Hey, It´s good to hearfrom Mom and DAD. I´m in the field now. Sorry for my typing; I´m not used to the Dominican keyboards. My companion is Elder Enger. He´s got to train me fast, because he´s going back home to South Jordan in exactly 20 days. I don´t know what the President is going to do with me after that. my area is Hainamosa 2. It´s on the edge of Santo Domingo and has a lot of the city ghetto and part of the country. Apparently, before I got here, my companion was robbed twice in nine days and on the second time hfe get stabbed in the rump. I asked him if he turned the other cheek. It´s pretty hot here even though it´s december. I´m sweating like none other. we have power in our apartment, but it´s always off and on and it´s never there when we really need it. The water pump is broken for our building, so we been taking buckets out to the sistern and carrying them up to our apartment. We have a miniature kind of washer for our clothes, but in order for it to work he have to have both power and water, so I´ll probably be washing my cloths by hand for a while. The situation for the people here is pretty poor. Most of the people we´ve been teaching live in hoses of cinder block walls without a cieling. Those that don´t live in the shells of old buildings live in shacks with tin roofs. The funny part though, is that they all have speakers the size of a car and blast them as loud as they can all day long. It makes it pretty hard for teaching lessons when you have to scream to be heard over the noise no matter where you are in the city. I saw a spider that was about the size of my hand the other day, it kind of freaked me out. I still don´t really understand the dominican spanish, but it´s getting a lot better with time.
for the most part, people are really nice here. The other day we got caught in the rain and had to wait in one of the comodos for a little bit. The owner of the comodo gave us food and a drink while we were there and and umbrella to borrow when we couldn´t wait any longer for the rain to stop. The Dominicans hate the rainwith a passion here. For the most part, the Dominicans are pretty easy to make apointments with and to teach, but hard to get to undersand or to change their behavior. The work is going pretty well down here though. If our investigatores follow through, we should have three babtisms this Saturday.
Anyhow, I don´t have much else to say right now. Quídense, entonces.
P.S. Apperently gmail is ok for me to use while I´m in the field because it is secure and doesn´t break down as much as myldsmail.net
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Sincerely,
Adam Rich
