so by the time i get to the computor i always seem to forget what happened this week...
dominicans are still loud and crazy but i still love it here. the weather is still hot and humid but i´m adjusting. i always have like 20 mosquito bites on my legs. the mosquitos here are like immune to repellent so thats fun. every missionary i know has had chikinguna so i´m now just hoping that i don´t get a bad case of it. the worst is trying to sleep when the power is out because then our fans dont work but i´m usually tired enough to fall asleep anyway and the power doesn´t go out very often in our apartment thank goodness. the food is great! i ate at pico pollo for the first time this week (thats super dominican, they´re EVERYWHERE. its kind of like kfc but less clean. but i still haven´t gotten sick so that´s a blessing.) the rule on eating with members is tricky because the other president said never but presidente corbitt says we are allowed to if we help prepare the food to make sure they cook with clean water and everything is sanitary. that makes it tricky though because you can´t really tell one member you can eat with them and another that you can´t. but we´ve eaten with the bishops family and one other so far so usually we´re on our own. Hna Flores and Palacios make delicious Guatemalan food a lot which makes me wish i was a better cook to share something with them too!
remeber my story from last week. she came to church with us and i just love her so much. she´s actually from haiti and her kids live there but her spanish is great which is good because some of the haitians only speak creol so we can´t teach them. my french (and sometimes even my english) went out the window when i started learning spanish. anyway she´s awesome and i REALLY hope she agrees to be baptized because this gospel would make her so happy!
so as a ward of references we´re trying to find creative ways for the members to find people who are interested in the gospel. one of our ideas is that we will hold ballet classes at the church for the primary and they bring friends and we share a spiritual thought to start and then later hold a mini performance for the parents to come watch and hopefully allow us to teach them. so guess what! i get to teach ballet! in spanish! we´ve had one class so far and its cute how excited they all are. i hope it goes well.
the spanish...well it´s coming. somedays i´m like woah i just bore my testimony without having to translate everyword in my head and other days i feel like its such a struggle to make a sentence. either way i know i´ve been called here for a reason which also means that i´ve been called to learn spanish for a reason. a section in Predicad Mi Evangelio said something about how we should not just master gospel vocab because the Lord invests a lot in us to learn a new language and it might be because we need it later on in life too. so i´ll keep studying and praying.
OH MI MADRE! ELDER HOLLAND! i´m so jealous. that´s amazing. that will be such an amazing experience. wow. well i want to hear all about that! good luck with your talk. thats intimidating but i know you´ll do great and say exactly what the congregation needs to hear. Dad is so lucky to be able to spend so much time with him. tell me what you learn!
Hna Goff, Flores y Palacios (left to right)
Happy Birthday!
yummy Guatamalan food
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