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The farmers market here is crazy. It´s just like scenes from movies. Burlap sacks full of grains and spices, crates full of produce, tin or cloth canopies, dogs, chickens, children running around. Its really fun! The meat stands freak me out.
This week has been crazy, and today almost all of the shops are closed in respect for the Virgin. EVERYONE here believes in the Virgin. They pray to her, idolize her, have ridiculous celebrations frequently. This week there has been preseciones (huge parades in the street) everyday. Hundreds of people chant scripture as they bang drums and play trumpets. Sometimes they have candles. It´s scary. The people here really love themselves the Virgin. It,s really hard to convert hardcore believers.
There is this family of recent converts that we always go and teach, and every time we ask the 5 year old to pray he playfully declines. We asked him, "don´t you want blessings?" and he said "No, I want food!" It was really cute!
This week there has been so many miracles! One of my favorites was with the little brother of two of our investigators that we work with a ton. Fabio and Adolfo. Fabio is 22, has this beautiful long curly hair and Adolfo is 19, he is a bit smaller, and he wears his hair shorter and straight. They have a funny relationship- Basically they remind me of Nicole and I. So, I REALLY want them to be baptized and accept the gospel so we can party in the celestial kingdom together. They know everything, go to church every week BUT don´t want to become members. They both know why baptism is important, and said they want to follow Jesus. And listen to our message more. Ugh. We work with them a lot. Anyway,this Thursday their little brother told us that he was going to be baptized- in another church in 3 days with all of his friends! We felt awful for not teaching him and focusing so hard on his brothers. We told him the importance of baptism, gave him a pamphlet about the restoration and priesthood and told him to pray and ask God if he should be baptized this Saturday. We didn´t really have time to visit him before Saturday so we just prayed really hard. On Saturday we visited their family in the evening and the little brother told us that he decided not to be baptized! He said that he prayed and felt like he needed to learn more about baptism before he made his choice. The world needs more 11 year olds like him.
LOVE; LOVE; LOVE,
Hermana Shumway
Looking down from our apartment
The ground floor looking up to our apartment patio
internet cafe we use!
Internet stations we email at.
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