What up everyone?!?! Another week has come and gone. I hope you all had to opportunity to listen to conference because by the title of this email you can tell that revelation was dropped.
Before I talk about what I liked from conference I wanna update you all about what is happening here in Pueblo Nuevo. We are teaching a girl named Angelica and she is so dope. She is 14 and from Haiti so she speaks Spanish and Creole and it's insane. Anyway, she came to church last week and then this week she called us at 8:30 telling us she was ready for church and we were like oh boy cause it was conference and we told her but she forgot so that was sad but she still came to the church and watched conference and seemed like she enjoyed it. We are gonna try and put her on date this week for baptism so pray for her! Also we have a set of twins that are on date for this Saturday so pray for them as well. Their names are Alexa and Alexandra.
Another guy we are starting to teach is named Francisco Espinal. He is pretty cool and we think there is some potential. He informed us at our last lesson that his nephew is Leudy Espinal... Which is our BISHOP! Crazy! So we are gonna reach out to the bishop this week to find out more.
Last week was so hard, but this week was so much better! I finally started to adjust to this absolute insane culture. I still have a really really hard time with Spanish but I know that will come with patience. One thing that was hard last week was I didn't laugh at anything which made it a lot harder to be happy. Luckily some funny things happened this week. First things first people here love to drink. Basically on a Saturday night 50% of people are drunk and it is pretty comical. One guy we pass by often was speaking english to us, or at least trying to and said "Do you guy want a drink?" We said no we like water and then out of nowhere he said "Nice to meet you" in the funniest voice ever and me and Elder Fuhriman just lost it. Every time we see him he is just out of it holding a beer bottle in his paper bag. Also the Dominicans think that the USA is New York. They don't get that there are 50 states and it's not all just New York. So they often times tell us about their love for our home country and New York. Guess I'm going to New York when I get home to see what our real country is like haha.
Also the word selfie is magic here. If you say "Selfieee" every kid in near sight will run to be in the selfie. So I have a few I'll put on here.
Now for Conference. If this email is already too long I'm sorry you don' have to read it, but this part would be well worth your time ;) General Conference hits different on a mission. This was the first time in my life that I listened to every single word that was said with real intent to learn and I am so grateful I did. Here are a few things I learned. 1) in Hugo Montoya’s talk he repeated a line President Nelson said, saying, "The Joy we feel has everything to do with the focus of our lives not the circumstances." I loved this because last week as I was focused on my circumstance of showering out of a bucket and being home sick. I didn't find much joy, But this week as I have focused on the Lord I have become much happier. 2) New for strength of youth?! Lit! I loved this talk. My favorite line that Elder Uchtdorf said was "Jesus Christ is the strength of youth." This is so true for the youth, but also for everyone. He went on to mention "With the Lords help there is no limit of what we can accomplish." LOVE this! 3) Last thing is from Paul V. Johnson, he said "When we follow Satan we give him power when we follow God he gives US power." This is so so cool. Choose God he will give you power!
Also so amazing all the temples that were announced. I know that President Russell M. Nelson is the Prophet on the earth today. I love him so much and know that only HE can receive revelation for our entire church. I love you all so much and miss you guys dearly. I miss golf and I miss my friends and best friends, but I know that there are people out her in the DR who NEED to feel the love of Jesus Christ because we all do! He loves and knows you all perfectly. Search the Book of Mormon if you want to know of this love for yourself. I am excited for another week of growth and challenges in the DR.
P.S. We are going golfing in Santiago today!!! Hopefully I don't suck. Let y'all know how it goes next week.
Love,
Elder Wilde
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