HALFWAY,SHOTS,BAPTISMS,INTERVIEWS

It's my halfway mark CHEVERE :) It's gone by super fast!

Also, this week was CRAZY!!!

Tuesday: We went to the capital to see why my hip was hurting so bad. It turns out that I have some sort of bursitis or tendonitis in both of my hips. SOOO, I had to get shots of something on my one side to see if it would help (it does.) Now I will have to go and get it on the other side. PARTY!!

Wednesday: We had interviews with president! They were great!

I love interview days

Thursday: NINE MONTHS IN THE MISSION (HALFWAY). It was a very trunky day for me, also completely fantastic. Now I am on the downhill.

Friday: We put another baptism date for a 20 year old named Johnfrey. He found us on the street and asked us how he can become a member.  Love it when that happens!

Saturday: THREE BAPTISMS :)))))) YIMI,YIRI, YEREMY WERE BAPTIZED. I'M AM SO HAPPY! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND ALSO HILARIOUS BECAUSE AFTER THEY CAME OUT OF THE WATER THEY SWAM OUT OF THE FONT BECAUSE THEY HAD NEVER BEEN IN A SWIMMING POOL BEFORE AND THE BAPTISMAL FONT WAS THE FIRST "POOL" THEY HAD EVER BEEN IN!  :)

Sunday: Four confirmations. Also, we ate Sancocho at a members house (so yummy)

Also, hermana Jackson and I are being super fitness now and I have found a new love for ginger. We make homemade juice with a lot of ginger.

Love it here and love you all!

Hermana Shepherd

Miracles, transfer #7

Hey!!   I'm going to be really quick but this week was AMAZING!!!

We had two baptisms. Veronica and then Carlos. They went so well. Our mission in July brought 213 souls into the waters of baptism!   We are becoming a consecrated mission and the Lord has blessed us to find such prepared people. Carlos missed his confirmation because his mom had to go to the capital to get hearing aids!  She is going to be able to hear!  Before she was deaf and mute. We could not be happier!

Transfers are here and I'm staying with Hermana Jackson in Villa Verde. This is the first time in a while that I have stayed the same! I am so excited. We were both praying that we would stay together. 

We are putting baptism dates with ton of prepared people. We have the blessing to see the fruits of the labor we have been putting in. :)

ALSO, THERE WAS A DEAD BAT IN OUR CLOTHING DRYER  AND I MAY HAVE ACCIDENTLY KILLED IT BECAUSE I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS THERE.  OOPS!

Love you all,

Hermana Shepherd

Baptism in La Ramona

This week was awesome!  We had a baptism for Dinanyiri! She is 15. Her dad is a recent convert. We also put a whole bunch of people on date for this next month. We are working really hard and should have two more baptisms this week. We are finding more and more people everyday that are so prepared for baptism. I am super excited for Veronica to get baptized. She is so adorable. She is in her 50s, and she is so so pumped. 

 Life has been great  here in the DR. I bought another moomoo. You know those nightgown things. They are so cold to sleep in. I love it.  In one of the pictures Hermana Jackson and we are wearing our tubies. EVERYONE uses them here to keep their hair straight and nice. they work really well. 

Hermana Jackson is fantastic. She already knows so much and came to the field ready. We have transfers next week and we are praying that we will stay together. 

One thing that's sad. I can feel my body breaking down from how much its gone through lately. I am so sore all the time. But it's fine. It's normal for this point in the mission. Just keep going :) Also, I have never drank so much water in my entire life.  I always need more.

Anyway. this week was fantastic. I am so excited for the next one. :)

Love you all,

Hermana Shepherd

Our moomoos

Big bug by my bed

Translating for dentists

This week was so fun!  On Tuesday and Wednesday we got help some dentists from Washington who came on a humanitarian visit to help the people with their dental needs. I helped translate for them!  I think they sent a picture to my mom. (at the bottom on this post)  Anyway , it was cool to see people from my home state. They gave us a bunch of donated clothes and baseball gear to hand out to our investagators. 

There is this group of boys (like ten years old) that we walk past everyday and everyday they are blaying baseball with a stick and a water jug cap. When they see us they run over and try a different ways to be as tall as my companion (who is 6'4). They stand on rocks, fences, etc...  It's quite funny.   We are going to give them some of the baseball gear that we received.  They will be so excited!

We have some really good people that we are teaching right now. One of our investagators just left for EFY, and she will have a baptism date when she gets back. We have another bapstism planned for the 23rd. All is well here is Villa Verde. 

Weird thing. I had three men come up to me and talk to me in English all on the same day at diiferent times. Two were very interested and one came to church!   It feels really awkward when people talk to me in English. I don't like it.  haha!

I am still struggling with ameobas this week and feeling pretty sick.  So thats not fun, but I will be better soon and then we can work really hard!

Love you all! Have a good week!

Hermana Shepherd

Me and Hermana Jackson taken by the dentists from Washington while we were translating

Happy 4th of July!

Hello, 

This week was super great!   We went to the temple. My favorite expierence in the temple yet. I am so grateful for the spirit that I can feel there.

This week we saw a lot of miracles and we also set a baptism date with a woman we are teaching. 

I don't remember if I sent an email last week, so I willl talk about last week a little bit also. I am training Hermana Jackson, my second Hermana Jackson in a row. She is from Oregon. She is 6 foot 4. She has great animo and already is jumping into the teaching and talking with everyone.

We had a lot of people stop us on the street this week who have a lot of potential. We are very excited. Jeancel our recent convert got the priesthood this last sunday. YAY!

This week and last were awesome. I love training.

Me and my new comp Hermana Jackson with President and Sister Corbitt

It's my birthday!

Hey, I'm offically 20,  so thats pretty neat.   Also, I hit seven months in the mission a couple days ago, but most importantly...

WE HAD A BAPTISM YESTERDAY!  His name is Jeancel.  He is 17 and  is here from Haiti. He does not know  any Spanish. so we taught with people that could translate and when they couldn't come we taught with pictures. We lost him for like a week because he doesn't have a phone or anything and we didn't know where he lived. Every time we have taught him it's been with a member.  We were having a cosecha and some other elders found him and gave him his interview and everything and then he was baptised the next day. Sorry, it's hard to explain in detail while I am rushed but it was way cool. He was so excited. 

Transfers are here already. I am staying in VIlla Verde and I am going to train a brand new person. We won't know who until Tuesday. But my old companion Hermana Pereira will be in my house with me again. I am pretty excited for these new adventures. 

I think that is all for this week. Sorry if I don't make sense. I am really rushed. I forgot my port to plug in my camera. I will definitly do it next week. 

Love you all and thank you for the birthday wishes!

Hermana Shepherd

Happy Birthday Tayson!

This past week was good.  My companion still has a sprained ankle so we stayed in for a little bit. 

We are teaching a couple families that are progressing really well. We still have problems of getting people married. We are planning to go to the temple and bring a couple of our investagators  with us so that will be good.

Cool thing, I ate cow liver!  It was not very good and very hard to chew.  I also saw my first dead dog this week. It was lying on the sidewalk with flies and stuff all over it. It was pretty gross. 

We went to the beach this week. It was  really pretty and we took some pictures but my camera died so i will put some up this next week. 

One cool thing. We have an investagator from Haiti, he only speaks Creol (French) so we have to have a member that can translate for us. He wants to be baptised and we are working with him on that. He is less that 18 so we need parents permission but his parents are in Haiti and its a 4000 peso trip one way. That's like 80 dollars I think. Something like that, and he dosnt have that kind of money to spend. So we are going to wait till he is 18 and can get a passport.

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Anyway, I hope you all had a good week!   Tell Tayson happy birthday tomorrow if any of you see him.

Love you guys!

Hermana Shepherd

Note from mom - Brittin will be celebrating her 20th birthday on June 20th.  I am sure she would be thrilled to get some birthday cards in the mail or even some emails wishing her a happy birthday.  Info for all that is on the right hand side of this blog.  Let's make this birthday a special one for her.