Flip flop week, and a baptism!!

Another very exciting week in the DR! So I had to go not once, but TWICE to the capital to get my ingrown toenail out! Talk about painful. This whole week I've been only able to wear my white shirt and tie, slacks, and on my feet some Van's Flip Flops. Makes me really feel like I'm on a tropical island! They got all the nail out the second time I went, so now my little piggies are healing. Feels good not to be in constant pain! People who have had these know what I'm talking about.

Anyways! This week has been one of the best! We are taking to so many people, and the youth that are going to get baptized on the 29th (4 of them) have invited us to share with their families, who are very interested.
Julian, got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday, it was very special for him because he's been wanting to get baptized for about 2 years now. It was a great service.

As of now, we have 7 baptisms planned for the 29th. I'm very excited and I love to see the way the spirit works through each and every person differently.

Now I have many many pictures so don't be surprised when you get like 6 or more emails from me this week. Hope everyone has had a good week! Love you all!!
Elder Larkin

Mud.

Sooooo yeah Vicente Noble basically got DESTROYED. were we live basically it was just a big storm but I'm other parts even the asphalt street got washed away. It devastated some houses. This week we've done nothing but service. Helping people out and such. Like you know those pictures of the Mormons in the yellow vest things? Yeah that was us. Buy we missionaries didn't put them on cause we represent the church in a different way. I'll be alot more specific in my big email but yeah! It's been crazy. ALSO we have a baptism on Saturday! Julian passed his interview at our district conference and his baptism is this Saturday. Super exciting!

Everyone at home sounds really good! I'm glad to hear everyone is doing fun stuff :)

Wow. So for those of you freaking out over the storm here, I'm fine! :) My area of Vicente Noble? Not so much. The rain really did some damage over here. Where I live, the rain didn't do any damage, but it just rained HARD. Everywhere else though? Wrecked. There is tons and tons of mud. Like literal tons. There were some houses next to a canal that had 5 feet of mud inside them. Lots of people lost everything. Other houses only got about a foot of mud. And me saying that is only mild to what some stuff. The road, yes the asphalt road, is now gone. I don't know how it even happened. But it did.

Now, the only thing we have been doing this whole week, has been help. We have helped getting people's houses cleared out, helping getting new things for all these people and more. The church sent a bunch of stuff to the people affected. We've been going back and forth for days just doing this kind of stuff. It's really good to help out :) if you've seen the "Mormon helping hands" yellow vest things, thats the kinda stuff we've been doing. I have pictures uploading RN so when they are done I'll send them over!

So we have a baptism on Saturday! His name is Julian an he has 35 years. He's been investigating the church for 2 years but he is finally ready! I'm super excited for him.

It's been a heck of a week! But it's been a great one as well. I hope everyone also had an awesome one!
Elder Larkin

Hurricane Matthew!

First off Id like to appologize for not sending a big email last week. Sorry!

Anyways got an announcement! Im in a hurricane! Its hitting haiti right now but we're getting a ton of rain and where I am (the south) its gonna get the worst. Its said we're gonna get 4 feet of rain just where I am and it could go nonstop till thursday! Now dont worry we've got plenty of drinking water and food to last us a whole week. Its chill :) So probably we'll see a bunch of flooding, but we are here to help all the people here!  

So general conference was awesome! Its always a pleasure to see the prophet and apostles speak to us and give us counsel. President Monson said some very good things during the conference that I liked alot. These things we were invited to live to become closer to God.

• Do more than just believe in Jesus Christ and His mission. Work to learn of Him in the scriptures, come to know Him through prayer, and continually use His power to repent and improve.
• Know God’s laws and live them. It’s the only way to obtain true happiness.
• Live the truth.
• Share the truth.
• Care for our bodies and our minds by observing principles set forth in the Word of Wisdom.

This week we did some good :) We are teaching 5 people that are preparing themselves to be baptized in october. Ana, Julian, Keiny, Alex, and Yameli. They are all awesome and we are helping them get to that point where they need to be. 

Anyways thats all I got for this week, have a good one everyone!

Elder Larkin