La Familia Mia,
I just wanted to write ya´ll and tell you about my life down here in La Republica Dominicana. Life is going well.
Here´s the latest update on my life. The Temple in Santo Domingo; perhaps there is no better place on earth. We went on Friday with the Zone of San Geronimo. It was an excellent experience. There´s a definite blessing of hearing nothing but Spanish in the street and house for the past year. The endowment session sounded good to me in Spanish compared with the last time I went. My thoughts in the Temple were these: I felt good; the Lord will give me the strength to have a good year.
We´ve been teaching some excellent investigators. We have 4 investigators that are progressing, and are doing well. Yesterday, we had stake conference in the fancy chapel with air conditioning. They all went and enjoyed it. Their names are Bismaoris, a friend of all the young men. Claribell, a 35 year old woman that is friends with one of the counselors of the stake presidency. Francisco, and Josephina. They all have baptismal dates except for Josephina. But I think that´ll change soon. I also love the other elders I live with. Nothing better than getting back at night and hacer checha (make chitchat).
I got some pants made last week for 550 pesos. I picked them up and they didn´t fit me at all. I took them back and the tailor told me all the things he did to fix the pants. I put them back on and I realize the guy didn´t do a single thing. We were all laughing at the deceiving tailor. Long story short, I sold them to Elder V. for 400 pesos, and lost 4 dollars in the deal.
Best part of the week. Walking around downtown Santo Domingo after the temple and taking the metro in order to get back to los alcs. Good times.
Love,
Elder D.R. Phil
P.S. So the BYU-Utah game is this week? My prediction is that Utah wins 7-3, in what many say was the lamest rivalry game played in years. In 5 years, the rivalry fizzles out completely. And all the Jonny Harline and Austin Collie stories turn into myths lost in time!
P.S.S. The picture is of me at the temple with some of the people from my MTC group. It was good to see them again.
