Happy Halloween! Well it’s
a little late for that but as well for you Mexicano’s Feliz Dia De Los Muertos!
So the last week was full of travel and traditions here in Mexico. So on
Wednesday I had to go to Zacatecas to sign documents for my green card. After
that we spent the week looking and looking, but we just couldn’t find people.
Then Saturday arrived and I was expecting the streets to be filled with
children, but instead nothing just a normal day. On Sunday though I was in
shock! The kids dress up and leave to the streets, and on Monday they do the
same. Its two days of Trick or treating here! The other thing is that the
costumes here are very different. The kids here paint their faces and this is
there costume or they just put a mask on. The popular costumes here are Katrin
or Katrina these are the skeletons that you see as people in Mexican art and
after that Chucky. As well the people here make the kids work a little harder
to get there candy, the kids have to sing in order to receive their candy. It’s
pretty funny to be honest because in Mexico it’s different in every part, but
in Jerez they have to sing. As well on Sunday we had an investigator in church!
She is very funny and very nice. She’s a little older, but we have a good feeling
the lords put us in her path.
Well the normal
tradition for Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead is to go to the cemetery
with your family to visit your dead family members. The family as well place a
photo, flowers, and food on the grave of the person. At night they say that the
person returns from the dead and eats the food. The following day they return
to see the food gone and place more flowers. Why do I tell you the tradition because?
As these people remember their dead we do as well, but we know that it’s not
the end. The Plan of Salvation clearly teaches us the God created a plan in
which we would be tried and tested and in the end we would have to die, but
that as well because of Jesus Christ we one day will rise from the dead. The
Plan of Salvation gives us the opportunity to not just remember our loved ones,
but that through Christ and his Gospel we will return to live with them and our
Heavenly Father if we come to know of them. Know that this Plan is real
and that it is perfect. I testify that families can be together forever.
Elder Perfili
I LOVE YOU ALL
God Be With You Till We
Meet Again
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