In honor
of my favorite holiday my companion and I have been trying to be more
patriotic by wearing more of the good old red, white, and blue, and
singing none other than that good ol´ country music...Well at least the
songs we can remember haha. We also made a goal as a zone and since we
made it we will also be celebrating Saturday on the beach getting our
grill on too. So I´ll be celebrating with ya´ll! Just make sure to send
video´s of the fireworks!
Well
today is the official day that our President has been released and we
now have a new mission President, President Castillo. I don´t really
know too much about him other than he is from the DR in Santo Domingo.
I´m a little nervous about this whole new thing, but I know he´s
inspired to be our President, I just hope the adjustment is smooth and
easy.
Good news!! We
will be having a baptism July 11, next week! I´m sooo excited. We will
for sure be having at least one person baptized this date, but we are
hoping that there will be 3 others as well that will be ready by next
week. The one that will for sure be getting baptized is Elias. He is
SUPER AMAZING! He´s been coming to church every day, joined the choir
with us for ward conference, and answers questions in class. He´s so
amazing that one time we went with him to the young single adult class
and when they were asking questions no one wanted to answer and if they
did it was just really non nonchalant and quiet responses (you know those
single adults full of excitement....not!!). Elias then blurts out, whats
wrong with you guys? Have confidence in what your saying because its
true! haha I just was jumping up and down saying that's my investigator,
no big deal he just has a HUGE testimony. Another thing I love about him
is that after lessons he tells us Ïll see YOU ALL at church on Sunday.
We don´t have to poke and prod him haha and he makes that statement that
ÿeah I´ll be there. LOVE IT LOVE IT.
In,
closing I know you´ve all been worried (more like getting kicks and
giggles out of my dog stories), but to put your mind at ease my
companion and I pray every day before we leave the house that we will be
safe from the crazies, cars, motos, and dogs. And since then I haven´t
had any rabid crazy dogs try biting me yet. Although we still have dogs
chasing us....we´ve been blessed to out run them haha.
Love ya´ll happy 4th,
Hermana Van Woerkom
There are things that I´ve learned in the mission. This week it´s been
pictures really are worth a thousand words. Now let the story begin:
HABIA UNA VEZ (Once upon a time...)
Hermana
Bradford and I came home from a long good day of proselyting. After
planning, my comp decided to go to the back room and just like that got
the biggest, warmest, fuzziest welcome by this tarantula hanging over
the bathroom door. She was screaming ¨Hermana come look at it, I can´t, I
just can´t, it´s a tarantula¨ That´s all she had to say and I got the
keys, unlocked the door, took the phone and left the apartment, with my
companion still in the house. She eventually came out after taking a
picture with my camera, and showed me the evidence. And yes, just like
they say in the commercials this animal is actual size, not blown up or
anything. Its the Malfolio you see in the movie She´s the Man. Well by
this time it´s 10 at night, I´m exhausted, so I get the courage to ask
the Dominican girls downstairs to do the job for us knowing that
Dominicans really aren´t scared of anything and could get the job done
like any man could. So they agreed to help the helpless Americans, got
their big can of fresh repellent and flip flop and made their way up the
stairs, and when they saw the thing they turned and looked at us and
said that they couldn´t help us and went back downstairs. So here we are
yet again, with an elephant of a problem, LITERALLY! So swallowing my
pride, I called, yes in the depths of humility haha and asked the elders
to come and help us because we had an emergency. Not knowing if it was a
joke or not because I always tease them they asked what the emergency
was. So I told them ïn all seriousness we have a tarantula in the house
and it has to go. Being the amazing men they are, they came running to
our house, to do the deed. They came (with matches, you´ll find out why
in minute), got my camera to video it, and headed up to the battle zone.
In short it took 2 elders and 2 brooms to kill this beastie. Then they
invited us to come back in (of course I couldn´t because it was still
half alive), they stuck it under a paper, used our nail polish remover,
and here comes the matches they brought, and yes they set the thing on
fire....it took it´s last steps and the beast finally died. To answer
your questions, no I could not sleep that night. Thinking that it had
another buddy in the house I made us sleep with the light on all night,
until 3am....and then my companion turned the light off....then I was
really on edge haha. But its all good I´m alive and well.You know we
are American when we bring out the guns (brooms) and shoot first and ask
questions later. I don´t tolerate the trespassing type. But, the next
day we had a nice American 4th celebration haha We had a good AMERICAN fourth here. As good as we could get it. All of us have really been missing America in my zone lately.But
for the 4rth we had a grill off at the church and someone burned a cd
of country music and beach boys. that was the good dose I needed, but to
top it off my comp and I couldn´t find fireworks since its illegal
here. so we got a cake sparkler and went to my member mom in the mission
and set them off.....and we sang the star spangle banner just to get my
good dose in of patriotism haha.Sounds like you guys had a blast though!
The zoo looked fun, I didn´t need to go with ya´ll we had the zoo here
at our apartment haha. But our baptism is this Saturday! We are so
excited and can´t wait! Please pray that everything goes well, because
baptisms are always a hectic day!
LOVE YOU GUYS!
Hermana Van Woerkom #spiderwoman
We don´t need to go to the zoo, this week the zoo has come to us! Here are some critters that we got a close up with!
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