Hunucma - Week 4

¡Buenos Dias!

One of this week's highlights was going to the temple! Tuesday morning we woke up at 2:30am and walked over to the others sisters house to wait for the bishop. He took the 4 of us and 4 other members to Merida (45 min away) so we could all go to the temple to do our family names. We rode in the back of his truck the whooole way, so that was quite the adventure so early in the morning. Our Zone's turn was the 5am session, but we went first to print off names, so we did other stuff in the temple until the 9am session. By the time we got back to our area, it was 1pm, so that took up our whole morning! It was fun seeing all the other missionaries though, since only once a month we have the opportunity to go.

Saturday, we intended to watch the conference, but the internet connection was failing, so we just saw little pieces. It was a bummer because we had investigators and a bunch of members, but oh well! It was cute because one of the ladies we brought that's investigating (Berenice) brought her 10 year old little boy and he kept asking me about what the conference was and thought it sounded so cool since it’s broadcasted from the US. He kept telling me "Wow! This looks so interesting! Hahaha. Sunday though, we tried again with the broadcast and were able to see it, just that less people showed up. My favorite part was the video of the families singing- maybe because I'm starting to miss mine! It just strengthened my testimony of how true this church is, because it really focuses on the family. No other church teaches about sealing families or confesses to have authority to marry after death. The sprit really bears testimony of it too because no other thing brings as powerful of a feeling as when you think of the love for your family.

As far as the work here, ay vamos. We've been losing some of our people that seemed really awesome, so that's a bummer. It’s so frustrating because what allllways happens is we start out with really great lessons and the people say "yes!" to all our invitations, but then Satan works on them and they don't read what we left with them, or they don't have the time anymore. Super frustrating!!! The one good thing though is that Berenice was a little like that, saying one thing but doing another, but this week she went to the conference, a baptism that the other sisters had, AND church! She brought her boyfriend too who is a Baptist, I think and loves the bible. I have high hopes for them, but they have to decide to get married first because they're living together.

The focus from here on out is the new video "Because he lives." We're all set up with our mini DVD players, handout cards, and goal sheets, haha. Its fun having something new to use with our normal contacts. Everyone here for Easter has "semana santa" which is "holy week." For 2 weeks no one has school and goes on their little vacations and do their "rosarios" which are their prayers to the virgin Mary.  Speaking of her- my nickname in this ward has become Asuncion because I look a lot like that Virgin Mary. Asuncion is another version of Mary- haha but don't ask me why there are so many versions of her!

Adios!
Hermana Harper