Missed last night but it was a pretty uneventful day for us. We went to the temple again. It has been fun to go on Wednesdays because different senior missionaries work on different days so we see friends that we don't see on Tuesday and Thursday.
I am finally understanding most of the Spanish scriptures -that is really exciting for me!
We decided to go with the couples to dinner tonight because we usually don't go and we hate them to think we are never social. There were only four couples and they had decided to go to TGIF Fridays. Of course we haven't been there so that sounded like American fun. Don't know what is going on in Santo Domingo tonight but it took us more than 11/2 hours to get the 10 miles we had to go. We have never seen so many cars and such blocked in traffic. The only good part was the company! When we finally got there and found parking we found that the restaurant was in a huge mall.. Pres. Glazier had been there before so he knew where to go. Thank Heavens! The music in the mall was so loud - they were having drawings in different places and had sales many places plus the Dominican's top model was there signing autographs and wandering through the mall. Beautiful woman in a little black dress with 6 inch heels. We never did find out why the travel was so bad.
It was much better coming home - only took us 20 minutes. The food was good though.
It's raining hard. Sister Shaver says this is what winter feels like here. It's down to 80 degrees tonight.
Sister Glazier was telling us about a gun fight one of the teachers at the CCM was caught in the middle of this morning. The police caught a guy trying to break into a car. They don't ask questions here, they just start shooting! This girl was about 20 feet away from them and bullets (?) were whizzing by her. She started running to get out of the way and called for someone to come help her. When the help got there they couldn't find her because the street was blocked off. They got to walk through to see if they could find her - she saw them and came running. Guess she was absolutely terrified, as we all would be. So the Morinos, a new couple here, as the mission psychiatrist spent the night with her instead of coming to dinner with us. The one thing we have learned here is that the police are as dangerous as the robbers because they shoot first and ask questions later.
I am finally understanding most of the Spanish scriptures -that is really exciting for me!
We decided to go with the couples to dinner tonight because we usually don't go and we hate them to think we are never social. There were only four couples and they had decided to go to TGIF Fridays. Of course we haven't been there so that sounded like American fun. Don't know what is going on in Santo Domingo tonight but it took us more than 11/2 hours to get the 10 miles we had to go. We have never seen so many cars and such blocked in traffic. The only good part was the company! When we finally got there and found parking we found that the restaurant was in a huge mall.. Pres. Glazier had been there before so he knew where to go. Thank Heavens! The music in the mall was so loud - they were having drawings in different places and had sales many places plus the Dominican's top model was there signing autographs and wandering through the mall. Beautiful woman in a little black dress with 6 inch heels. We never did find out why the travel was so bad.
It was much better coming home - only took us 20 minutes. The food was good though.
It's raining hard. Sister Shaver says this is what winter feels like here. It's down to 80 degrees tonight.
Sister Glazier was telling us about a gun fight one of the teachers at the CCM was caught in the middle of this morning. The police caught a guy trying to break into a car. They don't ask questions here, they just start shooting! This girl was about 20 feet away from them and bullets (?) were whizzing by her. She started running to get out of the way and called for someone to come help her. When the help got there they couldn't find her because the street was blocked off. They got to walk through to see if they could find her - she saw them and came running. Guess she was absolutely terrified, as we all would be. So the Morinos, a new couple here, as the mission psychiatrist spent the night with her instead of coming to dinner with us. The one thing we have learned here is that the police are as dangerous as the robbers because they shoot first and ask questions later.
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