Holy cow, I have never been so
tired in my life. Life is going really well here in Bonao; it's been a
very fun, stressful and rewarding week. Quite honestly I am super
stressed out about everything,because it doesn't seem like we have
enough time in the day. Haha but honestly it's good this way - I REALLY
feel focused in on the work. We almost don't spend time in our house. We
leave at ten am and get back home just after 9pm,
EXHAUSTED and FULL. People here in bonao are super generous, we always
get super good food. (Have I mentioned yet that I am sick of rice
though?) Haha we eat it EVERYDAY. Beans, rice and pollo. Jamas la voy a
comer la bandera dominicana.
Honestly I don't
know where to start, with the zone, our area my comp haha there is soo
much. I guess I'll start with just the highlights.
We
have two church services every Sunday
and we have to split time every week between two areas. Bonao and Los
Quemados. Los Quemados is seriously a jungle paradise. It's at the feet
of several mountains, a HUGE river and it's super super tranquillo. Our
church service is held at a church owned facility and we have about 25
members there every week. We are trying to get more men to make it into a
self sustaining branch. We had 8 investigators there on Sunday which was awesome. We put a date for two weeks with this super dope guy named Carlos who sacrificed baseball to come to church on Sunday.
We are hoping and praying to get him dunked this transfer. I hope
that some day I will be able to retire in Los Quemados because it is
really paradise. Der hecho today we spent the day up there just hiking
mountains and looking for fruit. We found guanavana, chinola, jacka,
candogo, mamon, and some others. Honestly I don't think that any of
these
fruits have English translations. However it was a super cool pday
activity.
On Monday
we went down to Cotui for a district meeting and I stayed there on a
intercambio to help out a really struggling companionship. As a matter
of fact it was one of my old companions Elder Vizcaino. It was a super
hard intercambio, because their area was is SUPER rough shape and were
not being very obideinte. As his old comp, I was able to help him
realize that things had to change etc. I got back to bonao Tuesday at around 10am
and we got to work. Thankfully we have a pretty good zone with good
missionaries. We have only received one panic call from the sisters who
found cat sized rats eating the food off their kitchen counters, that
wasn't too fun to deal with haha.
Anyways this
week has been awesome. Elder Preston is a really good friend and
missionary. We have really bonded and now we are just trying to stay
afloat. When we aren't dead at night we have bonded and found many
similarities. Most of all I'm grateful for his leadership and teaching
style- he is super focused and super loving. I have become a much better
missionary from him. If I had more time I would share a good spiritual
thought pero ya casi me voy!!!
Les quiero con
todo mi corazon. Se que esta es la obra del senor. Aunque este muy
cansado y quisiera poder dormir un ching mas, se que tenemos que ser
obedientes.
Con amor!!
Elder Blake
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