Hope you are all having a very nice November. I´m trying
very very hard to ignore the fact that I´m old and that I´ve been out here for
almost a year already.
So just two quick things from this week:
First of all, President and Hermana Titensor have been
officially and honorably released. President Titensor came back on Friday and
got to see us and talk to us one last time. As part of that, all of the
missionaries here in the Cuautitlan and Tepalcapa Zones sang I am a Child of
God for him, (in English!), and I played the piano. Mexicans aren´t exactly
known for having the best voices in the world, but it was actually really
really beautiful. I think we were all crying a little bit, President Titensor most
of all.
I love President and Hermana Titensor a lot. They have
taught me so so so much, by their words and their example, and the mission just
doesn´t feel the same without them. They live in Orem Utah, too, so hopefully
I´ll be able to visit them again after my mission when I´m back at BYU.
President Garcia will be presiding over the mission until
next July when the new president comes. We had a zone conference on Wednesday
so we got to meet him and Hermana Garcia there. Of course all of us are still
kinda in shock and still adjusting to the change, but they seem very nice.
President Garcia is very wise and strict, and has a lot of experience, but at
the same time he is... I don´t remember the word, but he seems to do things and
make decisions on the fly a lot.
The zone conference was interesting too, because for the
last hour, the stake and ward leaders were invited for a small part about
working together with the missionaries. And because Barrio Joyas is the best,
they asked us to hold a quick, real Ward council there in front of everyone! It
was the second ward council ever of Hermana Morillon. But it went well. It was
the most productive 20 minutes any ward council has ever had I´m sure :) But my
ward here really is the best, so it wasn´t any different than normal.
Ok, the other quick thing is that we had a regional
conference yesterday. It was broadcast from Salt Lake to all of Mexico, and it
was really good. Sister Carol F. McConkie, Elder Benjamin de Hollos, Elder
Robert D. Hales, and President Nelson all spoke. Elder de Hollos is from
Mexico, so he conducted and spoke in perfect Spanish, but I was surprised when
both Sister McConkie and President Nelson also delivered their talks in
Spanish! They both have a very strong gringo accent, stronger than mine ;) but
it was really good. And I think it shows a lot of love and respect for Mexico
and the members here and their language that they went to the trouble to speak
in Spanish. I loved it.
If your prayers lately have been getting a little repetitive
or lazy, I invite you all to evaluate your prayers and really start again to
pray with your heart. Prayer works, I can promise you all that.
Sé que Jesucristo es mi salvador y que vive. Y esta es Su
iglesia.
Les amo muchísimo, que tengan una semana muy linda.
-Hermana Herron
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