Week 4

¡HOLA!

Hope everyone is doing well where ever in the world you might be here is beautiful Mexico city this missionary is great- I found out the secret to this mission thing. prayer. prayer and accepting the fact that when i leave the CCM (which is super soon guys like oh my gosh) i will not know Spanish and I will not have any idea what will go on for the first 4 months most likely and its ok. For now i am just trying to enjoy every day. I feel a million and 10 times better, blessings really work guys, and yeah everything is going really well. Me and my comp have grown really close and spend 90% of our days laughing at our selves so thats awesome. She rocks and I am so blessed to have a comp that doesn't drive me crazy! haha also we get along together so well and teach awesome together and man we are a well oiled machine. our teacher called us experts and said that we were ready to leave and we laughed so hard because 75 percent of the time we didn't know what was going on haha teaching by the spirit is real and the gift of tongues is real and yeah I have learned so much here it is crazy. Every single day I learn so much and its just amazing to look back and see my progress me and Hermana Creer are flipping out a little because we leave not this upcoming Monday but the next and we don't even know how we are going to pack (when you don't worry about the language you find 10 other things to worry about) so pray that we will fit everything and that we wont be over weight and that our luggage wont get lost because if my silky goes missing i might just come home (ok not really but seriously pray for me) the past 2 days it has been pouring rain like dumping and it has been so fun- i included some sweet pictures including a hilarious process of me trying to take a cute picture when a hurricane hit me (not really but it felt like it) RAIN MAKES ME SO HAPPY! Ok thats really it. I'm doing really well, enjoying life, and attitude makes the biggest difference guys i cant even tell you. life is hard but just wake up and say 5 things you are grateful for and repeat the process any time you feel sad, mad, or down on yourselves.

I love you all and pray for you and hope that you are doing well 

xoxo Hermana Foutz

Week 3

¡HOLA!

This week was probably simultaneously was the best and worse! woohoo!

last p day was the absolute best #1 because i got to email all you lovely people and #2 because i got to take a 2 a half hour nap! woohoo! Um lets see what else happened. lots of Spanish but the best part was definitely getting sick. woohoo. the past couple days have been super rough and i didn't leave the casa past 4 yesterday except to go to the doctors. i got a stomach infection from the food here so yayyyyyy. today was alright so far. i got a blessing last night from some elders in my zone and it helped so much. but yes today everyone in my generation that is serving in a mission in Mexico had to go to immigration and do some passport stuff and it was a rough drive there about an hour and a half in a tiny bus but on the way back we took the long way and our driver took us to see some cool things in Mexico city so that was really cool. ill put some pictures of what we got to see. So we got some new hermanas in our zone and I'm in love with them haha we spend all of our time together and seriously they are life savers and we just laugh all the time! ummmmm oh so me and Hermana Creer are definitely the worst out of our district for Spanish...like no competition and so we were feeling really bad about ourselves but every lesson we taught this week went just so amazing like the spirit was so strong our investigator started crying once and afterwards, our investigators are our teachers playing the roll of someone else incase you don't know that, she came up and was like "i wish you guys could really just come and teach Cindy" because i guess its an actual person and i really needed that. my Spanish isn't perfect...in fact i rarely make sense but me and Hermana Creer already love these people so much and we show it and we have the spirit with us and thats all that matters. Spanish will come i just need to be patient. We also got to watch meet the mormons this Sunday so that was awesome haha wow i really thought this week was terrible until i started writing everything down! it wasn't too bad hopefully i can get all the way better so that i can just throw all of my self into this work. cant believe i have already almost been here for a month! 

love you all mucho mucho mucho

xoxo

Hermana Foutz

ps. i have given up makeup cause there is seriously no point. idk why i mentioned this but i did and now i dont want to erase it so yeah

Week 2

HOLA FAMILA Y AMIGOS

I still have figured out how to have all of you guys in an email without having to re put in all your emails so this is what im doing for right now until i can figure it out! :)

This week has been the definition of hard. this week in the CCM we went "solo español" in class which literally means you can only speak Spanish and it was supposed to be all day every day of the week but we only do it when our teachers are around and its still so hard. I ONLY KNOW VERY BASIC SPANISH !!!!!!! so yes pretty much i had many break downs. but you know what this work is hard but so so so so so soooooo worth it. its only been 2 weeks and i am in love with being a missionary. 

What else happened this week hmmmm. oh i am pretty much the star of the district because of the krispy kremes you sent me mom so thank you so much and my whole district thanks you and my teachers as well (ive gotten very good at sharing as a missionary) my casa is the cutest little thing in the world and they are all colored bright different colors and ours is peach and we have 2 rooms filled with american missionaries and then 2 rooms filled with latinas and it is so much fun haha we practice our spanish with them and all just laugh at how bad we are hahahaha love the natives here they are seriously the best so since its just me and hermana creer (whom i love so much guys like i am so blessed with an amazing comp) in our district we are really close with the other sisters in our zone so they made us join the choir here... you all have had the opportuinty i think to hear my singing voice so yeah you can just imagine. we were so terrible but like it was actually a lot of fun cause we just got a break from spanish and got to mess around and laugh a lot which is SO important here cause if you dont laugh you cry haha the CCM will never be home nor do i think i will "love" it but every day just gets more normal and i am so greatful for that. we heard this quote from stake conference that my district says all the time and its lets "not just endure to the end but enjoy to the end" 

i hope you all are doing fabulous and i love you all mucho mucho mucho! 

xoxo

Hermana Foutz 

ps. they dont even have guacamole here so like im so upset....

Week 1

Hello from the beautiful mexico city mtc! aka the CCM

Im just going to start out and apologize right now for my spelling and\or grammar... being here just made me really bad in both of those subjects now in both english and spanish haha lol @ my life SPANISH IS SO HARD! but also the gift of tongues is so real guys. like its been like a week and eventhough i cant speak it (like at all) i can understand a ton of it!... but i guess thats what happens when all your teachers only speak spanish to you all day long haha ahhh i feel so rushed i dont even know what to talk about. i guess i will just start off by saying that i dont have a lot of time so if you emailed me much thanks i love you all and will respond to as many as i can. also if you havent guessed yet Pdays are thursdays and i will probably email earlier just today we got the opportunity to go to the mexico city temple so hence why im emailing later. (also yes i had to do it in spanish and yes the lady had to go word by word with me)

I LOVE MEXICO! i have only got to see a little of it cause you are seriously trapped in the CCM (which isnt necessarily a bad thing) but we got to see lots of it since the temple is like a 45 minute drive. Speaking of driving, dad the drivers here are actually worse than you were in Europe, and they dont have vivian to guide them! but really its crazy there are like no lanes and people just turn when ever they feel like it and we were all freaking out on the bus!

My district is one of the biggest, we have 7 elders and then its just me and my Hermana, whom i love by the way (we spend most of our days laughing, usually about how bad at spanish we are, and you really need laughter in the CCM let me tell you that) and out of the 9 of us 5 are going to Ciudad Juarez so thats awesome! The CCM is an emotional roller coaster let me tell you that. You just feel like crying all the time cause youre either super frustrated, sad, happy, tired, or you can just feel the spirit so strong or just all of them at once. Me and my companion seriously cry all the time and most of the time we dont even know why...  also i learned the hard way that there are many, many, many, many mosquitos her in mexico city. my current count right now is 15, 6 of those are super swollen so yeah thats fun.

This work is hard but it is also the most rewarding and fulfilling thing i have ever done... and its just week 2. there are many times when i get really down on myself and just get angry and sad but then something will instantly happen and you teach wonderful lesson and you know the person barely understands you but they feel the spirit or we have a devotional or get to go to the temple or get to watch GENERAL CONFERENCE (which was so good oh my gosh. my favorite was elder lawrence in the sunday morning session and of course elder hollands, all the missionaries were crying during his since we all miss our moms so much) the weather is a lot like Hemets so at least one thing feels like home haha. Ok guys i am running out of time and dont know what else to say except that overall being a missionary is the greatest thing in the world and it might not be easy 24/7 but man i just love the work and i love mexico and just cant wait to get to Juarez 

SENDING ALL MY LOVE 

Hermana Foutz