Dear family,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM,
FELIS CUMPLEAÑOS!!!!! My comp says happy birthday too. So I had a super
good week. Here is what we did:
Monday I got to try two, really good but weird and different Dominican foods. The first was called Mofongo. We ate it
at our neighbor’s house. It's fried, mashed platanos balls mixed with meat, and
in this case fried pigskin. It was really yummy!! Then we had
a family night at the bishop’s house and for desert we had flan!!!! It’s
soooooo good. Its like Crème Brule mixed with Jell-O and with caramel on top! My
comp and I decided to make it ourselves and Tuesday morning we had flan for
breakfast!!!!
Wednesday we had a temple trip that was
super great. We get to go every six months. On the way to the temple we took a
güagüa, which is a Dominican bus, but we had to take it during morning rush
hour and it was super full. There was an evangelical guy on there who decided
that it was a good time to yell the word of God to everybody, so that was fun,
but I talked him later and he seemed like a good guy. We finally got to the
temple, which was super awesome! We went to Taco Bell afterwards. I was a little
sad that they didn´t have Mountain Dew, but what can you do.
On Thursday we had a lesson with E that
was super awesome! She just needs to go to church.
Friday, I got the gripe.... aka the
cold. It sucks, but the good news was that everybody gave me stuff to help cure
my gripe like orange leaf tea that tasted like fruit loops and ginger tea. The
bad news is they also gave me stuff like Aloe Vera that they made me eat, and
honey mixed with lime juice. Both of those are gross! Also, we went around
collecting machetes from members for a service project that we had the next day.
We got a bunch of weird looks in the streets like, “What are the Mormons doing
with all those swords?”
Saturday we had the service project, in
which we basically cut up a bunch of weeds and trees with machetes. It was
pretty fun because I got to chop a banana tree in half with one slice! But then
one of the elders found some aji peppers which are about a half-inch long, and
they just look evil. So of course I got dared to eat one of the green ones,
which are the super spicy ones. I remember thinking, “What would Brother Turley
want me to do in a situation like this?” So I ate it......my mouth was burning
for two hours while constantly drinking water! But now I can say I did it,
Totally worth it!!!! Then later that day we had a goodbye party for Elder M at
a member’s house. We had Sancocho, which is a super good Dominican soup!!!
Then Sunday after church we had tacos
for lunch at S’s house, which was super good! We ate a lot there and then
after that we hiked to another lady’s house and she made us habichuelas con dulce. It is a bean milkshake thing that is really good! Later, we went to a
different area, an old area of M’s, and visited a family that he baptized and
they fed us a ton of spaghetti. So we just had a ton to eat that day! Then on
the way back, I was walking along the side of the road. Cars here like to see
how close they can get to you. Needless to say, a car clipped my arm with their
mirror. It hurt pretty bad, but it didn’t bruise so that’s cool, plus I think I
broke their mirror #bonus points!
Anyway that was my week!
Love you all,
Elder Stark
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