I love my mission

I love my mission. 

This was the last week of the transfer and so it was full of things to do. We had intercambios with the hermanas from San Pablo. I ended up gong to the hospital with Hna Galvan while my companion stayed with Hna Gonzalez. All went well in the hospital I met a missionary from Peru and told him that my brother was going to Peru. 

Any way back to the story hna galvan and i went to the hospital all went well but on the way home we took the wrong bus and totally got lost and we went to some super scary place were the missionaries are not aloud. we had to get out of there. we asked the bus driver how we could get back to san pablo. he told us only with about 100 pesos taking a taxi we searched and all we had was 80 pesos. we were seriously in a bad spot. we finally found a taxi that cost us 80 pesos. we are not broke. but when we got home we got back to the house it was 9 15. it was too dangerous to go home so we had to sleep on the floor. we ended up having a sleepover. we put the two mattresses on the floor and the 4 of us slept on the floor it wasn't pleasant lets just say that i was using a sweater as a pillow case.

The rest of the week went well. I have no time but today. We played like fear factor we had to do the ice bucket challenge then the zone leaders and sister training leaders had to have ice cream or cake in the face. not sure why but it was funny.

love you all see you bye bye

Wow what a week that was filled with fun surprises!

Wow what a week! This week was filled with surprises. 

On Tuesday we ended up having intercambios with the Hermanas from Serdan. I got to spend the day with Hermana Villegas in my area and we had a good day. We contacted a bunch and taught some interesting lessons but all went well. We were able to work on Hermana Villegas’s development plan. She has some good goals to work on for this next transfer. She and her companion our working like crazy and they are huge examples to me! 

This week I completed 15 months in the mission and had to go to the offices for some stuff and it was so weird to see myself on the board like closeish to going home. I’m so happy that I still have 3 months left. I’m going to have to work my hardest. The best part about going to the offices was that on the way home we got in the bus and all of a sudden someone like taps me but like hard and I was like what? Who could that be? It was GABBY GOMAR haha. We luckily enough got on the same bus. She was too cute! she now has a job and is working as a teacher. She was almost crying… and me too. I love her! She’s the best! She told me that Pres C. and Hermana C. invited her over last week to have dinner at their house and how she felt really special. She told me she wanted to invite me to the dinner also. Haha, so so cute Hna Gabby. 

This week was also Father’s Day.  Happy Fathers Day Dad! I love you so so much!

In our ward we had an activity and it went well. We ate all the typical foods like pipian, mole, chicharrón, tortillas, beans and rice. Ha it was a good time. We had a family of investigators who came to the activity. They look like they have progressed but for the fact that no one in the family is married. …Law of chastity people! 

We are teaching the coolest family, the Mendez family. They seriously have 100 questions every time we teach them. This week we taught the whole Joseph Smith story and they ended up asking us how do we know that Joseph Smith wasn’t fooled by the devil when he saw the Father and the Son. I love them; seriously they are so cool. I gave their daughter a picture of Christ and she laminated it and had it hanging on the wall. 

This week we also got the transfer calls. I will be staying in the area and so will my companion. We are still going to be sister training leaders. I’m happy to stay with Hna Felipe she makes me laugh lots but tomorrow we are still going to the changes because as STLs we have to go even if we don’t have changes. Also tomorrow is the last changes before Pres. C goes home so the whole mission is invited and it should be really cool. I’m excited!

Today for p day we got up and had the normal schedule in the morning and then went and played soccer in our new chapel. Its huge! We think it will be a stake center one day. After that we went and met up with the Sanchez family and made cookies. After the cookies and all that they told us they had a gift for us. We had to close our eyes and they gave us typical shirts from Oaxaca. They are so cool! Hermana Felipe and I are going to put them on tomorrow.

Well love you all!

xoxo Hna Han 

 I love being a STL and getting to know lots of awesome Hermanas in the mission!

 Hermana Villega

 How did this happen? I am getting vieja in the mission!

 What a great surprise! I love Hermana Gaby!

Fun with the Hermanas

 Does this remind you of a scary movie?
(I'm actually hiding out in hopes of seeing a chupa-cabra!)

 Awww, this makes me miss my mommy!
BTW, the area I'm in right now is a pueblo (rural area, not Puebla)

What a cutie!

 Our chapel is this big!

 This is serious stuff!

 Cookies on P-day with our investigators, the Mendez family

The typical shirt from Oaxaca. What a nice gift from the Mendez family!

Plastic Shoes for Puebla Rain

This week was good, ha-ha do I ever say that is was a bad week?? Its because I don’t really have bad weeks 

This week we started off with intercambios with the hermanas from Constitución, Hermana Jacobsen and Hermana Cordova. Hermana Jacobsen has around 3 months in the mission and is still in her training, I got to spend the day with her in her area and let me just tell you it was a day full of memories, maybe one of the craziest intercambios I have ever had. We started off the day contacting and going to the chapel to meet a member who was going to accompany us for the day. When we get to the chapel this hobo just starts screaming at us asking us for our water. We didn’t really know what to do so we just entered the church and then locked the gate. That made him even madder and then he just went off telling us that we only want rich people in our church and how Christ helped the poor and how we were just awful. 

We were both pretty shocked about the whole thing but with urges to use the bathroom we rushed to get to the bathroom inside. As we unlocked the chapel door all of a sudden a huge alarm goes off. We had NO idea that the church had a security system (I mean we are in México people) the alarm starts making a lot of noise and a huge scene. We quickly called the Elderes and they gave us the code. Finally all was settled.

The Hermana who came to help us (Hermana Fany) finally arrived and we went to look for a reference that the Hermanas had. We get to the references house and no joke he has ORANGE, orange hair and beard. He was also very short. He was maybe the twin of an Umpa Lumpa. He had a good heart though. We taught him a small message about our view on the trinity and the things he needs to do if he wants to know if this was all true. As we left he asked us if he could give us a hug. Ha-ha, we said sorry but no. He was sad but said he understood it was part of our ministry. We ended the night teaching a wonderful woman named Silvia. She was just about the cutest thing ever. We taught about the restoration and she accepted it wonderfully and asked us at the end of the lesson how she could know if this was true. Hermana Jacobsen put a baptismal date with her. We had great day and I feel like I have a new friend in Hermana Jacobsen. She is wonderful, she teaches with love and the spirit, and she will do great things here in Puebla. 

Later in the week we had to go to the offices to have a planning meeting with the assistants. It went well. We planned quickly and at the end I had a letter from my girl KP. I was so happy. We planned quickly so that was a good thing and I got to see 3 of my former companions: Hermana Wells, Hermana Curiel and Hermana Martinez (they are all Hermana leaders now). I was so happy to see them. We ended up rushing back to the area because we had an appointment with a less active woman. We taught her and she was just bawling the whole time about how she wants her daughter to come home and she is literally obsessed with her daughter. Her daughter left because she got married 3 years ago. I felt bad at first but then 45 min into the lesson hearing about her daughter I was like this woman needs help. We are going to go teach her this week. Wish us luck. We will need it!

The next day we had interviews as sister training leaders with President. It was a good interview. It was weird because at the end of the interview he told me. Well this will be our last interview because he is going home, how sad. Well he is leaving in around a month but it just made me so sad. He’s really such a wonderful president. On our way home from the interviews our bus almost got in a car crash. I’m not kidding we were so close to something bad but luckily our bus driver did some crazy turning twisting thing and we made it out alright. 

On Saturday we had a ward activity with the relief society. It was the bomb; seriously my ward is the best. We had breakfast and it was wonderful. I’m stoked for my ward. It has been raining here like no other. Hermana Martinez, my last companion, gave me these plastic shoes. They are seriously saving my life but now I have an awful tan line.

Sunday was all good. We will be changing chapels next week because our newly remodeled chapel is done. We are so stoked for this Sunday. The day and night was good until around 2 am when I started to feel weird and sick. Sadly but truly I have been throwing up since then.

I wasn’t going to let that get me down so today we ended up going bowling with Hermana Gonzalez (mi hija) and her companion. It was a fun day and then we went to Costco. I’m feeling a little better but lets hope that this sickness goes away soon because this week I have 2 intercambios and a bunch of other stuff.

Well I love you all more then all the dirty dogs here in Puebla!

xoxo Hermana Han

 Hermana Jensen

 La Virgen de Guadalupe

 Pizza mexicana

 Jugando el boliche con mi hija

 Los nuevos Presidentes de la Misión