This week was wonderful! We had the baptism of Chikis, who turned 8 on sunday and was SO excited to be baptized he just couldn´t wait until Saturday.
So we woke up before the crack of dawn so that he could be baptized and
confirmed the same day. He was the most precious little child ever. We
went to pick him and his mom up, and he was just standing at the bottom
of the hill in his little white shirt and suit with a HUGE grin on his
face. And then when he entered the water he just could not stop smiling!
HE was the cutest! He reminds me SO Much of Jesse. I am not joking.
Just picture a little Mexican Jesse, and there you have Chikis. (His
real name is José Miguel, just by the way. All the kids in this familiy
have fun nicknames. Poncho is the next on the list to get baptized :))
We also went with Gloria this week to check on her papers so that she can get married on Friday,
buuuttt she is from Chiapas, and apparently she has to go to there to
get her papel de solteria. (something that says she is not already
married). This is silly, because she has been with the same guy for a
long time, she is only 23, and they have triplets... but rules are
rules. The only problem is that the offices won´t open again until wednesday, because today and tomorrow
they are celebrating independence day, mexican style, and so all the
official places are closed. We still have faith that it will all work
out!
Alright Mom, it´s FINE. I´ll tell you the story!
Once
upon a time we went to Palenque for zone conference. Except for we
didn´t actually make it to the zone conference because we got stopped at
the border by the immigration police. When they saw that it was full of
Americanas, they asked for our visas. Pues, President Morales had
forgotten to give me my real visa when I left Villahermosa, and all I
had was a copy of the original. The immigration guy was really nice, and
was going to let it go with a warning, but his boss-lady was like, "NO!
TIENE QUE TENER SUS PAPELES! BAJALA! BAJALA!" So me bajé. But all of
the other missionaries got off with me, because HELLO we are
missionaries and we are all in this together. (*cue dance routine*).
This made the lady even more upset. So she sent me to the prison van
with the other foreigners that didn´t have papers.
Meanwhile,
my companion is freaking out, and all of them are fighting with the
lady to just let me leave.. They´re calling the presidente.. Er´rything.
None of them could come with me because they all had their papers. So
lame. But then Hermana Cabrera, who hadn´t been asked for her papers
because she looks Mexican, spoke up and said, "Pues, I´m from Peru and I
don´t have my papers either.. So I have to go with her." She is a hero
and I have NEVER been more relieved in my whole life than when I saw her
board the van.
We actually had a great day. We
sang hymns to the other inmates, placed a book of mormon and some
pamphlets, got a reference... We also played with all the poor little
kids that are stuck in there. They have got to be so bored. We were only
there for like 8 hours and I thought we were going to die. But in the
end President Morales and his family came, got us out, and took us out
to eat. It is just one of those stories, ya know? Maybe you had to have
been there..
So I was reading in a Liahona the
other day when I came across a quote by elder Uctdorf that I like a
lot. I am not really sure how to make it effective in English.. but I
will give it a shot:
"We do not achieve
humility by thinking less OF ourselves; we achieve humility when we
think less IN ourselves." It made me think of the devotional we watched
by Elder Bednar in the CCM called "The Character of Christ." Christ
spent his entire life looking outward, and that was what made him the
perfect example. We are not made humble by not recognizing our divine
potential and the gifts and talents that God has given us-- we are made
humble as we use and dedicate 100% of these blessings to the benefit of
others. That is what Jesus did; that is what Jesus would do. Changed my
perspective on some things, this quote. Gotta love that Elder Uctdorf.
Pues... I love you I love you I love you!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! YOU DA GREATEST MOM IN THE WHOLE WORLD!
Hermana Moser
Also: Shout out to Mom for the PACKAGE!!!! (I am in LOVE
with the hot tamalles found therein. And I also like the half-ts you
sent better than the ones we got from the missionary mall.. Just
saying). And the dearelders from Mom, Jesse, Amanda, and Hermana Howell.
Ya´ll are the best :)
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