Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving week everyone! I hope you all enjoyed a fun week of getting stuffed and laughing w your family! I thought I'd miss the holidays more but I'm just feeling way grateful for everything i have in the states and here in Mexico this week and I'm doing really good:) 

    Heres why this week was rad-

Tues- I laughed a lotttt and almost peed my pants (dress) on a super bumpy half hour bus ride haha. To set the scene we had a lunch w the funniest members I've ever met at their house and ate and talked for a long time. They stuffed us full and kept bringing us more food and drinks and when i literally couldnt eat more they brought out a second meal of enchiladas which were terrible lol (which is saying something bc i love enchiladas) and a bunch of colerful jello. I was SO full and laughing so hard and once they found out i was a gringo w a sense of humor the jokes came even more. Also can i just say I LOVE how everyone laughs here ok anyways after this meal i had to pee SO bad but we were almost out the door and they were talkers so i just toughed it out. We caught  the bus, and for those of you who dont know, drivers here in mexico are "great" especially bus drivers, busses are crowwwdeddd, and the streets are awful... so you can imagine my pain every bump of the bus Ive never had so much fear to actually pee my pants, but no worries I made it back!

     Wed- we had some solid visits and the weather was literally perfect and I got to soak up the sunshine! And to make things better we had another "comp" for like an hour bc this cute street dog was following us! 

     Thurs-  first the morning was good bc i got to talk and laugh w my family before they went to their thanksgiving "dinner" at 3, and it was great I love my fam!! I laughed super hard and and it felt like i was home :) Then we had a zone conference with our zone and the zone from Celaya with Elder Montoya from the area 70. It was super fun because we got to hangout with our zone (super rad people), a whole other area that weve never met, our pres, and an area 70! I felt super spiritually uplifted and just emotionally uplifted for getting to be social w so many people!! To make this day even better WE HAD THANKSGIVINGG!! I know youre probs thinking "Thanksgivings not a thing in mexico..." well youre right, but with enough americans in our district (the 4 of us gringos haha) we made everyone do it! We all made different dishes and I made french silk pies and had a feast! We ate, talked, laughed, and WOW I seriously love my district more than anything right now in the mission! Theyre all like my best friends and family here! It felt nice to have a thanksgiving w food and family even though it was different food and family! 

     Fri, Sat, Sun- this weekend was a normally working missionary life weekend, BUT highlight of that, we ate a meal every single day with our fav member neighbors. Dinner friday, breakfast saturday, and lunch sunday. Not a ton of members are signed up for food so they just kept offering to feed us lol. They all have super cool stories about their lives so its fun to just talk! They were asking me more about utah and i pulled up my neighborhood to show them on google maps and they were like "are your parents drug dealers?" It was funny! Everyone has it way nice in the ststes so appreciate it! Thid fam is definitely my favorite members and it was a blast! We also had an adventure buying chicken from a sketchy little shop to contribute to the worlds best flautas. Dont worry i learned how to make them so ill be a chefff when i get back  Im also learning to trust more sketchy food which idk if thats a good thing or a bad thing lol

Thats all i got everyone. This week was good and it was even better thinking about all the things im thankful for including all of you! If you have a second to send me an email or voice recording id love to hear from you! Ya know who also would love to hear from you..? God! Haha fr tho. I invite you all to offer a sincere prayer of gratitude today and make an effort to pray more if youre not praying, and have more sincere prayers if youre just praying to pray! Love you all and have the best week! 

-hna stoneee

Pics

- sooo many trees here are super green w bright flowers all the time and i love it

- making the pies and the results 

-ft w the fam

-lots of pics w my friends in the mish and pres from thursday

-thanksgivinggg

-walking around w sketchy chickenn (i didnt get sick no worries)

- we love sunsets and bridges

-our fav members