Happy New Year!

This past week consisted of a lot of drunk Dominicans in the streets haha. We weren’t allowed to go out into the streets very much because it was dangerous. Some kids thought it was a good idea to throw firecrackers in our house. So we got our water guns and shot them out our window and they got mad haha. We keep on finding new areas that the missionaries have never been too. Also, the Book of Mormon really is the most powerful tool in conversion and in just feeling the spirit. If you want to feel the spirit, turn to the Book of Mormon. It's got everything haha. Love you guys!

Love, 

Elder Stewart

Sploosh... Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody! We got 4 baptisms this past Saturday! I got to baptize the younger boy Jose! What a Christmas present! It's very wet and rainy here which is kinda like snow haha I love all you guys and hope you all are having an amazing Christmas! Remember the reason for the season!

Zone Ozama

We just combined two zones into one to correspond with the stake boundaries. All the zones (ten) prepared skits/songs for our Christmas celebration.

The hermanas made ties for everyone (119) and Sister Smith made aprons for all the hermanas (41).

Photos

Visited the Temple

Music video with Elder Horsley

Baptisms coming soon

Hey Everybody! Glad everyone liked the pig pic haha the pig was sketchy haha. This week was transfers and I'm still in Los 3 Brazos with my first companion! So awesome! This week we found some golden investigators in Coco Moro and their whole family is getting baptized this Saturday! We have 5 baptisms lined up for this Saturday and I couldn't be more hyped! We also had 19 investigators attend church this Sunday! New record for us! My entire awesome District made a T shirt of our member friend Ricardo who goes everywhere with us haha. He's so awesome haha.  I love the people and culture here so much and I can't wait to learn more from them! Love you guys!

Love, 

Elder Stewart

The Zone

Coco Moro

Hey everybody! The DR is still really hot and really humid haha. We had so much success this week! My companion and I discovered a whole village that the missionaries have never been to before and it's not on the map! There's no church there so everyone wants to hear our message there! Also, there are giant pigs that roam down there and that's flippin awesome haha. It's called Coco Moro. We had 13 investigators come to church this week and 9 of them were from Coco Moro! I love that place its so cool! I am starting to understand what people say to me but my spanish is still really bad haha.Hope everyone is having a good December and hopefully a little colder than it is here haha! I love you guys! 

Elder Stewart

Miracles

Hey everybody I've got  one minute to write a group email this week literally ahah. This week has been awesome and full of fun. I had my first exchange with a guy from Nicaragua and that was super fun only speaking Spanish! I had the biggest headache!

Here's a miracle that happened this week…

We were broke and starving and walking around dying and this dude rolled up in this lexus suv super nice and this guys a baller and he called us over and said he served his mission in Boise Idaho 20 years before and that he always helps a brotha out rolled out a wad of cash and handed us 2000 pesos and took a selfie with us and dipped haha

 From other emails:

-It takes 10 days for me to get packages. 

-its 100 pesos per pound for me to pick up unless you send it DHL or (Global Mission Shipping)

-We have to pick them up once a week on Thursdays

-I shop at la sirena in los mina

-We go to papa johns every week and its super nice!