So this week was a pretty dang-good week. It all started on Tuesday when I was able to go on an intercombio with the Zone Leaders (ZL's). I love intercombios with the ZL´s. They are always a huge learning experience, but this time I went out with this Elder named Guzman, who looks Chinese but is in fact Mexican - and he will tell you he is Mexican if he even thinks you have any doubts. lol. But it was awesome because I was forced to speak Spanish and because of how the people treated me. First, right away he told me to speak louder because I was saying things correctly just not with enough confidence, because when people here see a greengo and if you mess up just once, they turn theirs ears off to you. They think, 'this kid doesn´t know Spanish' even if you do. So I was pretty much screaming the whole day. And Guzman spoke to me in Spanish the whole day. So it was weird and awesome because at the end of the day my mind was clicked into Spanish and I could understand what people were saying ten times better than I have during my whole mission. It was awesome!. So intercombios just rock. And - to top it off the ZL´s have hot water. So I was able to take a hot shower, and it was so awesome that I took a hot shower twice. lol. But, yea, now to Wednesday.
So Wednesday I was still feeling the power of Spanish within me from being out with Guzman all the day before. My companion was sick, so I made all the contacts in the morning which was awesome. and then we eat lunch at this member's house named Carlito. Now this guy is one sweet guy and he has the coolest job in the world. All he does is coach and play baseball. And he doesn´t just coach people here. During training season he goes to professional baseball teams in the states and trains professional baseball players. He is a way cool member. and we eat tacos at his house, and I'd have to say they were the best tacos ever. Everything was homemade - even the shell. It was amazing. After that, we made some more contacts and ran into this less active family that was talking to another family and the other family had a Book of Mormon. So what does that mean? Well - it means we found a golden family with friends in the church that are now taking the discussions. And we are reactivating the less active family. That's doublely awesome.
Now Thursday - this was a crazy interesting day because we have been teaching this guy who is making good enough progress but today he told us he had a dream about the spirit prison 11 yrs ago. and then goes off into this thing of how 2 yrs ago a dead guy walked into his room and told him that some guy was going to die and 2 weeks later that guy died. And he said if we didn´t believe him we could ask his cousin because he called his cousin right after the dead guy visited him - and he knew him. lol. So yea, now I don´t know how to take that investigator. Later that night there were some kids playing ball at the church that weren´t members. and they weren´t really kids because they were the same age as us, but we decided to play a quick game of ball with them to build up the rep with the little ones. lol. and we kicked their butts. 22-12!!. And we even gave them ten points at the beginning. Oh-ya!
Friday was sweet because we set a date for a family to get married since nobody in the Dominican is actually married by the law. They are working on the papers for that, so that is super exciting. Saturday was a pretty normal day - nothing special besides the party at the park was exceptionally red because of it being Valentine's Day and all. Then Sunday, so we had 9 investigators go to church. Except Angel didn´t go. But we should have at least one baptism this weekend, so that's good. And the most messed up thing happened to me. Something I would never have thought would happened to me - a bird pooped on my head! It's true! I was in the middle of teaching about life before death to this lady and bird poop came flying out of the sky and landed on my head. I must of been saying something wrong. lol. Oh well - that was my week. It was a pretty good one.
- Elder Woestman
