This week had its ups and downs, but overall it was good. Probably the craziest thing I saw was a guy who took a box-spring matterss on his motorcycle ha! This country is crazy.
We have this investigaor names Daniela who lives in one of our far away areas called San Antonio. She is awesome and has SOOO much energy. I don´t think I´ve ever seen someone talk for so long without running out of things to say haha. She has been receiving the missionaries for a long time now and knows the Restoracion of the Gospel is true, she just doesn´t know she knows it :P We have been working hard with her these past two weeks. We had a really awesome lesson with her the other day about the Gopsel of Jesuscristo. She is so receptive. She is only 20 years old and has a cute little 2 year old boy. She is literally golden, the only problem is that she doesn´t come to church :P She is probably our best progressing investigator right now. Ocoa is full of less actives. I thought that would be our biggest challenge, but we are doing good with them. 2 Sundays in a row now we have had 9 less actives in church which is awesome!! There is an area that is pretty far way that we are only allowed to do less active work because there are so many (meaning we can´t find and teach new people). I excited to work with the less actives to help them remember they have a testimony :)
So we have this area that is crazy far away called El Pinar. It is about a 20 minute ride up the canyon and walking... bueno. ¡Es lejos! It is nothing like any other areas I´ve been in. There are a ton of houses but hardly any people. The streets in basically every corner of the DR are blasting music and there are drunks everywhere, but not in El Pinar. There is no music, basically no noise. We went up there for the first time last week because a member said there are people up there who are ready for this gospel so we went. The day started out rough. I really didn´t think we were going to find anything. We found one good family, but it still wasn´t what we were hoping for. On our way back to catch a ride home we decided for no reason at all to take a different route. As we were walking down the street this little girl saw us from her front porch and yelled, ¨¡¡Mormonas!!¨ Then ran up to us and gave us a big hug. She told us she was so happy to see us again, but we´ed never met her before. When we asked her name she got all offended and said, ¨What, you don´t remember?¨ haha! She them proceeded to ask us when we were going to go to her house. When we told her we didn´t know where she lived she was like, ¨Yeah, don´t you remember?¨ and took us to her very secluded humble home. We told her we would returm (which previously we had not planned on). It gave us a little hope for the little town so far way. This week we went back and had more success with the people. We went back to the girl´s house and found her mom there who told us that she had visited the church in Ocoa before and really enjoyed it. As we got to know her we found out she really wants to know why there are so many different religions if there is only 1 God. We were able to leave her a Restoracion pamphlet. She is awesome! I feel like I´ve known her for years. I know God is preparing so many people for this gopsel, especially in places we don´t expect. SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH EVERYONE!!!
Today we had a good Zone Activity. Everyone came up here to Ocoa and we went to one of the campos and hiked up to a cave. To get to it we had to climb this homemade tree branch latter and squeeze in the tiny, muddy opening. The cave is home to hundres of bats, so what we thought was mud was actually bat poop... It was really cool though and I actually got to hold a bat, but we all got really nasty dirty :S it was quite an adventure. Another reason why I love this country so much. :)
Love you all.
Love, Hermana Perry
P.S. I also got really sunburnt again... :P ha
Our ward mission leader is a bombero (Fire fighter). We got to go to the station and have a little fun :)
A typical house up higher in the mountain
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