E-mail (Dated: 4/27/2015)

Hey Fam!

Not much has happened this past week, I ended up getting sick. So it took me out for a couple days. :/ But me and Hermana Skinner are so ready to hop back into things! We have lots of appointments to go teach new people so were excited for that!

Annie is doing great! She has so so many questions! She is so excited to learn and just soaks it all in! She is actually really amazing because her family are all Catholics, and they are giving her a hard time about meeting with us. But she just tells them its what she wants to do and its making her happy! She is a great example of standing up for what is right.

Jose is also doing great! He got the Priesthood yesterday!! He couldn't stop smiling. He loves this church and this gospel so much and cant stop thanking Heavenly Father for sending it to him. Haha one of the Elders told me I'm like his mom cause I just get so excited for him-like i cant wait for him to pass the sacrament. And he told me too that I'm like his spiritual mom. (: We love him so much!

Also cool miracle of the week: Jose had absolutely no money this week. And so he wouldn't have money to get back from church. But he knew that God would help him. And Saturday night, he was sitting down and found 6 pesos in the dirt. Exactly what he needed to get back home the next day (:

Well i love you all! Hope your week is great!!

LES AMO!!
Con muchoo amor,
Brookie Cookie, aka Hermana Chynoweth
oh and PS: Were back to four people in our house again... the other has had a problem in their house so they had to move in with us!

E-mail (Dated: 4/20/15)

Hey fam... BIG NEWS!!!!

My favorite little old man walked into the waters of Baptism on Friday night!!!! Ahhh I wish i could express how happy I am for him!! The service was BEAUTIFUL. He had sooo many ward members there supporting him. And guess who baptized him... My mission President- PRESIDENT KUSCH! We had interviews last wednesday and I asked him and he said yes... (: This is a big deal... like this never happens! Jose loves him though. He had the opportunity to listen to him talk in a stake conference (cause Im in Presidents ward) and after he was just like wow... that man is amazing. So when I told Jose, his head fell into his hands and he almost started crying.

We actually didnt find out that Jose was going to be baptized this week until the night before. He wanted to wait until next weekend because he wanted to have an interview with our Bishop before. And miracously we ran into the bishops wife wednesday to move his interview to Thursday instead of Friday night. And afterwards, I got a call saying he wanted to go through with the baptism the next day!! So me and Hna Skinner hurried and put the whole program together in one night! And i was shocked how amazing it went. The spirit was so so strong. And he even gave his testimony at the end was just the cherry on top. He expressed his love and appreciation for everyone. He said "I dont have any family. But here, I have you all. You are all now my family." There was not one dry eye in the room. I dont think ive ever cried so hard since i left on my misison.. I was just so happy for him and tears wouldnt stop... Haha he even gave me a hard time about it but he told me the next day that he knew they were tears from my heart.

As i went home that night, I was in awe about how Heavenly Father let me be apart of that incredible moment. I cant believe Heavenly Father let me walk by Jose step by step and see his conversion... I feel really spoiled! That little man will be my friend for the eternities.
Seriously the best moment in my whole misison. Aww soo soo happy (: And ive never seen a little old man smile so so big. (:

Oh and uhhh soo i finally got my first "called up on the spot" talk in church... Lets just say that Heavenly Father guided me SO much.. It was cool thought cause I never thought i would be able to do anything like that! And somehow I gave a 10 minute talk in spanish!!

Oh and Annie is doing amazing!! She came to church along with 5 others on Sunday and it was just the best (:

Love you all! Hope you have a great week!
LES AMO!!

Con muchooo amor,
Brookie Cookie, aka Hermana Chynoweth

PS Here are some pics from the baptism! My comp snuck the second one while i was talking to Jose after the baptismal service.

E-mail (Dated: 4/13/2015)

Hola Hola Hola! First things first.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAIGENNN (on Friday)!!!! Love you so so much!! Hope your birthday is amazingggg!!! So this week was Amazing! Me and Hermana Skinner have seen sooo many tender mercies and blessings! This week I think its fair to say neither of us have worked so hard in our entire missions. We both just passed out on the floor each time we walked through the door each night! At the end of this week, we ended up finding 15 new investigators and 8 of them accepted a baptismal date! It was so so exciting!! But i want to tell you guys about my favorite miracle this week. We were just heading back to our house one night, when someone behind us said "Excuse me, are you guys Mormons?" We told her yes and she smiled the biggest smile I've ever seen and said "I've been looking for you guys!" As we got to know her she told us that the past two Sundays she had attended our church. She has so so many questions that she wants us to answer like how she can know which church is true! She has a guy friend that invited her to church and she kept going even without him!! We returned the next day and she was SO excited. She had been practicing how to pray and is just the cutest thing ever. Oh her name is Annie and shes like 22 by the way (: Biggest miracle. We love her! Another huge miracle we had was that Jose (Our little old man) let us into his house for the first time. And he let us clean his house!! We have been trying to help him ever since we first met him. It was actually really hard to see what he was living in though. He had old food in his sink, dirt, and ants everywhere. I remember being a little worried to open up the fridge cause i thought i was going to find rotten food, but when i opened it up, there was nothing but a bottle of ketchup. I couldn't believe it. Ah it broke my heart. Some of these people live in such sad circumstances. We really are so blessed back home. Never ever doubt that. But anyway after hours of cleaning, we got it all sparkling clean and we even had brought lots of pictures of Christ to put up in his house after (: The difference of the spirit was CRAZY! It was so special for me to be able to serve him. Well i love you all so so much! Have a great week!! MWAH!! LES AMO!! Con muchooo amor, Brookie Cookie, aka Hermana Chynoweth

E-mail (Dated: 4/6/2015)

Hola Hola Hola!

I hope you guys had a fantastic Easter and Conference weekend! I have been so grateful for the amazing words they gave us. Definately brightened my week and they all said just what I needed to hear. I hope you all got answers to your questions too! So grateful for a living prophet and his apostles!

It has been a wonderful week working with Hermana Skinner. We have been very blessed and seen many miracles! I have been so grateful that we have had the opportunity to go and work up in Alta Palmira again. (Ps. Alta Palmira was the place where I worked when we got evacuated out of Chilpancingo) It has been such a great experience and we have found a lot of people that we will be teaching this week! We have also been able to get ahold of old people Hnas Prieto, Mills and I found while working up there in October!

Also we had such a tender moment with Jose this past week. Tuesday afternoon we visited him and decided we needed to teach him about temples. As we told him about how he could do temple work for his family, he stopped us and said "Wait, so I can see her again? She can be baptized? Im going to cry." He was talking about his mom... His eyes got watery and we all sat there in silence as he took in this amazing news. Ever since, he cant seem to drop the subject. And i dont blame him! He told us he has lots of family members that he is going to baptize (:

I am so grateful for the beautiful plan Heavenly Father has blessed us with. It truely is so merciful and perfect. I am so grateful that we all have the opportunity to live with our families for eternity. And what a blessing it is to be able to share this plan with everyone here in Mexico right now!

Love you all! Have an amazing week!

Con muchooooo amor,
Brookie Cookie aka Hermana Chynoweth

Ps. See you 4 months!! Crazy i have 14 months of the mission now...??