This week was the Semana Santa, or "holy week." Here they don´t celebrate Easter as one day, but they celebrate the whole week leading up to it as well. Each day is a different part or the last week that Jesus lived on the earth, with Friday as the day that He was crucified, and Sunday as the day that He was resurrected. And so the week is full of really cool traditions (mostly Catholic) to celebrate, each one with symbols of Jesus.
One of the traditions that they do here is making alfombras, or carpets. They use lots of different types of dyed saw dust to make these really beautiful intricately designed "carpets" on the road. Then, a procession of people bearing a float will come and walk on all of the alfombras as they pass through the city. They were really cool to see, and while we aren´t Catholic, we still really appreciate the things that other churches do to celebrate the life of Christ.
We also got to go play soccer as a zone this morning, and my companion and I are really tired from that. Latinos are really, really good. We found this really cool field in the middle of a bunch of really huge green trees, and played for hours.
This week we accomplished all of our contacting goals and met more people than we ever have before, even though my companion was still getting a little bit better from his sickness. So we celebrated by drinking the last bags of water in the house...which sounds kind of sad. But we were super happy though :).
We are already almost done with this change. And I have a feeling I might be leaving this time. I´ve been here in El Palmar for over 8 weeks already, which is really crazy to me. But we´ll just have to wait and see. And we´re going to be working harder than ever to help all of these people to come to church and find true happiness in their lives. It´s definitely an adventure, and we´ll just have to see what happens.
Love you guys!
-Elder Cloward
My family was doing this challenge to ballance 5 oranges on top of eachother without them falling. So I found a supermarket and bought some. Success!
Also, there are lots of intresting Guatemalan fruits and vegetables that don´t exist anywhere else I´ve seen. Some of them are super tasty.
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