wish I would have brought my old planner, I had tons of funny quotes that people said during this last transfer. I think theres a few more I can remember off the top of my head
One day we were doing a practice interview with one of our investigators for baptism and we got to the part about the word of wisdom and drinkink tea and stuff. We asked: '' Do you have any problems with té (tea) '' and he said '' Actually, yes. I do. I always use té. .'' followed by a moment of silence, '' Every day I tell people ' Yo te dije! ' (I told you!). '' Then we all laughed. You also use te to say you. You probably don't get that whitty joke but it left me and my companion just smiling and laughing the whole morning..
what else.. Oh! There was this nutso hindú, india herb-lady who always offers us wierd spiced drinks and weird flans and tarts. But one day she told us (and swears by it) that we needed to try her spaghetti batidas. Its like a chocolate shake with nothing other than cooked spaghetti noodles as the base. I was just waiting til she let it go quiet and would say she was joking or something, but she was 100% serious. Maybe she'll actually make it for us one of these days. A spaghetti milkshake. Who'da thought?
Oh yeah, along with that whole transfers thing!
I'm getting a new companion. He's from the Bahamas, six foot 3 (at least), has about 2 months in the mission and the name on his plaque is Elder Jeffers. I'm excited to see what he's like, he's from the same group as Elder Martinez/Rapalo, so I'll be finishing his training. He seems sweet. Got tatoos that come up above his collar and looks like a total gangster, so it looks like we we won't be getting jumped it any time soon. It's nice to know I've got another tall companion to watch my back.
We have 3 fechas that are semi-for sure. One is an older señora named Mercedes, she's going under 95% for sure. She just needs to kick coffee for good. Then our married couple, we're going over there tonight with the bishop and his wife. We invited them to be baptized the other week and the husband was all over it, but the wife was still hesitant. They've got 3 weeks consecutive at church, their kids love primary, we even caught her singing ''follow the prophet'' while she was cooking the other day. She's just got miedo to make the commitment. We've been fasting and prayin like mad that she'll come along, I guess it's just me wanting to push them off the cliff again.
So, the hope is that next time I write you, I'll have news with a solid baptismal date for the family.
anything else.. I'm probably missing a million things, guess you're gonna have to just work with that and seek the rest through revelation.
AH! AND.. AND.... Elder Graff is coming to the Santo Domingo zone! along with another chum, Elder Aplanalp (Jenn actually in in a math class with his sister). And Elder Aplanalp is gonna be living in my house. How sweet is that!?? Pretty much all my buddies from my last zone just follwed me here. whoo whoop!
Con cariño
Elder Tate
foto 1 - Francis and Jordana (the two little squirts were in the other room)
foto 2 - us
foto 3 - A cool new fruit, totally forgot the name.. Eguero? something like that
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