Week 66

This week was an amazing one, miracles happened in our area! we had 9 investigators come to church including a family of 7 (only 4 with the age of accountability) but it was amazing to see the faith of the people in our area. La hermana Encarnación showed exceptional faith, she can not walk, nor use her left arm, she is always confined to her bed, or recliner chair in her house, she doesnt have a wheel chair or anything, but she, her two childeren, and her 4 grandchilderen made it to church this week, it seriously brought tears to my eyes seeing here all dressed nicely sitting at the back of the chapel, we carried her in a chair all around the church and she felt the spirit so strongly, says she and her family want to continue coming to church. biggest blessing of the week for sure. Also, we found a couple more families and prepared people, Jenny now has a date for november, and we are working with 6 jovenes and thier families, kids from the english class, super cool and prepared! really am full of gratitude this week, We always try to express that gratitude and ask our heavenly father forgiveness for our many flaws as individuals and as a companionship. But the work is progressing and we couldnt be enjoying it more!

The branch president said he is going to talk with the stake, he was moved to see her show up as well!

another family that is progressing, even though they didnt make it to church this sunday was the Rodriguez family, miguel and patricia, miguel came with us, or better said, took us to a church activity this tuesday, he has a car and drove us from our area to the church, walking is about a half an hours distance, so that was a blessing. Miguel is pretty sick, with cancer, and lung problems from smoking, but he is very interested in the church, its cool to see him changing, at first he asked dim questions like "where was god when my christian neighbor got robbed, or when my wife got injured" and after explaining the plan of salvation, he could explain clearly to his wife that due to the fall, and our agency, we live in an imperfect world, but that in the next life all justice will be wrought! he is a stud to say the least...

really was a good week, missing home a little more now that the holidays are coming closer!

also, the power got fixed, so we have light now :)

we have an old gas stove, with a refillable tank, we have to take it to a gas pump and fill it up then connect it below the house, its an adventure...

not much more to say, today elder call and i are doing an exchange to go back to paraiso oriental so he can say goodbye and so we can visit Jesus and Kateryn, they are basically less active now... we are gonna see what we can do to help :)

love you all, hope you have a good week! CTR always! the Lord lives and answers prayers, pray always, he listens!

ELDER AUGER

Week 65

The Hurricane this week didnt even touch us, a little rain is all, really lucky i guess, we are all praying for Haiti, lot of interesting questions coming out of that, great way to preach the plan of salvation...

we are all good, still no water or light, but it should get fixed soon ;) hahah

dont have tons of time this week, but i do want to share one cool spiritual experience,

We contacted a family a while back named the family Rodriguez, they are way cool, the wife is looking for a new church because of things that she didnt like in her old one, and the husband is battling terminal cancer because of 45 years of smoking, the gospel is gonna bless their life. the wife, patricia, told us about a dream she had about he and her husband, she told us about how they were dressed all in white and were in this big stretch of grass, with palm trees and lots of flowers, and they wanted to go over to the other side, but her husband said that it wasnt time yet, in the dream she said she felt so happy, and wanted to know if that was heaven, thinking to what i should say to that, i took out of picture i have of the DR temple and showed it to her, it has a huge lawn of grass, tons of palm trees and flowers, and i said, the people that enter in there dress in white, it is a place where the family can be together forever! the spirit was so strong, we are going to go back and teach them again tonight!

apart from that, we preached in the rain on tuesday, that was fun, and wet. i cooked lunch, dominican food you guys will like to eat when i get back! and we visited candida from la LLave, super cool, elder beard and ramos went as well, fun p day today!

all is well here, sorry for the brief letter, love you all tons, talk next week!

ELDER AUGER

 this was when we went out in the rain, super fun,

 elder lopez took a pic of his comp cooking, he is teaching me tons!

 this is la LLave squad, super cool to see candida, onelbin, darcia and elder ramos again, love them tons! 

 also took a pic, the same group of us, with almost 15 months in the mission!

 this is a pic of my surroundings, we sleep out side on the porch because its always too hot inside the house at night, we basically are living in the jungle, super cool and fun, but at the same time no, not having light or water stinks man! oh well.

 it was super foggy this morning, adds to the cool effect!

Week 64

good week, this was my letter to Pres Corbitt

President Corbitt,

this was a good week, because it was conference, and we had two families show up as well, made my whole week. however we had 5 baptismal dates fall for the white night, because they didnt assist, kind of a bummer, we will see if they have a desire to progress. also continually seeking for new people prepared, elder Lopez is great at contacting, has no fear whatsoever. i love that about him. i meditated during the conference on what i was going to do to improve, and i think my favorite talk was by elder J devn. Cornish, super cool to hear him, i actually ask myself often that question, if I will make it, and the answer is yes! if i continue enduring to the end and repenting, loved that, im going to try to repent daily in the mistakes i may make throughout the day, we are hoping for the Lord´s miracles this month, we are going to need his help to baptize.

all is well, we have been going 2 weeks now without light or running water in the house though, makes me appreciate the little things more... haha talk next week!

anyways, things are progressing, i sent pics of the english class im teachin in the church, super fun!

conference was great, got to watch it on saturday in english, but sunday in spanish, there wasnt enough internet power to watch two at once. so elder frampton and i had to watch in spanish. not really the same, but at least i understood better than a year ago with elder areas when i watched it in spanish! haha the crazy thing was that i saw Rachael Barrowes singing in the choir, took a pic, cool to see a familiar face! haha

the hurricane isnt terrible, just a lot of rain, but we are good, the only bad thing is not light, i have had to wash my clothes by hand, super cool. 

we have three families that are progressing right now, the Rodriguez family, Christian and Anabel, and 3 brothers and sisters who came to the conference, emilio, and evelyn(s) they are both named like that... we are getting to know them a lot better and are glad that they are progressing, hopefully by the end of this month we have a couple baptisms in our far off in the woods area ;) haha

the other big news is that we have recieved about 10 avacados from nieghbors, one of which is bigger than the book of mormon! haha (see pic) living in the woods has its benefits...

over all, great week, feeling healthy, happy, and hot, the humidity never gives in hear...

love you all hope you are all doing well,

special shout out to my sis and the ridge soccer team, hope you are feeling alright cambrie, by the time i get home you will still be able to kick my trash ;) love you all!

until next week!

ELDER AUGER

the english class i teach in the church, sorry i dont have time for more pics, my camera is super slow, i will try to send more next week! love you all 

Dear Brother and Sister Auger: I am a senior missionary living in Santo Domingo and meet with your son each Saturday as he teaches English to students in a little branch in Valiente.  I want to thank you for raising such a fine young man. He and his Dominican comp walk 35 minutes each way and are always on time whereas the other American Elders who live closer to the branch are always very late. Your son is an example to all of us. He never complains and he loves these people. We are so thankful that you have raised such a fine young man. I would. I would be honored to stake my professional reputation built over 35 years upon him.