It's Totally an Attitude Thing!

Week of Nov 9^th, 2015

Madison had the opportunity to do exchanges with Hermana from Utah this past week.  She was so excited to learn and grow from this cute sister and to finally speak English with someoneJ  She had this to say about how she is adjusting to being a missionary:

“Serving in Mexico is so much fun!! Its totally an atitude thing, and I dont want to be a sad person here. I mean, this is my life for the next little bit, and so I really want to learn, and enjoy ,and experience all of it while I can!!!”

  We had a nice little surprise from Hermana Wible letting us know how there day went.  I know that Madison is learning so much and is truly loving the people of Mexico.  Thanks to such amazing sisters, she is becoming a wonderful little missionary herself. Here is the letter from Hermana Wible:

My name is Hermana Wible and I am serving here in the same misión as your daughter!! I have 16 months in the misión and I am from Orem Utah :)

On friday I went on exchanges with her!

I just wanted to write you to let you know that your daughter is an AMAZINGGGGG missionary!!!

she is working soo hard and is really learning the language so well!! She is so happy all the time and we willing to serve and love others.

She has soo much love for her family, she told me so much about you :)

thank you for supporting her and loving her :) keep encouraging her!!

thank you for having such a wonderful daughter :)

Hermana Wible

Hermana Beardall with Hermana Wible

Thanks for everything, I love you all so much, 

Hermana Beardall

ANOTHER WEEK IS COMPLETE!!!!

Hola my dear family and friends!!

I cannot believe that another week has passed by here in Mexico! 

First, here is a humbling experience: unfortunately, we didn't know that our gas bill was due and we have not had hot water for the past week. The Lord answered our prayers and the gas man was able to save us today!! We have hot water again.:)

I truly love my mission. Each day brings new challenges, but I am truly loving the work! The people here are amazing. I am so blessed every day. The food is really good for the most part! A ton of the little stores here sell corn tortillias, that are soooo good. My favorite meal is those tortillas, warmed up with beans, cactus, and a little sour cream. Yumm. 

We have started to just wash our clothes by hand, which is actually pretty fun. 

My companion is really awesome. She's hilarious. When we have language study and she talks in English, it makes me think it is this how I must sound in Spanish?? It’s a lot of fun for the most part. Sometimes is hard to voice my opinion, but for the most part it’s great. 

So, this week was Halloween/Day of the Dead here in Mexico, and I saw some crazy costumes...:) We had a really fun family/ward activity on Thursday night and it was like Trunk or Treat (hopefully you all know what that is). It was really great and we had 7 investigators there! It was super fun, but one thing here is that everyone listens to the popular music from the United States. The bad part is that no one understands any of the music, and so oftentimes its totally filthy music. Its a little funny, because at this family ward event, they were blasting Pitbull from their cars. Pretty funny!! 

We had a great lesson on the Law of Chastity with our new investigator who is going to be baptized on the 28 of this month, and it was awesome. Brenda is totally prepared to hear this amazing message!!

The Family Rivas is also progressing. We were walking in the pouring rain on Saturday night, trying to find a reference, with no luck. I seriously just wanted to cry. We had the impression to go and visit this family, but the gate to the community was locked, but right as we were leaving, they came around the corner! They let us in and we had a totally awesome lesson. 

One thing that I want to share is my testimony of Patriarchal Blessings. If any of you have not read yours in a while, I encourage you to first pray, but then read with real intent your blessing. Do this tonight!! (If you don’t have a copy of yours, you can log onto lds.org, create an account and then order it.)  I was able to receive so many revelations, answers, and a true sense of comfort as I read mine this week. I also want to testify of the potential and promises that each of have here in this life. Alma teaches that this life is our time for us to prepare to meet God, and I know that we can be prepared if we cling to the Iron Rod and gospel principles. 

First Zone Conference - "It was great to to be able to speak english!"

Truly, I love this gospel, I love the principles, and I love that every day I can try and develop those qualities, and share my knowledge!!

Thank you so much for all of you love and support. I love you all, 

Le Ama Muchisimo!!

Hermana Beardall

I'm happiest when I'm teaching!

Dear dear friends and family!!

I was humbled as I opened my e-mail to today and had so many of you that took time to reach out to me.  It means so much, more than you will ever know.  The adjustment continues to be hard, but guess what?

We have four new investigators and they all came to church yesterday!!

It´s amazing! One is a family, with a mom, daughter, and son. The son just barely got baptized, so that was with the elders, but we began teaching the family along with one of the son's friends, and they all came to church on Sunday! The other is a mom that is 23 and has 3 children. Her name is Brenda, and she was a reference from a less active member actually!!  So its great because the less active member is coming to church with our new investigator, and all is really great there!!!

Main mode of transportation -
small carts pulled behind bicycles

Also, on Saturday night when we were walking back to our house, we contacted this awesome family, and have an appt. with them on Wednesday, and I really think that they are prepared by the Lord. Even though we talked with them for like 10 minutes, it was awesome, and totally led by the spirit. They said that they were looking for something to bring their family closer together. (and they have like four young children) It was really great!! So I am crossing my fingers for them.:) 

House in the Santa Elena neighborhood in the town of
Cuautitlán where Madison is living.

My companion is the most humble person I have ever met. I love her so much!!  She is teaching me so much and it underscores how blessed I’ve been in my life. Thank you to all of you that have brought so many blessing!

P days are total self indulgent days, and its when I get time to think. It really stresses me out sometimes the amount of time that I will be doing this. But that is only when I am not teaching or serving. Its really different. But, one scripture that I love from this week’s study is is D&C 38:7-

But behold, verily, verily, I say unto you that mine eyes are upon you. I am in your midst and ye cannot see me;

Cross reference it with Acts 17:29-

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

 These two scriptures have brought me so much comfort here!! I have had a crazy increase of faith here in the mission felid, and know that it is because I have Christ not far from me at all times!!!

Spanish continues to be really hard. I don’t really understand a lot of things still, but I really try my best every day. I try really hard every day to understand, and it is super frustrating when I can’t really express the way I feel.   Its hard because I really know principles of the gospel, and love them, but its hard when I have to break it down so so simply because I cant express it very well!  I pray it will come.

I thank you all for your continued support!

Hasta la proximo semana!

Week one in the field!!

Hola my sweet family and friends!

Well, I have one week in the feild! Crazy. 

First companion!!  Sister Chavez, she is from Sonora, Mexico.  She has been a member for 4 years and has Madison says she is great.

In truth, this week was very, very hard for me. I am trying to adapt to an entire new world down here in Mexico. I have really missed my sweet family, and wish more than anything that I could just hug my dad. I have really struggled with the Language, and teaching is a whole new beast!!

It brings peace to a parent's heart simply to see her smiling!

But, despite the few trials that I have here in the mission feild, I know that I have been called to this area, this mission, and to teach certain people for a very specific reason! I have grown so much, although it has only been one week. Every thing is so foreign, me.  Where I sleep is foreign, the people I see, the food I eat, the smells I smell, the people I see, the world I am in is so foreign.  In truth, my testimony one of the only things that I have a strong grasp on here. And I do have a very strong conviction that this church provides everlasting happiness and joy. I have a burning faith that the Lord is acutely aware of every situation that we face, and provides a way through every trial.

I love you all, and really am able to feel all of your thoughts and prayers for me throughout the week. 

Please continue to pray for me, as I do for you. 

All my love, 

Hermana Beardall