July 24, 2013
Dear Family,
My first week here in Licey has
been less than ideal, and quite comical if you ask me. when I first got
here a week ago I thought that I was in a really nice house but looks
can be deceiving...
my second day here it rained really hard and despite the
fact that I closed my window next to my bed water still got in due to
the gomer pile that did a shoddy job sealing the window. it got my
blanket wet and sleeping that night wasn´t as comfortable.
That same day our water pipes to the house got cut due to
the construction on the street right in front of the house. We´ve not
had water in the house for a week. We have had to travel to other
missionaries houses to shower and wash clothes and have even gone to the
mission home to shower...on saturday
we learned that it´s jsut our side of the street that doesn´t have
water and thanks to good dominican neighbors that know what it´s like
not to have water that live across the street we were able to fill up
every water jug, 5 gallon bucket, and garbage can in the house.
generally speaking here in the D.R. there is at least one day in which
the people don´t have water or at least a few hours in a day and just as
all our water ran out our friendly neighbors took their turn on the
don´t have water shift...we had to walk quarter to half a mile to find
someone with water and fill up all our jugs again. I almost killed
myself trying to carry 2-5 gallon buckets at the same time. the
construction guys say that they´ll start puttin in the water pipes today
or tomorrow
so hopefully we´re seeing th light at the end of the tunnel. I don´t
write all these things to complain rather to help you all share these
hiloariously ridiculous experiences with me.
I had forgotten how much hotter it is here in Santiago...The sun is very hot and I´m more sunburned.....
On Sunday I got a call from Elder De La Cruz and he told me that one of the investigators that we taught together in Conani is getting baptized on Saturday!
He had to have an intgerview with Pres. Douglas because he was involved
in a big gun fight 10 years ago and someone was killed. he had a gun
and he fired a few shots and it all happened so fast that he is unsure
if he killed the guy. there wqas another guy that was convicted for the
murder and that whole thing has been resolved for a long time.
nevertheless he still felt uneasy about it and it´s necessary for anyone
that has killed a person to talk with mission president before being
baptized. The good news is that he didn´t kill anyone and he´s getting
baptized. in the interview the investigator asked Pres. Douglas for a favor: that I
can go to his baptism! President said yes and I called our investigator after
talking to Elder De La Cruz and he asked me to baptize him. it´s a very
humbling thing when asked to baptize someone. It´s very special. In my
mission I´ve only ever personally baptized one person and it was
enmanuel in San Francisco. My comp and I will be making a trip to La
Vega on saturday.
This is a good area. It is huge and we walk a ton but it´s good.
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