How was everyone´s Christmas? Filled with family, good food, and music, I hope!
My Christmas this year was very tranquillo (chill). I thoroughly enjoyed all the Christmas messages we were able to share this month. but somehow it didn´t quite feel like Christmas. Probably because there was no snow on the ground and I was surrounded by palm trees. Seriously so strange.... I´m so used to cold and snow and sledding and ice skating and doing other outdoor activities for Christmas. but it was still a good Christmas nevertheless :)
Christmas (which is the bigger holiday here than Christmas day itself) we ate dinner at an investigator´s house. So good! All sorts of Dominican dishes that I don´t know the names of. It was really really delicious though. On Christmas day, we (us sisters in the house) opened some small gifts we got from our families or from each other. Then we met up with the Elders in our zone and had a potluck lunch together. Us hermanas made cake and peach cobbler for dessert. then we all just played games and talked until we got to skype our families. (which was wonderful :)
Yep, very calm... but still very good :) Hey! Tomorrow is New Year´s Eve! And yes, Dominicans do celebrate that too. We´re going to order pizza and maybe drink some sparkling apple cider. Pizza and cider in the DR? yeah weird... but luckily there´s a really good pizza restaurant here in San Juan. It almost tastes American :) And the cider is a speciality that´s only available around the holidays. Kind of expensive but definitely worth it.
In other news, we have one baptism set for the 17th of January. He´s been an investigator for awhile now and goes to Church consistently. He had a date back in november but that fell because he didn´t feel ready. We´re really praying that he´ll stick to this date and follow through. We read with him and taught him the Vision of the Tree of Life in the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 8. And it was so cool to watch him go from not understanding the vision at all to completely understanding it after our lesson. It was a really neat and a very satisfying lesson because when the investigator understands, you feel very happy. It´s a moment you share together as ¨teacher and student¨. One of the first things he said after he understood the lesson was that he wanted us to start working more with his family. He told us that he too wants his family to partake of the fruit that is ¨most desirable and precious above all other fruits¨. this Gospel is true! And remember that the fruit of the tree of life represents the love of God or eternal life which we attain through Jesus Christ who is the greatest of all gifts that God has given us. remember that there is only one path to attain eternal happiness! 2 Nephi 10:23
I love you all! Thank you for everything! Happy New Year´s!
siempre,
Hermana Dibble
My parents sent me a ginger bread house kit in a package!
My new comp and I
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