Happy Dominican Independence Day
everybody who cares!!
Also yesterday we finally got
Christen to receive the Holy Ghost after not being able to go to church the
last few weeks. So that was great. We also should have 4 baptisms the next
Saturday but anything can happen so cross your fingers. But 3 of them have
passed their baptismal interview so they should be all right. Also last Sunday
we showed up to church and we received 6 new people to teach and they all seem
to be progressing well, so we will see how that goes. 3 of them are a family, a
mother and two daughters, who are what we call dry members. Which means that
they go to church a lot and know everything but just aren't baptized yet. In
their case the reason for that is because the mother lives with a dude who she
is not married to. The family has 2 years meeting with the missionaries already
and know everything, but the husband thought that if he gets married it means
that he then needs to get baptized. But she explained that that isn't the case.
He likes the church and goes every Sunday but doesn't really feel sure about it
yet. But he is now willing to get married, so we'll see. So they lived in
another ward but just moved into ours, and when we visited them we walked in to
this beautiful house where she played hymns that she had on a CD, made us quesadillas
and a smoothie. And her two angel-like children of 11 and 9 were there and were
paying good attention and asked really good questions. But they pretty much
already knew everything we taught them. We felt as if we were in heaven. Anyway
we got to talk to her husband for a sec at church and we will come by this week
to talk more about their wedding and baptism because they have waited long
enough.
Last Monday we invited some of the
missionaries over and we made pancakes with some homemade buttermilk syrup on
top, and we played a lot of dominoes. On Tuesday we had to go to the capital so
my comp could do some legal paperwork so while he did that I got to hang out
with some of my really good mission friends who had to be there as well. One of
them goes home this month so it was nice to catch up before that happened. Also
this week the Mission President’s wife and the office Elders came to our house
to do inspections. And we were out working when they got to our house, so we
walked in and Hermana Santos, the president’s wife welcomed us by saying,
"Welcome to your dirty house." Now disclaimer, the house was actually
pretty clean, what she was referring to was that the house itself sucks. It has
like 20 years in the mission and because we have gone so long without water it
was nearly impossible to mop or anything. But apparently they are starting to
look for a new house for us so that's great.
So from Monday to Wednesday night
this week we were blessed to have had the Evaneglical church rent out the
baseball field about a quarter mile from my house. They were having an event
called "A Los Cielos Abiertos" or To The Open Heavens, in which
they would scream and sing until a little past 10:30 every night. So at first
it was alright when they were yelling and screaming about Jesus, but then they
just ditched the whole Jesus thing and just stared screaming literal nonsense.
And even though they where pretty far way we could still hear them super loud
anyways.
Elder VanBuskirkcito
French flag at the DR Independence party
my area
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