Mexico-Week 69

Hola!

Halloween here is nothing like Halloween in the U.S.  The kids do dress up here and they go around asking for candy, but they also sing a song and it lasts for a few days, not just one day.  There are 3 days in which you can ask for sweets and they do it all 3 days. It isn’t called Halloween, it is called Dias de los Muertos and each day is set aside to remember a different group of relatives that have died.  The cemetery gets all decked out and they think about their ancestors during this time.

I’m freaking out about going home.  I thought I’d be calmer about going home but I’m super nervous about it.   What if I can’t speak English?  People have told me that coming home is a really hard transition so now I’m nervous.

This is what a pair of shoes looks like after 17 months on a mission.

 

Our investigators are good.  :) Daniel and Ceci are progressing a lot and continue to come to church.

My Grandma went to visit her brothers in Mexico this week.  It sounds like she had a lot of fun.  She even got to see my uncle who is a mission president.  I can’t wait to hear if her NORTEÑAN accent sounds different than what I’ve heard in my mission.

Writing letters at this point feels weird because I’ll be home in 3 weeks.  It is so strange to write that.:) I can’t wait to smother my family and to have my family smother me!  I have a long list of foods I’m going to eat too!  Now I just have to find a place with good Mexican food in Utah and Rexburg.

 Adios!  Hermana Talbot