Last Monday after P-day, we had a cool experience! We were sitting on a bench under a tree looking for an address on our map while it was pouring rain, when out of no where this woman came up to us and asked us if we could help her fix something on her phone. She said she's bad at technology and asked us if we could help her. So of course we did! We started talking and found out she's from the Dominican Republic. We told her we have a good friend from her country (Maria) that always makes us morir soñando. She lit up and said she makes the best morir soñando and we replied by explaining that we're always looking for new ones. She invited us to her house to try it, so we went the very next day and had some! She's super nice. Her name is Delmira. We gave her a Book of Mormon and talked about the restoration of the gospel. She's moving back to her country soon, but she says we can pass her information to the missionaries over there! So that was a cool experience meeting her. Morir soñando never fails when contacting Dominicans.
On Saturday, we had a talent show thing. In the church in Spain, each ward does an activity every October called La Noche de las Naciones (night of the nations). We did it when I was in Torrejon last year. Since there are so many nationalities in Spain, everyone brings a typical plate from their country and we have a big multi-cultural dinner. So that was super cool! We had a talent show before the dinner, and it was really good! The whole activity was just a huge success. We had 6 investigators come and they loved it! All of them actually ended up staying later than us.
I'm so grateful for the member support in this ward. They're so welcoming and just take over for us a lot. I've never served in a ward with this much member support. There are a lot of awesome families! The Vaca family invited us over for dinner one day this week. Hermana Vaca invited a couple that she works with that she wanted to introduce to the missionaries! It's a young Dominican couple and they're way awesome! We talked about our purpose as missionaries for a little bit and gave them a Book of Mormon, and then we all played UNO for a while and it was so fun. We get so competitive. And the couple totally trusts us! It was just a good natural conversation and then we played a game and had fun. We're going to begin teaching them this week. They came to the ward activity and had a lot of fun! We enjoyed getting to know them better! Moral of the story: Introduce your friends to missionaries because it's 1000 times more effective when the members are involved. Members have friends who trust them, which means they feel more comfortable if the member introduce them to the missionaries. And thus it is.
And so yeah.. The work is going well! We're having lots of lessons and teaching lots of people and staying real busy! Elder Escobar and I are killin' it out here! It's been really rainy all week, but that's ok because we're almost always inside homes anyway because there's so much work here so it's all good.
Love you all! Have an awesome week! Send me photos of your faces.
Elder Hendrix
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