Welp hello, 24
Oct 2012
If you want to google map me this is
my address; Juana Saltitopa 14 , Santiago, Domincan Republic. We are on the first level. Just a reminder – this is NOT my mailing
address. For Mail, still use the Miami address on the blog.
Ha! How in the world did you see that my hand was
messed up in that picture with the baby chick!! Yeah, last week when I was
getting into a ruta - it’s like a taxi, my comp slammed my hand in the door and
I couldn’t do anything, I didn’t know what to say and I didn’t think to speak Spanish
so I quietly yelled and he opened the door. hah it’s okay - pain is inevitable
but suffering is optional . Yeah, there goes my fingernail! ha
So IT’S CHRISTMAS here ALREADY haha!
Every Dominican has already put up their
Christmas lights, it’s kind of frustrating me because there are still 2
holidays before Christmas comes ha! But it’s good to see the people here
excited about something. Because it doesn’t happen much, it’s sad to see
everyday how depressed people can be and how there can be so many problems. I
know that things can be so so so much better if people would just set their
minds on doing something different and look for a better life. It is such a
difference to walk into the house of a member of the church than into the house
of somebody that doesn’t have the gospel in their lives. Even if they are the
poorest people, kids respect their parents, the house is clean, somehow there
is always food ha, and really no worries. I didn’t get to see that before I
left to Scottsdale and on the mission. But I’m really glad that I am getting to
see that now!
As I told y’all last week we found a
family. Well a couple of them, but one is awesome. It is the parents and three
little girls, and we got the chance to talk to the parents one day and he
always tells us that he hopes that he can have an experience like Joseph Smith
so he can also know that all the things about the gospel are true. But, they
are reading in the Book of Mormon and we invited them to be baptized this last
week. The Dad said, of course, if God
answers my prayers. Then we asked the mom and she said, I’ll do what he does,
hahah. So in that moment we were
thinking WOW! God really does prepare
his children for the missionaries. Then when we invited them to church, satan
got in the way and we found out that she can’t come because she has school on sunday
! ha
But no worries it’ll all be good
with them. It’s great because we'll get to do a fast for them and pray for them
always!
This week was full of exchanges. I
did exchanges with the two new missionaries that are in the Zone, one that is a
Dominican and the other that is from Utah. On Monday went to a placed called la
Yaguita and it is filled with hills! ah I thought I was going to die walking up
and down them. We passed by a catholic church
and monument and I took a picture of the huge cross with a bunch of kids. The
exchanges were good. It was good because
I got to see how Elder Fabian is progressing in the mission. Then yesterday I
did an exchange with Elder Brumm. He’s a
kid that I look up to; he has had so much happen to him in 3 months in the
mission but he’s so happy. He had a lot of questions that he wanted cleared up
about the mission because he can’t understand his Peruvian companion very much,
so he came to my area and we had a really good time, together, worked hard and
talked missions in general – problems, successes, etc.. I really want to train
again in the mission!
I don’t want to jinx myself, but I
have been so blessed in my time here. I have not had any problems with health, I’ve
met really good people that helped me learn Spanish really fast and I have been
able to get along with almost everyone.
I see my life really differently now
and it’s only thanks to the mission and the Lord. I am so grateful to know why I’m
here and to understand where I could possibly end up. My life has changed, that’s
for sure:)
Sorry I suck at writing letters, it’s
been so long. But no worries I’ll get to it!! Haha
LOVE YALL
ELDER GRINER
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