Our first teaching session in the CCM and our first drive in our car.

We went to the Temple yesterday, a three minute walk. I liked being with the Elders and Sisters and knowing most of the Temple workers.  This is a beautiful temple here.  Cindy described our day like this:

"We had our first Santo Domingo Temple experience today as patrons.   Every Thursday they let the missionaries go through so our session was in English.   It is a beautiful temple.   When I got into the chapel it was empty, when I sat down I had this incredible overpowering feeling telling me you are in a very holy place.   Can't say I have had the same feeling in our temples.   Maybe I just never had my ears open before. It was wonderful knowing so many of the temple workers.   Our friends, the McDermids were the officiators for our session.   We had many of the Haitian missionaries in our session.   They have not been endowed before they come to the MTC so had their first session with the temple president last week. I wonder what is going through their minds and hearts as they sit in that incredibly beautiful place.

We also had our car delivered today.   It was late afternoon so we won't go driving today, maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow is our first medical presentation to the missionaries in the MTC. It is hard to know what is of the most importance and how one might say it so they would actually listen and do it. Until they get really sick they probably think they are invincible.
  Thank you, Allison, for the first letter to arrive in the Dominican Republic.   We loved it, it was very sweet and I think your handwriting is great. It takes a lot of time to write a letter and we appreciated all your thoughts.   If I were your teacher, I would give you an A+. "




Next week we will start working in the Temple, two sessions each week.  We will need to memorize in Spanish over time, so keep those prayers flowing our way.

We took the car out today, the McDermids needed to go to the area office so I decided to drive them and they could help navigate.  Our car is a light gray Corolla, good air conditioning.   The drive is really very easy and went fine, the rules for driving are a bit different at stop signs, lane changes, etc.  I think once I learn the rules and keep vigilant for motorcycles, it will be ok.