Hello there everyone!!!
First off, I am an Aunt!!!!! I
have been waiting all week to see pictures of my little niece...do you
have any idea how hard it is knowing that there are pictures on your
email but you have to wait?! I will admit, it was a little hard to
focus. Whew!
Well. Holy Week is over and whew are we ever glad! It was hard to
get people to meet with us because no matter what religion you are, you
are out watching huge parades. I know I explained some of it last
week with the outfits and all so I won´t go into detail about that, but
let me just say it was a crazy week. Everywhere we went all day long we
would run into the huge parades. They have to stop every couple
minutes because people are driving the huge floats that have
statues of Christ or Mary and they get tired. One interesting tradition
they have is that on the Thursday
of every Holy Week, in every city where there is a jail in Spain, they
have a lottery and one person gets to dress up in the clothes they wear,
carry a cross on their back, are in chains for the time in the parade
and at the end, they are set free. It´s pretty crazy. It was cool to see
another culture during the week. As far as the actual Easter goes, well
it wasn´t as awesome as it is there in the States. We didn´t sing one
Easter song yesterday! I was so mad. So although I love Spain, I will be
spending every Easter in the States where there are Easter baskets, egg
hunts, and bunnies, haha. Although one thing that was really nice was I
learned a lot more about the Savior and His sacrifice for us. So it was
good for me without the bunnies.
Let´s see, what all is new. A recent convert here Manolo told us he
can´t come to church anymore. Long story short, not too long ago, a
daughter he never even knew existed showed up to his door trying to find
him. She lives in Madrid and she is now the only family he has. Well,
she doesn´t like that he got baptized and told him that she wouldn´t
talk to him anymore if he continues to go to church. It is a really
tough situation that we are trying to figure out. He needs a lot of
support right now so the members and us are working with him.
Oh, I am the new young adults gospel doctrine teacher. Yikes! I
taught my first lesson yesterday and it went pretty well. But to have to
do it every week...well, yikes! Hopefully it will get rid of my fear of
teaching in front of people.
Well, I think that´s all for now. We had zone meeting this week and I
got to teach about personal study and how it helps us in other ways
besides preparing for our investigators. I learned a ton from my studies
with it...most of it having to do with the Atonement and knowing Christ
more. It was great.
Haha, Hermana Demayola got her ears pierced last Monday. Funniest
thing I have ever seen. He gets out the machine to pierce her ears and
she starts hyperventilating. But in the end she did it and it´s all
good.
Thanks everyone for everything! Love you all and hope all is well!
