Dedicated in the Dominican Republic: BAPTISM!!

Hello everyone! My siblings said it perfectly when they told me "days are long, weeks are short" I can't believe another week has come and gone. Some days this week felt like an eternity but looking back the week flew by.

I'll start with the boring stuff, we had an exchange on Tuesday with the zone leaders and it went a lot better then I thought it would. One of the ZL's came to my area and I was the one showing him where to go in the streets of the DR and it felt good to know that I have at least learned where to go here.. cause the Spanish is still very difficult.

On a random night this week we didn't have any appointments because all of them fell through, so we were stuck and had nothing to do for an hour. We called a member and asked if we could go over she luckily said yes and so we went to share a message with her family. Everything I was trying to say was so bad and I was just at a loss of words in Spanish. I felt so discouraged and then the members were like "Wow, you are learning so fast good job!" It made me so happy because I was previously feeling like I would never do anything right. They proceeded to tell me that learning Spanish in the DR is the hardest place to learn it so I need to be patient. This made me feel a lot better about the language.

While teaching Angelica this week there was a big fight at the end of her street. Like I said before, this place is crazy. We were just sitting on the street teaching her the commandments and then like 200 feet away there is this massive group of people gathered around these women yelling and fighting. The little kids all run over to watch and I'm just like bruh lol. Place is wack. Angelica is progressing a little, but yesterday told us she is scared for baptism. Pray for her please!

Here's a funny story before I talk about our BAPTISM this week! The drunk guy I talked about last week is still drunk from last week ;) when we were walking home the other night he was out just hammered and invited us to sit with him and his 3 other drunk friends so we did. Elder Fuhriman asked Julio (the drunk dude) "Do you like whisky?" and he responded with "yessssss" in the funniest voice ever so then we asked why and he goes "Bro I don't know" and it was just a good laugh. He honestly still might be drunk, dude doesn't stop.

Now I can talk about our Baptism this week!! The twins Alexa and Alexandra were baptized and it was so so cool. They had to frighten us a little though. Saturday at 6 was the scheduled time and of course at 5:30 they call us telling us they don't have enough money to come. We were freaking out but luckily they found a way and I was able to baptize one of them. In the pic I sent it looks like they hated their life, but I promise they were excited to be baptized haha. Anyway, for baptism to be complete they need to come to church the next day and be confirmed. Well.. they came, but, 45 MINS LATE. Elder Fuhriman and I were so satisfied to see them walk in haha.

Last night was interesting too. We ate at a members house and she gave us like 30 pounds of food each and I have never been closer to dying from eating so much food. Also some drunk guy took Fuhrimans tag and that was an adventure.

I wanna end with a scripture in D&C 11:7 "Seek not for riches but for wisdom; and, behold, the mysteries of god shall be unfolded unto you, and then shall you be made rich. Behold, he that hath eternal life is rich." This scripture is a great example of why it is important to remember that it is more important for us to study the scriptures and keep the commandments than to seek for the riches of the world.

I love you all and miss you guys a lot. Golf is still on my mind always and so are my friends and family, but I know being here in this country preaching the true restored gospel is where I need to be. Have good and safe week!

-Elder Wilde