Okay first I
want to say HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY MY LITTLE GAVIN MAN! Ï hope you have a
fantastic one! I´m sending him a little letter in the mail. Sorry it´s
coming late! Things are fantastic in Bonao. My companion and I are still
as crazy as ever, and loving every moment here. This week we had a zone
meeting and I didn´t get any of your packages or letters sniff sniff,
but I know it´s coming. I did however get a letter from one of my old
companions at the CCM. We were just talking about the crazy experiences
we´ve had thus far.
I
told her that the two motto´s that I´m sticking to while on my mission
is 1. to expect the unexpected or expect what you don´t want to happen
to happen. Let me give you an example of this. Ahem I told you my
biggest fear at the beginning was losing my luggage on the plane and
getting put into a trio on the mission. And all of that happened day 1.
After that my trainer left me in the middle of my training, leaving me
to an area I didn´t know. And my second motto is President really is
inspired on where he needs us and who we need to be with, so just be
patient and you´ll figure out they why´s soon enough. Sometimes I feel
like I´m not going to make it out of here alive! Just kidding, but I´ve
grown sooo much from this roller coaster ride and it´s definitely been
fun.
Okay a little
about my investigators, so one of the family´s that is progressing was
suppose to go to church with us, but the husbands mom got sick and they
had to drive up to Constanza to help her. Boo! So hopefully they´ll get
to come this week.
We
also had a Noche de Hogar as a ward at a members house. You´re going to
like this Casey. We were in the middle of playing a game that involved
closing our eyes and I didn´t want to play the game after I looked up
and found directly above my head a roach on the wall. All I could think
of is 1. Lindsey yelling ¨La cucaracha¨ and 2. Casey singing that
obnoxious made up song of his ¨everybody in the roach pit all eyes on
us¨to that brittney Spears song. Lets just say that if I felt anything
touch me while my eyes were closed I was going to book it out of that
house.
And lastly, to
answer your questions this is what I´ve been eating down here...They
looovvvee la bandera which is rice, beans, and meat. This is pretty much
their life. They also do empanadas which are the bomb. They do have
those nasty sardines, but I´ve been blessed to dodge those bullets on
multiple occasions, Quipe, they make arroz on leche which is like rice
pudding, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this fruit that I´m for certain they don´t
have in the states called Chinola. So flippin good. They have a yummy
thing called San cocho I don´t know if that´s even spelled right but
it´s like a soup that they like throw in like a whole chicken or meat
with bones and everything that´s pretty good, Habechuela which is like
beans. And that´s pretty much all I can think of for now.
Okay Hope all is well and love you tons! I´ll keep you posted on those packages!
Love
Hermana Van Woerkom
I forgot to mention this month is the month of Carnival. And let me just
tell you that it´s nothing like the movie RIO from Disney. It´s like
some devil worship thing that people do every sunday. This picture is
hilarious BECAUSE we are headed to La Vega for a Conferencia de Zona and
La Vega is the number 2 world wide from what my companion said when it
comes to the Carnival festival. This picture is all the set up for
carnival and off to the left you can´t really see it, but there´s a
fence and that´s where this small white church building is. Literally
they built carnival all around our church building in La Vega. What
apostasy right. And I´ll send you a picture too there´s a picture of
Satan looking down at the church building parking lot that Hermana
Santana and I took a picture with. Funny huh_
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