Buenos Dias!
I hope everyone had a good Easter Sunday yesterday! Easter
is a let down in Mexico, at least with the Mormons I guess. Mormons here don't
celebrate it for some reason. A bunch of members told me its because we
remember Jesus Christ and the Atonement every Sunday, so nothing is really
different on Easter Sunday. It was kind of weird to me that NO one even
mentioned the word "Easter" on Sunday; we just had the usual
missionary work push in sacrament, talked about prophet in gospel principles
class and a normal relief meeting. Haha, Relief Society here is kind of different. All the ladies LOVE to participate. A lot of
times the teacher barely gets a chance to talk and it feels like a big
discussion group of people wanting to say everything they know and why what
they're saying is right. I always get scared to bring investigators to relief
society, but so far none of them have gotten scared off.
This week will be exciting because we have 2 baptisms set
for Friday! Usually we have them Tuesdays, but one of the investigators got this
HUGE bug bite. It was all infected and he had to take antibiotics and couldn't
submerge in water. I really want to know what kind of bug it was so that I can
watch out for it! Luckily we don't have as bad as a bug problem as some of the
other sisters. We just have lots of ants and little spiders and sometimes
cockroaches. Hermana Ludlam was telling me she has scorpions and huge
centipedes and huuuge spiders in her house. When I hear things like that it
makes me realize how good Hermana Tozcano and I have it in our area.
Speaking of how good we have it, we've been spending time in
another part of our area a lot lately and it keeps surprising me how poor some
people are. We talked to one lady who doesn't have a fridge so she has to go to
the store several times a day. I've seen a bunch of houses that have fire pits
in front of their house or walls of mattresses and I'm realizing a lot of
people don't have appliances likes ovens or lamps, that in the US we totally
take for granted. But people survive like that! Those people who don't have
much spend a lot of time washing and cooking and working because they have to
do everything themselves. They're almost ALWAYS busy, so it makes it hard to
visit them and get them to church.
Other random things, we taught a lady this week named
Feliciana who is suuuper Christian. Usually I like teaching Christians because
they don't worship Mary at least, and they are way more dedicated than most Catholics
here. Sometimes I like to think about the mission like a video game because we
have to have so many lessons and have or little goals and everything. All of our
investigators I give a level of difficulty to of 1 – 10. Haha, I mention this because Feliciana would
be a level 10 difficulty. She is studying to be a pastor and so she knows A
LOT. It’s hard because she's super nice and everything but we have to think really
hard how we can help her understand the restoration. She's the hardest we've
come across so far. Usually people don't know much and just believe what we
say, which can be good and bad I guess. I know it's the spirit that's saying
"hey this is true," but sometimes I wish people would ask more
questions.
Two more random things before I go: Not sure if it's just
here in Merida but people are obsessed with Halls flavored cough drops. Instead
of always have gum on them, people always eat Halls like its candy. Kinda
funny. Also, in an area not too far from us, I heard that there's one ward with
8 companionships. 16 missionaries in ONE ward! Crazy! Our ward thought it was
hard to juggle 4 missionaries, but another ward has 4x as many. And the members
are always supporting them with their meals and accompanying the missionaries
with appointments. I was glad to hear that because I think it really motivated
our ward to be even more supportive than they already are.
Well, that's all I have time for. Adios!
Hermana Harper
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