Monday: we sang Christmas songs in the park, then acted out the Nativity scene. I got the part of reading it all in a loud voice in front of the huge Spanish audience. We made the news here in Momostenango, so a bunch of people got to hear me reading Mathew 2 in Spanish as the other missionaries acted it out. Contiere Utz Pin Pin (It was all good good butterfly; as the people say here)
Tuesday: We contacted a whole family who agreed to baptism in one month. I taught the whole lesson in Quiche. Great experience. We went back again (they live about 1 hour walk from the capilla), and she said she didn't think she could walk to church. We'll work with her more this next week.
Wednesday: We trekked up to Xesecleck (a 2 hour walk from the chapel) and found some new investigators and people to talk to for later days.
Thursday: We found some people out in ChiHernandez (1 hour in a half away) who might be positive.
Friday: We contacted a local catholic leader of a big church. there are about 15 churches in between our capilla and the central (about a 30 minute walk), so its difficult to get people to hear us because church is SOOOOO POLITICAL here. church is all these people have and their pastour is their neighbor and everyone has a grandpa that built the church they go to. If you metnion the name of the church they will proudly tell you that.
Saturday: We had two baptisms: The two were jovens from two part member families. Pictures will probably be tomorrow. The water was cold, and it was Christmas Eve. As I entered the water, I felt like I entered a new world. To see the light shimmer across the transparent basin was to see a glimpse of heaven, and to baptize another in that water was to enter heaven's doors, if only for a second or two.
Sunday: Three investigators showed up. The piano and the radio broke so I had to direct the hymns acapella. But everyone stopped signing so I was the only one haha. I sang all four hymns like that. I think the people thought it was a musical number or something but no haha. just hymns
Vamos a skypiar hoy, estoy emociado!
I don't have anything important to say. Only that life is a fancy fabric continually unraveling, and I imagine we'll only be able to see the grandeur of the complete tapestry from a bird's eye view: that's why we should hand over the tapestry needle to God, He's got a better view up there anyhow.
Adious, photos otro dia
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