Monday, September 27th 2010

O-yea. I am super excited that I have a dentist appointment scheduled right after I get back home. lol. And new garments will be great - mine are dingy and raggedy. I don't actually think that I have gotten bigger because my weight is the same as it always has been. I mean there is no actual way that I could become fat walking all around all day in the scorching sun. So I would say that my waist is still the same and my shirt size is still the same. But now to my week.

So the week was pretty normal. Nothing super crazy happened. I am slowly but surely making really good friends with the ward members. So hopefully things will get better reference wise, and they will start helping us find people. Although this whole country still just cracks me up some times. For example. we ate at the stake president's house Sunday for lunch. My companion was talking to the stake president about boring stuff so I went and started talking with his wife and two of his daughters. And we hit it off way good and some how got started on movies and this new movie called Avatar. She was telling me how the main actress is a Dominican and she asked me if I have ever seen her. I said no because I had never seen the movie. And she was like "WHAT! You have never seen the movie?" Then she went down in her voice and said. ¨I have it over there¨ lol, like she wanted to watch it with me right then and there. The stake presidents wife! lol. But I playfully yelled at her. It always cracks me up how Dominicans know that we aren't allowed doing all these things but they still always try to get you to do them. And it's not because they want you to do something bad. It's because they want you to stay in their house longer and talk with them. lol.

We also had two baptisms this weekend. They were the brother and sister of a member, so that was cool. But otherwise the week wasn't too bad. We still aren't doing very good with contacting houses at all. But that's why I am trying to focus on the members giving us references. And that was my week.
Love Ya, Elder Woestman

Monday, September 20th 2010

So this has been definitely an interesting week, but it seems like the time is flying by. I only have 5 weeks left and I'll be home. But, as for my week, I am in Villa Aura, as a Zone Leader and the capital is not treating me very well at all. The people here are mean. We go out and contact people and they don't want to talk at us. It's crazy. I haven't had a door slammed in my face my whole
mission, but now I can't say that anymore. I think it is all because I am in a really rich area. So the people most of the times are just maids that we contact. It's lame. So we only taught 2 people of all the people we made appointments with this week that were new. crazy crazy crazy. But hey things are going well. Sorry this is short - mom, you sent some really long emails. Talk to you
later.
-Elder Woestman

Monday, September 13th 2010

So this week was not very interesting but still had lots of results mission work wise. We have been teaching this young couple this week that has one kid that is like 1 and a half years old. And it's kind of weird because the dad is younger than me. lol. Man I'm old. But they are way sweet. The wife is the daughter of a pastor, but her dad left her and her mom a long time ago. She is way smart and it is way fun to talk with her because she asks great questions. But sadly I am leaving my area tomorrow. I am being transferred Las Caobas, Via Aura. as a Zone Leader. So that's where I will end my mission. This is officially my last transfer in the mission. So yesterday I said bye to everyone I know and all my baptisms. Tonight I am going to have a family home evening night with my branch president's family and the young couple that we have been teaching, and the fiancée of a guy in the ward and his family. So it's going to be a way sweet night. I already made cookies for it. But the week wasn't all that interesting besides me leaving for the capital. Which is good. You can tell Grandma W that it is not my fault that she hasn't gotten any mail because I actually wrote her like 5 weeks ago. The thing is that I don't think the mail is working any more - just normal for the government mail around here. But yea that was my week.
Love Ya, Elder Woestman

Monday, September 6, 2010

There have been some problems with some of the missionaries this week - but my week was way good besides that. I spent the whole week in the capital, from Tuesday to Friday night being trained on a new way of teaching. And it was awesome. They actually taught us what the real purpose of teaching is about and how to teach people by the Spirit. It's kind of hard to explain everything that they taught us but it was all about learning how to teach people, not lessons. We now have to pray with everybody kneeling. Which I have only done on special occasions before, mostly just because nobody else ever did it and because the houses here lots of times don't have floors. They're kind of just made of dirt and concrete. But hey. I planned on wearing some holes into the knees of my pants before I came home. Otherwise we are just being a lot more patient with our teaching. Not just moving on with anything until the person we are teaching really understands what he has to obey and do once he gets baptized. But yea that was my week. This coming week every morning I have to teach my zone everything we learned at the training in the capital. That's about it for now.
Love Ya, Elder Woestman