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!

Power of Prayer

    

Elder Stewart and Ricardo

    This week was awesome everybody! We did the math and we have 43 investigators!!! I run everywhere!!! We literally have 4 hours of contacting in a week and all the rest are with investigators haha. I had another experience with the power of prayer. We were supposed to meet up with a guy and he wasn't there and we didn't know where he lived. We prayed to find him and then we walked like halfway across town being guided by the spirit straight to a house that we found. We asked a lady where this guy lived and it was right at the house we stopped at. God listens to your prayers everybody!!! I love you all and hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving!

         Elder Stewart

Just finished playing soccer at Parque del Este on Pday

Comments from emails:

-How far are you from the temple/CCM?

I´m 30mins from the temple. 

-How often do you eat with members?

I eat sometimes with members.

-What are you eating?

Always rice and beans with some kind of meat with random bones.

-How do you wash your clothes?

We wash it in this really bad washing machine that breaks everytime we use it haha.

-How are the bugs?

The mosquitoes bite me every night cause they love my blood I guess. I've seen one giant spider haha the flies are literally everywhere here so we bought bug zappers haha.

-Do you walk everywhere or take public transportation?

We walk everywhere unless we take a taxi or a bus and they race and hit people and we hang out the doors to fit people in.

-Are transfers every 6 weeks?

Yes