DR Life 12-20-2021

 

It's been a crazy first week, my companion is Elder Fairbanks, he's pretty dope. He's a pretty big guy and is fluent in Spanish cuz he lived in Perú for 3 years before the Mish, he's actually younger than me. In my first 15 minutes in my new area there was a 16 year old kid in the middle of the street, naked as can be, dancing and leaving nothing to the imagination. So that was a weird first night. I probably shouldn't have said that in an email but it's alright.

Here in the DR the people are so nice and welcoming, it is a 3rd world country so the people are very humble and amazing. Our apartment has no AC, not hot water, no carpets, you can't drink the water. But we do have a water filter so I feel very fortunate haha. Almost everyone has a motorcycle. Almost all of our lessons are outside on the street infront of their house, so we usually have to stop the lesson every 5 seconds because someone is popping a wheelie past us on their motorcycle. People also ride their horses around town. There are stray dogs on every street and people blasting music in every house. Everyone here also thinks I either look like Harry Potter or spider man. 

The Spanish here is very hard to understand because they speak very fast and don't say certain letters in their words. So my comp does all the teaching, but I've said the First Vision quite a bit though. I've made friends with all the little kids and guys my age. Especially this one guy named Leury, he's a lover but he's chill. I honestly love experiencing all this new stuff and I can't wait until I can actually understand the Dominicans. I know there's a lot I'm leaving out cuz so much has happened I can't remember all of it. 

I have some really dope pics on my small portable camera, but I can't figure out how to transfer them to the phone right now. So I took some pics of the stuff on my camera lol.