Boca Chica 12 - Dominican Superbowl

Boca Chica 12 - Dominican Superbowl

Hey everybody hope you guys all had a fun time watching the SuperBowl yesterday and that the commercials were at least a little bit funny cause they were lame last year. I still don´t know what happened with the super bowl anything about it cause it´s not that big of a thing here haha. But I´m sure I´ll find out eventually.

 

But anyway, I don´t have a lot of time first off because all of the Internet centers that are close to us were full so we had to walk FAR to get to one that was open where we could write, so this letter will be pretty short and without pictures which I´m sorry about.

This week was crazy but awesome at the same time. First off, I had to say goodbye to my "dad" Elder Tate. He left early in the morning Tuesday for the capital and that goodbye was tough because we had such a good time together and he´s a stud. But I´ve heard he´s doing good over there right now. I did get a new companion though named Elder Mendez. Obviously by the name, he´s a Latin! He´s from Mexico and he has 10 months in the mission!! He´s so legit! Were really different people and we teach and think differently but we´re having an awesome time together so far. Elder Gee got a new companion too who has 7 months so we have a REALLY young house for the norm in this mission which will be interesting. 

We did have some AWESOME experiences with one of  our investigators Maria this week though. First when Elder Mendez and I went there for our lesson on Tuesday, as soon as we sat down inside she got really excited and told us they had a surprise for us. She ran and got her husband and brought out TWO MARRIAGE RINGS. Turns out that they saved up the money and got the rings, ordered pants for her husband, and they have the rest of the marriage papers. They´re getting married in 10 days and she has a date for her baptism the following Saturday on the 21 of February! We had the activity for the church at her house on Wednesday and a ton of people showed up from the Ward. The topic was "the family" and it was an awesome time.  I really think she felt the love and support that the Ward has for her which is going to help her a lot. And just last night, we went over there with a member named Neorka and had a really spiritual lesson. At the end, Elder Mendez and I felt inspired to ask Maria to share her testimony with her family about her progress and the things she now knows to be true about the gospel. It was one of the most powerful testimonies I have heard in my life. She got very emotional and just poured out all her feelings about the Church and the Savior and at the end thanked us for the Spirit and feelings that we´ve brought into her home. She is doing so well and we´re very excited for her.

That experience with her testimony really hit me hard and especially what she said about "The Spirit we have and the feelings we´ve brought into her home". It really hasn´t been anything we´ve said, done, or the friendship we have that has helped her get to this point where she is now in the gospel. It´s the TRUTHFULNESS and SPÎRIT that there is in this message. I´m so grateful for this church. I know it´s true. If I didn´t before my mission, I KNOW IT now. The changes that I have seen in myself and the lives of others has affected me and developed my testimony about this gospel so much. And I´m so grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a missionary.

All of the other people we´re teaching are doing well too and I wish I could share everything with you guys but I just don´t have the time. Just know that I´m doing awesome and that everything is fine down here. I hope you all have a good week and that everything is going well.

Hasta la proxima semana,

Elder J. Taylor Graff (Tgraff)