Hola hola!
Congrats to Matt and Jessica for getting married! And
welcome to the family, Jessica! From Mom's little note it sounded like all went
well and well, they ended up sealed so that's the important part. Send me some
pictures one of these days so I can see!
So now only two of us in the family lack our ticket to the
Celestial Kingdom. We'll get there!
This week went well and it was one of the most interesting
Easter's I have experienced!
So here they celebrate the entire week up until Friday.
They all burn incense and stuff like that and then thursday and friday
everybody got the day off work and school and such. Friday they only eat
Fish and nobody did anything all day except there were virgin mary parades in
the streets that people went out to participate in. It was interesting to
see the culture/religious differences of Easter. Everybody here celebrates the
death of Jesus Christ. While we are grateful for the fact that He died for our
sins, in the church we prefer to celebrate his resurrection and the fact that
He now lives!
Friday was a holiday for that reason but then everybody had
to work on saturday and sunday, as if his crucifixion was the only thing Christ
did. Anyway, we had lots of good lessons about Christ explaining the
garden of Gethsemani, (which most people don't know about) and the
resurrection. It was a good week and we had a lot of great lessons, but
everybody claimed to be die hard catholics despite they hadn't gone to church
in forever...haha. Anyway this week will be better because they will be back in
the rhythm of life and we can teach more about the Restored Gospel!
Yesterday I was actually asked to give a talk in church so I
decided to focus on the resurrection and it went great. While there are a
lot of members of the church here, most of them are recent converts so were
born into the Catholic church and carry on those traditions. I explained the
significance of the resurrection and the reason why we don't use crosses in the
church (Thanks for that quote by Pres. Hinckley, Dad!). It went well and when I
said, "you may notice there aren't any crosses in any building or
temple", a lot of people looked around surprised as if they had never
realized that before. It was pretty funny. It went well!
Anyway, it was a great week and life is good here! Today
they are going to inform us if we get transferred or not, and I'm hoping I'll
get to stay here for another transfer with Hermana Alonso!
Have a great week and Love you bunches! The church is
true!
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