Well this week flew by.
Tuesday we had the Consejo de Lideres which was super fun for two reasons: they gave us waffles for breakfast and tacos for lunch! I haven't had waffles in over 14 months and it was amazing, and well tacos are tacos and I can eat them everyday. We were able to talk about the needs of the mission as well ... so it was good.
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Thursday we had a zone activity for the day of the dead! I guess it is the tradition here that missionaries go to a massive cemetery, sing hymns, and pass out pamphlets of the Plan of Salvation. It was pretty successful, we got a few references for other areas and other zones. One woman I contacted actually started to cry listening to the hymns and as we talked about God's plan. She told me that she lost her two grandsons and her son-in-law in a car accident and she went to the cemetery to see her two grandsons (The belief in Mexico of the day of the dead is that November 1st the spirits of the children that died come to visit and November 2nd is when the adults come to visit). It was a nice experience to testify of God´s plan for us and how she can see them again. The only problem with the activity was that us gringos got roasted by the sun, we were out there for a little over 2 hours.
Saturday was a stake activity about family history, so we invited all of our investigators to come to what we thought was going to be a party in the church. Three of the families we invited came! However, it was not a party at all, it was a program of people telling stories of the things they found in their family history and a few people sang songs from Coco.
All in all it was a really good week!
Elder Gurney
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