Hola Everyone:
So yesterday was 3 Kings Day here in Mexico and it is a
pretty interesting holiday! The whole holiday remembers the 3 Wisemen that went
to Jesus Christ’s birth and arrived 12 days after he was born. So, it is celebrated
sort of like Christmas, just 12 days later on January 6th. As a part of the holiday here in Mexico, they
make a sweet bread called “rosca del rey” which is meant to represent a King’s
crown. Inside the bread, they bake in a
little baby Jesus doll and whoever gets the piece of bread with that inside has
to make/buy tamales at the fiesta de la Candelaria on February 2. This celebration is the last of the Christmas
festivities, 40 days after Jesus’s birth.
So, anyway that is a pretty cool tradition and yesterday we ate a lot of
bread!
Last Tuesday was P-Day and President gave us the whole day
for P-Day and we first went to the Church and wrote our letters home and then
went to the Jordan Families house for Pizza and to say goodbye to Elder Mendez.
Tuesday was Elder Mendez’s last day in the Field, he had to go back to Guatemala
a week early so that he could get into school. Also, that night, we went over
to our Bishop’s house and President had given us permission to watch the movie “Nacho
Libre” with them in Spanish. Honestly it
wasn’t as funny in Spanish but it’s all good!
With Elder Mendez leaving last week, they had to close the
area he was in because there are quite a few missionaries going home right now
and there are not any coming in to back-fill them. So, with him leaving we had to pick up the
investigators that they had and we have been doing a lot of contacting and this
area is really turning around. One of
the days, we contacted this Family and their names are Gabriela, Melanie, Angel
and Valerie. They are really good and
have been in contact with the missionaries before, but they are advancing
pretty fast and have a baptismal date for the 2nd of February. Our other investigators are also coming along
pretty good, but we haven’t met much with them this week with them all just
coming back from the holiday.
The area is really starting to do well, but unfortunately, I
will probably be getting transferred out next week! I have been here for 3 cycles and that is
usually all President leaves us in any one place. So, I probably will not be
here to see them all finish up!
This week at Church, we started the “Come Follow Me” plan. We have been teaching the members about it and I think that it is either going to be a really good thing or a bad thing. We have been telling people that learning is now going to be a lot more up to them so we will have to see how it goes.
This week at Church, we started the “Come Follow Me” plan. We have been teaching the members about it and I think that it is either going to be a really good thing or a bad thing. We have been telling people that learning is now going to be a lot more up to them so we will have to see how it goes.
It has been a pretty good week. We are starting to see a lot
of the fruits of all of our contacting from the past few weeks and so I am sort
of sad to probably being transferred.
The good thing is that my next area will not be as dangerous as Tecamac
Montes so I will be able to get some more interesting pictures. One of my pictures for this week is a sweater
that the Jordan family made and gave to me for Christmas which is really cool.
Love,
Elder Fawcett
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