Well... a pictures worth a thousand words right?
I don't know what is happening to my time on p-days lately.
Note that today is not even Monday, but Tuesday that we are here writing to
you. But it's been pretty crazy down here in Chichen this week. This week we had
a random conference with president on Tuesday which was hard 'cause we had to
cancel all our appointments and had very few lessons that day, but it was a
great conference and we learned a lot! The big thing in the mission right now is
family history, and everyone is super into this whole spirit of Elias [in English we say Elijah] thing! SO
we're using that a lot to contact new people by helping them realize that not
only can they see their loved ones again one day after we die, but that they
can get close to them now and perform saving ordinances for them in the
temple!! Soo that's fun.
Fun family history
contacting activity at the Tianguis! Some members of the ward with us:)
Morning run to the
turtle park
Me in the turtle. One of the 3 days of the year where you
need a sweater in the morning in Merida.
AND we're doing that a lot as missionaries too. And on Sunday we were in the church with Mishel and Emmanuel (Investigator and recent
convert, we are currently trying to set them up so that they can be each other's
support system, also they're both single and great hehe) anyways and HW and I were messing around looking at my geneaology tree thing finding funny names or
whatever, and we notice that this one line that we're following goes back
pretty far, like in the 1600s, and we're like wow cool! And we keep following
it, and we start seeing names titled like "Sir Edmund" and
"Lord Thomas" and stuff and HW and Emmanuel start joking around
saying that I must come from a royal background and all this stuff, and we
keep going and all of a sudden we see the name King Edward I, nickname Longshanks, King of England...... whattttt????? and HW and I both freak out!
and the lady there helping us comes and verifies it and then everyone bowed
down and started worshipping me. No just kidding, but Emmanuel keeps calling me
"your excellency" and HW tells me that she is getting me a crown to
wear. And we found other names like Louis IX, king of France, Matilda Adelaide, Princess of England, Empress of Germany, and a bunch of other royal people from
like Normandy, Italy, Tuscany, France, and I don't know where else!! SO cool
story mom and siblings, we're royal. Dad you're not sorry. but we still love
you:)
Ok get this. THIS is my family history chart. mom, we are
royalty. note that it says KING Edward I!! And he is my ancestor. I started at Gigi and drew the line all the way back to the year 1239, and found a king.. No
big deal..
We googled him and
he's totally a legit king.
Haha ok well I have to go now but I also saw a movie before
it even came out in theaters with a bunch of other missionaries, my converts
are ruling the world and the whole elders quorum of the ward is in the hands of
my recent convert who may or may not still not know the difference between the
temple and the church, My companion got sick and had to go to the hospital, but
was miraculously healed in the temple today, I got to do baptisms for the dead
in the first time in 16 months, and went to probably the most disorganized
crazy disastrous baptism ever.
And sorry I don't have time to explain everything in more
detail but I'll tell you more in like 2 months OK? OK.
Love you all bye!
HS
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