I went on a hike to a beautiful little waterfall today with some people from the ward. We went deep into the selva (jungle) in the mountains and it was a really nice change in scenery. We had good weather too.
This week, Hermana Perez and I set up English classes! By ourselves! It's a church program called EnglishConnect and it has been successful in other areas, but the ward didn't help us kick start it at all. But everyone in Elder’s Quorum showed up to the actual class. And we even got a nonmember guy to show up! He works at our local Colmado (every street corner in the DR has a little store called a Colmado and they all sell the same thing) and we totally didn't think he'd come, but he did! He wants to be able to speak English with his American girlfriend.
Family, I have more gnarly feet problems. So they started sweating profusely this week? And now they're all pruney all the time and irritated. Some rocks got in my shoes and wreaked havoc and bruised the muscle to the point of excruciation. And every one of my toes has a big bad blister on it and they burn like fire all the time. Ha ha. I just limp around town. It's okay though! Because even though I keep walking and irritating them, the bruises are going away. So that's a huge blessing because the nurse specifically said stay off them. But. like. I have to teach people so I just chugged through and they're healing. Yay.
A mini miracle is we hadn't been able to find Sury for several weeks and H. Perez said "Ok, we'll have to drop Sury if we can't find her today," and then we found her! And we had the best lesson with her, and she actually read the pamphlet we left her and she was excited about what we were teaching. And we had some other good breakthroughs with other investigators. Berta can't read and she has trouble understanding what the deal is with prophets, and we could never find Yira, but then Yira and Berta happened to be at the same house, and we taught them at the same time, and they both really got into the lesson and the Restoration lesson really clicked with them. I think they talked more than we did.
I have been composing a list of how to be Dominican, but I'll finish it for next week.
Love you all lots,
Hermana Ludlam
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| My companion made Dominican food! Fried platanos, salami and eggs |
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| Me on a hike in a tubi |
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| Casitas in the Selva |
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| Look Mom! We cleaned the church like Dominicans and flooded the floor and then swept the water out. |
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| Also the guy is Yoshwal, an investigator, and before I took the photo I said "sonrisa!" (smile) And he pretended not to hear. |
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