How grateful I am not to be just flying into the Dominican Republic! Having three months behind us is really nice. We spent the day studying and making phone calls and reading over our music teaching books. They are getting so much easier for me to understand - what a blessing..
Scott usually goes out around 6:00 am to jog but didn't go this morning so when we went out tonight for a walk William (a guard for the apartments) came over and in his animated way asked where Scott had been - he hadn't seen him all day. Scott usually stops by to talk to them a couple times a day. He is such a nice guy. He told Scott yesterday that he and Alta Gracia both send their kids to Mormon churches on Sunday even though they are not Mormons. These two work every Sunday and just barely make enough to take care of their families. We think it is because the church has such nice buildings that they think their kids will be safe there.
Went for a walk tonight and crossed the street to see what the new furniture store is. Couldn't get in there but the copy store door was open so we went in. A young man was there that had spent 3 months in the US working at a KFC and knew quite a bit of English. When I said his country was beautiful he asked if I was from England because that is how they said beautiful - don't know who he has been listening to!! A very nice young man who knew about the Mormons and said he even knew some of their bible - Nephi, Moroni, Mormon, Alma. Shocking! Some of the members of our church don't really know the books in the Book of Mormon. We are constantly surprised at how much these people know about the Mormons.
We walked down the street to look at a beautiful park across from us and found it is a memorial to Bolivar who is one of their early heroes. There are sections that are not in view until you get into the different areas and we soon found that a few young couples thought there was more privacy there than there really was. The flowering shrubs were amazing.
We had passed a banana tree yesterday that I wanted to see so walked down to where it was. It was fun to see how they grow and the flowering bulb at the bottom of the clumps of bananas.
Scott usually goes out around 6:00 am to jog but didn't go this morning so when we went out tonight for a walk William (a guard for the apartments) came over and in his animated way asked where Scott had been - he hadn't seen him all day. Scott usually stops by to talk to them a couple times a day. He is such a nice guy. He told Scott yesterday that he and Alta Gracia both send their kids to Mormon churches on Sunday even though they are not Mormons. These two work every Sunday and just barely make enough to take care of their families. We think it is because the church has such nice buildings that they think their kids will be safe there.
Went for a walk tonight and crossed the street to see what the new furniture store is. Couldn't get in there but the copy store door was open so we went in. A young man was there that had spent 3 months in the US working at a KFC and knew quite a bit of English. When I said his country was beautiful he asked if I was from England because that is how they said beautiful - don't know who he has been listening to!! A very nice young man who knew about the Mormons and said he even knew some of their bible - Nephi, Moroni, Mormon, Alma. Shocking! Some of the members of our church don't really know the books in the Book of Mormon. We are constantly surprised at how much these people know about the Mormons.
We walked down the street to look at a beautiful park across from us and found it is a memorial to Bolivar who is one of their early heroes. There are sections that are not in view until you get into the different areas and we soon found that a few young couples thought there was more privacy there than there really was. The flowering shrubs were amazing.
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