September 19, 2016

 Well another week down. It is crazy how fast time is going by. I can’t believe that I have already been here for almost a month. This week was pretty good overall. During the whole week we have been able to invite about 5 different people to get baptized and they all accepted it so that was pretty cool. As always the big problem is that they still don´t go to church haha so we are working on that but at least they understand our purpose. On Wednesday we had a conference with multiple zones in a place close to the city of Santiago that is called Navarrete (like the last name of my old comp). Elder Martinez of the seventy talked to us and I was definitely able to learn a lot of how I can improve. He is a super cool dude. But yeah it takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes to get to Navarrete so we had to leave about 6:30 to make sure that we got there early. The conference ended about 3 and we actually had to take a bus to Santiago to be able to get a bus back out to Dajabon. In the end we had a very uncomfortable bus ride and got home around 7:00 so that took up pretty much that whole day. Then the next few days were pretty normal, working and teaching and such. On Sunday all of the commitments that people had made to us fell thru but we did have a lot of less actives come so that was good. Then today as you will be able to see from the pictures that for the first time in a long time we actually did something fun for P day. We left our house at 4 am to take a bus to Monte Cristi which is on the north shore of the island and is the area of our zone leaders. From getting off the bus around 5:15 we walked for about an hour to get to the base of the morro. From there it took about 20 minutes to hike up it. It felt really good to hike a little bit and the view was awesome. After climbing that we went down to the beach real quick to see the ocean. It was really cool to finally be able to see, hear and smell the ocean after having been on an island for more than 1 year without seeing it. I also took my shoes off and jogged a bit on the sand and it felt so good. I wanted to jump in so bad but don´t worry I didn´t do it haha. After that we went to the church in Monte Cristi and played basketball and soccer. It was a pretty awesome day overall. 

Elder Mifflin