The Week In Review!

Hm.... what happened...
This week we were so busy, but it felt like none of it was missionary work. Getting activities ready, the Christmas Conference, Zone Meeting, etc.

We had a musical, written by yours truly, Hna Erickson, and Elder Forsyth to Disney songs, telling the story of Samuel the Lamanite, modern-day missionaries (Hna E. and I were a companionship duet)-- all illustrating the line from the commission: He sido seleccionado como representante personal del Senor Jesucristo (um, I've been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ).  (You probably could have googled that).
It was incredible, I wish I could send the video, but you wouldn't understand it anyway. We had a blast.

Elder Gatherum and me having our "Logan resident reunion" at the Christmas conference.

Our gifts from Pres and Hermana Rodriguez. They had temple recommend holders in them.

We also are so busy with our recent converts that finding new investigators has suffered a little bit. You have to kind of wean them off having the missionaries over when they used to have them every day. And there's still stuff to teach them. Yolanda is feeling quite abandoned because we only visited her once the last two weeks. Gotta teach them to start being independent. And it sure makes the numbers look bad when you had a bunch of lessons and then as soon as you baptize them, they stop counting. But that's where we're at right now. A couple others here and there. But it's a good problem to have: baptizing your whole teaching pool. So busy, but we need to get busy finding some families. We're getting super excited for Christmas!

On Friday night we got to take Iris and her kids to a devotional at President's house (Antonio had to work last minute).  It only took us a public car, a big gua-gua and then a little gua gua to get there, and then walking, but we made it. It was incredible. As a generalization that should be taken in the best possible way, singing is not a national strong point of the Dominican Republic. Baseball:yes, choirs: no. But they had a 10 person multi-stake acappella choir that was incredible. It was so much fun. You could only go if you brought an investigator family or a recent convert family, and we were the only Hermanas there. We ended up gettting home at 10:30 p.m., which was not the funnest. But we loved the choir.

Elvis met Pres Rodriguez who came to visit the rama (branch), and Pres. Rodriguez almost cried when he saw how far Elvis walks to church. Elvis and Antonio are both ward missionaries and on fire. They're incredible.

I died laughing reading Hailey's letter about Elders getting skinnier and Hermanas getting fatter. It is the truth no matter where you are. It doesn't make sense when you're in a walking mission where you cook for yourself and don't have a dinner hour and sweat out everything, but it happens just exactly like that. This is us lamenting the extra.

I wake up cold now.  I love hot chocolate every morning.  But by 10 a.m. it's really hot again.

This is Rachel's Bday, Pearl Harbor day, and "wear a scarf as a vest" day:

My trainer is heading home!

Love you all, thanks for the love in the form of packages and prayers, the only love languages that matter out here!
Love, Hna Peck

P.S. Next monday we're making gingerbread houses as a district, so that should be fun!