Shared joy, grief bind all cultures
Jerry Johnston
IT'S SUNDAY MORNING. And Brother Ricardo — a high priest group leader in the Spanish-language branch — has hauled out his famous "home teaching" accountability chart. He made it himself. And it's a chart like no other — an amazing technicolor dream chart, with every letter of every name hand-written in a different color.
Ricardo's from Argentina, but more than a few letters are in "rosa mejicana" (Mexican pink), that Pepto-Bismol shade that's now as much a part of LDS culture as the Young Women value colors.
It sounds like a cliche, but Latino cultures do add a bright, vibrant tint to a traditionally stoic and stolid old church. Almost every Hispanic member can sing "De Colores," the Spanish folk tune that tells how God fills the world with a rainbow of hues.
It's how we describe them — colorful.
But it's just part of the story.
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Muchas gracias hermano Jonson, as we say in Spanish, thank you very...
Anonymous | April 20, 2008 at 5:08 a.m.
