Week Cinco

Hello! Sorry, this will be a short email this week. 

Our weeks are so busy! Everyday is so long and I am completely pooped at the end of the day. But I like it. Its a full schedule but life is good. There is so much work to do in our area! And I didnt realize how big our area is until my comp and I walked the whole thing. We have seriously probably only contacted an eigth of our area.Its so big! Our schedules fill up with appointments up to the next week. Everyone we meet always agrees to a next visit but thats just how the culture is. So its great but at the same time, the Dominicans are terrible at keeping commitments. And asking them to go to church is a really big deal. So that is where we struggle the most. Getting the people to do what we ask them and to come to church. We invite so many people to church everyday but maybe only 3-5 actually come. It is really sad and frustrating but thats just how it is here. 

General Conference was this last weekend! I hope all you watched/ listened and took advantage of it! The sessions were all in spanish here soooo I didn´t understand any of it which was really sad. I was really looking forward to conference, I always do. So I pretty much studied the scriptures and last conference issue in the Liahona the whole time. But the music was wonderful! (the only part in english). So If anyone wants to send me their favorite talk from one of the sessions, I would love it! 

Other than that, life is good. I really have a terrible time thinking of what to email about. If you have any specific questions, email them to me and I´ll include the answer in next week´s letter. Then I can talk about specific things that you find interesting that seems normal to me :) 

The weather is still sooooo hot. The hottest part of the day is between 1-3pm. But it cools off fast at about 5pm. Everyday at that time, clouds roll in. I love all the fresh produce and fruit available here. There´s a big flea market we sometimes go to. There´s all sorts of produce. And you have to buy everything green because the next day itll be ripe. My favorite are the avocados and pineapples. The avocados here are HUGE ande delicious. And theres lots of red to orange to green tomatoes. Green tomatoes are actually very good. A common meal we have here are avocado and tomato sandwiches. Two other things I love here are empandas and juice. Empanadas are sold on like every street corner. They are delicious. We have to be careful about buying street food but we have a couple of stands we now are safe. I want to become an expert empanda maker. And the juice is to die for. We go to a particular place that sells fresh juice, everything from cherry to coconut to oatmeal to grapefruit, etc. A common loved juice here is called Chinola. I was told it is Passionfruit but I dont think it tastes like passionfruit. I dont know. Its good though. I will get fat from empanadas and juice and I am just fine with that. Because its all super cheap! An empanada is about 50 cents in the US. and they are big. Two fill me up. Anyways... thats the random story of the day.

Sorry, no pics again this time. I forgot my camera cord. Next week, I promise! 

Love you all! 

Con amor,

Hermana Dibble