Buenos Dias
Another week has past... pretty fast actually.
This week wasnt as crazy as last week with plans and all but we managed
to keep busy. Oh and its finally starting to cool down here. This last
week was probably averaged in the high 60s or low 70s and i am starting
to see clouds here. I miss the random changes in weather soo much and
the different seasons in general! Here it is always perfect and
sunny.... :/ haha
So this ward i am in is really small but yes they have semenary for the
youth but i wouldnt doubt it if it was combined with another ward.
So
this we tried really hard to marry people. Ok i will explain. So first
of all to be baptized you have to beliving the Law of Chastity, and here
in Tijuana no one is married. Everyone here just gets together and
either after a year or after they have kids they just call themselfs
husband and wife but because its expensive and difficult to get married
legally here in TJ they just dont. I think its like 600 pesos or 50
dollars and you have to go to a judge to do it, religious leaders cant
do it here like they can in the states. But anyways, everyonce and a
while Tijuana does this marrige collective thing. Were they marry a
whole bunch of people all at once. Its a lot cheaper, 150 pesos (12$),
and you only need to bring you ACT of Nacimiento (i think its like a
Birth Cert.). We had two families that we were planning on marrying
there but everthing fell apart last second. We planned to met one of the
families at their place but when we went they wernt there and then
later told us they couldnt find their ACT of Nacimiento and decided to
go somewhere for a little while. The other family, the mom really wants
to get married and baptized and everything was working out great until
the dad said...yeah i dont want to get married yet, i need more time to
get to know her first. haha funny thing is they have 6 years together
and 3 kids. So yeah, no one got married, but oh well :/
So on a more happy note :) Tatiana (who i mention in the last
letter) is pretty awesome. Tatiana has been reading the Book of Mormon
faster then any of my past investigators, i think shes in Alma right
now. Shes doing everything she can to be baptised. Oh and even more, so
she crosses over to San Diego about 2 times a week and this week she
surprised us with a big bag of Peanut Butter M&MS! Oh yeah there
selection of MMs here is very pathetic and they only have the 1doller
size bags. It was the first time my companion had ever tried those mms,
he loved them.
PICs:
Tatianas son and interesting wall art
Well love you all!
Elder Evans
That's weird about people being married there. I thought they were super catholic there and that they would all be married... time to send a care package of m&ms.
ReplyDeleteFunny about the M&Ms and having lived an entire lifetime without them... I think that the world is definitely going the way of non-marriage. It is interesting that people will live together and have kids and not know if they really want to get married.
ReplyDeleteMorgan will LOVE the wall art. It is rather interesting. Of course my fave is also the elephantuba.