Dear Family,
No mom the address for letters and packages does not change. The mail goes to the mission office and they send it to us from there.
This
week has been interesting: Here in the Dominican Republic it is common
and customary to kiss each other on the cheek in greeting (men don´t
usually do it to other men) Well we taught this 15 year old girl on like
thursday last week and the lesson strange, she told us that she hated
her family and just wanted a baby and a baby is the only thing that will
make her happy, but she doesn´t want a husband, Just a baby. So the red
flags were flying everywhere......Well the lesson wasn´t very
productive but I think the spirit may have been there towards the end.
Well a couple days later we were walking down the street at night in the
dark on our way to another appointment. Well she was walking toward us
and I didn´t recognize it was her until she had grabbed my arms and went
in for a kiss. i jumped back very quickly and was very shocked. It was a
close call, she was a little confused because it´s normal here but
Elder Ferreras explained and we hurried on our way. And mom my
Companion´s name is Ferreras and the area I´m in is Las Antillas.
Another new experience was on sunday Elder Ferreras passed me his
agenda with a note from some girl in the ward and it said, ¨Your new
companion is whiter than a samandra (i think it´s a fish), he´s kinda
cute but so white!¨ So I have had some good frightening experiences here
with women and I´ve been here for one week and 6 hours.......
I am really hoping that Elder Ferreras doesn´t leave or at least he
is here for a little longer because I am freaking out about not knowing
the area and not knowing the members or the investigators and not
knowing spanish........Very stressful.
The members here seem very supportive. they have a teacher for the
gospel principles class that is catered to investigators so the
missionaries don´t have to teach it. They have a pretty big church ball
tournament going on right now and I think the relief society is trying
to put together an activity about the talk by Pres. Benson about filling
the earth with the book of mormon. Apparently it´ll be a big activity.
They are planning on inviting President and Sister Douglas. They are
also having what they are calling ¨mormon idol¨ which will essentially
be american idol within the ward. Auditions are Friday. I don´t think we
can or should participate but maybe we can watch. i think it´s going to
be a little scary though.......Most Dominicans don´t have a talent for
singing.........
We went tot the mission home today so the mission doctor could look
at Elder Ferreras´ knee. I don´t think he could descern anything. We
are going to a different doctor on Monday to probably get some x rays
done. He doesn´t limp as badly and claims that it doesn´t hurt as badly
either so that is good.
I am doing well, I have started using the missionary work out
program book that Nikelle gave me and there are some pretty good work
outs. It has a work out for every day of my mission. I´m 5 months
behind.......but I´m starting now!
The language barrier thing isn´t a lot of fun right now. Before
with Elder Johnson I could ask what happened during a lesson after ward
and he could tell me so I´d be able to understand. Well now I can´t
really do that. I could and sometimes do but I spend 15 minutes with
Elder Ferreras trying to describe it to me so that I can understand and I
eventually give up because I stop caring and get frustrated. My spanish
womps!
I love you all and am glad you are all well. The eagle project
sounds good and so does the trek and family reunion. Thank you Dad, Mom,
Nikelle and all others that have emailed me or written to me.
A slightly frustrated and scared green elder..........
Elder Robinson
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