My childhood Spanish is coming in handy at last! I remember when I was younger my Mother saying ¿Cómo se dice? to us whenever we needed to be polite. I almost always carry candy for children and other missionaries. My district leader knows this and sometimes holds out his hand demanding dulces and I am able to very sweetly say ¿Cómo se dice? It makes me happy. It's the little things in life 😉
I love it here in Actopan. I love the ward and our investigators. I am so thrilled when people come to church and devestated when they don't. Not because it does me any good for them to be there, but because I know what happiness the Gospel brings and I want them to have this happiness. Please, all of you, read your scriptures, pray, and go to church. Your life life will be infinitly better. Your situation may not change, but you will have peace and hope. Sometimes that's all we need.
I wish I could send pictures, but I don't have my cable and the sd card slot doesn't work (probably because it's full of dust since I'm right by the street).
Much love to all!!
Hermana DeFranco
So, more details from Hermana Lucea's baptism. We have to fill out a registry (that's what it's called in Spanish, I'm not sure if that's what it's called in English) when someone is baptized. It's got stuff such as place of birth, date and place of marriage, name of spouse and parents and their information. The Chruch does love records (a house of order). Unfortunately, Sister Lucea didn't know any of the information. When or where she was married (she was legally married when she was 20. We think.), her husband's full name (we did figure that out. we think), her parent's names (much less when they were born). All of her documents were stolen when her husband passed away about 20 years ago. It was interesting to try to get it worked out and there was a lot of counting involved (if she was born in 1955 and married at 11 when her husband was 20, that means he was born in...). Also, the baptism interview was interesting since they had to have a translator. She is a sweet sister and we love her very much.
We had a Zone Activity today. We had some activities then went and played soccer at a public park. Not huge grassy field soccer, city soccer, with a concrete floor and walls. I gave in to peer pressure and did actually play for a little while despite my aversion to any sport that requires hand-eye coordination (or hand-foot, as the case may be). We played Tacos vs Hamberguesas; Natives vs Norteamericanas. For the record, we won 😉 I was happy to run around.
We had a Zone Activity today. We had some activities then went and played soccer at a public park. Not huge grassy field soccer, city soccer, with a concrete floor and walls. I gave in to peer pressure and did actually play for a little while despite my aversion to any sport that requires hand-eye coordination (or hand-foot, as the case may be). We played Tacos vs Hamberguesas; Natives vs Norteamericanas. For the record, we won 😉 I was happy to run around.
I love it here in Actopan. I love the ward and our investigators. I am so thrilled when people come to church and devestated when they don't. Not because it does me any good for them to be there, but because I know what happiness the Gospel brings and I want them to have this happiness. Please, all of you, read your scriptures, pray, and go to church. Your life life will be infinitly better. Your situation may not change, but you will have peace and hope. Sometimes that's all we need.
I wish I could send pictures, but I don't have my cable and the sd card slot doesn't work (probably because it's full of dust since I'm right by the street).
Much love to all!!
Hermana DeFranco