Hermana Y Elder Borup

We continue our work here in Azua, trying to do what we can to help build the Lord's kingdom. Most of our time is spent between helping the missionaries, (rides, illness, needs for their houses) visiting and teaching less active members and visiting and teaching investigators and now do a few physical therapy visits. Once in a while, we get a break or two to go for a bike ride or study language and scriptures (sometimes on the beach).  This week there was a zone conference for all of the zones in the South part of the mission, which includes 3 zones (about 50 missionaries). I think the best part of zone conference is seeing how much the missionaries love to get together. There is a real spirit of comradery. It's hard being a missionary. It's hard living with the same person that you didn't choose to live with. It's hard working long days and getting up and doing the same thing over again. It's hard being away from family and living in a hard place. Something

Some week seem to be very full and busy and other weeks just seem to be full and busy. This was a very full and busy week. It also was a rewarding week in which we have felt blessed. I can't really put my finger on why it seemed so rewarding, it just was Here are a few of the highlights I'll let you be the judge. A couple of the Hermanas have an investigator who is 91 years old. He's very bright and very strong. The first few times he went to church he walked by himself which was about 1/2 mile. He gained a testimony of the restored gospel had a baptismal interview and a date for his baptism. But several weeks ago he tripped in his backyard. The Hermanas were told that he broke his hip and that there was nothing anyone could do. They thought he was going to just die.  A few weeks later they told us that he had a cast on his leg. I've never heard of a cast for a broken hip but maybe? Last week we went with the Hermanas to visit him and sure enough, he had a cast on to

This week was another week filled with the unusual. On Monday we started the week off with a Zone activity at our house. Hermana Borup made pulled pork tacos and cake. There was a lot of both. Missionaries like both. For the activity part of things, the missionaries started a dominos tournament but they never finished it. They underestimated how long it takes to finish a game. Dominos is the number one pastime in the DR. EVERY NIGHT you can walk down ANY street and there will be people playing dominos, Guaranteed! Usually men my age or older but sometimes it's women or younger men. It's a team sport with two on a team and can get very intense. The missionaries were a little less intense. I think when the Zone leaders saw that they weren't going to win they decided it was taking too long. The eating was more important anyway. Tuesday morning transfers started. This time there was a new twist (new twists are normal around here). All missionaries that were being transferred