Fantastic Week!

It's been another fantastic, humid week here in the Dominican Republic! I shouldn't be complaining about the humidity though, because we are only outside for MAYBE 3 hours a day. Sometimes only one for gym. I absolutely love it here, though!

On Friday we went out contacting at the University! They gave each of us a Book of Mormon that we wrote our testimonies in and each companionship got 15 Restoration pamphlets. Naturally, I was a little scared to go and talk to people in a language that I don't really know. It was amazing how everything worked out, though! Hermana Jones and I gave out all but 3 pamphlets and we were both able to give away our Book of Mormon! We were able to communicate pretty well and hopefully we got our point across and maybe something might come of us going out! At one point we were talking to/teaching 3 girls sitting on some stairs when all of a sudden this guy came up to us and said that he was a professor at the college and everything we were saying was not true. He said that there is no proof that Jesus Christ came to America (but...the proof is in my hand. It's called the Book of Mormon...) We couldn't understand everything he was saying and we don't know enough to try and correct him. One of the girls kept on doing the finger thing around your ear saying the guy was crazy, so we sat down by her and taught her the restoration. She loved what we were telling her and she was really excited when we gave her a Book of Mormon, so hopefully she is reading it! :)

Hermana Jones and I committed BOTH of our "investigators" to baptism this week! We teach one in the morning and one at night.

Each Tuesday for lunch we eat a soup-type thing called sancocho. It is chunks of random meat with bones and everything, corn on the cob, plantains, yucca, and a thick broth type thing. You pour it over rice and it is super good! You then cut up avocado and put it in. The avocado is delish! To make up for such a weird lunch, we have pandulce on Tuesdays too! You take two slices of bread, one side you put peanut butter and the other you put Nutella and then you put OREOS in the middle and then Panini press it...wow!  It is so sweet! haha

Hermanas with hair braids

Our night teacher's wife (she is also a teacher here) always comes and braids all of our hair (thus the picture).

I love you all and hope you're all doing well! :)

Hermana Lawrence