All in all it was a good week. But honostly when isn't there a good week out here in the mission field. Elder Sellers wanted to get up at 5:50 am to read our e-mails so right now back home its about 4 in the morning. Mom i bet your up, but as for everyone else i'm sure your sound asleep.
The weather here hasent changed one bit. We dont have the trees that change nice pretty colors here, but we do have some really pretty palm trees around the temple grouds. We went on a little walk during one of our breaks around the temple and saw like 50 little lizzards running around. It was pretty neet. I loved to watch them change colors for whatever back ground they were in.
Anyway we get to go to the Temple today which i'm way stoked for! the Temple is like a fresh breath of air every time we get to go. This week i was able to play catch during gym for a little with one of the Elders here. He's from North Carolina and brought his glove. i think i might have told you a little about it in my last letter. It felt really good to get out there and to throw the ball around for a bit. The arm feels good. at least it did for the little bit i threw. Mostly for Gym i either play basketball which is fun. the only down part is with all the humididy outside i have to go in and shower after cuz i sweat so much. Its all good though its a good work out. I'm still the same size and weight as when i came in. We'll have to see how that keeps up for the rest of these two years.
We got a new hermana in our district this week, actually two. One of them just flew in from the states last night. she only had a week in the states before she had to come out here becaust Hermana Etwaroo came straight here to the DR MTC because here country Guyana wasnt gettting any visas to go to the US. She's been having a rough week especially because she just got thrown into a country were she doesnt really understand anything thats going on. It will be good that she has a companion thats in the same boat as here now.
Last saturday and monday we were able to go to the University to prosolyte. Its getting better every time we go. When we went on Saturday i just decided i was going to talk with as many people as possible and we were able to get 34 contacts and 26 referals. Thats by far the best we had ever done. We would just go up to anyone and everyone. there was this one time when there was a group of like 5 or 6 people and one of them was looking at us so i just went up and starting talking t o her and we ended up just talking with them all at once. it was great.
We went again to the Universtiy on monday and we didnt get as many references but thats because when we would talk to people it was for a long time. We ran into this one member with all of her friends. We introduced ourselves and found out that they all were learning English. so they wanted to talk with us in english. That was pretty neet but we decided to make a deal with them. I told them we'd work on our spanish with them and they could work on our English with us. so thats what we did. It Went so good. We gave them our little message on one of the comandment to read the scriptures and to always be obediant to the lords will and stuff and they were all interested. it was a dream come true and then we just let them ask there questions in English as best they could, it was great. We were able to answer all there questions. We both bore testimony to them in Spanish and in English, we even had the one member t hat was there bear here testimony to them in english. It was great! I Was on cloud 9 the whole time! I could feel the spirit and i knew they could to. As we were teaching like 2 or 3 other people came to listen to us and hear what we had to say and aked questions. After about 20 or 30 min we gave them all commitment to go to church this sunday with there friend that was a member. I hope at least one of them goes. We gave them all little pamphlets about the church and got all there numbers for the missionary's! It was a great experience.
On Tuesday we had a General Authority come and speak with us who's name was Elder Johnson from the Seventy. It was really good. the only down part is that it was all in Spanish... Its alright though i'll get used to it on the Lords time. I was actually happy with all that i could understand. For the most part it was just the natives that were involved in the lesson but i think i followed pretty well for only haveing been learning this language for a month and half. So that was really good and i got some good notes on how to become a better missionary. we were able to watch the Joseph Smith movie to which is a definate tear jurker... I love that movie and the spirit is so strong when we watch it.
Well my time is winding down so remember i Love all of you back home!
And to answer Skyler, Sierra, and Brooklyn's questions. I'm in the Dominican Republic right now learning how to speak Spanish. I'm teaching people in Spanish about the Church. I wont be back for a couple of years but thats alright cuz the time will fly by. Just remember i love you all and think about you and pray for you every night! I love you guys!
With LOVE, Elder Lopez
PS. Mom and Dad, behaive yourselves on your little trip to San Diego!
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