So this week has been great! Glad to hear about Ryan's baptism! Tell him congratulations for me!
Things over here have actually picked up a lot lately! We contacted this family a few weeks ago and they have been progressing soooo much. I haven't really been this invested in anyone yet on my mission. Their progression is my source of happiness. They are so prepared to hear the gospel and they have been progressing immensely. Their names are Milvia, Alberto and their daughter Katarin. They are awesome! They are all really intelligent, well-educated and not to mention, have a little moolah. Milvia actually works with the government marrying people - so guess what that means?! They are married! Which is a miracle in itself, let alone her helping others do the same. Last week I was on on intercombial with another missionary here and we taught them a really good lesson. Afterwards they said that they knew that the church is true. They said everything we teach is true and they have all prayed about it! Usually it takes a lot of time for people to actually get around to doing that . . . if they do it at all, but these people are ready. They always read their Book of Mormon assignments and everything. They went to church yesterday and hopefully we will be able to baptize them next week! I'll keep you posted on them.
So, for a personal experience . . . I'm not sure if this if funny or sad or both. Last week I was teaching a leadership training class for the Branch (the Bishop, RS President, Elders Quorum President, and other positions) and I was teaching about love. How that needs to be the purpose of all that we do in the church. Kind of like President Uchtdorf's talk in conference. And I was trying to get the point across that you show love through your actions. So, I asked the YW President, "how do you know your husband loves you?" and she was like, "I don't know. . . I don't know if he does". So that kind of threw me off for a sec. Then I asked another lady the same question and she said the same thing. She gave me the same answer! :( I kind of gave up after that and kind of moved on, cuz I honestly didn't know how to respond to that. I guess that doesn't sound funny in the least bit - but the way it happened it kind of was. I guess it showed me that the problems in the branch go way deeper than just not understanding how to serve in leadership. When Milvia and Alberto get baptized - I predict that they will be leadership ASAP.
Mom, you said that you wanted to hear about my companion, Elder Sloan. Um, he is from North Carolina, he comes from a broken family, most of whom are in-active (he was the only one in his house who went to church all throughout high school) and he is good at working with less active members because he had every excuse to be in-active, but he stayed strong. We get along really well. He taught me how to cook the traditional Dominican beans to put over the rice which was pretty cool - but yeah, we are a good companionship.
Elder Sloan with kids
Anyways, everything is going well here in Monte Plata! I am really starting to become close to some of the members here now - and I am expecting a lot of success soon!
Love, Elder McBride
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