Well, this week
has been full of growing experiences. I´m slowly, but surely trying to
learn the area, the investigators, and less actives. I´m in a branch
again which is interesting, very very different from my first experience
with the branch in Bonao. We definitely walk a lot here! Villa Gonzalez
is 45 minutes away from Santiago, next to a pretty mountain range. Most
of the people we teach, as well as members work on the farms here. This
area is known for their nice, green, TOBACCO haha. So it´s a definite
change from all of my other areas. With all of the rows and rows of
tobacco fields we pass, it wouldn´t suprise me if this little town
didn´t supply all of the DR. But like I said, I love the area here. We
do a lot of walking which is something that I´ve missed compared to my
last teenie tiny area.
I´m
starting to get to know the members and they are very sweet. We
apparently get fed every Sunday, which isn´t the norm in the mission.
And now we just need to get them excited to go out a little more with
us, but this week we have gotten the support of the YW as well as an
RM.
As for the
investigators here I´ve run into a first which is we are teaching many
spouses who one of them wants to be baptized and married while the other
just doesn´t want to be married. BAH! And they have all lived together
for 20 plus years! There are a couple as well that they are together but
one of them is married to another person, and it´s just too expensive
to get a divorce. SO in other words we will be focusing a lot on the
famliy.
I´ve thought a
lot this past couple weeks about my little Primary class that I taught
before I went on the mission. As we were helping them get ready for the
primary program they sang a special musical number that I love so much.
Their theme was on the family and the chorus said, ¨God gave us families
to help us become what he wants us to be, this is how he shared his
love, for the family is of God¨. This has just been a really neat
experience teaching our investigators the importance of the families.
President Christofferson said, Ä family built upon a marriage of a man
and a woman supplies the best setting for God´s plan to thrive. And it´s
true! we all have the same goal here on the earth and that is to live
with our Father in Heaven. What better way to make it back to him by
working in our families, SUPPORTING each other.
Catch you guys later!
LOVE,
Hermana Van Woerkom
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