Dear Ya'll
I can speak Spanish. I can
understand other Latinos. Just not Dominicans very well. When it's a short back
and forth conversion, I'm good. But when they start telling stories? I don't
understand a lot. And I actually really like it, because it's funny when Bienvenido
tells stories and I have no idea what's going on. I just see this old man
frantically waving his arms around, he talks in different voices of the people
in his story, one time he picked up a chair and put it on his head...It was
relevant to the story, but I just think he looks crazy and it's more
entertaining that way.
Do you know the scripture "by their fruits ye shall
know them?"
I remember my dad one time doing a little rant about this.
Just look at the "fruit," look at what good comes from the church.
And if it's good fruit, it's a good church. The other day, Bienvenido said the
same thing. Interestingly enough, Bienvenido sells fruit. So he was talking
about the fruit of the church: humanitarian aid and missionary work and all
these other good jazz.
And then he said what every missionary dreams of hearing
their investigator say: "Yo se que esta iglesia es verdadera."
He also said he was willing to leave his congregation and
get baptized without them if he needed to.
but he really doesn't want to
leave them. He wants them to come with him. We're trying to start teaching more
of them so they'll be prepared to get baptized soon too. He won't commit to
baptismal date until he's finished reading the Book of Mormon. But we don't
know how close he is tho.
In other news:
We're having a wedding!!!
So like, basically nobody in the DR is married Legally. They
just call eachother husband and wife and have their lives and their kids, but
they never got married. One of our investigators that was progressing so well
suddenly hit this wall because her "husband" doesn't want to get
married. We're not even asking him to change anything about his life or have a
wedding, Just sign the paper! But he doesn't want to get married, and she's not
willing to move out. So we're just kinda stuck. Hermana Kennerley says this
happens all of the time. She has never successfully married a couple during her
entire mission.
until now
We began teaching this one young couple Jose and Yeneldy.
They're great. When we taught the lesson on Chastity, he said "so we have
to get married?" and we're like "yeah..." and he said
"We're gonna get married then." and then he looks at his
"wife" and just has a big smile on his face, and she smiles too.
They're just so in love they have no problems getting married. And they
actually want a little wedding, not just sign the paper. Which is great! We can
have the wedding in the chapel. They'll get married on the 9th and baptized on
the 10th ❤❤❤
Hermana Kennerley and I are excited to plan this wedding! But we have no idea
what we're doing. We're going to try to get as much help from the ward as we
can. If you guys have any ideas or advice or suggestions, please share!!
Oh, and after 2 months of
lessons with Jose and Yeneldy, they finally tell us his name isn't even Jose.
It's Argenis. What the heck? How did we not know? They said we're literally the
only people that call him Jose. Well...I'm glad we found out before we made the
invitations.
Please send me pictures!!
All of ya'll! Of anything and everything. What's new and
what not
I'll send some too!
With love and sunshine,
Hermana Pollard ☀
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