March 27, 2017

I did end up getting transferred. It was a weird transfer. My comp and I both left the area and they moved the other two Elders that were in the same ward with us into our area. I was pretty shocked by it but oh well such is life. It was unfortunate that I had to say goodbye to the people we were teaching after only knowing them for a short time. Anyways I am now in a city called San Fransisco De Macoris, it is in the northeast corner of the country. So I have been getting to know everything over again. My companion is named Elder Reyes and he is from El Salvador. I have now had companions from 7 different countries during the course of my mission. The area seems to be going well though. We have some really cool investigators and have already found some cool new people while I have been here. The apartment was absolutely disgusting when I arrived. There were maggots on the floor and every little thing in the kitchen was covered in sticky ish. I have had to do a lot in these last few days to clean it up including spend most of the day today cleaning out the kitchen. All is well though. This mission continues as normal. Now that I am an oldy of the mission, adjusting to a new area/comp/people is not very hard. As I said we have met some really cool people over these last few days. I also had a really cool experience on Saturday. In the mission when we are contacting and pass a really rich house it is normal for us to ring the doorbell even though they always tell us to go away. On Saturday we were contacting and rang the doorbell of a mansion in our area. To my complete shock the guy came outside and talked with us and then invited us in.  It was easily the nicest house that I have entered into in my whole mission and probably the first house that I have gone into that has been bigger that my house in Utah. He is a member of another church but the lesson actually went pretty well and he said that we could come back.  But yeah that was my week in a nutshell.  Good luck with everything and I love you. 

Elder Mifflin