Today was a pretty exciting day! We woke up and went to the Grijalva River for a boat ride through Sumidero Canyon. It was really cool. We saw a lot of different birds and monkeys and at least 10-15 crocodiles on the banks. The canyon is made of limestone, which means it used to be underwater. Limestone is made of crushed and compacted seashells. That's way cool. The canyon is over 3000 meters? High in some places -- that's a lot of water!
After the Sumidero Canyon, we got money for lunches and we went in small groups to buy lunches for the next few days. It was funny because I always like going to the mexican section in the store to see what kind of goodies I can find.. well this entire store was mexican! Haha I wonder if they had an American section..
We went to the Tuxtla Temple and met our host families we would be spending the remainder of the day/early evening with. I went in a group with 3 other girls to a sisters house, Veronica Oleda. She is the Stake Presidents wife. They have 4 kids, 19, 17, 13 and 9. 3 girls, the boy is 17. We didn't get to meet him but the girls are Kris, Dianna and Dulce, respectively. I love the name Dulce! I was thinking the other day how cute that would be but didnt know if it would be weird.
We took a taxi to Sister Oleda's house.. crammed 4 of us in the back seat. They don't care about traffic laws here. it was crazy. Then we talked for a while and had Family Home Evening. Sister Oleda asked each of us to speak and perform a special musical number.. with NO preparation we had to do it lol! And we were also asked to give our testimonies of the gospel. One of the girls with us knew Spanish and the poor girl had to translate everything for us. Sister Oleda also interrogated a couple of us because when you are 21 and female you have the option of going on a mission. Myself and another girl are 21 and she kept asking why we weren't on missions if the gospel was the most important thing in our life. The language barrier was really hard to communicate to her our real feelings about it.
We went to a couple parks with her after taking a COLECTIVO, basically a taxi bus for 20 people. It was a crazy experience. But anyway, we went to Marimba park, there was a gazebo and music being played live and people were dancing. We went to a other park where they were having a huge festival for El Día de los Niños. Its a huge festival that lasts 30 days and the kids don't have school. Its like summer vacation but they had rides and games and face painting and food and stuff. It was awesome!! I wish we had that!
We went back to the church and had a talent show with the Tuxtla stake. It was really good, I sang a hymn with some others in our group in Spanish, some people did dances or a comedy skit in Spanish. They totally showed us up though, especially when they told us they had a special surprise for us and they brought in real mariachis. Haha and EVERYONE knew the songs and they were singing them at the top of their lungs. So awkward haha I felt really inferior. I wanted to start singing the star spangled banner or something. They started all dancing and everyone cleared the chairs and had a big dance party. I wasn't up for it so some of us went outside and took pictures of the temple and talked. It was good. we got back to the temole about midnight. I got a sprite and sat by the pool by myself for maybe a minute and then other people followed suit. There was maybe 8 of us just sitting by the pool chatting.. it started to rain, a warm rain, we states. Eventually we went up to our rooms.. I passed out in my clothes and shoes!
After the Sumidero Canyon, we got money for lunches and we went in small groups to buy lunches for the next few days. It was funny because I always like going to the mexican section in the store to see what kind of goodies I can find.. well this entire store was mexican! Haha I wonder if they had an American section..
We went to the Tuxtla Temple and met our host families we would be spending the remainder of the day/early evening with. I went in a group with 3 other girls to a sisters house, Veronica Oleda. She is the Stake Presidents wife. They have 4 kids, 19, 17, 13 and 9. 3 girls, the boy is 17. We didn't get to meet him but the girls are Kris, Dianna and Dulce, respectively. I love the name Dulce! I was thinking the other day how cute that would be but didnt know if it would be weird.
We took a taxi to Sister Oleda's house.. crammed 4 of us in the back seat. They don't care about traffic laws here. it was crazy. Then we talked for a while and had Family Home Evening. Sister Oleda asked each of us to speak and perform a special musical number.. with NO preparation we had to do it lol! And we were also asked to give our testimonies of the gospel. One of the girls with us knew Spanish and the poor girl had to translate everything for us. Sister Oleda also interrogated a couple of us because when you are 21 and female you have the option of going on a mission. Myself and another girl are 21 and she kept asking why we weren't on missions if the gospel was the most important thing in our life. The language barrier was really hard to communicate to her our real feelings about it.
We went to a couple parks with her after taking a COLECTIVO, basically a taxi bus for 20 people. It was a crazy experience. But anyway, we went to Marimba park, there was a gazebo and music being played live and people were dancing. We went to a other park where they were having a huge festival for El Día de los Niños. Its a huge festival that lasts 30 days and the kids don't have school. Its like summer vacation but they had rides and games and face painting and food and stuff. It was awesome!! I wish we had that!
We went back to the church and had a talent show with the Tuxtla stake. It was really good, I sang a hymn with some others in our group in Spanish, some people did dances or a comedy skit in Spanish. They totally showed us up though, especially when they told us they had a special surprise for us and they brought in real mariachis. Haha and EVERYONE knew the songs and they were singing them at the top of their lungs. So awkward haha I felt really inferior. I wanted to start singing the star spangled banner or something. They started all dancing and everyone cleared the chairs and had a big dance party. I wasn't up for it so some of us went outside and took pictures of the temple and talked. It was good. we got back to the temole about midnight. I got a sprite and sat by the pool by myself for maybe a minute and then other people followed suit. There was maybe 8 of us just sitting by the pool chatting.. it started to rain, a warm rain, we states. Eventually we went up to our rooms.. I passed out in my clothes and shoes!
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