Arrived Nov 18, 2015
Love you more than….
Our uno party last night for P-day eve! Gracias a Emily for
passing down the family missionary-set of uno cards
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| Marisol birthday cake (the one we made on top of the one they made) and I thought of my mom and her birthday |
This week went like this. Weekly planning and baking a birthday
cake for the return missionera member Marisol at the church, using the ELECTRIC oven!!
We went to a pueblo outside of Dajabon and pretty much walked for two hours taught a lesson then walked for two more. At least the night ended with (moms) birthday cake. Our recent convert came with us to teach a menos activo and also our investigator Yefri. Yefri told us that he knows this is true and he wants to be baptized, it’s just only a matter of time. I’m trying to learn patience and also hope that he feels ready for our goal of the 28th or at least within this transfer. We have had some confusion with some of the members and investigators and inactives, bless their hearts they get upset when we don’t visit them, when they want us to and when they didn’t use their telephones to call us.
The people here have a strong connection with the missionaries. Our 10-yea-old investigator Yamile is amazing. We had a cosecha or harvest with the ward and though it was nice finding inactives. We had been hoping for investigators. Marisol is using her return missionary experience and mexican accent to help us. She came with us to teach lessons and everything fell through. It’s the infamous missionary curse, happens every time you work with members or are on intercambios with the zone leaders. It was hard, but we finally made it to a dinner with our missionary leader. We then went and got brownies but were followed by the other companionship and so we humbly shared our amaaaaazing brownies. Marisol brought Yamile, our 10 year old investigator to church and we brought Yeffri and it was and amazing Sunday. We had a charla foganera that night, which is a fireside and even though it was supposed to have a outcome of possible investigators, it was still a good time. We finally had our zone reunion, they have been decreased, so we hardly ever get our mail and see our zone, but that’s okay. We watched the Joseph Smith restoration video with Hermana Morena for a noche de hogar or family night and I love that video so much.
That is pretty much it, but a really funny
thing happened. The other day we were sharing a lesson and as we go to pray I
get this tiny nose bleed of like four drops and the lady freaks out and is like
“quick lets go to the clinic” also known as the house across the street that is
apparently a clinic. Our house is more of a clinic than that. Anyway, the
people are making me sit there in the house all the while Elder Dickson is just
chuckling and we are trying to avoid all the “HIV test” and “importance of
birth control” posters. The nurse and doctor, I think, in street clothes gave
me a orientation and diagnostic that I would need a blood test and they shoved
paper towels up my nose. It was the smallest bloody nose, but it turned into a
big deal, especially when Elder Dickson is laughing and the nurse says stop making
fun of your comp and our menos activa is fussing over me trying to get
me to tilt my head back. I was supposed to go to the university’s lab today and
get a blood test, but as soon as we left the clinic, I ripped the non-bloody
towels out of my nose and set-up my mind not to go. We spent the next ten
minutes laughing about how happy we are for American doctors and singing
Godbless the USA and then played basketball this morning instead of the blood
test. Keep quiet though so the clinic doesn’t come looking for me.
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| Chachi making frosting with our old blender, then it flicked up and covered the walls! I licked it off the table and blender. YUMMM |
We went to a pueblo outside of Dajabon and pretty much walked for two hours taught a lesson then walked for two more. At least the night ended with (moms) birthday cake. Our recent convert came with us to teach a menos activo and also our investigator Yefri. Yefri told us that he knows this is true and he wants to be baptized, it’s just only a matter of time. I’m trying to learn patience and also hope that he feels ready for our goal of the 28th or at least within this transfer. We have had some confusion with some of the members and investigators and inactives, bless their hearts they get upset when we don’t visit them, when they want us to and when they didn’t use their telephones to call us.
The people here have a strong connection with the missionaries. Our 10-yea-old investigator Yamile is amazing. We had a cosecha or harvest with the ward and though it was nice finding inactives. We had been hoping for investigators. Marisol is using her return missionary experience and mexican accent to help us. She came with us to teach lessons and everything fell through. It’s the infamous missionary curse, happens every time you work with members or are on intercambios with the zone leaders. It was hard, but we finally made it to a dinner with our missionary leader. We then went and got brownies but were followed by the other companionship and so we humbly shared our amaaaaazing brownies. Marisol brought Yamile, our 10 year old investigator to church and we brought Yeffri and it was and amazing Sunday. We had a charla foganera that night, which is a fireside and even though it was supposed to have a outcome of possible investigators, it was still a good time. We finally had our zone reunion, they have been decreased, so we hardly ever get our mail and see our zone, but that’s okay. We watched the Joseph Smith restoration video with Hermana Morena for a noche de hogar or family night and I love that video so much.
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| This made me laugh. It is so true! And I promise i'll do better with letters. I'll respond to every email I get. PROMISE! |
Scripture mastery. Genesis 2:24 Man and wife shall cleave unto
each other. I can’t express how much the D.R. needs strong families and simple
family help with school and growing up. The country has so much potential, but
is stuck in like an awkward teenage stage because they don’t know where they
are going for sure. The eternities are built upon the principle that families
are forever. The stronger a family is the more growth and the greater the
blessings. The gospel is true and families is one of the greatest principles of
forever.
Cuídate! Con amor Elder sHEFFIELD
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Elder Andrew W. Sheffield
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