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| I got to attend the temple today! |
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| Hermana Hoggan, Hermana Velasquez, Hermana Cockerham |
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| While waiting for interviews last night. |
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| It was a late night! |
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| Our zone activity |
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| It was a pretty great moment to eat hot chocolate chip cookies! |
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| This lady was making a hammock. |
Hello beautiful family! I don’t have
much time to write at all, but all is well in the mission. This week went by
really, really fast! On Tuesday it was really cold and it made me really not
want to go home! I was dying and I think it was only like 68 or higher but I
was so cold. I am not going to complain about the heat anymore.
On Monday night we had an activity
with our Zone and it was a lot of fun! We had a Piñata and it was really fun
and nice to get some stress out on that thing! Also one of our zone leaders
bought one of those lanterns off of Tangled that light up and fly away. So he
had us say the deseos that we have and then he wrote them down on it. Well it
was all a very bad idea because that thing exploded up in flames and an elder
had it in his hands. And well, good thing I know a good one or two things about
fires because I grabbed this big jug of water that was sitting on the steps and
like a fountain I put that fire out. It was all pretty funny actually!
So on 7 of enero was the Day of the Kings
and they have this bread that is a circle and there are little plastic baby Jesuses
in it. They have parties with this bread and everyone that is there has to cut
a part and see if they got one of the little Jesuses and if they did on 2 of
Feb you have to buy everyone tamales. They were pretty good. Also this day is
like #2 Christmas for them. The 3 kings come down and give the kids MORE gifts.
It’s pretty weird, but hey. So yesterday I was going to have my last interview
with president. Early, I know! Well I got there at 11 and Hermana Hoggan was
there waiting too. Well long story short, all the dying people went out to eat
and our companions went and worked, it was kinda sad. Hermana Hoggan’s comp is
with mine as of yesterday. I’m not really sure how that’s going right now
because they are both in their training... So yesterday we went to president’s
house and waited to have interviews and while we were waiting I made chocolate
chip cookies and they were soooo good!
Then I ended up going to sleep in
Garcia Gineres with some other sisters and we got to the house at like 10 at
night and then we ended up not having keys, so we went to the office to go and
find some keys to the house and we finally got home sleeping at like 12 in the
morning. It was quite the show. Then this morning we got to go to the temple
with everyone and it was really great. I loved it there so much. I really felt
the spirit there very strongly. I forgot how beautiful it is to be there. And
how strong the spirit is in the Temple. I have a long time since I have had the
chance to go in. Not being able to go in a lot has really made me want to go a
lot when I get home. It’s been kind of a weird two days. I still have 3
weeks and I think that’s helping me not feel sad yet. Usually they take us to
the temple the last few days, but they are closing it for awhile so we went early.
So one really cool and also sad experience
we had this week was in a lesson we had. We were teaching an
investigator about baptism and how it’s really important to follow the example
of Christ exactly. To have your whole body in the water, at an age that is old
enough and with someone who has the power and authority of god to do it. She
understood everything we said and she believed us too but she was so stuck with
her traditions that she has and said that she was good with her baptism and
all. It was just really sad because she knew that what we were saying was very
correct, and she felt the spirit. We were with a boy that is preparing for his
mission and we all really testified with power that it was something very
important to do to follow him exactly. We all felt the spirit there, she just
didn’t want to act on what she was feeling. I still love her and I have faith
that maybe not now, but another time she will accept this gospel and apply it
to her life. I do love this gospel so much and I love being able to hear and
feel the spirit strongly like we felt in that lesson. I love you all so much
and hope you all have a great and happy week!
Con amor,
Hermana Velasquez
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