How was your week?? Mine was great! Obv. I'm a missionary!
Tuesday we had an intercambio... With... THE ZONE LEADERS! Ha. Luckily we have some pretty bomb town ZLs. Elder Fassett and Elder Melara (yeah, we're still a trio) stayed in our area with Elder Maldonado, and I went with Elder Richardson to their area. :) It was a blast! I learned A LOT! Elder Richardson is from Utah, but grew up in Hawaii. His dad is a Spanish professor at BYUH, so he got to be a surfer kid that spent more time at the beach than I'll ever dream of! Also, his Spanish is unreal! He has a handle on the subjunctive form that most natives don't even fully comprehend. Wow... He goes home the same time as Taylor. Makes me wonder how boss Tay's Chinese must be. haha. Weird. Taylor speaks Chinese... Like a Chino...
Wednesday we had one heck of a leadership conference! We spent the afternoon learning how to run things in our Zones and Districts, and then President got up at the end and told us all a few tidbits about life. Man does that guy know a lot! He talked to us about the need to understand the rules (and the commandments) before trying to teach them to others. Then he spent a good while talking to us about attitude. If we have a good attitude about things, life is SO much easier. He shared a quote from one of the members of the 70, "Life is 10% what happens to us, and 90% how we react to it." Also, God likes to bless us when we react well! He cited Nephi's reaction from 1 Nephi 3:7 as opposed to that of his brothers, as well as the reaction of the Brother of Jared in Ether 3. Both of those Book of Mormon prophets were faced with fairly daunting tasks... But instead of murmuring they accepted the challenge with faith and good attitudes! AND THEY WERE BLESSED! Let's all be like Nephi and Mohonri Moriancumer!
Thursday was normal. We had some good lessons, one of which was with Jisela, Daniela, and Dilka. We talked to them about the Word of Wisdom. It went SO well! Jisela expressed an immense amount of joy when she heard that alcohol and coffee were both against God's commandments! She used to be an avid coffee drinker, but as of 2 years ago she's been unable to drink it because of the damage it's done to her stomach. Also, she works in a factory where they clean alcohol bottles to recycle them, and she said that she's had burn marks left on the floor from alcohol spills... She hasn't ever been a drinker cuz she assumes alcohol does the same thing to your insides. :) All three of them committed to live the Word of Wisdom, and to respect their bodies in the way God has asked. :) Our church is true. It still blows my mind that Joseph Smith received revelation on all that like 100 years before science came out with the same verdict. :) God loves us, and He wants nothing but the best for us. We've just gotta trust Him, and obey Him with a good attitude! If you're not obeying God at the moment, fix it! If you're obeying Him with a crappy attitude, cut it out! Life is just better all around when God's got your back.
Friday morning we made our way out to Julio's house. :) We had a good talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and then we had lunch with him and his wife. :) Guess what we ate! Rice and Beans! ha. And chicken! It was really good! The cool thing about eating rice and beans for every meal is that I've come to appreciate well made rice and sufficiently seasoned beans. ha. It truly is an art. ;) Also, we witnessed something that explains EVERYTHING... Carmen (Julio's wife), blended up and strained some of the beans into their 6 month old baby's bottle, and she DOWNED it!!! ha. It all makes SO much sense!! These people start eating rice and beans before they can even chew!! Ha. Dominicans...
Saturday was a fiasco... Besides the fact that we hit our 13 month mark and we're both still here. Anyway, we had this great big movie night planned (one of our many plans to get our ward excited about missionary work), we announced it in church last week, and we invited out investigators... Well... The second counselor left us hanging without keys to the Technology closet... So we had to cancel our movie. We ended up just sending the DVD home with a family to watch on their own... Ha. It was actually kinda funny. We'll try again in a couple weeks. :)
Yesterday we had a great Ward Counsel meeting! That hasn't happened in over 6 months! ha. We area making some progress!!! The Bishop talked about the need to support the missionaries more, and he said he's putting together a list of people to leave with us every week! We're hopin' for the best!
In the evening, we passed by Chole's birthday party (the Granddaughter of a member), and talked to some of the adults (Hermana Angela's family and friends) and also visited with Ixel and Angela so that Elder Fassett could say his goodbyes. :(
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| Chole's Birthday party! haha. 5/5/2013 |
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| Elder Fassett and Elder Mooney with Ixel the Payasa 5/5/13 |
At 9:30 ish, transfer calls came! Elder Fassett is leaving me... :( Way sad. But he's going to La Paz, in the Zone of Independencia! Which is the area next door to my first area. :)
I will be receiving Elder Meroño. The name is deceiving. ha. He's actually American. From Cedar City, UT. His parents are from Spain or something. So far I've been told that he's one of the chillest kids in the mission. So I'll let you all know how things are going next week!
Anyway. We gotta go! Elder Fassett still has to say bye to a couple of families tonight. Including the Montero family... :( We're preparing for a flood of tears. But hey, Goodbye is just another chance to say Hello. :) We will all see each other again someday soon! :)
I love you all! I know what's up. I hope you all do too.
Love,
Elder Cade Mooney
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| The two tailed lizard that lives on our patio. I'm determined to catch a photo of him with his red and orange throat puffed out. Stay tuned. :) 5/6/13 |
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