Monday, March 20, 2017

Semana 53 - Chiapas de Corzo Excursion, Teaching and Serving!

Hola! This week was BUSY, but good! I learned a lot of things, and we ran around sometimes like chickens with our heads cut off, but it's okay! We survived! Haha! 

On Monday we went to Chiapa de Corzo, it's a little tourist town in Chiapas, and it has the best pozol. We went with the ward missionaries and my Terrazas grandparents (in their "Missionary Mobile, which is their truck.) Chiapa de Corzo was very cool. There is a TON of stuff to buy that is all typical of this area. Some of the things you can buy include flowered and embroidered shirts, all the traditional clothing, amber, things for Chiapanecas (it's a girl with the traditional black flower embroidered dress) and the Parachico (it's a man with a mask and a poufy helmet and he is seen in parades once a year.) All in all Chiapa de Corzo was awesome. :o) 

On Tuesday we had our district meeting! Hermana Arellano and I taught about the power of the spirit in the conversion of people, and it was great! Honestly, the missionary is not the teacher, the Holy Spirit is the teacher, and we're just instruments. If the spirit isn't present in the lesson, we will never be able to reach the heart of the investigator. After the meeting we ate and started a companion exchange. I was with Hermana Aguilera in Terrazas and Hermana Arellano went to Villaflores with Hermana Behymer. I was a little skeptical about being in Terrazas alone because I was sure I was going to get us lost (anyone who's been in a car with me knows I am super bad with directions), but I didn't! Backstory: We had visited a couple a few times but due to an extended game of phone tag we were kind of ready to give up. Reality: We knocked on their door, they let us in, and the lesson was great and now I have a lot of hope. They told us that when we started teaching them that the husband's depression kind of went away and for that she'll never forget the day she met us!!! 

On Wednesday we took a taxi to Villaflores (it's about 2 hours away) to end the companion exchange and Hermana Arellano and I returned to Terrazas. We taught our English class. Even though only one student showed up, God totally had a plan in this because she's been going through a rough patch and we were able to help her. 

On Thursday we taught the couple, E and J again, but this time we brought the big guns... the Relief Society President and Stake President's wife. The lesson was amazing! You could cut the spirit with a knife and it was so strong and they totally opened their hearts. We left from that lesson feeling like we had just fought a spiritual battle, seriously. 

On Friday we went to Immigration! Why? Because very soon I'll be turning one year old in the mission, and we had to renew my green card. I'll talk very nostalgically about being out for a year next week.

On Saturday we visited S. I might have mentioned that we met her when we helped her put out a small fire in front of her house. Anyway, she told us she just wants to find the answers to her prayers and be a part of the true church. :o) We also went to a Relief Society Activity for the 175th Anniversary. Plus we did a street theater again and watched "The Testaments." 

On Sunday Bishop Ruiz told us that the stint last week where we taught Gospel Principles was actually going to be a 7 week long thing. We talked about the gathering of Israel, a topic I know a little about, but not enough to fill an hour long class... but somehow we made it out alive. After church there was a missionary activity for the youth and they announced during it that the full time missionaries were going to sing the EFY Medley. No one thought to tell us beforehand, so we were singing it in the moment and there wasn't piano music so one of the Hermanas was winging that as well and it was the WORST. It turned out like it was our first time practicing it, because it was, and the Stake President was definitely holding back laughter. Sometimes the members trust in us a little too much and think we know everything and then things like that end up happening, but it's all good! It's a moment I won't forget... anyways, that's all for now.  Have a good week! 

Con amor, Hermana Dangl 

 The Book of Mormon in Spanish.


 My planner with my family and my companion.

 The Young Women's Theme in Spanish that I made in my free time.

 Relief Society is 175 years old!  Happy Birthday!  Sociedad de Soccoro








The members are so good to us!  They treated us to breakfast and lunch today, helped us make brownies and paid for our food for the week.  Then they taught us a new embroidery. 

 Making brownies with some members.


 Some members treated us to lunch. 





The corner with all the burnt stuff- someone randomly decided to light all the trash on fire and all the neighbors where putting it out and when it was all out the "Fire Department" came. 

Hermana Arellano and her hija, Hermana Gomez who is a Capacitadora in Tapachula, and then me with Hermana Ilizarbe, my Capacitadora (Sister Training Leader) from when I was in Mapastepec. This was taken at a Leadership Council.

Us with a part member family, the dad  (the only member) received the Melchizedek Priesthood.

With some ward members at Stake Conference. 

 A Chiapaneca and Parachico that Hermana Arellano surprised me with. 

Me with the Parachico headgear

Me with a tiger helmet.

Shopping in Chiapas de Corzo

An old catholic church in Chiapa de Corzo.

 Pozol with Hermano Dominguez
In the "corona" (crown) of Chiapa de Corzo

Us with Hermana Dominguez in Chiapa de Corzo.

 Driving in the Missionary Mobile with our Terrazas Grandparents.


The Chiapaneca at the entrance to Chiapa de Corzo.

Canyon Sumidero

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