Santo Domingo (Espaillat) 13 - Beehives and Marriage

Santo Domingo (Espaillat) 13 -  Beehives and Marriage

Photo sent to Laura from an LDS family visiting the DR from Utah who happened to run into Taylor while they were visiting a park on Preparation Day

So a lot of interesting things happened this week. First off, on Tuesday we ate raw honeycomb. We were with a less active family when the dad, who isn't a member, busts into the house late from work with a GIANT bag full of honeycomb. Apparently, he found a HUGE beehive while he was constructing a house in the basement, the home of more than 2 million bees. I wish I would've had my camera but it's something I'm always gonna remember. I honestly almost got sick from all the honey we ate in that lesson. And we taught using the example of a beehive actually which was pretty sweet. The mother came to church for the first time in over a year which made us really happy to see. They stopped drinking coffee and they're on their way back into the church, slowly but surely.

Wilson is doing amazing. He has his baptisimal interview on Tuesday and if everything goes well, we'll be having his baptism this Thursday!!! He's really content with his progress and how much he's changed. We've been inviting everyone and we'll see how it all goes.

The Rodriguez Family is getting married on Thursday!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Góngora and I are really excited and the ward is putting on a surprise party Thursday night to support. They've loved their time in the church so far. Miriam's daughter, her husband and their two children also, who we were teaching, are getting baptized on the 7th! Elder Herrera and Wenzel have been helping them a lot and we're just working with the documents and marriage situation. But they're two very prepared families. We went on splits with Manuel and he loved it. He gave his testimony to a reference we're teaching and she came to church. He's gonna be a great future missionary.

Slowly, but surely, we're making progress with the investigators we're teaching and having fun in the process. Life is better than ever.

Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Graff