Week 68: Move to Santo Domingo with New Responsibilities

Mission Office Drone Shot: Find the Missionaries

How many clowns can you fit in a car?

Playing with the new drone.  President & Sister Santo are on the far left by Jeff.  Brother & Sister Buhler are in there too.

Christmas Lights on the Mission Office

Elder Wolfe & his new companion, Elder Cure

Elder  Cure, Elder Wolfe, Sister Santos, President Santos

Mission Office

Well Jeff hasn't written a letter in 3 weeks.  He's too busy.  On November 4th, right after a baptism, he was called by his mission president, President Santos, to be his assistant.  He is serving with Elder Cure, a Columbian, who  came into the mission the same time Jeff did.  He's a "SUPER cool! Amazing guy!"

We have been texting Jeff on Mondays so I'll share a few things from those chats.  He has been super busy, even after 3 weeks, he hasn't had time to unpack.  He lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks because he's been stressed with his new responsibilities & too busy to sleep.  This last Monday he said he finally got his appetite back.  He LOVES serving with President & Sister Santos and the senior couple, the Buhlers.  They all had Thanksgiving dinner together on Monday afternoon.  He said he ate way too much & "couldn't move for like an hour".

Their companionship has access to a truck & a smartphone, so he feels he's back in the 21st century again.  He loves driving & has mentioned his phone numerous times.  He got a drone & has had a lot of fun taking pictures of the mission.  His companionship has been serving their fellow missionaries than with the public now.  They works on transfers, taking missionaries to & from the airport, training the mission leadership & anything else President needs them to do.  I think they may of put up the Christmas lights.  He's had good training at home for that.

Overall he's doing well & enjoying his mission.  He figured out how to send us voice messages so hopefully next week we'll get a little more information.  Thanks for all the love & support.

Stacey & Ben

Waiting for a flight to arrive.  You catch up on your sleep every chance you can get.

Elder Williams, Jeff's MTC companion, & Elder Wolfe bumped into each other at the airport.
They were both picking up or dropping off missionaries.

Santo Domingo