Elder Jeff Wolfe's Mission in the DR: Week 30: My First Earthquake

Group 2/27/17

Another super fast week here on the mission! The truth it felt like yesterday I talked with home! We had a pretty good week.

Tuesday we had splits again but I went to my area with Elder Nelson. We saw a lot of people but none of the appointments where outstanding. We taught this new family we found last week that are really cool. Their neighbors sat down to listen too.

Wednesday was pretty laid back. I got a lot of personal study in. We visited a couple recent converts in the first part of the day. We usually try to pass by them once a week and read a chapter in the Book of Mormon with them or share a message. After that we went to another new family. They didn´t read but we told her how much this message could help her family. After her we went to a lady’s house. She wants to go to church and learn more and stuff but she is really lazy. She doesn't want to keep a lot of the commitments we leave with her. After that we helped a lady move. We just moved her bed and box frame. There is this dog that lives next to her that is so big and looks like it could kill some one in under a second! Super cool dog! It was almost jumping this 6 foot fence!

Thursday was good and we got out in the morning and visited one of our strongest investigators. She has a baptism date for the 8th of April. She is progressing really well and is learning about the Plan of Salvation right now. We went back home for lunch. Once we headed back out again we met with another one of our investigators. She is super nice but doesn´t quite get the point of our teachings and is probably not quite ready for the Gospel. We had a member leave with us and we went to the other part of our area to see a couple people. We saw members and less actives then came back around to see another awesome member family. After them we went to the reference they gave us and met a couple new people and shared them a message. We finished the night at another reference from the Bishop. They are pretty cool and read the pamphlet this time. The only bad thing was that we didn´t have water all day.

Friday was fun. We first started the day off with a nice run. I went with Elder Solis from Mexico and we have done this run twice now. It is on this dirt road in the country part of our area and is about 5-6 kilometers. Super fun and really gets that heart going haha! After that we got washed up with a bucket again because we don't have water then we went to our district meeting. This is when all the missionaries in a certain area meet together to talk about how we can do better and what we need to do. After that was lunch and we just went and ate some crap. We then saw one of our pregnant investigators. She doesn´t feel to great but wants to learn. The plan is to teach her all the lessons in this time while she is always at the house then once she can walk to church we will see if she would like to take the step of baptism. After her we went and saw an old investigator we dropped about two weeks ago. They are good and want us to pass by again haha. We then went to another new investigators house and he knows a lot about the Bible but doesn´t go to a church. He was very open and liked what we taught and I think he will progress. We then went to one of our awesome family investigators, then another family near by that have family in the church but don't want to convert quite yet but we always keep in contact. After that we went to the church to teach our class. Not many people came this week. Pretty fun day in general though!

Saturday we went and played soccer and basketball at the church. That is always super fun and a couple members came. After that we went to the house to study and eat! The rest of the day was fun and I went with Elder Nelson again. We went to a less active then to a investigator family. Both are doing alright but not the best. We taught a really good lesson together that really grabbed their attention. They were asked question and realized a lot of things that weren´t quite the same in their lives. After that we had two of our appointments fall through and so we contacted for about 2 hours and found no one good. We then heard word about a baptism at our chapel so we got as many of my investigators and we took them to the chapel to see. I got six to come! After that we watched the restoration video with one of our investigators. Super cool day and got some serious work done! Super fun to see the light of these people change when they start to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives.

We got the call today of who goes where and stuff. Elder Pinto my companion is going to be district leader in Las Caobas Buenas Aires. He will be in the same Zone as Elder Pearson. I will be receiving another Honduran who is from the same group as Elder Pinto. We don't know much about him but he does play basketball! It was fun being with Elder Pinto and interested what the future holds for me.

Sunday we went to church and that was fun. We then came home and took a cat nap then headed out to say bye to all the people for Elder Pinto. Its kind of fun because we see our favorite people. We played a little dominos and also got fed a dinner at our Bishop’s house. When we where eating we felt an earthquake. It was the first one I have ever felt and it was pretty strong! It rocked my chair quite a bit! You experience a lot of things on the mission!

That was my fast week! Work is progressing bit by bit and I am learning more every day! I will never be the same person I was before the mission. The mission makes you who God wanted us to be!

Elder Wolfe