. We had a good day together and we taught some interesting characters. We taught this jw who was trying to tell us that the pre-earth life didn't happen. We taught using power love and the scriptures and by the end of the lesson he had a baptism date. We spend the night giggling and remembering old memories. It was truly a great day

The next day was Hna Cherrezs birthday. We didn't have time to go back to Puebla before the district meeting so we stayed in libres and went to their district meeting. It was a great meeting, and after we had a surprize b-day party for Hna Cherrez. The tradition here is to always take a bite of the cake and then you get your face smashed into the cake.. haha before we did, hna cherrez just told me.. not my eyelashes of eyebrows i have makeup on haha she's too cute. We sang we laughed and then we headed back to the bus. It kind of stinks being in the bus but Hna cherrez and I just talk the whole time.

We had a leaders meeting in President's house for 9 hours it was the best thing ever.... FOR REALZ.. we got to his house and we got to eat breakfast and then we took a picture all the zone leaders and sister training leaders it was a all good... then after we talked about the mission in a whole, ,baptism, how we can help the mission. and then we planned the zone conference. then we talked about anger for a while and how we should never have anger.. how we cant feel the spirit when we are angry we talked about a lot of stuff and took mini self evaluation i like it and then we also ate lunch and talked and also had desert for the lunch we had a bbq i felt so american i loved it. 

You are never going to guess who walked into the chapel, HNA GABBY GOMAR! I literally started crying. Ha, yep tears dripped down my face tears of pure joy. She is my favorite person here in the whole world she has a calling in the stake so she came and talked to our ward. I was so happy to see her and she was also happy to see me. In that moment it kind of hit me how much I miss Fuertes and how it will be then when i finish my mission. There will be a lot of people that i will never see again... sad. Good thing i still have lots more time. 

MY favorite family in the ward is the Esteves family. They are so cute, they are my grandparents. They came with us to a lesson with an investigator named Francisco. We went to the lesson and all was going good then the hno Esteves wanted to share his testimony and at the end he just started going off saying before i knew about the gospel i smoked marijuana and was drunk everyday and me and my wife were going to split up and i was happy about it to get some more meat. But then the missionaries came and they shared the gospel with us. we now have 48 years together. haha i was happy to hear his testimony it was also a little funny. 

Well i love you all.

Keep me updated on your lives!

xoxo hna han 

A Long but Good Week

Well this week was long but good. I'm exhausted and haven't slept in a while...

This week we had inter cambios with the hermanas from Loreto, Hna Orgill and Hna Samano. I stayed in Loreto for the day and we worked hard. I love their area. It is so clean and they have awesome investigators. We taught a man who drinks coffee like 45 times a week. We taught him the WOW and he said he would strop drinking but then started laughing. I was like okay, want to be baptized or no? He said yes and he is going to give up the black stuff and enter into the waters of baptism.

We also had intercambios in Libres, a pueblito 3 hours from our area in bus. I honestly wanted to puke but it went well. We got there and Hna Perez and I turned around and went right back to our area to work. Ha we worked well in our area and we had a good time. Hna Perez is probably the mostly loving person on the face of the planet.

Today we played soccer as a district  I taught every one how to make arepas and then we came to down town puebla to eat italian food because Hna Cherrez is going to turn 21 this week. Gosh I love this girl.

In other news, I prayed a lot this week and read my patriarchal blessing. I started crying and I KNEW MY answer! I'm coming home in September. I think I've know for a while now but I'm happy and I love my mission. I'll write more next week.. sorry no time.

xoxo han

¡Todo es nuevo!

Well hello everyone soooo I had transfers EVERYTHING is really new. 

My new companions name is Hna Cherrez she is from Ecuador. She is litterally the cutest thing I have ever seen. She loves india. she keeps telling me how she wants to go the "The India" haha. She has 14 months in the mission and we are the Sister Training Leaders for the stake of Fuertes. Yep thats right... im a new STL.. I feel weird. ha but we are in charge of doing exchanges with 7 companionships. It has been a lot of fun this week we are going to go to Libres 2 hours from our house to do exzchanges with Hna Gonzales( my hija) and her companion. I am really happy because Fuertes my last ward is in the area. sooo.. im going to get to spend a day in Fuertes. I had an interview with Pres C this week and he told me he was really happy that I was a sistertraining leader. I thought I would be all stressed but I feel happy. I like it because haha I have my own cell phone I dont have to share anymore ha. also I get to help a lot of hermanas. 

The new area is called ALAMOS. its going good we are looking for a lot of new people its really fun because we both have time in the mission so when we teach I dont feel like im alone. We make a good team. The ward is smaller but I like it. I REALLY dont know how I feel yet because i only have a week there but sence we have exchanges next week im going to have to be in the area alone so I better learn it quick. The area is like pueblo its like a naborhood thing I like it so far. 

We did how ever have a little problem. We forgot to pay the water bill this week so... they cut off our lights and when we dont have light we also dont have water... soo we had to go stay with the other sisters in our ward. Oh thats right I now share a ward with sistermissionaries its fun. its diffrent but I like it. We have been staying with them for 3 nights now but today we are going to have lights so we are headed back to our home. I like our home its cute. 

on sunday night we went with these older couple to visit some investigators we found some intersting people and after they invited us over to there house for a family home evening. It was sooo cute the grandma had like the cutest night gown on. As we were all reading scriptures I felt like I was home with MA and PA BUCK. haha they are so cute but they always want to show our investigaors movies from the 80s haha

today the whole zone got permision to watch meet the mormons so we are going to the fuertes chappel to play soccer and then to watch the movie..

Ill let you know how it goes. 

ha love you all 

xoxo han

Transfers, Valentines, My Birthday... What a Week!

Okay well this week was like a.. wait, I don't even have words for this week, de verdad. 

Well sadly Hna Ipina went home on Tuesday. It was sad but it was time, she wasn't able to work and by the end of it all she was ready to go home. It was planned that 2 Hnas would come and stay with me in Fuertes, Hna Gonzales (an American) and Hna Corral (she's from Spain). 

They ended up getting to Fuertes around 8 on Tuesday night. We brought all their bags upstairs and waited for the assistants because they were planning on coming to get the keys from their old house. As soon as they got to our apartment they start knocking hard on the door telling us to let them in. I was like whats going on... apparently there was a huge fight going on outside. We went outside to see it all go down. People were all fighting and taking off their shirts it was legit. At one point I saw a man pick up a bike and slap another guy with the bike. I was thinking I am deffs not in Utah. The assistants had to stay in our house for a while because it wasn't safe to leave because this fight was going down in our apartment patio thing. They left around 10:30 and then around 11 they called us telling us we shouldn't sleep in our home because it wasn't safe. We packed a small bag and went and stayed at a member's house that night. I felt like I was in a movie. 

The next morning we woke up and went back to our home and got a call from the assistants telling us we had to change houses. Today! Yep, on my birthday. I was kind of bummed because we had plans with all my favorite people, but you know safety first. I did however get a lot of happy birthday calls and a lot of gifts. Hna Orgill, the assistants, the secretaries, Hna Gabby, the Elders from my ward, Carlos, Montse, tons. It was nice. Also Pres C and Hna C too. Haha, I was so happy. The secretaries ended up coming over and helped us move. It took us around 4 hours on my birthday, ha. Well it was good and 3 members did give us cake. 

The next day we went and had a conference with Pres. He talked about the apostasy. It was interesting and I really learned a lot. At the conference I got to see all my friends and my daughter. She was sooo cute and she bought me a cute present and a cake. She is suck a qt pie. Also I got pumpkin bread from Hna C. The elders in my ward gave me a little coin purse with my name engraved on it. The best part is that my district leader gave me the Real Madrid jersey he owed me. This day was filled with gifts. We then had to go to the hospital for Hna Gonzales and Hna Corral. We spent the whole rest of the day there. It was a bummer but what's a girl to do. 

Friday we had a ward activity for Valentines Day. We had a ward talent show. For the talent show we as the missionaries did a skit with the ward missionaries. We sang and danced to summer lovin' from the movie "Grease". it was funny and the whole ward loved it. A girl from the primary danced to "Single Ladies", I about died it was sooo cute. 

Saturday we had to go to Hna. G and Hna C's old area because they had a baptism there. It was close to my first area Loma Florida and your never going to guess who I saw... The bishop and his family! It was sooo fun. I loved it. They kept saying "wow, we can actually understand you now"... ha, thanks I guess. 

That night when we got home we got our changes. I will be leaving fuertes. I am bummed but what can I do? That means new area and a new companion. Wish me luck I'm going to know tomorrow.

I said goodbye to a lot of people. I have loved this ward. I really felt like I made a difference. I am going to miss this ward a lot. The people, the area, and down town Puebla will always have a part of my heart.

xoxo Han 

Me with Hermana C and Hermana G

Our "Grease" number for the ward talent show

Saying goodbye to Hermana Gabby

The Real Madrid jersey I won from my DL!

Ward Valentine's party