December 12, 2012
On Monday I
got 2 packages from home and 3 letters from Nikelle! Jackpot!!!!! I opened the
packages from home and saw all the goodies that you sent me. Thank you!!!!
Elder Chalas says thanks too. He really likes the yo-yo and all the other
things you sent him. We will definitely build that gingerbread house.
So
yesterday we had multiple zone conference with 2 other zones and Sister Douglas
went nuts making tons of food. It was basically a thanksgiving dinner with
turkey and pork and stuffing and fruit and of course rice. You wouldn´t think
rice would appear at thanksgiving but we are in the D.R. where there are some
people that if they don´t eat any rice during the day for whatever reason have
to cook and eat rice before they go to sleep. It´s a weird mental Dominican
thing that makes me laugh but it is true of some people. Needless to say it was
an amazing meal. After which we had an amazing meeting with a short talk by
President Douglas about Testimonies and then we had an incredible testimony
meeting where nearly everyone, including me and my comp, bore their
testimonies. It was awesome. After the meeting we watch Ben-Hur. I´ve never
seen the whole movie and it looks like I may never see it all the way through
because we had to stop and prepare for the Christmas Program that we had that
some members attended. One elder gave the narration of the Christmas story from
the scriptures and we sang teh Christmas hymns as the program progressed. I
wish I had had my voice recorder to record it because it was so good! The
conference was in La Vega which is quite the drive from Cotui so we stayed the
night with some of the Elders in La Vega. It was a fun night with lots of
talking, laughing, and making banana shakes. yumm......
As we left
to make the long car ride back to good ol Cotui we accidentally left our house
keys in the other elder´s house.....so we got home a few hours ago and didn´t
have the keys to get in the house.....I got pretty car sick on the ride back
and was not super thrilled at the thought of making that trip again.
Fortunately we worked out a plan for the Elders in La Vega to send the keys in
a small package with a taxi driver that was coming to Cotui anyway. So we are currently
waiting for the taxi to arrive so we can get in the house, I can shower because
I am really sweaty and stink and finally have a chance to relax for a minute or
two.
Unfortunately
we´ve not been back to teach Rafi and Rocío because she is in the U.S. and he
has a tricky schedule.....same story with Eliosel, we´ve tried a couple times
to get in contact with him this week but have come out empty handed.He lives
far away and we have to take a car to get to his house so if he´s not there or
we aren´t sure that he´s there then we don´t go because we can´t waste tons of
time traveling. We´ll see what happens. Samuel and Magalis and thier two little
boys: samuel and Isaac came to church on Sunday and the cool thing about
smaller towns out in the country is that nearly everyone knows each other and
as they were there everyone was saying hi and making them feel welcome.
It´s really
hard when members go inactive due to a local leader in the church. It is really
dificult for me to understand and even more difficult for me to understand how
to help them overcome the stumbling block and come unto christ again.....
Life is
good and Christmas is on the way. I plan to run out of ducks before the year
runs out and in doing so put some smiles on some little domnincan faces.
Feliz
Navidad
Elder
Robinson
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