Alright, so i got permission to write today really fast to say that no, I cannot buy stuff for a 72 hour kit here. There just arent stores that sell stuff like that here. If its a need, than it would indeed be awesome if you guys could send me the stuff.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
28 December 2015 - Villa Hermosa (La Romana)
Activities!
Christmas!
Birthday!
Baptism!
Transfers!
What a week! Well, to start of, we had a great activity the 24th in the capital. That was pretty sweet. Lots of spirit, lots of laughs. Loved it. Christmas was also great with presents and skype and lots of food. We may have had serious bathroom problems the day after because all the food was from the members, but it was good! And free! The morning of the 26th, we passed a guy who was so drunk (this was at about 10 in the morning mind you) that he was just literally lying in the gutter, laughing and talking to himself. But Birthday! woo! We went to Jade teriyaki for lunch and ate food that wasnt rice and beans. Then, most importantly, BAPTISM! Estrella is the grandaughter of Tomasa, our investigator and spends alot of time with her. She actually lives in Higuay, but she wanted me to baptize her here! Also has lots of family in the church and is very active in the activities. She is 12 years old and just awesome. What an experience. I didnt even mess up on the translation! woo! Afterward we all went to Burger King where Elder Breshears bought me food. Yay!
Alright, transfers! So Elder Solis died (went home) and I am getting a new comp named Elder Gerera or something like that. He is from Guatemala, short fat and talks really fast. Its gonna be an interesting transfer. haha. He was with me in Villa Mella, but he was with Elder Castro who was also very short and talked very fast. We called them, The Minions. Were also getting a new ZL, Elder Blaunt. Hes an american and Ive heard lots of stories about him. Anyway, that was the week! Love you all! God is Good, Jehovah is my sheopard and 100 other Dominican favorites, bye!
Christmas!
Birthday!
Baptism!
Transfers!
What a week! Well, to start of, we had a great activity the 24th in the capital. That was pretty sweet. Lots of spirit, lots of laughs. Loved it. Christmas was also great with presents and skype and lots of food. We may have had serious bathroom problems the day after because all the food was from the members, but it was good! And free! The morning of the 26th, we passed a guy who was so drunk (this was at about 10 in the morning mind you) that he was just literally lying in the gutter, laughing and talking to himself. But Birthday! woo! We went to Jade teriyaki for lunch and ate food that wasnt rice and beans. Then, most importantly, BAPTISM! Estrella is the grandaughter of Tomasa, our investigator and spends alot of time with her. She actually lives in Higuay, but she wanted me to baptize her here! Also has lots of family in the church and is very active in the activities. She is 12 years old and just awesome. What an experience. I didnt even mess up on the translation! woo! Afterward we all went to Burger King where Elder Breshears bought me food. Yay!
Alright, transfers! So Elder Solis died (went home) and I am getting a new comp named Elder Gerera or something like that. He is from Guatemala, short fat and talks really fast. Its gonna be an interesting transfer. haha. He was with me in Villa Mella, but he was with Elder Castro who was also very short and talked very fast. We called them, The Minions. Were also getting a new ZL, Elder Blaunt. Hes an american and Ive heard lots of stories about him. Anyway, that was the week! Love you all! God is Good, Jehovah is my sheopard and 100 other Dominican favorites, bye!
Zone activity! We played water balloon toss over the volleyball net and soccer. The losers had to get water dumped all over them. We won.
And the 24th activity! we sang and did missionary skits. (ours were the best.)
(Missing picture for now.)
1st. Just some good friends.
2nd. Reunited and it feels so good! All the guys from my group back together again.
Christmas!
Mom...what is this?
Yay!!!! Best cookies ever.
My gifts!
The district!
The dead speak!
Final Zone pic.
Lunch at Jade Teriyaki for my birthday! and...whats that? Is that Football in the background? Dont worry, we didnt watch it.
BAPTISM!!!
Estrella and I!
Monday, December 21, 2015
21 December 2016 - Villa Hermosa (La Romana)
(Response to Dad's e-mail in which we report we are having lots of snow, and I realize Dad expected me to tell Christian about using Google Hangouts for the Christmas call. We'll sort it out during the call I guess.)
Ha!! Snow. we got highs in the 90s this week. We are cookin! No i didnt get anything from Dave so I have know idea what were trying to do. haha I dont have time for anything today cus we got back really late from Higuay, but I love you! I havent gotten packages or card, but well see thursday when we go to the capitol. Hopefully its there. I know what you mean! THe year FLEW by. Especially here as a missionary. Its also weird because... there are no seasons here so everyday just feels the same. haha. Love you dad! cant wait for Friday. 3! Remember, its my time!
(General e-mail. Also, for those of you living under a rock, "Feliz Navidad" is Spanish for "Happy Christmas", and "Jo jo jo" is Spanish for "Ho ho ho".)
JO JO JO!!! FELIZ NAVIDAD! So I dont have time to write much of a letter or send Pictures, but next week will be much better! We have a special Mission activity in the capitol Christmas Eve with lots of fun stuff, so were all pretty excited. Today, we all went to Higuay for a zone activity. We played futbol and volley ball with water balloons. Twas great. Love you all!
Ha!! Snow. we got highs in the 90s this week. We are cookin! No i didnt get anything from Dave so I have know idea what were trying to do. haha I dont have time for anything today cus we got back really late from Higuay, but I love you! I havent gotten packages or card, but well see thursday when we go to the capitol. Hopefully its there. I know what you mean! THe year FLEW by. Especially here as a missionary. Its also weird because... there are no seasons here so everyday just feels the same. haha. Love you dad! cant wait for Friday. 3! Remember, its my time!
(General e-mail. Also, for those of you living under a rock, "Feliz Navidad" is Spanish for "Happy Christmas", and "Jo jo jo" is Spanish for "Ho ho ho".)
JO JO JO!!! FELIZ NAVIDAD! So I dont have time to write much of a letter or send Pictures, but next week will be much better! We have a special Mission activity in the capitol Christmas Eve with lots of fun stuff, so were all pretty excited. Today, we all went to Higuay for a zone activity. We played futbol and volley ball with water balloons. Twas great. Love you all!
Monday, December 14, 2015
14 December 2015 - Villa Hermosa (La Romana)
(Response to Dad's e-mail. As background, we're going to see Star Wars on Friday, Mom had some oral surgery done, Jessica unfortunately won't be joining us for Christmas, Christmas calls are coming up, and Dad asked for more details about Christian's daily life, especially P-Day)
DAD!!!! Dont even talk to me about Star Wars right now!!! Gah! Its on every cereal box! Just tell me how amazing it is after you see it. So much nerd hype. Anway, thats kind of scary with mom! Eesh! I hope everythings ok with that! As for you questions, Pday is very lame usually. We clean the house and try to think of stuff to do. They just opened a new mall thats pretty close, but theres nothing to do there. Usually we just sleep, play uno with zone leaders, or have zone activities. Those are pretty fun. Cultural events consist of baseball games and....well...thats it, and those arent on monday. We dont have alot of members in our area, but we do spend a fair bit of time with them. Thats always fun. My district is a companionship of sisters and the zone leaders. We meet weekly, have a little time together as a zone, then split into districts to share themes and talk about our investigators. Im almost positive ive explained this to you guys before... oh well. We dont role play much, and honestly I dont think APIC helped much. It was almost nothing like mission life and in english. Yes EVERYONE attends church. If you dont, its because theres something wrong with you or you cant. The majority of the population reminds me of the Pharisees and Saducees. Jesus is everywhere and they always talk about how here is there whole life and love him eternally, then go home from church and drink themselves silly and violate the law of chastity with anyone they can. With their lips, they honor me, but their hearts are far from me. Christmas sounds great, but the news about Jes is a bumber. Ive been praying really hard for her. I realized last week that the way she is living is literally against the nature of happiness, like Alma taught Corianton. (I think its corianton...) She could be so much happier and more content in the gospel. Every day I pray that we may know how we can help her. Ok, call plans! So i do have to stay in all day, but will use the laptop of our bishop who lives right above us. I can call really whenever, but lets plan on about3 oclock my time. Im not sure what time that is there, but tell me if you have anyother plans! It will be on skype. Anyway. Love you dad! Have a great week!
(General e-mail)
Woo! Christmas! Its so close! Thats crazy!! And the people here are definately showing it. Alot less sleep and alot more drinking. Sigh. BUT, this week was good. We recieved some references from our investigators and had some great lessons as always. We also had the pleasure of going to the temple and that was AMAZING also as always. Its still a bit hard in spanish, but i scrape by. Lucrezia was in church on sunday and.....Maria! Her daughter! She is the mom of Yaritza and has been very against going to church. She loves us, but doesnt believe we have the truth blah blah blah. Anyway, she came to church this week and loved it! Now if only we could get her to stay for the whole thing. Berto, the husband of carmen, is having drinking problems, but is trying to leave it. Unfortunately, his adult sons keep dropping by to have a good time with dad. Dern Tigres. We also had to drop more baptismal dates because the silly folks just wont come to church! Grr!! But, love them all, of course.
We also had another encounter with Angela, the crazy Italian lady. She apparently thinks were totally awesome, but gave another hour and half long rant about how the DR is TERRIBLE. The funny thing is that everything she says is true, it just doesnt bother me as much. Plus, im serving the people, so that helps. I told her that my parents had lived in Italy for a while and she got so excited and was asking me about the cities and what id seen. We talked for a long time about Gubbio (however you spell that) and Venice. She is from Bassano del Grappa. Always a pleasure to talk with her. Shes fascinating. So...yeah. That was my week! Love you all and if yall need more specifics about stuff, just tell what i need to be talking about. :P
DAD!!!! Dont even talk to me about Star Wars right now!!! Gah! Its on every cereal box! Just tell me how amazing it is after you see it. So much nerd hype. Anway, thats kind of scary with mom! Eesh! I hope everythings ok with that! As for you questions, Pday is very lame usually. We clean the house and try to think of stuff to do. They just opened a new mall thats pretty close, but theres nothing to do there. Usually we just sleep, play uno with zone leaders, or have zone activities. Those are pretty fun. Cultural events consist of baseball games and....well...thats it, and those arent on monday. We dont have alot of members in our area, but we do spend a fair bit of time with them. Thats always fun. My district is a companionship of sisters and the zone leaders. We meet weekly, have a little time together as a zone, then split into districts to share themes and talk about our investigators. Im almost positive ive explained this to you guys before... oh well. We dont role play much, and honestly I dont think APIC helped much. It was almost nothing like mission life and in english. Yes EVERYONE attends church. If you dont, its because theres something wrong with you or you cant. The majority of the population reminds me of the Pharisees and Saducees. Jesus is everywhere and they always talk about how here is there whole life and love him eternally, then go home from church and drink themselves silly and violate the law of chastity with anyone they can. With their lips, they honor me, but their hearts are far from me. Christmas sounds great, but the news about Jes is a bumber. Ive been praying really hard for her. I realized last week that the way she is living is literally against the nature of happiness, like Alma taught Corianton. (I think its corianton...) She could be so much happier and more content in the gospel. Every day I pray that we may know how we can help her. Ok, call plans! So i do have to stay in all day, but will use the laptop of our bishop who lives right above us. I can call really whenever, but lets plan on about3 oclock my time. Im not sure what time that is there, but tell me if you have anyother plans! It will be on skype. Anyway. Love you dad! Have a great week!
(General e-mail)
Woo! Christmas! Its so close! Thats crazy!! And the people here are definately showing it. Alot less sleep and alot more drinking. Sigh. BUT, this week was good. We recieved some references from our investigators and had some great lessons as always. We also had the pleasure of going to the temple and that was AMAZING also as always. Its still a bit hard in spanish, but i scrape by. Lucrezia was in church on sunday and.....Maria! Her daughter! She is the mom of Yaritza and has been very against going to church. She loves us, but doesnt believe we have the truth blah blah blah. Anyway, she came to church this week and loved it! Now if only we could get her to stay for the whole thing. Berto, the husband of carmen, is having drinking problems, but is trying to leave it. Unfortunately, his adult sons keep dropping by to have a good time with dad. Dern Tigres. We also had to drop more baptismal dates because the silly folks just wont come to church! Grr!! But, love them all, of course.
We also had another encounter with Angela, the crazy Italian lady. She apparently thinks were totally awesome, but gave another hour and half long rant about how the DR is TERRIBLE. The funny thing is that everything she says is true, it just doesnt bother me as much. Plus, im serving the people, so that helps. I told her that my parents had lived in Italy for a while and she got so excited and was asking me about the cities and what id seen. We talked for a long time about Gubbio (however you spell that) and Venice. She is from Bassano del Grappa. Always a pleasure to talk with her. Shes fascinating. So...yeah. That was my week! Love you all and if yall need more specifics about stuff, just tell what i need to be talking about. :P
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Thursday, December 10, 2015
Witnessing the Hand of the Lord in the Dominican Republic
In conjunction with the celebrations surrounding the anniversary of the dedication of the Dominican Republic for the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released this video. It's in Spanish, but I hope you will feel of the powerful Spirit it brings regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2sxGB3PLM
Monday, December 7, 2015
7 December 2015 - Villa Hermosa (La Romana)
(Response to Dad's e-mail. Note, Dad told Christian about the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, London, and California, and advised him always to be in "code yellow", a Front Sight term. Also Christian is receiving a new debit card to replace the one he doesn't have the PIN for. And finally, Dad is getting a new stem-cell treatment for his knees.)
Wow the world is ending. haha Dont worry dad, Im always in code yellow. You have no idea how many times I wish I had my gun on me. Weve been followed a few times and this one time I almost punched a guy right in the face cus he popped out of nowhere in the middle of the night. Thanks for the new card! I know its better to use as a Credit card, but you can only use that in the big grocery stores. All the store here are tiny little things called comalo that are on every street corner. Even the fast food places use cash. Cards are just non existent here. Good luck with your knees!...again! haha Love you dad!
(General e-mail)
Alright friends and family...so...I have 6 months now. Isnt that crazy?! I got a burn a tie! (missionary tradition). I dont have a time to write today so Ill be brief. 2 of our Bap. Dates fell cus we didnt have anyone in the church, our investigators are still awesome though. Tomorrow we are going to the temple!!!! So pumped! We recieved instructions about Christmas too. We have to stay in the house because all the crazy stuff that happens in the street. Love you all! I love the work and the area is great.
Wow the world is ending. haha Dont worry dad, Im always in code yellow. You have no idea how many times I wish I had my gun on me. Weve been followed a few times and this one time I almost punched a guy right in the face cus he popped out of nowhere in the middle of the night. Thanks for the new card! I know its better to use as a Credit card, but you can only use that in the big grocery stores. All the store here are tiny little things called comalo that are on every street corner. Even the fast food places use cash. Cards are just non existent here. Good luck with your knees!...again! haha Love you dad!
(General e-mail)
Alright friends and family...so...I have 6 months now. Isnt that crazy?! I got a burn a tie! (missionary tradition). I dont have a time to write today so Ill be brief. 2 of our Bap. Dates fell cus we didnt have anyone in the church, our investigators are still awesome though. Tomorrow we are going to the temple!!!! So pumped! We recieved instructions about Christmas too. We have to stay in the house because all the crazy stuff that happens in the street. Love you all! I love the work and the area is great.
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