The DR is pretty Sweet

Hello Everyone, How was your Thanksgiving. Their wasnt much of a Thanksgiving here in the DR because they dont have one. I´m sure it was just awesome and the food was great. Even though I wasnt there to give my thanks this Thanksgiving, I want to say thank you for all the support I have gotten in my mission. I know that I am loved and that I feel your prayers everyday. I pray always for you and I hope you have a great holidays, Especially with Christmas coming up. Im so thankful for my family, friends, my Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ. Those are the people who I love the most. They are my life. Again I love you all and I know the DR is the mission for me. Im blessed more than I know. I´ve learned so much in my mission. It is such a great experiance. I wish you all could be here. Well All is well here in Nizao. The Branch is awesome and I love the Presidency and the members. I had a little bit of ¨The Gripey¨ as they call it here. But it is pretty much a little cold. I only had it for 4 days. But Im pretty much well now. I got it from my companion. He got it from the Hurricane. It was bound to happen since were always together and close. BUt all is good now. Our Investigators are doing great. Leo continues to change me. He has such a strong testimony of the church and the Book of Mormon. The other day he was talking to us and He told us that Captian Moroni was 25 years when he took over command of the Armies of the Nefites. I dont know how many members or missionaries know that but that is amazing. He continues always in teaching us about the Book of Mormon. He always reads and knows so much of it. We have a new investigator his name is Macae, he has talked with the missoionaries before and really whats to know everything. His brother just passed away and also an uncle. He loves what we say adn Friday we are going to awnser all his questions with the Plan of salvation. Raudy and Lidi are a beutiful family with 3 kids. They are always asking questions and love our messages. They know this is the true church but it is hard for them to come to church. He broke his leg 2 years ago and just recently had surguy on it. He can walk more and more everyday and soon he will be able to come to church. Celia is an awesome investigator who always comes to church but is going to seperate from her husband. This is her great challenge. She wasnt to be baptized but needs to comply with the law of Chastity. She was going to do this before we met her because he Drinks a lot. There is a huge problem with drinking in Nizao. Calin is another investigator of Gold. But he needs to be married. He is working on a date for that. But his Mother is really sick so were trying to help him in this tough time. We are really trying to focus on References and Having lessons with Member present. Ive really developed a love for christlike attributes. Ive learning a lot about patience and developing christlike love. Im continually striving to be better adn to be obedient. There are lots of Tigre or nonobedient missionaries here. Im trying to be an example because that is what the Lord asks for.I love you all and thanks for your Emails and love. I hope you have an aweomse week after Thanksgiving and continue to have and give thanks to everyone.

Elder Anderson

THE DR IS AWESOME

Hello everyone. Im so grateful to be a missionary in this great work. I have gained such a strong testimony of the gospel and learn something new each day. OUr investigators are awesome. Leo works as a security guard and he reads the Book of Mormon everyday. He knows tons about the book and also about the gospel. He has such a stong testiomony of the gospel. He actually told us that he was bashing with some other men. He said he wasted them. After laughing a little i told him that bashing is probably not the best way of doing things. Hes so awesome. He has a baptismal date very soon. Also we have a family we are teaching. THey love us us and we sure love them. They are really interested in the church. We watched ¨The Restoration¨ a little while ago and it was amazing the spirit we had. Also we just watched ¨The Testaments¨This was super special. The spirit waqs so strong and they learned a lot about the Book of Mormaon and its origens adn how it compliments the Bible. There were tears and a lot of joy at the end of the movie. Gustabo is also one of our investigators. He loves talking with us and knows that we are true messangers of God. He really knows how to pray. But he said he hasnt had the awnser yet. So we are trying to help him feel adn recive the awnser. He is very special. Calin is another one of our investigators. HE would have already ben baptized but he need to be marrige. So now he is going to get married and is picking a date. His wife is a less active member and we found him as we were finding less actives. Its amazing how the lord works in mysterious ways. But I like it. It just fortifiys my testimony of his power and knowledge. Perla also has a baptismal date. She has a stong testimony and loves the Gospel. She knows so much. But she needs to talk to her husband to make sure its OK. But in the past he has beaten her and she is a little scared. But we know all will be well because the lord will let all who are willing and ready into his kingdom. Daniel is an older man but very wise. He has been reading the Book of Moirmon for years. It was a gift from a neigher many years ago and he has never spoken to the misisonaries before us. But he knows this is the true churchand has agreed to be baptized. He knows the gospel very well adn uses the Book of Mormon in all that he does. We also have tons of other investigators but these are ones with baptismal datesd and who are ready. We recive the confrence talks this week and we have been reading some talks to our investigators. It really does help them to hear the voices of the living prophets. Also in the church news I read all about the Storm. Los >Caobas is in the capital so i dont know much about it. The Capital is Huge. Well yesturday was the Pavaso. It was a huge Basketball Tournament for the Campo zones. There are 4. I didnt play to well and my foot was bugging me but I had tons of fun. We had tons of fun and got to talk to all the other missionaries in the campo. After the Pavaso, The President took us home and on the way we stoped and went on a little hike. It was fun We could see the ocean and the city of Azua. The pavaso was in Azua. There was a big monument celebrating the people of Azua for fighting the Hatians adn keeping them out in the 80´s. Well thats about it. We had district confrence in Bani this week so the members of Nizao went and had a great time in Bani on Sunday. The Mission President is the President because it is a district so I have seen a lot of him latley. We also have interviews on the 29th. Its going to be sweet. Well I love you all and wish you the best of luck. Thanksgiving is going to be a little diffrent but ill figure someing fun out. hahaha. Adios.

Elder Spudman

Hey Everyone. Everything is sweet here in the Dominican Republic. The talk of hte storm is about over adn everything here is back to normal. We havent had water for 3 weeks now. Although we had water for 3 hours on sunday adn a little this morning. So very soon we´ll be getting water. Its hard to live without water. We are really blessed in the states to have water and light always. We have light half the time here. But ived learned to get used to it. Well whats really cool is that were teaching many families adn had great lessons with them. I love watching the Restoration movie with them. We rarely get to but whenm we do ther is always a spirit there. Most of our investigators are progressing. I love teaching the gospel and inviting people to coime to christ. I´ve learned so much her its amazing. Ive had great experiances and others no. But I always think of my savior and what he would do adn what he was like. Latley i have been studing him. Its amazing how much we can learn. These past couple weeks ive been easting a little on the mexican side. I have eaten sme picante hot sauce that elder gonzalez has made. WEEEEHOOO It is hot. Dominicans dont like spicy food at all so that was an eye opener for them. We have one investigator that lives a litle of in the country adn above a field on a hilkl. He has a huge house adn the most beautiful view of the ocean. Im going to take some pictures adn share this awesopme experiance with ya´ll. Well all is fine and Im still healthy and the same. I love you all and pray everynight for every single one of you.

Elder Anderson

Hello

Hey everyone. I´m so thankful for your emails. I love them. Well the DR is pretty much dry now. A couple of hte missioaries home were totaled but ours just had a little water. We have been without water for a week now. So we shower and get water from the well under the chapel. We are taking bucket showers. Its actually fun. Except of the walk. We had zone confrence yesturday and it was awesome. I directed the music. The President and i are getting closer and closer here. Because i have the most time in nizao. Well in ZC we learned about the importance of using the Book of Mormon in our teaching more. It is the keystone and we need to use it. The world has the bible and so we need to share with them the restored truths. Im learning a lot about the gospel and gaining a stonger testimony of our church. Ive heard lots of diffrent religions here adn all are well false. Im doing very well in spanish. It really is a gift from God. I know a lot and its all because of hime. Through my study and prayer adn Gods divine intervention we can do all things. Ive learned through sincire prayed god wioll give us our desires, if it is the will of god. We are really trying to get our investigators to do that and pray with faith. Im now living with 3 lations. 2 Dominicans and a mexican. Elder Gonzalez is mexican and has one month more than me in his mission. But he has been in te field more because he knows the language. It is very hard living with them and we butt heads a lot. But im praying for patience. We have worked diffrently in our passeds adn now need to both change. But for the weather, everything is about the same. Its dry and we still have showers but it does rain a lot in Nizao. Some of the roads are damaged but life goes on. The Dominicans have leared to deal with tough times. I love the people here and we are having lots of sucess here. Elder Macy and I worked hard here adn know we are seeing the Benefits. We have 4 baptismal dates in the upcoming weeks adn they are awesome. Im so thankful for the opportunity to serve the lord. Im learning so much. My testimony has been strenthed so much. I love you all and look forward to your letters next week. I hope you all have a fun week. I love you.

Elder Spud

WOW

Well this has been a crazy week. Well we had a huge storm. NOEL. Lets just say it rained for 3 days straight and we didnt have light for three days. Nizao held up pretty well but Don Gregorio got hit bad. Lets just say a new river the size of my hips appeared out of nowhere. During the Hurricane we were asked to help the people so we wnet around all of Nizao and Don Gregorio asking if people needed help. So these last days we havent taught a lot but have had lots of service. OUr house had water in it but just from the widows. The floor was wet but i woulodnt say it was flooded. OUr house does ned to be cleaned though. It stimks a little like mold. BUt None of the members were hit hard so thats good, or our investigators. One man was stuck in the river by Don Gregorio for 15 hours in a tree before somepeople got in a boat and saved him. The river was huge about 4 times as big as usual. What weas messed up is people were running around trying to save theirs house buit then all the people of Nizao were coming with tons of beer and alcohol tothe river, the Dangerous RIVER. they are always drinking here even in a crisis. Well I need to tell you I MET VLADMIR GUERRERO. I got a picture with him and talked to him. I got a picture and every thing. We was just chilling in the road. I also saw his brother wilton . Wilton also played in the big leagues. I also saw Juan Uribe another Baseball player in his huge SUV. Vladmir has a nice whiote range rover. Well I have a new companion he is From Mexico and and his name is Elder Gonzalez. Well I need to go ill update later.

Elder Andersonell this has been A