Elder Brockbank, Elder Barlow, and Elder Cunico
This week has been great!! :) I’ll start with the best part! We got transfer calls and
I received Elder Granados here in Villa Carmen C!! :) I’m super excited.
Elder Granados and I get along great :) Seems like
forever since I have had a companion that has wanted to go out and work hard :)
He is from Utah, Provo I think, but he is Mexican and came to the CCM [MTC] for
only two weeks because he already knows Spanish. He has the same time in the
mission as me. He is helping me a lot with my Spanish because in the street we
always try to speak it :) Just from lesson one with him, our unity was so much
better than me and Elder Ponce's and we have had some great lessons.
Day 2 of being with him we set a baptismal date with
Carolyn! I don't know if I told you the story with her. We were teaching her
sister Estefani for awhile, dropped her, and then came back. But really I think
it has all been for Carolyn. She has progressed a ton. She was overhearing us
teach one day and came out and was basically like, why aren't you guys teaching
me? Anyway we taught lesson 1 and about the Book of Mormon and she started
reading and said she was really touched and started crying and just really
understands! Hopefully this date doesn't fall through. We have got a bunch of
new investigators this week and have been rejected a lot too.... some people are
ridiculous.
As
for other things. We had a great service activity this last Saturday. We spent
almost all day painting a house of some people in Villa Carmen. It was super
fun, although I don't recommend trusting the missionaries to paint your
house...but it actually turned out very well in the end! :) Also our ward got ward missionaries!!! I think we are one
of the only wards in the Dominican republic with ward missionaries I was pretty
excited! We could actually have people to teach our recent converts after they
are baptized!! haha
We decided to try to teach a bunch of Latinos how to play
flag football. Elder Cardoso and I stayed up last night and made flags out of a
bunch of old pants and shirts that were laying around. It went ok but they
really didn't get the concept of when a play stops and that you don't continue
passing the ball forward after the initial throw.... but it was fun! :)
Let’s see…funny story for the week. Elder Cardoso fell
asleep on top of his phone and at 3 in the morning accidently called President
Hernandez! Imagine being a Mission President and getting a call from a
missionary at 3 am. What would you be thinking? Anyway he tried calling back,
but, well, Cardoso was asleep. Then he called back in the morning, but he just
laughed about it so that was good. I got a good laugh out of that.
Elder Barlow
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