¡Hola Familia!
I hope your week was awesome, cuz mine sure as heck was!!
I cant believe how lucky I am to be a missionary!! My life is the BOMB!
On Monday, we got a call… We’re kinda like the Ghost Busters. Ha. Mama Juana, as well as Juana and Rosanna wanted blessings, and they wanted us to help them dedicate their houses. :) Oh man. The priesthood is SO great! I know that God loves each one of us more than we can imagine cuz I get to feel a sliver of that love every time I give someone a blessing! It blows my mind! There really aren’t words to describe the feelings of love and peace that the Spirit brings!
Also, cool testimony builder that my comp shared with me on our walk home: While I was voicing the blessing of Mama Juana, my companion cleared his mind and said a few sentences of the blessing, word for word, in his head just split seconds before they came out of my mouth! Priesthood blessings really do come from God! They are inspired! And I feel SO privileged to be a mouthpiece!
On Tuesday, our washing machine came!!! I am SO happy!!! I instantly started a load of wash! It is so great to be able to walk away from the wash, then come back 20 minutes later and have it clean! Plus, we can now put it in the spinner before hanging it up to dry, so our clothes only take a couple hours to dry instead of a few days!!! God is good! We are SO blessed! I watch, and often help, Dominican women washing by hand out of buckets. And they wash for entire families… I vote we all count our blessings.
Then in the evening, after my wash was done, we had an AWESOME lesson with Anairis. She is a girl we received as a reference from some of her friends, and she’s getting ready to be baptized this coming week, but hasn’t been reading the pamphlets we leave with her. So we had a serious talk about her desire to be baptized and explained the things she needs to do to achieve her goal. It was a great lesson, with an awesome spirit present. Since then, she’s been completing all her commitments, and as shown by her actions, her baptism is the most important thing to her right now!! :)
Wednesday we celebrated! Elder Meek turned 20!! Wow! So old!! Haha. We got up, and I surprised him with a box of Cookie Crisp (it’s his favorite, and he’s had his eye on it at the super market for the last couple of weeks), then left him to his package opening, and letter reading. Haha. I kept trying to talk him into opening his presents early, but he stood firm and waited til his actual birthday. So while he trunked himself out, I made a cake. Tres Leches. His other favorite. We ate it after lunch, and it was delicious!
Then we spent the day crossing rivers, scaling cliffs, and changing lives. :) I’m pretty sure God knew it was Meek’s birthday, cuz our lessons went SO well! We taught with lots of power, and the Spirit was super strong with us all day! Then we came home, and made arroz con Leche to finish off the night! Rockin' birthday! Missionary style!
Thursday was good. Just lots of good lessons. We taught a that new family I told you about last week, Angi and Penco, and we lucked out! They were both home, AND their baby girl (who is adorable, but ridiculously loud and distracting…) was SOUND asleep!!! it was awesome! We had a good restoration lesson that they understood really well, and then we finished it off with a Q and A session. I have really high hopes for them! :)
Friday, my companion received a package from his old companion. Ha. It had a tres leches cake in it. So we considered ourselves blessed, and didn’t think about the whole milk that sits out goes bad thing… It was AWFUL!!! The cake was sour. Lol. So sad. Such a waste!!
Our day of work was good. We are finding TONS of new people to teach in the Barrio San Luis. Lots of golden investigators. :) Plus we taught Juana and then Carmen! Both of them are still going strong with their Word of Wisdom goals!! Yay!
Saturday, we got up and cleaned the church, played some volleyball, and then came home and my comp made lunch while I created a masterpiece. Ha. By masterpiece I mean Tres Leches round 2.5 (the .5 is for the attempted tres leches by mail. Ha). Then tons of our lessons failed us in the afternoon… So we went exploring in our area, and had a photo shoot. Haha. My companion jokingly referred to it as Senior Pics 2013. lol. Cuz it’s about that time of year again, and our poses were a bit cheesy. ;)
Then in the evening we went over to Milagros’ and celebrated Meek’s (2/6) and Miguel’s (2/7) birthdays! :) They made the spaghetti, and we brought the cake. :) It was AMAZING! To top the cake, my comp and I found FRESH strawberries!!! It was like being back at Café Rio! Haha. SO good!
Yesterday was…. Too many emotions to type out. Haha. It started off with church, Angi and Penco came!!!! I was SO happy! And during church Angi was talking to some of the ladies about baptism, and now she wants to know when and how she can get baptized!! Sadly, she isn’t married by law to Penco yet, so we cant put a solid date, but she has the desire, and that’s all that matters!! :)
In the afternoon we finally had a lesson with Gregorina. We haven’t been able to get a hold of her this whole last week, cuz she has recently found a boyfriend, and they moved in together… BUMMER!!! But she still came to church, and she still wants to get baptized. So we talked it out, weighed some options (i.e. move back home, or get married), and then left her to think and pray on it. She still has a strong desire to live the commandments of God, and she still wants to get baptized, so we’ll keep working with her.
After some other lessons, we came home at 8:45 so our Zone Leaders could get Transfer Calls from the AP’s faster (they don’t release the transfer info until all the missionaries are in the zone are in house. Haha). We were all expecting that Meek and I would stay, and that Tuanama would leave, and Leyva would receive a new comp. Well… Tuanama’s out, as expected, but as usual, there’s a twist… I am leaving my beautiful home in Ocoa…
When I heard the news I about cried. I was getting ready to call Pres and start a Huelga (the Dominican version of a protest… Usually includes barricades and burning tires in the streets. Ha.) to make him let me stay, but God knows me too well. Just like last time I had to move, God made the Transfer JUST what I would have picked for myself if I was FORCED to leave.
I am headed to Los Alcarizos to be the new companion of… wait for it…. ELDER FASSETT!!! That’s right! My MTC companion, and long time mission best friend! I am SO pumped! I don’t know how many times this has happened in the history of missions, but I feel pretty blessed!
I am super sad that I have to leave all my loved ones here in Ocoa. And I’m really gonna miss my hot water heater… But I’m all kinds of excited to be the companion of the one and only Elder Matthew Fassett! We are gonna baptize the whole world!! Plus, more than likely, we will celebrate our one year mark together!! J So ridiculously awesome!! :)
Anyway. I will let you all know how awesome my life is next week, in my new area. :)
I really gotta go.
The church is true. I’m SURE of it!
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Cade Mooney
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