First off, feast your eyes on this sunset as we were driving to Albuquerque the other day!
(there has already been one movie quote, Merinda and Holly, you're not allowed to say where it's from, but you can bravely say it in the accent that it is originally in. XD ;)
This week has been awesome! We had Zone Conference last Thursday and it was a great spiritual feast, as always. They only had two zones there, so it was a solid 30 missionaries, but that just meant that that there was more opportunity for participation. After the conference, Elder Jackman and I just went to town (if, you know, there were any towns here ;) with the work- we showed our personality with people more, (pretty sure it shocked some of the people) but we still were focused on our purpose- so we strengthened our fellow brothers and sisters with the gospel of Jesus Christ and a feast of the Spirit! Twas fun!!
Now, I'm pretty sure you've noticed by now that something happened this week that was pretty feastly. As missionaries, we call it a feast day. A little background first: in this area we cover To'hajiilee (part of Navajo nation) Laguna, and Acoma, all part of the reservation, but different, of course. To'hajiilee is super spread out so we named the different areas/cluster of houses, which are: East Housing, Lower West, Upper West, The Shire, Middle Earth and Timbuktu (Judge us all you want, I didn't even help name them- except for Middle Earth ;). In Laguna and Acoma, they are split up by villages, so Laguna has: Paraje, Paguate, Old Laguna, New Laguna, Casa Blanca, Encinal, Mesita, and San Fidel. Acoma has: Acomita, Sky City, New York (that's original ;) and a lot of others that I don't know, but we're technically not allowed to go on Acoma because of some bum missionaries like six years ago. Each of these villages has religious activities (for the Native religion) that they either close down the village for it, or open the village to tourists. Multiple times have some villages been closed, so we couldn't go in.
Except for yesterday.
What happens at these feast days, I can describe to you Idahoans really easily- it's Spud Day, with Native dances but no spud tug or parade. Well, how do you get free food? That's why we call it feast day. Because everybody prepares a HUGE amount of food (around as much as Thanksgiving) and they have their dinner table ready, but they leave their doors open. What makes it a feast? Here's a few simple steps:
1) Walk up to a random house
2) Let yourself in through the open door
3) Sit down at dinner table
4) Start eating whatever is on the table
5) When you're done, you may leave the house
6) REPEAT
(If you walk into a house, but don't eat [or eat very much], they get offended)
You can walk right in to anybody's house, and they'll have food for you, waiting to be feasted upon. It's missionary heaven for this area, not because the members don't feed us very much, but because we're not allowed to knock doors in Laguna or Acoma. It's pretty similar to dinner and a movie, but for us it's diabeetus and new investigators (hopefully). Yesterday's feast was in the villages of New and Old Laguna. So we got to walk around and talk to people who started talking to us first. You may think that we're bums, but it's not gonna help people like you if you're preaching one religion at another religion's activity, sooo... we were just trying to be seen, spark some interest, and eat so much that we skipped dinner... but it was a lot of fun!!
Anyways, remember about General Conference coming up soon... Next week! Check out the new First Vision video if you haven't yet at
history.lds.org, and the new Easter video comes out the day before conference starts!
God loves you, so don't ever forget that you are His child!
Te whanaunga mo ake tonu!
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