Dear Fam,
So as promised, I`ll be telling you guys all about the good
stuff that we did on tuesday after I finished writing you all. We went to
Coyoacan again and saw some really cool stuff. Unfortunately, I forgot my
camera so I`ll be getting you guys the pictures next week. Sorry!
However, Coyoacan was really cool. Around this time of year
they make giant sculptures of paper mache in the shape of skeletons and dress
them up and paint them like their ancestors. It`s super cool. And they also put
up a bunch of offerings to the dead which are really cool too. The offerings
are compiled of Marygolds, because thats the flower of the dead, all of the
food the deceased enjoyed and also things that are symbolic for them. Like if
they were a farmer they but their tools on the offering and whatnot. They also
tend to put their pictures of the person who died on their offering and then
they spend all day and all night partying with their dead. Normally, they go to
the cemetery and put their offering right on top of the grave and party all
night there but here in Ciudad de Mexico, they don`t have cemeteries close to
home so they put their offerings in their houses and leave their doors open all
night so the dead can visit them. It`s awesome!
Funny story of when we went. We got ice cream while we were
there and when we were about to leave, we walked past an elderly couple and the
lady turned around and shouted in perfect english "ICE CREAM!!!!!" I
laughed pretty hard because 1. its very rare that we see people from the US and
2. they had the same obsession of ice cream that we had. As they walked off I
heard the lady talking about where they were going to find some ice cream and
whatnot and I just had to laugh. Some things just never change.
This week we had some ups and downs and over all we saw a miracle
at church. We had a couple of investigators that we didn`t count on show up
this week at it was awesome. They just showed up out of the blue in response to
all of the work we`re doing. The Lord really does help us out when we work
hard.
I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Hyer
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