Craziest Week of My Mission.

Well this week was one I will never forget. And unfortunately not for a very good reason.. to put it short, we almost got kidnapped by a man from Afghanistan. Sounds fake, I know. But wasn't fake. Scariest moment of my mission so far, but thanks to spiritual impressions we made it out okay. 

The story would be way too long to tell on this email. So I'll leave it up to those of you who would like to know, to shoot me an email or message. 

Other than that we had a fun week. We found lots of new people to teach and we were able to put our friend Ambioris back on date for Baptism. Samaná is hard. It's a slow area. But we are working hard and slowly improving things. 

We have been teaching heavily this week a new friend named Coralia. She is in her 60's and is good friends with our friend Ana who I have talked about in the past weeks. Coralia is an amazingly kind women and is willing to listen to our message and ask us questions. She makes fantastic passion fruit juice and has been a little miracle in this week. She has a grandson named Miguel who is 14 and wants to be a Jockey when he gets older. First Dominican I have met that wants to be a Jockey. They are super cool and have expressed interest in coming to church and seeing what it's all about. Sadly she didn't come yesterday cause it was raining. In the DR they think rain is basically a poison that kills you. Not actually, just kinda haha. 

Ambioris has a baptismal date again. He struggles badly with the Word of Wisdom but miracles are real. Pray for him. He is reading the Book of Mormon and he loves it. His catholic mom even told us last time that she is interested in visiting our church. We are making lots of progress with him and he truly is the happiest guy ever and makes missionary work so much fun. 

As far as members go, this week we went to a lot of them. Aka 5 of the 7 active members haha. The group leader and his wife live in a town called Las Terrenas. About an hour drive from Samaná. We went to their house on Wednesday and it was so fun! He made us an amazing lunch and dessert and we had a great conversation on how to help the group here in Samaná grow. For those of you looking to come on vacation, highly recommend Las Terrenas. Some of the prettiest beaches in the country and not a lot of people. 

I still love this gospel so much and love the mission even though it is difficult. Thursday was one of the scariest days of my life, but with our focus on Jesus Christ we have felt peace and confidence the past few days as we keep on working. 

Love all of you. Miss you guys lots. Excited to see ya’ll soon. 

Elder Wilde