02/27/12 We arrived in the DR around 12:30 am -a long day after getting no sleep for the last 24 hours! It was wonderful to see another man in a white shirt on the plane from Miami to the DR. He is the psychologist for the area here. He travels back and forth taking missionaries home and treating them here. Also on that flight was a wonderful woman who comes here to do humanitarian work. She works with her church group to make life better for people here - this time they are installing a well for the people to have access to water. We hope to do humanitarian work here.
We have not met the area president who will tell us what it is we are to do. No one else seems to know! Today is their national independence day so everything is closed. We are going to look for an apartment with the Buttons. He is the executive secretary in this area and has taken good care of us because we arrived early, early Sunday morning and could not shop one Sunday so we have eaten with them The couples here are amazing! The temple president and his wife are the Bairs from Smithfield, Utah. They absolutely glow!
They want us to work in the temple part time. That would be a great learning experience.
Here at the CCM (MTC) there is alot of English spoken but as soon as you walk out it changes.
The temple here is absolutely beautiful! We are staying right by it. And you can look out and see the sea (which will take some getting used to by me).
We met the CCM president and the DR East Mission president. I think Elder Midgley is in the DR West Mission so hopefully we will get to see him.
Not long ago there was an Elder Mecham here from Morgan who was an AP and the people here all knew and loved him and think we must be ok because he was such a great elder and he was from Morgan.
On Sunday we went to the CCM to church, then to a fireside at night given by the East Mission president.
Scott understood a little but I probably understood about 20 words the entire talk!
We are constantly working on our Spanish.
Today we are going to look at apartments and see if any of the grocery stores are open. They say there is a store like Costco here. Everything is more expensive here than it is at home.
We have not met the area president who will tell us what it is we are to do. No one else seems to know! Today is their national independence day so everything is closed. We are going to look for an apartment with the Buttons. He is the executive secretary in this area and has taken good care of us because we arrived early, early Sunday morning and could not shop one Sunday so we have eaten with them The couples here are amazing! The temple president and his wife are the Bairs from Smithfield, Utah. They absolutely glow!
They want us to work in the temple part time. That would be a great learning experience.
Here at the CCM (MTC) there is alot of English spoken but as soon as you walk out it changes.
The temple here is absolutely beautiful! We are staying right by it. And you can look out and see the sea (which will take some getting used to by me).
We met the CCM president and the DR East Mission president. I think Elder Midgley is in the DR West Mission so hopefully we will get to see him.
Not long ago there was an Elder Mecham here from Morgan who was an AP and the people here all knew and loved him and think we must be ok because he was such a great elder and he was from Morgan.
On Sunday we went to the CCM to church, then to a fireside at night given by the East Mission president.
Scott understood a little but I probably understood about 20 words the entire talk!
We are constantly working on our Spanish.
Today we are going to look at apartments and see if any of the grocery stores are open. They say there is a store like Costco here. Everything is more expensive here than it is at home.
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