Hello,

      Okay, so first of all, no Mom I do not have chikengunya and I am not dead!  So what happened was that our visas expired so we got to go down to Santo Domingo for P-Day AND GO TO THE TEMPLE!!!!!!!! It was so amazing!!!!! But writing kind of slipped my mind, sorry about that.   I just didn't plan ahead for it and then it was too late! But it was the first time that I have been to the temple in more than a year!!!!!!!!! It was so amazing! Then we got to sleep at the CCM!!!! It was so fun to be there again and we were a group of twenty. Then the next day after the temple we went to the government building and sat there for 7 hours!!! But it was way fun! I got the see missionaries that I haven't seen in forever and it was just such a fun day! And we went across the street while waiting and went to the beach!!!!!! But I accidentally got hit by a wave....it was soooo not my fault, it was a huge wave!  I got to go back to the government building with half of my clothing wet. =) 
      And today WILL BE AMAZING!!!!!!! So remember when I got special transferred to Moca? Well guess what?????? We had gotten a reference that first week of a husband and a wife and we contacted them and learned that they had just suffered the loss of their son this last Christmas so we shared with them about the plan of salvation and the spirit was so strong that they were both in tears. Well I ended up getting transferred again to La Vega, but I got a phone call on Monday saying that TODAY THEY ARE GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I GET TO GO TO IT!!!!!!!!! The last two I wasn't able to go to that were in Esperanza, but it just worked out that I could go to this one! YAY!!!! AND I JUST KNEW THEY WOULD GET BAPTIZED! They were just prepared from the beginning!!!!!

Love you all!

Hna. Carey

Hi,

    We found this really great new investigator this week! He was a reference of one of our less actives! It's actually really awesome because he has started to help us teach him and he even bore his testimony and brought him to church! YAY! 

     I really love my Dominican companion, she is so darn fun and crazy! She just makes me love the Dominican culture even more! I am really happy and grateful for the opportunity to learn and experience a different culture. It is such a blessing. Also I can see such an advantage in having a Dominican companion because she can instantly understand and connect with our less actives and our investigators because they share the same culture.  There is no switching cultures for the most part.  I now understand why it is so important that people from their own country serve in their own country. They can understand their own people and help them in a way that foreigners can't. It has been really cool to watch and learn from her. And it is funny because she is pretty much my Dominican twin! 

     Also, funny moment, we were walking down a callejon like an alleyway and I hear dogs barking in the opposite direction, so I tense because it sounds like they are running towards us. But it was not dogs! A HORSE comes running from the opposite direction and we just hugged the wall to not get hit.=) haha who would've thought! 

     Also it poured this week, and I really didn't want to get wet that day, so for the first time I got to use my poncho! What made it better was that my companion had one too! We matched! Except it was a hilarious sight because we had to put our bags under too so we had these huge bulges. Haha, we DID NOT GET WET! That is a WIN!

Love you guys!

Hna. Carey