Hey ya´ll,
I got here to the Dominican Republic at about 315 ish. Then had to waitto get off and then had to go through customs and there was a lot of people so that took a while and then had to wait to find my luggage. I was on the plane waiting long enough that the bags had been coming off. I found my smaller bag of the two and couldn´t find my biggest one. I eventually found it on the ground. Someone pulled it off and didn´t put it back on so I was panicking a little until I found it. Found a baggage cart and then finished with the last part of customs and then went out the door. There was a lot of people standing outside the door waiting for family and friends. The elders were right next to the door and I walked right past them. They almost didn´t see me either because they were people watching and when I finally got out there they had been waiting for an hour. Then we loaded my stuff into the inside of the truck because the back was wet and good thing we did becasue it began raining really hard. Then they took me to Hermana and Elder Grange´s house for the few hours of sleep that I would get, it was about 4 when I go into bed. Elder Grange took a picture of us getting to the house. Then we went up and I got settled in and slept for 1 hour and 30 mins to 2 hours. Yeah I am running on low right about now. and it is only 430.
Then I woke up and they were already up because Elder Grange had to help out with transfer day. I got ready and stuffed the things I got out back into my bags and we packed them into the car and went to caribe tours, the bus stop which is the meeting location for all missionaries being transfered so you get where you are suppose to go. I met up with Hermana Clove, and Hermana and Elder Carroll, Hermana Malabi, Hermana Brimnley, Elder Morgan, Elder Alvarez, Elder Symons, Elder Esmay, Elder McDonald, Elder Garcia. Not to many people but it was fun to be able to see some friends. We waited there until it was out turn to get loaded into the truck to be taken to our area. My area is Villa Olga A. It is in the same zone as Tamboril. The church building has air conditioning in the chapel, which is nice until they freeze you out, which happens all the time. We have had a lot of zone conferences there.
I was the first dropped off in the truck. My companion is Hermana Salazar. She is from Costa Rica. I think we will be good friends. At first I was a little scared becasue before we weren´t really friends and she didn´t seem super friendly. But I was wrong. She thinks that I am going to `kill her`(Mission language) she is dying (going home) in september. We will see. We sat and talked a long while and then a member came over and we went to lunch at McDonald´s with her. Then to the nacional. Then we came back to the house and took a nap. We had called Elder Grange while we were at McDonald´s to see how I was going to get my stuff from the office. All the things that I left at the Grange´s they took to the office because they thought I would go and stay at the mission home, but that didn´t happen. But he wasn´t sure what was going to happen but he told me to take a nap. I guess I sounded groggy or something. So I complied. While we were napping he called letting us know he is bringing my stuff. I was really excited. He got there and I got all my stuff and he asked me does it feel real. I replied, well honestly it feels like I never left strangely. It is a weird feeling. My Spanish is still there. Just need to work on it and Hermana Salazar will help with that and I will help her with English so she is ready to take the test before she goes home. While Elder Grange was at our hosue he fixed our sink which was clogged and had a leak and attempted to fix the shower. He has to come back for that one. Before he left again he told me to get some sleep again. But it was time to write families.
And that is where I am at. I met the mission presidente and his wife this morning. They are super sweet. Still getting use to all the things they have to do. I was able to hang out with the new missionaries there are less than ten of them. When Hermana Castillo, the mission president´s wife introduced me to the missionaries she really put me high on a pole and waved me around. Hope that make sense becasue I can´t think of the right word for it. Then Hermana Grange who brought me there said to me, you´re only a missionary. Giving some reassurance to help me not be concerned.
I love Elder and Hermana Grange. They are just flat out awesome. My companion thinks so too.
That is about it or today. Just unpacking and later we will proselyte for an hour and then go to the church for an activity. We are watching Meet the Mormons. Which will be good. I can´t remember the number of times we tried to watch that while I was in the hospital but I kept passing out (falling asleep) I did that with a lot of movies that they tried to get me to watch.
Anyways, thanks all I love you all!! Hope that all is going swell!
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Todo Bien!!!
Hermana Buchanan
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