January 2,
2013
Dear
Family,
New Year´s
is a big party here. As we were walking around on december 31 we saw many
stacks of wood in the middle of intersections and streets waiting to be burned.
Just about every street had one and if they don´t have one they have a little
stuffed dummy that they burned. for whatever reason they take old random
clothes and stuff them to make them look like a person and then they burn it.
apparently it´s fun...all the kids use soup cans to make little cannons that
they put black powder in and shoot. it looked super dangerous and it´s very
certain that many people have been hurt by these little cannons.
We went to
a less active members house and made fritos (deep fried platanos) and fried
ham. yummm. it doesn´t get any more dominican than that! SOmething kinda cool
that they do is that all the big tv channels here work together to make a big
concert with a lot of famous artists and the concert is free. I think it is in
Santo Domingo. they also broadcast the concert on all the channels and the
concert/party lasted until 9 in the morning on January first. we saw a few
songs at Gisel´s (less active) house and it´s definitely not my cup of tea. A
lot of the music here is just not that good to me...I think I need to here the
songs all the way through and not just in pasing as we walk in the street to
fully judge but a lot of it I think I can say I don´t like...I like Bachata and
Merengue and really want to learn how to dance those dances, it´s all in the
hips and unfortunately I´m the rusty tin man in that category...
Due to all
the parties and other disruptive things a lot of our investigators have either
fallen or slowed way down...we are hoping we´ll be able to get things going
again and find new investigators. the last party is sunday which is dia de los
reyes (king´s day) it´s a celebration about the three kings that came to
bethlehem and everyone just gives away toys to little kids. I should have saved
a few ducks....
As we
expected and hoped Elder Chalas and I are staying together for one more
transfer! yipeee!
It sounds
like everyone back home has had some bad luck with sicknesses or surgeries so I
hope everyone is okay and healing nicely.
Elder
Robinson
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