Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Elder Froude 1,
Don´t let the title make you think my week was bad, it´s
actually a funny story! But first, I
must say that my apartment building has been without water for about eight days
now. :( We´ve had to use our drinking water for showers. I’m sure any day now the
water will be back on.
My companion and I are gonna make awesome husbands
because we´ve both been cooking this week! Mom, be proud of me because we made
Adobo and Fried Beef with the fried chicken batter you made me bring this week.
It was yummy! Also, as companionship, we found our first investigator!! Her
name is Sanmi, pronounced Sammy. She´s super nice and seems pretty interested
in the church! So excited! Including her, we have a total of 5 investigators;
two with a baptismal date. The 4 investigators we had before Sanmi are both
couples; Ana y Fran, and Jose y Mercedes. They both need to get married before
they can get baptized. Ana y Fran are close to it; Jose y Mercedes need a bit
of work. Don´t worry, we will find a way!! After they´re all taken care of,
we´ll move on to the next pueblo over. Right now we´re covering three; Pueblo
Bavaro, Veron, and Casita Bonita.
The branch is very small, maybe a little more than 20
people. The branch president is
cool! He is feeding us tonight. :) The members
and investigators are starting to warm up to me, mostly because I´m starting to
talk more and more! My Spanish is good enough to understand conversations and
make a funny comment here and there. (Btw, I bore a simple testimony at church
yesterday.) They also really like that I can sing and play music. Let me tell
you, Dominicans love the movie Shrek and any music that has to do with it,
mainly Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright, which to my luck I know in both piano
and guitar! Every time a member sees a piano, they say ``Froude, ¡toca
Hallelujah de Shrek!`` They´re so funny! It makes me feel at home how nice they
are. They say they´re going to make me Dominican and have since been trying to
teach me songs in Spanish, mostly Enrique Iglesias. Lol!! I love the people
here! :)
Oh btw, I´m also starting to dream in Spanish! Elder Rocha said I´m
talking in Spanish in my sleep now! :P
A quick little bit I just want to say really fast…the motorcycle
taxis here, called motores, are the best thing in the world. It´s just a plain
motorcycle that fit three or four people on. It´s pretty cheap and it´s fast.
Sometimes, you get show off-y drivers and that´s when things get a little
sketchy. Other than that, they´re super fun!!
This Sunday was fast Sunday, so we decided to fast dinner
on Saturday and breakfast Sunday so we could have lunch that day. Well, that
night, a member invited us to pick up some PIZZA for our Sunday lunch. We had
to meet them at a local pizza joint, surrounded by people eating pizza. The
member was eating too. As we grabbed our pizza, the waitress brought out this 2-liter
bottle of Coke to the member. Elder Rocha and I (jokingly) almost cried when we
saw all of this in front of our eyes. The hunger wasn´t a problem for me but thirst
was, and that Coke was super tempting! But we did not break our fast! We
grabbed our pizza and got out as fast as we could. Lol!
I´m doing ok here. The missionary life is starting to
grow on me. The adventure is just beginning and much more will happen in the
coming week…I know it. Before I end this letter, you know how Elder Froude 1
has his signature thing he does in his letters? I found mine! Phrases of the
Week! Funny little snippets from the week I learned or heard. This week, it´s
´´Que Fastidio.´´ It means “How bothersome,”more or less. A member, Maria
Teresa, says it all the time. I said it jokingly once in conversation and everyone
thought it was hilarious because they knew where I got it from!
Well, that´s all I have for this week. I´ll try and send
pictures next week because these computers are ancient and can´t upload them. Thanks,
Mom and Dad :) I miss and love you both and Lauren and Elder Froude 1 too!
Until next week!
-Elder Froude 2
P.S.
Elder Froude 1 was right about the happy things trumping
the bad things. They really do! :D We
will work hard on our investigators; I want them to be blessed with the Gospel
in their lives just as it has blessed mine :)
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