12 People at Church!

Fam!

I had a good week! This week the guagua for Cacao was up and at 'em and brought 7 people to church! And even though our phone ran out of minutes, and all odds were against us, and we didn't know how we could remind everyone to come to church, we still had a whopping total of 12 people we're teaching at church!! Woo hoo-- that's my record.

The ward members were AWESOME at accommodating everyone! They took everyone to their classes and scavenged the building for enough seats, and gave their Bibles to people who didn't have one, and one guy translated for our two Hatian investigators! I hope the visitors could feel how happy everyone was to have them!

In the picture above ↑, some drunk guy bought us breakfast while we waited for a guagua to take us to Cacao. Originally, he bought Malta Morena (liquid cardboard and stale carbon monoxide) and crackers, but Belito let us switch the Malta for chocolate milk, bless his heart.💓

Me, Alberto (recent convert), and Colombina from Cacao

We also had a great Zone Conference this week. We talked about lots of things. Our mission president is very motivated. He has caught the vision, he says.

Another good thing is that Hermana Lopez and I will be together for another transfer! 6 more weeks. We are going to conquer. 💑

I also gave a talk in church this week. I remembered to write it an hour before church. And I think it went okay.

We taught some Haitian girls who ended up coming to church the same week we found them! They don't really speak Spanish and we don't really speak Creole, and it was super stressful, but also super funny and we are definitely going back with a translator.

We bought $6000 pesos worth of food this week because the money came in and I got to go back to my area in Madre Vieja and --  ha ha --  I met my old freco (flirty person) friend. He remembers my name and I don't remember his. We transported our groceries from the moto taxi to the carrito to our house and struggled very much to carry all of our groceries to the house, but Dominicans came from far and wide to help us. I love how service-y people are here. <3

I love reading Nephi's story because it reminds me of my own conversion story. Born of goodly
parents, asked to leave my riches behind (to live in a 3rd world country), being blessed of the Lord, and being tied up by my siblings (jk). I like how Nephi just goes and DOES things and he doesn't have vergüenza (shame) and he doesn't question or doubt things.


Have a great week!
Hermana Ludlam

 

Mountains from Cambita. Too bad you can't tell how giant they are.

 

Me in the mountains driving through an itty bitty town

People are already getting their Christmas stuff out!

Dominican Moonpie and Conference! Can you see the message in the corner of the laptop screen that says I have bad internet?

Dominican: Do you want an orange? *has four oranges and only one of them is orange, but its not even an actual orange!
Me: What?

 This is Alberto's chick. My comp named him Chicken Nugget. I think being in a pan and the thought of becoming a real chicken nugget was a sensory overload for this chick. He died two days after this pic was taken.

The guagua driver pulled over to pick us up on the side of the road but he felt a little sleepy so we waited for him to take a 5 minute power nap before we got back on the road.