SANTIFICARÁS LAS ¿QUÉ?
Dear Everyone that
I love,
This week we´ve been seeing some more success finally!!
We got 3 people to attend church! Now, you may be wondering, "Wait,
you´re in Mexico. You´re supposed to be baptising every
single week, and you´re excited about getting a few people to come to
church with you?" Yes. And let me explain why.
Here in Mexico, there is pretty much a party every single day of the year. Those parties happen to be THE BIGGEST on Sundays for
some reason. As missionaries, we teach how important it is to keep the
10 Commandments. The fourth one is this "Thou shalt remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it Holy." Ok, so in this very Christian country
and community, you´d think that they would know that that means to
attend church on
Sunday, right? Well..... The thing is that I have discovered
that most of they "modernized" Bibles say that the 4th commandment is
something else. This is not a joke. It says "Sanctificarás las
fiestas." Which means "Thou shalt sanctify the parties." WHAT??
Haha! So you can imagine why they think partying is so important.
Unfortunatley,
our golden investigators, Meli, Amparo, Jesús, and Emiliana, weren´t
able to attend church this week (oh, don´t worry, Elder Monroe and
I have a few things up our sleeves to see that they do progress this
next week.) However, we did get to see general conference this week
(when the Prophet and the 12 Apostles speak to the church, worldwide via
sattelite.) I just loved attempting to understand the Spanish
translater, but I did get the gist of the messages. Many of these
general
authorities gave powerful testimonies about the Bible, the Book of
Mormon, Jesus Christ, and many other things. Also, the Prophet Thomas S. Monson (ironically
enough) spoke on the 10 commandments. "As it says, these are the 10
commandments, and not the 10 ´creative suggestions´" We got a kick out
of that.
Honestly, I am really loving it out here. I learn so
much about the culture, language, and about humillity each day. Each
time I see a person recieving our message and following through with
committments like Sofia, her daughter, and Manuel (who attended church),
I can see more light come into their life and their eyes. I know that
the Lord has me doing this for this very reason.
Honestly, we
were cut short of internet today, and we have to go do our shopping, but
I love yáll! Thank you for all of your emails, stories, and abundant
sports updates (especially for the recent college football rankings
Jeffrey.) Hope everyone is doing well, and I hope my family get´s my
package soon! Love yáll!
Love
Elder Christian Hutchinson
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