This week
was awesome. I love it here in Veracruz. We work a lot in a neighborhood called
Koskuna, which is pure Kunas, and another little invasion called La Victoria.
So many friends from Tikantiki there. There’s also a ton of families from
Carti, so I know my next Carti baptism is not far off.
It kind of feels
like I’m in Carpinteria…just dirtier and with unpaved streets. We have a legit
chapel. It’s super tiny but we only had 60 in attendance yesterday, so we all
fit. The Branch President here is the guy who’s over Seminary for all of
Panama, and he doesn’t even live here. But the counselors are awesome and are
super willing to help.
Also, the Venezuelan's,
Jusmery and Anbar, that I baptized in Arraijan live here! And we’re teaching
her mom who’s visiting from Venezuela, and going back pretty soon, and she’s
going to be baptized in the next few weeks.
Today for P-day
we went with some friends from the branch to the top of a mountain nearby. It’s
called Cerro Cabra and it took like two hours of bushwhacking to get there but
you can see all of Arraijan and the city from there.
I didn’t
know it was Easter yesterday either. I thought it was the next week and the Easter
talks didn’t even make me realize.
Yesterday at
church one of the jovenes opened his mission call. Only he requested it be sent
in English, for some reason, but he doesn’t speak English. He tried reading it
and failed so he just read the first country he saw which was Guatemala.
Everyone was cheering and I went up to see it, and he had read the MTC he was
going to. He actually got called to El Salvador…hahaha. So, we had to refilm it
with me translating.
Almost
forgot! We also had a baptism on Saturday for a guy named Rufino who’s 21. He’s
been going to church for like 3 months and hadn’t been baptized, so the first
time I went to meet him I asked him why he hadn’t been baptized yet and he just
asked if we could do it on Saturday- haha. That went super well and lots of
people showed up. I love it when baptisms aren’t the most stressful experiences
ever.
Other than
all that, there’s a house that makes Kuna bread here and people are inviting us
over all the time to eat Dule Masi, the delicious unripe banana and coconut
soup the Kunas eat. I nearly shed a tear every time.
For my
spiritual thought, I will share one I’ve shared before about how important it
is to love the people we teach and serve. I’ve already seen in one week here
that one lesson where you really show the people you love them can get them to
go to church.
Love you
all!
Hastanoon
diapeday
I’m learning
Embera too!
Elder Green