this is the view from the a point on the border of parra, that tower in the left is where we live the red and white one, great view though eh_
my new comp, i look weird in this pic don't judge
these are most the guys i hung out with the most, elder scroggins in my district, me elder sweeney my comp, pinkston, lowe old comp, Schaffer in my district. cool group specially elder pinkston, scroggins and sweeney
this is the trio It's been since the beginning elder perez hma ghersi and me
yea we get to call what ever time of the day we want, i think at least if not ill prob call in the morning and i think i'm 3 hours a head of you now so yea.be prepared hah yea wow sounds like a huge ordeal with brielle bit, yea and all huh- - will mean a question mark i cant figure out where the question mark is. oh the have msn on the comp pretty tempting to just get on see whos on. or to get on face book. oh and yes your package got here i guess that means you didn't get my letter that said it got here. it was an amazing package thanks a TON my comp loves the tree especially because he didn't have one last year. I also especially loved all the ornaments those were sweet! like getting 50 mini letters loved it. na you dont have to write more letters my pday in the mtc was thrusday and here its monday so when i left it just barly over lapped to where i had to go a little while with out going on the comp. feels like forever since ive been on .
so my first assignment..... OCOA the missionaries call this place paradise this place is legit! One of the places i wanted to go most out of all the places was in the mountains... I got my wish! they are soooo b-e-a-utiful haha wow ill send you pictures some time. speaking of which did you send the SD card in that package because it was broken into so i dont know if everything was there or not. but yea now that i got my wish i kind of regret it a TINY bit because wow!!! hahah who knew mountains were so hilly haha I know kinda of blantenly obvious but yea. oh and so the branch we are assigned to is in the parra bario and its is the miles away up a completly diffent mountain peak holy moly its a hike! i have a pic of it amazing view like practically unreal! and the tower we leave by is this tiny little thing. oh so when we first got sent out there to where we were to meet our trainer and be told where we are going my trainer was late because he was way out in the campo and yea so they stuck us on this one really nice bus the missionaries dropped us off in bani and then we had to go to ocao and because we had luggage they all were charging ridiculous amounts so eventually we found this one guy that likes missionaries and well you knew you were in the DR buy the time the bus was a full the bus was a quite a bit smaller then the porter huge van and there was 19 people stuffed in there not even kidding. guys hangin out the door and all. so 40 min ride goin like that.
oh and in order to get to the branch that were assigned to go to on sunday you have to wade through two mini rivers the highest its been so far is a little above knee deep. haha wow every day here is like a whole new adventure.
the first day i was here. we had to go to the boca de parra its on the mountain that parra is on and we had to cross the river at night and hike through all kinds of stuff i just remember like holy moly what have i got my self into 19 people in a tiny bus crossin rivers at night, climbing up this huge steep place that we have to climb every day ish there was plenty more to make me go like wow place the crazy drivers but first day was all a blur, now its all kind of like what ever haha we go up to parra every other day now. I love this places its soo crazy but same time super gorgeous and just a plane adventure!
oh so a few people have sent me CDs please tell everyone to NOT send me any more CDs our mission president doesn't allow music here, they´ve had some probs in the past with missionaries and it i guess i really appreciate everyone that has sent but please dont waste there money sending em or buying em becasue theyll just be going to storage for two years. plus i dont own a cd player so i dk why i had so many to begin with ñ´ thats a smilly face hah
oh and so we got this legit investigator that we contacted this first day, she is AMAZING haha super into, unfortunatly she is not the most gifted person when it comes to intelligence, because shes a su`per amazing lady dont get me wrong super nice but when we try and explain stuff and teach it she loves it and all but were not sure how well shes recieving it because when we ask if she understands and ask her to explain it back shes has a hard time but were making progress with her shes SUPER excited to go to church. i cant wait i hope she goes. she lives in this area thats looks like is straight out of other side of heaven or something or like the area beautiful lived in but worse off and more 3rd worldly i think. but shes awesome.
our biggest problem here is actually marriage people here dont really get the point of marriage. plus its expensive so most people just live with each other and not worry about marriage.and motors there and other problem and SUPER loud so its hard to teach or contact because those our everywhere and all the colmados there like little corner stores on every single corner that sell what ever you need, just have there music blasting SOO SUPER loud that its also hard to contact or teach a lesson its a bit annoying. but its cool were finding ways around it.
the culture here is really different we go to contact and the first thing thy do is oh hi come sit down take my chair and they may just give you the chair and go to do something else in there house but they all love company and talking about christ and god everyone here bleives in god but just try and convert you or say oh its ok were christans or evangelic and if you keep going they just insist were christian s thank you bye. but all super nice for the most part. of course there are th random few who will start yellin nonsense at you or yell about the importance of food storage or the end of the world or random ness. haha h yea...
oh and they combine lunch and dinner here just one HUGE meal at lunch time and we usualy jus tget an empanada atnight and call it good though we love our food hahah.
OH that picture of joise hahahahah oh man that made my day!!!! hahahah a ohhh man ... truely the best picture ive ever seen. what else what else..... oh my new companion his name is elder smith... hes alright, im his first ¨kid¨ hes alright.
oh so elder smith may le tme borrow his camera so i can send over some pictures but did my camera come with a usb cable thing- i think it did but i didnt pack that... could you send that over and just pay for that with the money from my account- then i can send you pictures. casue i dont trust sending my sd card in this mail too iffy almost every letter ive had has been torn into. so yea but its always good to hide it in like a yellow box or something to send an sd card.
oh an other diffuculty we´ve had is that a lot dont know how to read... like with megilina thats one of our big problems but weve found someone that can read to here, her daughter acctually we jsut met her a few citas ago and now she once to learn more to ! soo pumped for that. yea i may write more later because i think were here for a while till then LOVE you all a TON haha yup and talk to you later !
so my first assignment..... OCOA the missionaries call this place paradise this place is legit! One of the places i wanted to go most out of all the places was in the mountains... I got my wish! they are soooo b-e-a-utiful haha wow ill send you pictures some time. speaking of which did you send the SD card in that package because it was broken into so i dont know if everything was there or not. but yea now that i got my wish i kind of regret it a TINY bit because wow!!! hahah who knew mountains were so hilly haha I know kinda of blantenly obvious but yea. oh and so the branch we are assigned to is in the parra bario and its is the miles away up a completly diffent mountain peak holy moly its a hike! i have a pic of it amazing view like practically unreal! and the tower we leave by is this tiny little thing. oh so when we first got sent out there to where we were to meet our trainer and be told where we are going my trainer was late because he was way out in the campo and yea so they stuck us on this one really nice bus the missionaries dropped us off in bani and then we had to go to ocao and because we had luggage they all were charging ridiculous amounts so eventually we found this one guy that likes missionaries and well you knew you were in the DR buy the time the bus was a full the bus was a quite a bit smaller then the porter huge van and there was 19 people stuffed in there not even kidding. guys hangin out the door and all. so 40 min ride goin like that.
oh and in order to get to the branch that were assigned to go to on sunday you have to wade through two mini rivers the highest its been so far is a little above knee deep. haha wow every day here is like a whole new adventure.
the first day i was here. we had to go to the boca de parra its on the mountain that parra is on and we had to cross the river at night and hike through all kinds of stuff i just remember like holy moly what have i got my self into 19 people in a tiny bus crossin rivers at night, climbing up this huge steep place that we have to climb every day ish there was plenty more to make me go like wow place the crazy drivers but first day was all a blur, now its all kind of like what ever haha we go up to parra every other day now. I love this places its soo crazy but same time super gorgeous and just a plane adventure!
oh so a few people have sent me CDs please tell everyone to NOT send me any more CDs our mission president doesn't allow music here, they´ve had some probs in the past with missionaries and it i guess i really appreciate everyone that has sent but please dont waste there money sending em or buying em becasue theyll just be going to storage for two years. plus i dont own a cd player so i dk why i had so many to begin with ñ´ thats a smilly face hah
oh and so we got this legit investigator that we contacted this first day, she is AMAZING haha super into, unfortunatly she is not the most gifted person when it comes to intelligence, because shes a su`per amazing lady dont get me wrong super nice but when we try and explain stuff and teach it she loves it and all but were not sure how well shes recieving it because when we ask if she understands and ask her to explain it back shes has a hard time but were making progress with her shes SUPER excited to go to church. i cant wait i hope she goes. she lives in this area thats looks like is straight out of other side of heaven or something or like the area beautiful lived in but worse off and more 3rd worldly i think. but shes awesome.
our biggest problem here is actually marriage people here dont really get the point of marriage. plus its expensive so most people just live with each other and not worry about marriage.and motors there and other problem and SUPER loud so its hard to teach or contact because those our everywhere and all the colmados there like little corner stores on every single corner that sell what ever you need, just have there music blasting SOO SUPER loud that its also hard to contact or teach a lesson its a bit annoying. but its cool were finding ways around it.
the culture here is really different we go to contact and the first thing thy do is oh hi come sit down take my chair and they may just give you the chair and go to do something else in there house but they all love company and talking about christ and god everyone here bleives in god but just try and convert you or say oh its ok were christans or evangelic and if you keep going they just insist were christian s thank you bye. but all super nice for the most part. of course there are th random few who will start yellin nonsense at you or yell about the importance of food storage or the end of the world or random ness. haha h yea...
oh and they combine lunch and dinner here just one HUGE meal at lunch time and we usualy jus tget an empanada atnight and call it good though we love our food hahah.
OH that picture of joise hahahahah oh man that made my day!!!! hahahah a ohhh man ... truely the best picture ive ever seen. what else what else..... oh my new companion his name is elder smith... hes alright, im his first ¨kid¨ hes alright.
oh so elder smith may le tme borrow his camera so i can send over some pictures but did my camera come with a usb cable thing- i think it did but i didnt pack that... could you send that over and just pay for that with the money from my account- then i can send you pictures. casue i dont trust sending my sd card in this mail too iffy almost every letter ive had has been torn into. so yea but its always good to hide it in like a yellow box or something to send an sd card.
oh an other diffuculty we´ve had is that a lot dont know how to read... like with megilina thats one of our big problems but weve found someone that can read to here, her daughter acctually we jsut met her a few citas ago and now she once to learn more to ! soo pumped for that. yea i may write more later because i think were here for a while till then LOVE you all a TON haha yup and talk to you later !
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