Dear family,
Hope you guys are all doing good back in
the states! I´m excited to hear about Henry’s birthday. So this week has been
absolutely nuts!!! On Tuesday we all had to wake up at 5 in the morning and
take all our stuff downstairs to wait for the guagua, which is a bus that they
shove as many people into as possible. This one was nice though. Then we all
hopped in and headed to the chapel to find out who our trainer would be. I got
an elder named Elder M, who is awesome!!! He’s from Utah, super tall and really
nice. We have a lot in common with books and TV shows. Then we went back to our
house, which is in Santo Domingo and prepped for the day. We went out teaching
and I felt like I was able to contribute some, which was good. I also live with
2 Latinos who act like 7-year olds, so we call them the munchkins!
On Wednesday we started out the day with
a marriage, which was awesome! Now this lady, E, can get baptized. After that we had lunch, and headed out to go
teach. We taught a lady named M, who is super awesome and super prepared. She
is a good friend with the primary president in our ward because they both have
kids with special needs. Anyway, I´m not sure what I said during that lesson
but the primary president started crying because The Spirit was so strong. It
was super awesome and we were able to set a baptismal date with M that lesson.
Next, we taught a part-member family who are great. They are really nice and
one of their daughters has two thumbs on one hand, which I thought was
interesting. Then we went to the chapel to have a meeting with the ward mission
leader. After the meeting, the bishop gave me a blessing, which was super
awesome!! I also tried this drink that’s made out of beans and it was super
yummy! Not much happened on Thursday, just a couple of lessons.
Friday was tough for me, but very
successful! We went out with a kid who is about to leave for his mission in Mexico.
So the whole day it was all Spanish, and I got a headache from trying to
understand. But in the morning we had a zone meeting, which was cool because I
got to meet everybody in the zone and they are all super cool. But anyway, we
were teaching a lady about baptism, and right as I was about to ask her to be
baptized, she starts breastfeeding! So I asked my shoes if they would like to
be baptized!!! Super funny!
Saturday we did a zone service project
painting a building. So naturally, I’m carrying a big bucket of paint and I
sprained my ankle and spilled paint everywhere in the parking lot... it was
embarrassing! But on the bright side, I taught a good lesson on faith later
that day! On Sunday, we had church, which was awesome. I love my ward! We had
like 6 people there who we teaching. It was insane!! Then later, we had a
meeting with all the ZL’s, DL’s and bishoprics and stake presidencies in Santo
Domingo. I was able to go because my comp is the district leader. I didn’t get
much out of it because it was in Spanish, but I got to see Elder C from the
CCM, which was cool. After that, we only had time for one lesson with a new
investigator, but she was super open to the gospel, and we were able so set a
baptism date with her. Then right after we set the date, her daughter shows up
and she was a fresca (pronounced freca-it’s a word for a girl who flirts with
the missionaries) and she kept telling me that I have beautiful eyes. Right before I was about to say the closing
prayer, she asked me if I was looking for a girlfriend. So I said a super fast
prayer and we got out of there!!! Scary!
Today we cleaned the house, went to the
store, and then went to the ward mission leader’s house for a super yummy lunch.
It was saucy rice with chicken in it, but it was really good! And yeah, that
was my week. I hope everything is good at home.
Love,
Elder Stark
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