This will be a short little email, but just know that it´s filled with love.
These
past few days have been really interesting. Peru is a Catholic country,
so everything that I've seen the past few days has been really
traditional. Here, everything in the country shuts down on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
during holy week. People from all over the country came to celebrate
these days in Cieneguilla because it´s a really touristy place. They all
came to go play in the river, get drunk, go to bed late, then do the
same thing the next day. It was really interesting to see. From what I
have noticed (I don´t know for sure since I´m Mormon, not Catholic) the
Catholic church puts a lot of emphasis in the death and suffering of
Jesus Christ. Not just his suffering, as in taking on the pains,
sicknesses, sadness, and sins of all mankind, but his suffering as He
carried the cross and was beaten and mocked. They have a lot of images
of Him like that, all bloody and beaten up. It's something that they
recognize a lot. I just feel blessed to have had the opportunity these
past few days to talk to people about the good news and incredible
blessing is it that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day to give us
the chance to do the same thing someday. He died for us, and it is so
important, but he overcame death, which is so beautiful.
I have to go but I LOVE YOU!!!!
All me love!!Hermana Michelle Scott
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