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| Derek's District |
Things are going great here. I love the people here, they are so sweet and kind. The days are going a little bit faster but 1 day feels like a week and 1 week feels like a day. I love lunch here because it is so big and good but the other meals are so lame. I have to eat my cereal with unsweetened soy milk which is funky. Other then the fact that they dont cook their meat and some meat is from things I know dont know off, its pretty good food. The language is kicking my butt though. I have 600 words I have been trying to memorize so that I can Memorize the next 600. It is so much. The temple is so fantastic! It is a truly amazing temple. I love how it is kinda pink outside in the daylight. I have not been outside of the MTC/Temple grounds except for Tuesday when we went to the store for 30 minutes. We like to call this place a spiritual prison. People come visit the MTC all the time so we have opportunities to talk and bare testimony to them. They are wonderful people. Tomorrow I will get to finally leave again and go to the university to contact and proselyte. I am nervous but I am excited. Last Thursday after I wrote the email I got a hair cut from this Dominican man that comes to the MTC every other Thursday to cut hair for free and wow.... just wow...
We like to call him the Nazi barber. In one hand he has the electric razor and in the other a bug brush. Then he just starts wacking your head with them like he is in a boxing match or something. It is the most painful haircut ever!! The hair cut looks awful too. He left my bangs on one side long and then completely cut of the other side. My head felt Violated.
Now I will write about my companion. His name is Elder Christensen. He is the one standing right next to me in the picture of my district. He is a really good guy. He is from California. I am so glad that he is my companion compared to most of the people I could have had. The Haitian Missionaries just left yesterday and it was pretty sad. I really loved those guys. They were so funny! Once I recieve that cord to send pictures, I will send you some of them. I miss them already. I was learing french from them and now I have no one to teach me! Then new missionaries that replaced them are the Spanish speaking missionaries going to Puerto Rico. I don't know them much though. There also is now the first missionaries I have seen speaking English going to Jamaica! There is only two and they are Sisters from South American. We also had a missionary go home because he was homesick already and a sister go home because she kept fainting and not waking up. It was so sad.
There is so much to tell you and I cant remember it all. It is always so hot here. I get to go outside about 4 everyday to play and stuff. I havent seen much rain but they say it rains just a little bit everyday but just for a little while and then it is super beautiful skies.
The Dominican people have such beautiful voices. They can sing soooooo well. I love hearing them sing. Sundays are my favorite day of the week by far. They are so nice and peaceful. It is the one day we get where we can study the scriptures for yourself. I love it. We have sacrament meeting, sunday school taught by ourselves in our districts, priesthood meeting, doctrine class, and then we get to watch a movie!! Last Sunday we watched Joseph Smith. I love that movie. I love Emma Smith the movie the best though. Sunday nights we always get pizza, ice cream, and walk around the Temple too so its just so great.
So about letters, always use an American stamp. Also send me some American stamps in a letter so It gets here faster. They don't sell American stamps here. The reason I use American stamps is because they are sent to Miami church office and put into US postal service. When I send a letter home it will leave here Friday and get there in a couple days but when you send me mail it is impossible to determine when it will arrive because it goes to Puerto Rico first and then comes to the DR. Send packages to the Miami address, it takes around 3 weeks to get here but no one knows for sure. I love hearing from you!!
Love,
Elder Southwick
PS please send me some black gorrila tape asap! also my watch band just randomly snapped so please send me a new watch. I really loved this watch though... So I am going to attempt to fix it with gorilla tape.
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