Hello sweet family and friends,
what a week! I hope you all had a wonderful week and especially a Happy Easter.
What a special day we have to reflect on the Resurrection of our Savior Jesus
Christ. Also, I hope you had the best ‘birfday’ NATERS!! Wow... 13. Happy
Birthday big guy! This past week was an interesting week with Semana Santa here
in Spain, but that adds to the mission experience;) As for our week,
Like I mentioned, this past week
was Semana Santa here in Spain. If you haven´t heard, this is a HUGE holiday
for all of the Catholics here in Spain. It is also a pretty crazy holiday. The
thought is nice, but... the presentation is kind of scary.. haha Elder
Patterson and I had quite the experience this week. So for Semana Santa, each
night they have a different procession or Parade from the different Catholic
groups that are here. Each day represents what Christ did the last week of his
life. If you have never seen a picture of their costumes... I would recommend
it, haha but they are a little scary. Anyways each night they get dressed up in
big capes and a cone type hat and play the drums and carry torch type things
down the street. One night, Elder Patterson and I were coming in from working
in one of our Pueblos and we noticed that all of the lights in the city were
off. It was really dark, and after struggling to finally find a parking spot in
these crazy streets, we took off towards our piso. As we were approaching main
street we noticed that there were not really any people, and the lights were
still off, we continued walking towards our piso and came around the corner to
find all of the people silently watching the procession. However what we didn´t
know is that it was the silent procession and that is the reason why all of the
lights in the city were off. To add to this experience the costumed things were
wearing all black carrying candles... haha it spooked us a little bit, but we
were able to make it back to our piso. I am going to have to say that the
procession was much more enjoyable from our porch;) haha it is an interesting
tradition.
Other than that, Elder Patterson
and I had a really good week. This past week we were able to find a new family
from Ecuador which we are really excited to work with, they really have a ton
of potential! Friday night and Saturday we were also able to do intercambios
with some other Elders in our zone. I was able to work with Elder Adams in
Murcia and the highlight of my time with him was the Primary activity we were
able to help with on Saturday morning. I kind of went into this activity blind,
not knowing the details, but it was such a neat activity. All of the primary
kids in the Murcia ward had gotten together to do a missionary activity. What
they had planned to do was visit with all of the other primary aged kids that
were inactive and visit with them. It turns out that there was too big of a
turn out so we ended up splitting the kids up between the missionaries, and we
went out street contacting for a good hour. Wow, those kids were such awesome
missionaries! It was so so funny to see them just extend their arm with a pass
along card and just walk head on into somebody and invite them to the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter day saints. One of my new "Companions" Elder
Cortes did such a great job! I wasn´t sure if I should tell him or not that his
white shirt was tucked into his blues clues underwear...;) haha I decided not
to! Haha it was such an awesome activity, and I am pretty sure I learned more
from the kids then they may have learned from us. I am grateful for this past
week and am looking forward to a great one. Have a great week! I love you all!
Elder
Dallin Farrell
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