ONE TWO GO: Letter from 4/23/2014

You will never believe where we went this week.... THE TEMPLE!!! That´s right, we left the mission... que desobediente. hahaha. No, President gave us permission because there weren´t enough members at the last minute, and they were going to cancel the trip! But what a blessing. I went to a session in Spanish. Normally they give headphones in your native language, but we entered in at the last minute. We also went to the sealing of a family from our ward. They have a little boy and a little girl. How precious was that experience. I also saw some of my teachers from the CCM!! But... I forgot to take pictures with them. Haha. But it was SO fun to see them again. I was so happy to have the chance to catch up and joke around. I´ll definitely be facebooking them after the mission. (I even saw Hermano ¨gonna kill somebody¨ Nuñez!!) Haha.

Here is another pic of me in the caves, with a face! There were like three or four different faces like this. I sent a picture of me making kissy faces with one to Austin. Somebody make sure he uploads it. haha.

To get to the temple, we had to pass through Bonao (see pic). Bonao is SO green and SO beautiful. I fell in love with it. There were these bright green, lush valleys among the mountains, but I didn´t get a good pic. But wow. The other pic is of me at some caves in the park across the street from the temple. How cool is that??

Anyway, we just passed through the semana santa here in the DR. This means habituelas con dulce... or sweet beans! It´s like a soupy pudding made out of liquified beans, sweetened condensed milk, powdered milk, cloves, cinnamon, batatas (I have no clue what the english equivalent of that is), and raisins. They are actually way good, but we ate them in about 10 different houses, so I think I´m good for a while. Haha. Anyway, I think that´s about all I have time for (unfortunately!) but we are supposedly going to Puerto Plata next week for a sister´s meeting. Gorgeous pics should follow!! I love you all, and apologize for lack of deep doctrinal insight, but I have been studying in Jesus the Christ and the Book of Mormon institute manual. I highly recommend them both.