Sister Courtney Gray: Semana DOS!!! Dominican Republic MTC

Hola amigos!!!

Holy cow this week flew by it seems like I was just writing you about my first week! well So much has happened this week I dont even know where to start!!! let me start by telling you that GOD LOVES YOU!!! he really does love each and every one of us and if you dont think so ask him!!!

So this week was crazy!! every day still is full of 11 hours of spanish classes and my spanish is coming along!! (kinda) (.. i hope it is hahah) but anyway on wednesday we got to go to the stores!! we usually dont go till our third week but i guess our teachers really like us hahahah! so anyway the store is about a 15 minute walk from the CCM (where we live) and holy cow.... i am so grateful I am from the US. They have a trash problem here so theres just bags of trash laying everywhere and the houses arent what you would expect theyre like small shacks and theyre lucky if they dont have holes in the roof cause it rains basically every day. But anyway the store was really nice! kinda like a little dominican walmart and it was just so exciting to be out and about!!1 everyone was staring at us and anywhere I go im the center of attention cause of my blonde hair and blue eyes... so we got some creepy stares and im sure some interesting comments hahah (good thing I couldnt understand them right?!?!) theres a bright side to everything ahhahahah! well anyway getting out of the classroom was nice.

Then on wednesday we went to the nearby park and did a service project which was super fun! we raked up leaves and trash and filled up literally 40 huge black trash bags... the portion of the park we cleaned looked alot better after we left!!! it was super fun working together with everyone! and occasionally when you would grab a huge pile of leaves a huge poisonesss centepede would crawl out and start coming at you!!1 scary! but I killed about 4.. I was the only Hermama who would kill them so everyone was either screaming for the elders or me when one popped up... hahahah speaking of bugs! there was a lizard in our room the other day and Hermana Olsen was screaming bloody murder so we ran in to see what was wrong and it was the cutest little lizard! hahah I picked it up and brought it outside... Hermana Olsens a whimp;) but I love her!!!

hmm a quote I really liked this week was "pray like everything depends on god, work like everything depends on you!!!!" and that HIT ME!!! we cant just pray and expect god to do everything!!! another one was "God doesnt answer unaksed prayers" YOU NEED TO ASK HIM!!! yes god knows all our thoughts but hes not just going to read your mind and every thought you have. He wants you to talk to him!!!

Someone told me this week "YOURE GOING TO PUERTO RICO?!?!? puerto ricos too small to hold all of your energy!!!" hahah that made me laugh!!! its so true!

LOVE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT WEEK

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