Familia,
Wow alot is going on at home! I cant
believe our stake split! Do we meet in the same building? To answer your
questions. The rainy season is all year. Because my mission is so close to the
beach I have rain like this all year long, its just worse around this time of
year. The 1st and 2nd days of November are Dia
De Los Muertos. It is a really cool holliday! They believe that these are the
days where God allows the dead to visit there families, so they go to the
cemetary and clean their graves, place candles, sing, and put their dead family
members favorite food on there grave. I love learning about the culture here because
it is so different, but always very cool. They also have halloween haha, but it
is not as big and the children don't dress up and ask for candy. They just walk
around asking for money.
Weekly Letter:
This was quite the week. First of
all it was Halloween, so HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! We had a good halloween. Me and my
mission leader exchanged gifts :). Then there was Dia de los Muertos. Our
mission president announced that we would be spending our days at the Cemetary
helping people clean their graves. The graves here are so elaborate! They are
all above ground and have all this detail. So we helped them clean. We met a
whole bunch of new people. It was a great opportunity to teach about the plan
of salvation! Everyone was so receptive! I definately know now why our
president wanted us to go and do this. We also had our stake conference this
week! So we traveled to the city of Coatzacoalcos to our stake center. I got to
eat Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen!!!! ;D It tasted so good haha. Then we arrived
for the priesthood session. Our mission president was there! It was so good to
talk with him. I am in his first group of missionaries. Him and his wife talked
alot about the members in our ward working together with the missionaries, a
big team. It really got everyone excited. We had a good asistencia saturday.
There were about 100 people. After conference we went to sleep at the house of
some elders in our zone. (The elders I was with at the begining of this month.)
There were 16 of us there!! It was quite the party. Then we woke up sunday
morning and fought for showers haha. Then we went to the second half of stake
conference. There were about 600 at this one haha A little difference :). It
went really well, it was alot like the first day haha. Then we went home with
Emmanuel. And had a very powerful lesson with the Familia Ocaña. They are the
family with the missionary who just left. The mom is a IPS (Investigator for
ever) the other kids who are members and their dad who is a drunk. It is really
hard for the mom because she wants to be baptized so bad but cant because she
is not married and her husband doesnt want to get married (it is a problem
here). The family is really faithful. We are trying to teach the father but he
only likes to listen some of the days. We taught a a very powerful lesson on
the plan of salvation and made plans to teach the father. This family really
needs the priesthood in there home.
It was a really good week. I miss
you all a ton, I wish I could write more but I have to go! I never get enough time.
I love yall mucho!!
Con cariño,
Élder Parduhn
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