3 Noviembre 2015
News from this
week:
Yesterday was
Day of the Dead. In Saltillo, I didn't see ANYTHING for Day of the Dead but
here was a little more exciting. The graveyard is in our area, so some of the
streets were blocked off for street vendors and pedestrians going there to
visit. In the streets we also heard drums and saw people dressed up in
traditional dress with headdresses and skirts and everything doing their danzas
to the muertitos. I'm sure there's probably a difference between these danzas and
the danzas they dance to the Virgen on the 12 of Diciembre, but I sure can't
tell the difference. I haven't exactly sat down to analyze though.
More news:
Elder Flores left. We went and ate with Ester and her daughters on Monday and he didn't want to tell them and
didn't want me to tell them either. So we taught them the lesson and somehow
the subject magically came up and then they magically asked him when he was
going. It was really weird how that happened. So then he told them, bore his
testimony and cried. And Mayte BAWLED. That part was weird to me. I thought
Ester for sure was going to cry but not one tear from her. She did manage to
wrap him up in a big hug before he could protest though and got make-up smeared
on his shirt, so that was fun.
I got sick. I
got SUPER DUPER sick this week. After the transfers we had to go to the
hospital because I was throwing up bright green stomach acid and running back
and forth from the bathroom every 10 minutes. Turns out I have a stomach
infection that has probably been stewing for a few days back. But we're back to
working as normal, even though I'm still not eating the same as before. Puros
calditos y verduras por algunos dias y ahora pura comida ligera. (Just soup and
veggies for a few days and now just really light food.) I lost a lot of weight
in these last 6 days that I was sick.
Gilberto: we
went and visited him on Halloween a little before 6 and he had only smoked 4
cigarettes the whole day! YAY! And then we had him explain the Restoration of
the Gospel to us and he NAILED it, including dates. And then when we read Alma
32 and Santiago 1:5 with him he said: "That's what I did last night. I
kneeled down and asked God and felt something moving inside my chest telling me
that it was true." AAAAAHH! It was so cool! and so we gave him the date of
the 5 of December to be baptized. Hopefully it can
happen before.
The husband of
a member came to church this week and was in the class of Principios del
Evangelio and the class was about Eternal Family. When the teacher asked him to
share something he said that he wanted to have an eternal family and that's why
he came to church this Sunday because
eventually he wants to go to the temple with his wife and kids and be sealed to
them. Let's just say, hearing that inciting the same reaction within us as the
emotions felt by a shopaholic when given an unlimited credit card.
We also found
a complete family this week by a reference. The familia Magallan Castillo.
We've got an appointment with them on Tuesday, so we'll have to see what happens!
Elder
Hernandez seems really happy in this area. We keep running into such awesome
people. He's just barely turned 19 and from Puebla, which means he's pretty
city-slicker--or "hipster." I just don't know if that word is still
used anymore--and his Spanish is really smooth and fast. We're working really
hard and seeing a ton of awesome things. And we are VERY excited for this Saturday when Ester and Jocelin get baptized!
Ester was so excited she stood up in Gospel Principles and invited the whole
class. Which reminds me: we have to find white clothes......hm.......
Okay, well I
think that's it for this week.
Que tengan una muy buena semana!
Elder Taylor
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