Semana Santa

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Feliz late holy week. 

Before my Mission I would of thought that the week of Easter would be full of work but here in Mexico it just doesn't seem to be the case. Semana Santa is a very slow week for us missionaries. All of our friends were working or outside of the city for vacations. Do to this we sadly had very few lessons this week. We did get to do a fare bit of contacts in person and digitally.

Wedsday we had district counsel and we recorded a musical number for the mission's weekly Zoom meeting on Thursday. They were both a great time. We sang an arrangement of "We'll bring the world his truth" 

Friday morning while visiting a less active member we came across a huge group of catholics in a parade for good Friday. They had a large statue of Christ carrying the cross. The catholic celebrations are always a little alien to me but I do love the devotion they show.

Saturday we had a ward family home evening. We had it planed at 6 to start at 6:30 for Mexican standard time. However we ended up staring around 7 due to technical difficulties. It went great even with all of the delays, and low attendence of 8 people. We got to share a great message on the restoration, always something I love teaching about. 

Sunday we had only sacrament meeting, which went great. Fantastic talks on the atonement and resurrection. The sad part was that none of our investigators showed up, but a inactive family we are working with did show up which was great. 

This p-day Elder Reyes and I went to the music tiangus, because he has never been and wanted to get a guitar.

Hasta la próxima,

Elder Neilson

the super dirty baptismal font 

sunrise 

Lord of the Watches, me with all of the watches of the district 

Exchanges with Elder Cardona 

Conferencias

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These past two weeks in Meyehualco have been great. My first pday we went bowling with the district. Haven't bowled in a year and was pretty pleased with my preformance, 100+ in two of the three games. The rest of the first week was great, pretty chill, I got to know the area and the members. Sunday I got to give a talk introducing myself in which I also talked about missionary work. 

Last p-day we meet up as a district to make enchiladas and play monopoly, which I won. Than this last week we had zone conference which was great, the funny thing was that the mission  office had no water so we had to switch to the capilla of ermita. This week we also found a couple to teach they are great. They were taught back before the pandemic  but lost contact with the missionaries, and just recently got back in contact. They have such a great desire to learn and come closer to christ. And have a desire to be baptized. 

This General conference was great, we went to the stake center to watch it. Love all the talks and especially loved the enfasis on the atonement of Jesus Christ and being a peacemaker. 

Hast la próxima 

Elder Neilson 

Zone Conference in the chapel of Ermita 

Coming back from Zone Conference in the Metro 

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