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August 10, 2016

Well another week has passed by pretty darn fast. Crazy to think that it is already August 8. This week went pretty well for me though. As always we have been working quite a bit. We have been able to find some pretty promising people and have some success with the people that we already have.  We had a baptism this weekend! She was an investigator from Rafey that I had been teaching  since I was in Rafey back in March and now she lives in my area again, so we got to keep teaching her. I was able to perform the baptism so that was cool to do that.  Sunday was also her birthday so we bought a cake for her and went over there last night and had spaghetti and cake. It has been a long time since I have had cake and it wasn´t that good haha but the spaghetti was super tasty. In other news the Bishop asked us to sing a special hymn this Sunday and requested that we wear our suits. I don´t have one but borrowed a jacket from Elder Joseph. It was the first time... and the last time that I will wear a jacket on the mission. It was so hot. It didn´t help that there wasn´t electricity in the church during sacrament meeting which means no fans or AC!  We had 6 people there again and it was the second or third time for a couple of them so that was really cool. In other news something wasn´t paid right or done correctly in the mission office and so the water company came and cut our water supply. We haven’t had running water for 5 days. It sucked haha nothing but bucket showers and dirty dishes that we couldn´t clean because it was a waste of our reserve water that we have in a tank outside. I also have a lot of dirty clothes haha but as we were leaving the house to come here they were outside of the house putting a new pipe in so we will have water when we get home. It made me feel like I was camping haha although I think camping is more comfortable.  I am not quite sure if I will be leaving or not this upcoming transfer.  If I do that means I only have 16 more days here.   Life is good and is moving along.  Also fun fact, English and Spanish are mixing into the same language in my head so when I am thinking it is about 60% English 40% Spanish.  I love you lots and tell all of the family that I love them too.  Good luck with everything.

Elder Mifflin

June 27, 2016

I am doing really well. Life is continuing on like normal here in the DR. It was a pretty regular week for me. Teaching a lot, sweating a lot, and walking a lot. We are working really hard with the investigators that we have and trying to focus on going to church since that has been so hard for us. People just are really good at coming up with excuses on sunday here haha but we are trying to overcome that issue. We have also tried working with the members more because it really is so hard to find people to teach on our own.  I have been able to keep teaching Carolina because Rafey is my area again and so that has been really cool to see her keep progressing. She just went to the temple to do baptisms the other day for the first time and got a calling in the primary.  We plan on doing a barbeque at our bishop´s house this next p day which is also the 4th of July, that should be fun.  Life is treating me well though and speeding by. It is crazy that June is basically over. Today is also my 13 month left mark. I love you and all of the family very much.  

Elder Mifflin

July 13, 2016

 Well it was really really hot this whole week. That made

 everything lots more fun. The work was pretty normal. As far as teaching

 goes everything is going fine but the part of actually getting the people

 to follow thru, not so much. The last few Sundays we have barely been able to get anyone to come to church. This Sunday we called a bunch of people early and went to look for people like normal and still only had one. We are still going forward though and doing all we can. One thing that was funny happened today. I think because it is summer now there are more white people in the touristy areas and so while my comp was shopping for stuff people kept shoving stuff in my face and trying to speak English to me. Then they would be really surprised when I started speaking Spanish and told them that I live here and have no money.  It was kinda weird having p day on Monday now.

For the picture, this is usually what the water looks like when I am going to wash clothes.... before I wash them hahaha! Well I love you lots and all the family.

 Elder Mifflin

June 8, 2016

Well this week was pretty good overall.  We just taught a lot and did all that sort of stuff. Yeah it is definitely very hot here most of the days. My comp sweats so much haha, it is insane, his hair is always wet from his sweat and people ask us if we got rained on or something like that. I am pretty sweaty too haha. Yeah it was kinda crazy to pass the 300 day mark yesterday. Time is moving by really fast. I can’t believe that it is already almost a third of the way through June. Sometimes it really feels like it wont be all that long till I am done. I am enjoying the mission though, so all is well. Elder Navarrete did end up buying us pizza this week. It wasn’t pizza hut like he said he would buy but pizza hut is super expensive so I let him out of his promise and we settled for lower quality pizza. It was still pretty good though,  I haven’t had pizza for a really long time.  I also made mangu again last night and that was really tasty and it only ended up being about $1 a person too!  The work is coming along,  we do have 3 investigators that are progressing well and should be getting baptized in July.  Also they are going to change our P days. My P day will now be on Monday.  Well I love you and all of the family. I hope that all goes well!

Elder Mifflin

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May 18, 2016

This week has been pretty good. We did in fact have the baptism on Saturday and it was really cool to be able to baptize the young woman.  I was a little bit nervous to mess the prayer up or pronounce something wrong but it was fine. The next day, Sunday, was voting day in this country which can be a little crazy so we only had church for one hour.  Monday we had some memorable events. First, when we went to look for our investigator in an apartment we got locked in the building. The investigator wasn’t there and no one else was either. In the end we were locked in the stairwell for about 30 minutes, it was a little frustrating.  Then later that day the streets were getting a little crazy due to voting the day before, so the police shot a tear gas or pepper spray bomb thing into the intersection next to a house we were at. We had to leave the house to get out of the area. It didn’t hurt too bad but it definitely burned my eyes and the inside of my nose a lot!  The effects went away pretty fast too but that was a good first time experience with tear gas.  On a positive note we do have an investigator named Winifred who came to the baptism and church on Sunday.  She is progressing well and it has been really cool to work with her.  Her mother is also progressing a lot.  We are working hard and having fun too, tonight we will be having a campfire by the side of our house and making s’mores.  Miss you all a lot!

Elder Mifflin