Some
Dominican culture for ya: Dominicans are always like, “sit yourself.” I guess
the English wording would be “sit down” but in Spanish it is literally “sit
yourself” and so that´s how I hear it in my head and it makes perfect sense to
me. But anyway, people here are super receptive and friendly and always invite
you in to their patio—everyone here has a small, covered patio area in front of
their house because it gets too hot to sit inside with walls all day. So they
invite you in and immediately say “sit yourselves” and then you´re like
“oh that´s
okay we´re just passing to ask about your son,”
And they
say, “okay, okay but sit yourselves”
“I´m okay.
So is your son home?”
“Let me go
check, but sit yourselves” they retreat into their house for a minute and come
back to see we´re still standing up and say “but sit yourselves”
And we´re
like “thanks, is your son home?”
“no, but
sit yourselves”
It´s all
very friendly and kind, but it just makes me laugh in my mind that they can´t
imagine that we´re actually okay with standing up for a few minutes ,ha ha.
Miracle of
the week. We had to teach a class super last minute. It´s a class we´ll be
holding regularly in the branch to encourage member missionary work and teach
tactics and whatnot. We were underprepared and it made me feel very
uncomfortable and I was feeling really stressed when we showed up, but long
story short, the Spirit guided my companion and me through THE ENTIRE lesson. I
felt prompted to say and do so many things and they made an impact with the
people who were in the class. I felt overwhelmingly that these people each had
something to contribute to missionary work here in Bonao and that this class
was essential for them to realize their potential. It was such a powerful
experience. Member missionary work is so important guys!!!
Also we
made Pastelon which is basically mashed potatoes layered with ground beef
layered with mashed potatoes layered with cheese and then baked. Pretty durn
yummy!
Here´s the links for pictures and month two of The Family Missionary Plan
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