Feliz Dia Papa!

Happy Father's Day! I was sad to be away from my dad, but I was at least able to celebrate Father's Day with Papa Juan. He invited Laurel and I to go to church with him on Saturday night. It was a Christian Evangelist church (we think) and they were doing a special sermon/celebration for fathers. We sang some hymns and then they had the fathers play some games. They had them play soccer in honor of the World Cup.

Papa Juan playing soccer

After the games, they had a Jewish Rabbi give the sermon. Kinda interesting that a Jew gave the sermon in a Christian church... but I'm sure it was nice. I didn't understand any of it really. He spoke for over an hour, which is apparently longer than what they are used to. They had dinner afterwards, but because everything took longer the dinner was at 10:30. 

On Sunday Laurel and I went to our (LDS) church. Everyone was SO nice. We instantly had a lot of people approach us and talk to us. Most everyone thought we were missionaries and they kept asking us where our badges were. We had a couple of people offer to translate Sunday School and Relief Society for us, so that was really nice. I always find it amazing that our church is the same everywhere in the world. It's incredible that we were even on the same lesson that we would have been on in Utah. I love talking to the members and hearing their testimonies. To have the church be so organized and the people so zealous in their commitment to live the gospel all over the world is really quite amazing. I have always found such righteous examples as I have traveled and it reminds me that I want to be more like them. I need to be better about reaching out to others and giving selfless service. I look forward to being here and getting to know these wonderful people better. 

One of the cute girls that helped us, Camila

The street and gate outside of the church. Yes there are spikes on top of the gate.