September 5, 2016

Well if I could find one word to describe this week it would probably be....hot. It has been so dang hot here in Dajabon. The DR in general is way hot but it is worse here for sure, I sweat so much everyday.  I am still getting to know the area, sometimes I have no idea where we are haha but little by little I am learning all the streets and where the members and investigators live. We don´t really have very many investigators unfortunately. We are working hard on finding new people though. We do have 1 investigator who is progressing a lot. She is really cool and it has been fun to teach her. She should be getting baptized this upcoming Saturday so hopefully all goes well there. We are also working a lot with less actives. That is a huge problem here in this branch and we are kind of "sweeping" over the less actives to see if we can reactivate any of them.   In the boundaries of this branch there are about 1000 members but we only have about 40 active.  We are also visiting the members to strengthen them.  We are going to progress though little by little.  All is well and the mission is pretty normal for the moment. I love you guys a lot and as always I miss you all. Good luck with everything!

Elder Mifflin

August 29, 2016

Well I did end up getting transfered to a new area this week. I got sent to a place called Dajabon,  on the border of Haiti more or less close to the northern shore of the island. My area literally goes up to the river between the DR and Haiti so I can see another country from my area. It took about 3 hours to get out here from Santiago so I am about as far away from the rest of the missionaries as possible. Everyone has told me that it is hot as can be in Dajabon ,but so far it has rained everyday since I got here. The house here is absolutely terrible.  The electricity and water goes out a lot so that is bucket loads of fun. Speaking of buckets, when there is water, the pressure isn´t good enough for the shower to work so I have to bucket shower everynight now.  Four  missionaries live in the house,  one from Mexico, another from Argentina and my comp is from Guatemala. I am his "step dad" of the mission because he just barely finished his training with his "dad". His name is Elder Gonzalez. The area seems ok. It feels like it is a little bit dead haha so there is definitely a lot of work for me here. It is a branch so that was kinda weird to get used to again having such a small amount of people in church.  We do have some really solid investigators so I am optimistic about the future. Our area is really big again just like my last one. There are a lot of Haitians here and a good portion of them do not speak Spanish very well. I would try and learn Creole but it is the weirdest language I have ever seen so I don´t think that will happen.  I am still learning the area and getting to know the members and investigators.  I hope that all is well back home. I love you all!  Good luck with everything!

Elder Mifflin