I Used to Think of a Bleach-Blonde, Babe from Grease When I Heard the Name Sandy.... - Monday, October 29, 2012

Hey family! 

We are well and whole! A little wet, but still happy and healthy!

Hurricane Sandy hit us pretty hard on Tuesday evening. Then the rain and the wind continued til Friday... Ha. But apparently Hurricane Issac was more serious, cuz we were never told to stay in the house, so we just ran from house to house through the rain. It was probably the most rain I have ever seen in my entire life. We would be walking in a slight drizzle, and then within a split second it would be POURING BUCKETS. So we would have to run and hide under awnings to keep from being drenched to the bone. Ha.

Apart from the rain, and/or because of the rain, this week has been one of miracles for sure! We were invited into peoples houses that probably never would've accepted us if we hadn't have looked so cold and wet. Ha. So maybe our miserable state of being was a blessing after all. And we had some really cool lessons and found some really great people this week! Elder Maner is still my hero. Ha. He and I are working super hard, and having a blast! I'm so grateful for him as a companion!

 

My companion and I hiding from the rain 10/24/12


One of the cool lessons we taught was to Josefa, one of our progressing investigators, and because of the rain there was no power, so we taught the whole lesson in the dark... Ha. Then she invited us to stay for dinner, and started cooking by candle light. lol. I was kinda looking forward to telling the story of that one time I ate a candle lit dinner with an investigator, but right as she set the plates on the table, the power came back. Ha.

People we found:

Jonas. He is a 22 year old kid that we met playing basketball last Monday. Then Monday night we ran into him in the street (with our tracting clothes on again) and he was like "oh! You're Mormons!" ha. Then he asked us when we could pass by. So on Wednesday we started teaching him, and it turns out that he grew up with and is still close friends with several of the members of our ward. He is already reading and praying about everything we leave with him, and he's always hungry for more. Ha. He asked us when he could have a Book of Mormon in the second lesson! I am excited to watch him learn and grow!

Angel and Diana. They are the son and daughter-in-law of a member in our ward. Diana has had all the lessons from the missionaries, but up until a heart attack he suffered a few weeks ago, Angel didn't want anything to do with the church. Ha. It is so cool to me how God works! The doctors say it's a miracle that Angel is even alive today. But I know that God has a plan for him, and that he just needed a little nudge to get him back on track. Ha. Now Angel is SO open and willing to listen and learn from the missionaries. He knows he needs God in his life, and he knows that this is what's best for his family! Yet again, I feel so blessed to be one of the missionaries that teaches him, and to be able to watch him progress and change!

Also, yesterday we had a great lesson in Elders Quorum about the Sacrament, and the Atonement. Edgar (the teacher) talked about how we should be bettering ourselves everyday, and making an effort to utilize the power of the Atonement and the Sacrament in our daily/weekly lives. He said we should always have a motto of "Today I am better than Yesterday, and I am Worse than Tomorrow." I thought it was a cool way to look at it. We should always be able to look back and see how far we've come, but we should also be continually looking forward and focus on the things we can change to be more like our Savior Jesus Christ.

I am eternally grateful for the power and effects of the Atonement in my life. I have seen so many changes and so much progression. I am grateful that I always have the Sacrament to start every week off with a clean slate, and to always be able to say "today I am better than I was yesterday, and worse than I will be tomorrow."

I know that Jesus Christ lives. I know without a doubt that He suffered and died for our sins, and that through that same Atonement, we can all be clean. We can stand up and shake off the pain and the guilt, and through Him we can become whole.

I love you all! I hope and pray that you all have a fantastic week!

Love,

Elder Cade Mooney



Cool Car 10/25/12



Cool Views 10/27/12



This Week Has Been Another Good One! - Monday, October 22, 2012

Hey guys!

This week has been another good one!

First exciting tid bit of news…. Our kitchen sink has been fixed!!! We talked to the owner of our apartment a couple weeks ago, and he finally came through! He sent a plumber on Tuesday, and that poor plumber had to take the lid off the cement box out back (the Dominican version of a grease trap), and he removed two HUGE garbage bags full of the most disgusting smelling kitchen sink residue that has ever existed. But now, OUR SINK WORKS!!! I have never been so happy in my whole life! Ha. We can now do dishes in our sink, and not have to worry about nasty water coming back up through the pipes!
 

The aftermath of the plummer... 10/16/12


 

Also on Tuesday, my companion (our district leader) had a leadership meeting with the Zone Leaders and in said meeting they told everyone about a new goal that our president has set for our mission… He wants every companionship to baptize an investigator every week, and to baptize a whole family once a month. Ha… I don’t know about other missions in the world, but here in the DR that is a pretty high mark. But our response, “ Challenge Accepted!” We know it is gonna take time, and it’s not going to be easy, but it is definitely possible! So at the moment we are still working hard on contacting to get our investigator pool to a point in which we can accomplish the goal of a weekly baptism. I am definitely a fan of goals. Ha. I realize that this goal might not be achieved in my time here in Independencia, but that’s not important. The goal has raised the bar, and has given me a new determination to find and baptize EVERY prepared person in our area boundaries!

As for my fun food experiences this week:
On Wednesday afternoon Elder Domine cooked up some fish meatballs that he and Elder Alba received as a gift from their investigator Prenda. Ha. Sounds weird, but they were actually really tasty. Then on Wednesday night my companion and I went to the Guzman’s house and taught Amelia and her mom how to make No Bake Cookies! So fun! And then they sent us home with your standard meal of rice and beans topped with scrambled eggs for dinner. They are the greatest!

On Thursday for lunch the four of us crammed in our tiny kitchen and made Fritos (Fried plantains, kinda taste like french fries), and then Elder Domine whipped out some of the most delicious Dominican “espagueti blanca” that I have ever had. Definitely one of the better missionary made meals I’ve eaten so far. Also, that same afternoon while we were hunting for the plantains we were gonna fry, we came across a truck selling bunches of green banana’s for 20 pesos each! So we bought about 20 bananas for the equivalent of one U.S. dollar. Now we just have to wait a few days for them to mature, and shortly thereafter we will be in a sweet, yellow version of heaven!
Then yesterday, Wilfredo’s (one of our investigators) mom gave us the biggest avocado I have ever seen. But it is also still unripe… So I guess you’ll have to wait until next week to find out how fantastic it tastes. Ha.
I think, just based off the climate and the food here, I live in Paradise. And that’s not even including the Dominican people! This island, especially this area is gonna be a tough one to leave!

Spiritual thought for the week:
On Thursday morning I had an incredible scripture study. Thanks to a suggestion from Elder Domine, which he received from Elder Bednar last time he was in the Caribbean, I have started my own set of “small plates.” Elder Bednar explained it with the story of Nephi, and how he kept the large plates as a record/history of his people, but he also kept a set of small plates to record his spiritual experiences and the inspiration he received from his personal scripture study, and his personal prayers.

Anyway, in this particular entry in my small plates, I learned a lot about the importance of scripture study. I read in Jacob 7:23 and saw how peace and happiness was directly related to the study of the scriptures. Then two verses later in 25 it talks about how the people of Nephi prepared themselves for war by fortifying themselves to be conquerors of their enemies, and I applied it to myself in that every time a study from the scriptures I am building up my spiritual armor to be a conqueror of the devil and his angels.

Then the miracle:
Our afternoon on Thursday was HARD… We had a ridiculous amount of first lessons planned, and they ALL failed us. So we contacted, but we were not well received. We contacted for 3 hours, and only got a few solid appointments planned for the following day. Tos ay the least, I was discouraged. But then 6 o’clock came around and we went to our appointment with Amelia. Amelia is an inactive member that went inactive a few years back of her own accord, but now she is accepting, and wants to come back to church, but she is on house arrest due to a recent surgery her had to remove a tumor in her jaw bone. They ended up having to take out the whole left side of her jaw, and most of the surrounding tissue as well. So now she just has a piece of metal in there, and she cant use that side of her face. Anyway, we took her a Book of Mormon, and we talked with her about scripture study. My discovery from earlier that morning fit perfectly with our lesson and she loved it! We talked about the importance of scripture study, and how much it will bless her life. She committed to read from the Book of Mormon EVERYDAY starting that night, and she was SUPER happy about it! She just hugged the book! Ha. With this whole house arrest thing she has A LOT of down time, and she told us how grateful for us she was, and how much of a difference we have made for her! It was exactly what I needed to hear after the long afternoon of rejection.
 
Then that same night, we visited the Gils, a part family (the dad is a member, but the mom and the girls are not, and neither his mother who lives with them) in our ward. It was an unplanned lesson (we had planned to just stop by and put an appointment with them for another day, but they invited us in to share a message right there on the spot), so we didn’t have anything in particular that we wanted to teach. Well, as missionaries usually do in such situations, I defaulted to my personal study from that morning. It was AMAZING! The spirit took over and we ended up discussing how important not only fortifying ourselves with scripture study is, but also how important it is to be united and fortified as a FAMILY: Brother Gil was SO excited about it! The whole family accepted our challenge to study from the scriptures, even just a few verses, every single day. I felt the spirit confirm my words as I promised them of the blessings they would receive if they would keep their commitment and READ!

I would like to extend that same challenge to all of you. If you aren’t already, make the effort to crack open the scriptures, even for just a few minutes, EVERYDAY. Not only personally, but also as a family. I know that scriptures contain power. I don’t know how to explain it, but I have witnessed it in my life and in the lives of the people I teach. I know without a doubt that if each of you search the scriptures daily, personally and as families, you will be blessed. You will be guided by the spirit in all that you do, you will have a better attitude, and a happier outlook on life, and you family will be closer and more united. The blessings of “The Little Things” are the greatest by far!

I love an miss you all!

Keep on keepin’ on! This Church is true!

Love,

Elder Cade Mooney

Making Piña batidas 10/15/12

What a Week!!! - Monday, October 15, 2012

Hello Familia!!

This week has been SO busy, but somehow it still feels like I just blinked and it was over!


My new companion Elder Maner and I 10/9/12



Tuesday morning we got up and headed to the transfer chapel to pick up our new companions. Elder Alba’s phonics was spot on… My new companion's name is indeed Elder Maner (pronounced May-ner), Jacob Tyler Maner to be more specific. He is 6’3”, 180 lbs, from Heber, Arizona, SUPER chill, and speaks Spanish like a Dominican. Ha. He has 14 months in the mission, and he’s ON FIRE! We have seen SO MANY MIRACLES in this first week together, and we’ve had SO MUCH FUN! And I highly doubt things can go anywhere but up from here!

On Tuesday afternoon when we got home, Elder Maner didn’t even take the time to unpack. He found his scriptures in his suitcase, and then was ready to go! Talk about hitting the ground running! We started the day off with a ridiculous amount of contacts, cuz we ended up on the east side of the area, and we only have a couple progressing investigators over here (cuz we were focusing more on the Barrio of Café).



The car our deaf friend painted



Anyway, while we were contacting we walked up to this guy that was prepping a car to be painted (i.e. he was taping the lights and mirrors, and covering the windows in newspaper), and said “Buenas” ha… He must have seen our feet out of the corner of his eye, cuz he stood up and said in AMERICAN sign language “I’m deaf.” Ha. It was SO unexpected. So we talked a little bit with what sign language I could remember (side note; he finger spells in Spanish. Ha. So the things I was saying I had to translate from Spanish to sign instead of from English to sign… It was SO cool!). We found out that he lives in the apartment complex we were contacting, and that he is a Jehovah’s Witness, because they have a deaf church in our area. We couldn’t really make an appointment with him, because teaching would just be ineffective, but now every time we see him in the street he smiles really big and waves, and usually gives us candy! Lol. Also, he is a legitimate car painter. He finished the car he was prepping that same day, and we got to see the whole process as we walked passed various times throughout the day. Ha. 

On Wednesday we had a day full of first appointments and contacts, and then in the evening we met up with Victor at the church for his baptismal interview. When we walked into the church he greeted us, and he told us that he wanted to move his baptismal date… to JANUARY! I don’t know if you guys remember Victor from back in July, but he had his first baptismal interview with Elder Brezack, but he failed it and had to wait three months for his baptism… We have been teaching him twice a week for the last three months, full speed ahead to have him ready for the 13th of October. So when he said he wanted to postpone it THREE more months, you can only imagine how I felt. Anyway, the bishop was still in an interview, and our district leader hadn’t shown up yet, so we called an audible, grabbed the nearest return missionary, and headed into the nursery room for an emergency, resolve some doubts lesson. Turns out, he was worried about not being able to be at church EVERY Sunday, cuz of his work schedule, and he wanted to wait until work slowed down so he could be 100% devoted. So we shared with him 1 Nephi 3:7 and talked about how if he will pray with real intent, and if it truly is his desire to be at church every Sunday, God will prepare him the way to be there EVERY Sunday. Then we wrapped it up real quick cuz the Bishop was ready to interview him. We still didn’t know how he felt about actually going through with his baptism, but I said a quick prayer that the bishop would know how to help him, and he did just that! Victor came out of his interview and said that he knew he needed to have faith and that he just needed to take that step and be baptized! So Elder Ramos did a quick interview, which he passed with flying colors, and then we planned a baptism!

Then on Thursday night, the Zone Leaders called us and told us that we needed to be at the temple at 8:30 Friday morning for our Zone Temple trip. Yeah, we were pretty stoked! A little surprised, but SO excited! So Friday morning we got up, got ready, and took a public car to the WAS, then walked up through campus to the temple! It was INCREDIBLE! I had NO idea how much I was missing the temple! I can't even explain the amount of energy and the sense of renovation and rejuvenation I felt from that session! I LOVE THE TEMPLE! I hope each and every one of you are grateful for and taking advantage of the ease of your temple access! Keep going every week! It is literally the most holy place on the entire earth! It is the House of our Heavenly Father, and you have the chance to visit anytime you want! GO!



Our zone at the temple! 10/12/12



Our beautiful temple!

 

Elder Chlarson, a missionary that I can never remember his name, and I



Elder Zorn, My Companion, Elder Reidhead, and I 10/12/12



My comp and I  10/12/12



Elder Chlarson chillin on a bench 10/12/12



The crew at McDonald's afterwards 10/12/12



After the temple trip, a group of us from La Zona Independencia went to McDonald's. Ha. It was SO good! It’s strange, but American fast food here is a delicacy. Ha. And I swear they do something different to the food here, because it was SO good!



Elder Zorn and I at Micky-D's





















After we came home from our temple trip we went back out to work. The first place we stopped at was Joel’s house. We had had an appointment with him in the morning, but because of the surprise temple trip, we had to fail him. I was worried about it in the morning cuz he said that he wouldn’t be there in the afternoon… But thanks to the tender mercies of the Lord, he was at home when we passed by. We went in, sat down, and proceeded to have the best lesson that either I or Elder Maner have ever had. Joel opened up to us and expressed his situation. He is a recently divorced, single father, raising 3 kids. He is working as a police officer, but doesn’t make nearly enough money to provide for his family. He is an alcoholic and he is addicted to cigarettes. He went on to express to us that he invited us back because he knows he needs God in his life right now. He NEVER thought about God when he and his wife were together, because everything was good. But now that he’s hit rock bottom, he has turned to the Lord and is completely ready to turn his life around. He is SO humble and teachable, and is willing to do anything and everything we ask him to, cuz he knows it will bless his life. I can't even tell you how I felt after that lesson! It was INCREDIBLE! The Spirit was SO strong! And I don’t think I have ever heard the kind of sincerity that he expressed when he said the final kneeling prayer to finish our lesson. I know that the Lord has been preparing Joel to receive the Gospel, and I know that the Gospel will truly be the thing that helps him rise above all that he is experiencing right now! I feel so blessed, and am SO excited to watch him progress! Missionary work is the greatest!!!


Victor's baptism 10/13/12



Then on Saturday we had Victor’s baptism! It was awesome! We had some great talks from a couple members, and a special musical number by the missionaries (we sang Joseph Smith’s First Prayer to the tune of Come Thou Fount. It was SO cool!), and then Raul Sandoval did the baptizing! And to top it all off Victor got up in testimony meeting yesterday and bore an amazing testimony! He will definitely be an incredible leader and testimony builder for all the saints wherever he is!



Anyway. I feel like I could tell you all a GAZILLION things more, but I have again ran out of time… I apologize. I hope this email finds you all well and happy! I know without a doubt that this is the one and only true Church of Jesus Christ, and that if we live according to the will of our Father in Heaven, we will be happy, and will be able to live with our families for time and all eternity!

I love you all! Keep the faith!

Love,

Elder Mooney 

Our "P-Day's Eve" party  10/14/12

 

My comp. Chillin' like a villian.

Dominican Sunrise 10/13/12

Me and a hobo house 10/13/12



Fishermen 10/13/12

Fisher of Men 10/13/12

More pretty pictures 10/13/12

Cool 10/13/12

 A funny bumper sticker. lol. 10/10/12



P.S. My companion and I have started a "P-Day's Eve" (as in the night before P-Day) tradition. We eat dinner and drink banana batidas on the roof of our house! Ha! SO tight! I can't wait to see what this transfer has to bring!




I'm 6 Months old!!!!! - Monday, October 8, 2012

Wow! What a week! So much has happened, I don’t even know where to start!

On Tuesday, we got up, got ready, and went to the La Paz chapel for Interviews with President Rodriguez! We had a great meeting with the Hermana while Pres got started interviewing people. Ha. We finished up with our meeting and our weight/blood pressure taking at around 1 pm. I will have you know that I have lost 15 more pounds since our last weigh in 3 months ago… After the seminar we got some lunch, and then went on a short intercambio with Elder Ramos and Elder Rodriguez cuz it would’ve cost 100 pesos to go back to our area, and it would’ve been lame to sit in the chapel and do nothing for 4 hours while we waited for our turn to be interviewed. At about 7 P.M. we were finally interviewed, and then got out of there at around 8! It was a long day! But I was grateful for the interview! It’s good to feel safe and be able to speak freely about anything and everything! Our President sure is a good guy!



Our final district meeting. 10/3/12
Back row: Elder Laifson, Me, Elder Rodriguez
Front Row: Elder Alba, Elder Carter, Elder Ramos

Wednesday was fairly normal. But as we all know, Fairly Normal in the mission field = Full of Miracles!   We taught Kenia and Ruca, and we asked Kenia about her reading and asked her to share something she’d learned. Well she told us she read from Alma 7, “like we told her to,” but I honestly can’t remember leaving that with her for homework… Ha. Anyway, we ended up having an incredible discussion about the Atonement, and she cried. It was AMAZING! I am so grateful for the Spirit and his ever guiding light!

Thursday I turned 6 months old in the mission, and my companion turned 21 years old in real life. Ha. It was a happy coincidence. We celebrated.

In the morning we had a Zone Conference, and all the missionaries went to lunch afterward, but my companion wasn’t feeling like eating Pica Pollo for the 92828743523762398th time, and the Hermanas in our Zone refused to eat there, so Elder Ramos, Elder Rodriguez, the Hermanas, My Companion, and I all went to Pizza House and ate birthday pizza. Ha.




I made my companion Pan"Cakes" for breakfast (thank you Elder Cabrera!) 10/4/12



Our Birthday lunch. Hermana Sweeney and I 10/4/12



Hermana Rodriguez and My Companion.

While were eating pizza Hermana Sweeney saw a cockroach, and said “why did God make those things???” I told her it was because somebody had to clean up all the garbage and leftover food that humans make, and it might as well be the Cockroaches. Ha. Well as weird as it sounds, that short conversation about the world’s most disgusting insect got me thinking about some pretty deep stuff. Lol. I asked myself what cockroaches think about humans… I mean really. If you think about it, we are the reason they are so nasty, not to mention the fact that we are constantly killing their brothers and sisters and friends. Lol. Weird, but I felt a sliver of charity towards those little bugs…  Well, that little perspective change made me think about how I need to look through other people’s eyes ALL the time. If I have an argument with my companion, all I have to do is take a step back and look at his perspective, and suddenly the argument isn’t an argument anymore. If I am frustrated with an investigator that just isn’t progressing, I just have to step into their shoes, and magically I understand what they are feeling, and I can better see their needs, and how I can help them. So my challenge this week is for everyone to check their perspective! Whether it be an “out of date parent” that just doesn’t “get” how the world works these days, or a stubborn teenager that wants to go to the sketchy party at the boyfriend’s house, or a mission companion that wants to work your area in a way that really just doesn’t make sense to you… Look through their eyes; try to see them as Christ does. Miracles will happen. I promise!

After lunch, we came home and still had some time to burn before our first appointment, so I called the Colmado and had them bring me some flour and some sugar, and I made BROWNIES!!! Ha. Our oven is ghetto, and has to be lit with a lighter, and it only has options one through five on the “how much gas it will emit” scale. I chose number three, and then checked it with the “poke the knife in, and if it comes out clean...” trick at 30 minutes. Ha. Apparently number three is pretty hot, cuz the brownies were a bit over done, but not to worry, we enjoyed them anyway!

Brownies

Then we had some great lessons to make a good day an even better day! Plus, in our last lesson of the day with Josefa and Kimberly, Josefa (the mom) surprised us with Mangú (a mashed potato like substance made from green (as in not ripe yet) plantains) and scrambled eggs for Elder Alba’s Birthday dinner! Ha. It was SO good!

Elder Alba with Joséfa and Kimberly and his Mangú 10/4/12

 

Me with Joséfa and Kimberly and my Mangú



Mangú

 

The Burning of the tie 10/4/12



Then we came home, and ate some more brownies while I participated in the burning of a tie ceremony to celebrate my 6 month mark. Ha. We didn’t have access to gasoline, but we happened to have a bottle of rubbing alcohol in the bathroom, so when the tie wouldn’t light up on it’s own… We improvised!! Ha. So much fire! So much fun!



 

 

Elder Suaste and I on our Intercambio 10/5/12

Friday was another good one! We had intercambios with the CCM again, so Elder Suaste and I were reunited for one last time before his birth into the mission field! I took him up to Café again, and we had some incredible lessons! I would bet my bottom dollar that that kid is gonna be an assistant someday. Ha. I learned a TON from him in the two (last Friday and this one) short days we spent together!

Elder Carter thinks he's funny 10/5/12

Also, while we were at Oliva’s she was cooking dinner and introduced us to “dumplings.” Ha. They are boiled balls of dough. Kinda like pasta, but more dense. Ha. They were surprisingly delicious.

After we sent the CCM kids back to finish out their sentence, Elder Alba and I headed to teach AnaMaria (my first baptism, if you don’t remember). After our lesson, AnaMercedes (AnaMaria’s twin) brought out some refreshments. Ha. It was saltine crackers with Sweetened condensed milk. Sounds sorta weird, but I highly suggest that you all try it! It was SO good!  

Axel's Baptism 10//6 12

 Saturday and Sunday Rocked! On Saturday night between the 2nd and 3rd sessions we had Axel’s baptism! He asked me to do it… Which of course I was happy to do, but I dunno if he was so happy about it after it was over… Ha. I had to baptize him 5 times…. SO funny, and SO sad at the same time! The water was FREEZING, so he really just didn’t wanna go under. So every time I tried to dunk him, one of his appendages would come up. Ha. Finally I just said the prayer, and then bent down and laid his back on the floor. Lol. Poor kid. But hey, at least we can be sure that he’s COMPLETELY clean! Ha. 

Also, as I’m sure you’re all aware, it was General Conference Weekend! We had at least one investigator attend all 5 sessions so we got to go to 4 of the 5! Sadly, we watched conference live, and because our time is 2 hours ahead of SLC time, Priesthood session ended an hour after missionary curfew… So we didn’t go. But the other 4 sessions were AWESOME!!! This church is true! I know it just from hearing our prophets’ voices!! Conference was exactly what I needed! I love how perfectly those talks apply to ME!

I almost peed my pants when I heard President Monson say that the ages to leave on missions have changed! Ha. I had to turn to my companion and have him tell me again to make sure I didn’t misunderstand!!! That is SO awesome! I hope and pray that each and every one of you that can now serve a full time mission will waste NO time! Get those papers in!!!

As for my conference report… yes Nana and Granddad, even though I moaned and groaned about the family get together every 6 months, it really has become a part of me that I will probably never let go! My favorite talk was Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk on Sunday morning. He talked about the disciples, and how they went back to their fishing after the Savior died… I love how he recounts the stories of the Bible, it seems so REAL! I vote we all pay him a bunch of money to narrate the whole thing! Ha. Anyway, his talk hit me pretty hard, cuz even though I still have three-fourths to go, my mission is pretty short… I only wear this plaque for 2 years…. But really, my calling as a disciple of Christ will never end! I will love Him and serve Him till the bitter end! I will NEVER go back to those nets! 

Then… Last night at like 10:20 we got Transfer Calls! And it’s good news!!! Neither of us are moving, but we are both getting new companions and they are splitting our HUGE area into two much smaller areas! My new companion’s name is Elder Maner (the spelling is based on my Dominican companion’s Phonetic skills… So I will include the correct spelling of his name in my email next week), he is American, and he has been in the mission for 13 months. Ha. At this point that’s all I know. Our new area is the east side of Independencia. The side that doesn’t include Café….. :( I’m sad about it. But I will still be in the same ward, and I will DEFINITELY be present for the baptisms of Oliva, Mulk and Prenda! I am excited to keep working here in Independencia, and I am sure that Elder Maner and I will continue to see all kinds of amazing miracles!

Anyway, My time is far spent.

I love you all! Keep the faith, and NEVER return to your nets!

Love,

Elder Cade Mooney

Cool houses 10/5/12

Doninican style laundry

Some Yuca (it's a root, kinda like potatoes, but SO not) and chicken I made. Ha.
I'm basically Dominican! 10/7/12