Hellooo queridos amigos y familia!!
How was Thanksgiving?
Is Christmas in full swing? Is there snow yet?
For Thankgsiving here
we searched for all of the ingredients we could and finally settled on just
making mashed potatoes. We ate them on the bus on the way to Playa, along with
a bunch of junk food. Not quite traditional, but it was fun! I sure was
grateful.
The Conference with
Elder Pino was amaaaazing!!! Literally every single one of my questions was
answered! We sang a beautiful arrangement of Be Still My Soul in English and
Spanish, with Hermana Merrick on the piano. Sadly we didn´t get a video, but it
gave me goosebumps. The spirit was so strong. We learned that we need to
constantly be searching for people! They used an analogy that if we don´t keep
searching, it´s like making tortillas without adding more masa to the machine.
One or two tortillas will turn out fine, but eventually we will run out of
material. Another kinda weird but super great anology was about fleas, that
were in a little case and learned to jump only as high as the lid. Then, when
the lid was removed, they still didn´t jump out because they were afraid of
hitting the lid. It taught me that we always need to try to reach abouve and
beyond,to reach our full potential.
Aracely was baptized
and it was beautiful! The font wasn´t quite filled up high enough, so she had
to be baptized kneeling down. #tallgirlprobs But she is super sweet and happy
to be "a good girl now." The only problem is that she slept in and
didn´t show up to her confirmation on sunday...nooooo! The good news is that we
can do it next week so that this chica gets the Holy Ghost.
Oh, it was so sweet!
The sister training leaders were VERY busy this week traveling in Cancun, so we
helped them out be visiting their investigators. I have attatched the sweetest
photo from my whole mission below. "Las Agostinas" is a mom and a
daughter that are both named Agostina. The daughter is 25 but she has down
syndrome. And she is my favorite human being. We sing hymns with them and she
just starts jamming out and making up words. She also gives amazing hugs and
just has a heart full of love. Hermana Gunderson lost her nametag, supposedly
in the bus station. But when we went to visit the Agostinas, they had it! They
found it in the street, and took care of it. They know that the missionaries
are full of light, joy, and representatives of Christ.
With December coming
up, I invite you all to do the church´s christmas iniciative! Light the
World!!! It´s so amazing and I know that by doing it we will fill the world
with service. What better gift can we give to our savior?
It was a good week and
we´re finishing up the cambio! I´ll be writing next saturday for the end of the
transfer.Thanks for all you do!
Con amor,
Hermana Schwartz
PS in my last email I
said "assist" and not "attend." It´s because the spanish
word is "asistir" ;) I´m forgetting everything...yay!
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