Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission

Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission

Sunday, May 3, 2015

(4/27/15) Esssss Hot!

My son, peace be unto thy soul. Thine adversities and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment, and if thou endure it well God shall exalt thee on high, thou shalt triumph over all of they foes.
I'm listening to some orchestra music and those lyrics just came on. That's about hot it was for us this week. But a great great for me. Not so much for my companion, but that's later.
We're seen a lot of miracles lately, they're really all coming just when they need them too is how I feel. Mercedes has completely kicked coffee. She says it was all because of a blessing we gave to her a few weeks ago. She swears that she had angels hand placed upon her head, and will still to this day say that's why she gave it up. And yesterday we watched the Restoration at the church with her and a few other investigators - without little kid interruptions or sudden power outages - and it was excellent. She'll interview tomorrow and'll be in the waters this friday. Be thinking of her!
We past by a contact we did a few weeks back and she took a baptismal date right then and there. Now if we can just fix a time when her crazy mother in law isn't there to tell us she's not interested I'm feeling that she can progress.
Lately we've been doing a lot of new contacts, Elder Jeffers and I, that always makes the day a lot more interesting. There are just so many of the cream of the crop nut jobs scattered across this one of a kind country. That's all I'm gonna say.
We're writing a lot earlier than normal because we're temple bound this Wednesday or maybe Friday. I just can't wait, it's the best to be in the temple. It's gonna be just that much more worth it when It's us all going to a session together. The whole family sitting in peace in the celestial room. Now that's what i'm REALLY looking foward to.

After which we'll gonna head back to the doctor to see what's the deal with my companion. He's been having some real strong pains in his chest and headaches that come and go throughout the day. They said it was bronchitis and and bad sinus infection.. But he won't take those as answers. He's gonnna need some real spiritual and mental strength more than anything to get through this. To me, i feel it's in his will power and drive to push through the pain. I know sounds rough, but we've got a lot of work here to do. We'll see if we can't get some more advice from the doctor this week.
Before we go, I just wanna say that this is all going way too quick. I want it to go slower, but the more work you put in and the more you want to make the time last - the faster it goes. And it's sad to me, you see a lot of missionaries wishing their time away, wanting to be somewhere else (time-wise, area, companion, leadership positions etc.), but this is where it's at! These are our days! I'm happy the be where I am and I know these last few are gonna be the best months of my mission.
Love you all a mountain
Elder Tate
1) sunday lunch
2) from the other day
3) this guy




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