Well thursday is my new day to write on the computer and check emails. Its sure been a full week here in the DR mtc and it sort of dragged a little bit. I think its because its alway hard to get settled in. But now things are starting to ease up a little. I feel like i'm getting more used to this whole place and how things are run and stuff.
Food here in the DR are a lot better than the food was back in the Provo MTC. For breakfast we ususally eat cereal and pancakes. But ever once and a while we get this cinamin french toast that is a way good. Lunch time is the best part of the day though for sure. Lunch here is the big meal of the day. and when i say big i mean big. We always have rice and beans and some sort of meat. the meat changes every now and again though some time its chicken sometimes its ham somtimes its beef. The good part is that its always good. The first day we had rice and beans every one was hating life the next day and had the runs... yeah the bathrooms took a pretty bad beating. All the natives just thought it was funny. I guess it takes awhile for your body to get ajusted to so much rice and beans at once.
The weather here is pretty constant, it rains every day with out fail and its really humid. we got to go over to the University today and do our service project at the park. we went and picked up trash. the walk over there was good though, it felt good to get out of these 20 ft cement walls that surround us and the Temple. The drivers here are crazy, i dont think they really have rules on the road.
For gym i usually play basketball out side in the parking lot and it doesnt take any time at all until your sweating like a pig because its to humid. A lot of the time we'll be playing basketball and it well be raining on us but its still way hot.
In class all the teachers do is speak spanish. they hardly know any English at all so i'm pretty sure that this place is going to help me understand and learn spanish so much. All of our teachers are really good though, the only probablem is theres a language barrier between us still at this moment in time. But we're working on breaking that barrier down. The Temple here is absolutly beautiful and i'm a little sad that i'm only going to get to go to it while i'm here in the MTC. I wish that we could come over from Puerto Rico and go to seasion every once in awhile. I got to do Initiatory today and than do a session afterward. It was amazing! All of the marble that is at this temple came from Brazil. The temple here is huge for being in not so big of an LDS area. The temple by far is the Best part of the week!!The new district here is going to be really good i think. I'm excited!
Oh yeah, and just to let you, Pres. Perkins made me the district leader for my district. Its going to be a lot of work and i'm not really sure why he made me the leader because my spanish definately isnt the best in our district but it is what it is. Its a good thing to have leadership i guess... anyway on Tuesday morning Sister Perkins (the mish. Pres. Wife) took us to do Baptisms for the dead. That was really cool because they never let us do that back in Provo. I love every opportunity we get to go to the Temple.This week we get to teach the 1st lesson in Spanish, or at leas attempt to teach. We're going to have to make it really simple to be able to get through the whole lesson in Spanish. But thats alright because as time goes on we'll be able to build on it and make it better and better. Well my time is running out on the comp. so i'm going to have to let you go... I love all of you! and thank you so much for your prayers and your support! PS If you can keep on e-mailing me because the mail is really slow here in the DR. I havent got any mail yet and have only seen one other Elder get a real actual written letter. I love to hear from you and i can read my email on thursday's now.
Love, Elder Lopez
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