Oh sad day. Send dad my love and i hope he feels better. Lol you guys have 4 dogs now? That's crazy. I'm going to come home to a zoo! But that's ok cause i'll be used to it living here in the DR haha. Everything is going great with me. I'm healthy and happy. I like my comp. We seem to get things done. He's helping me with my spanish so much. I like living with natives for that reason. Since i've been here we've had 2 baptisms. We baptized a girl that is 21 years old and her brother that is 18. We finished off that family. The whole family is now baptized and very strong members. Very good people. I'm sending pics. the two baptisms here and my new "Look" hahaha. But things are going really good here. Nothing very special has happened since the last email. But can you get me Brother Labarons address or email. I want to swap mission stories with him and see how's he doing. Today we headed out to the mountains with the ward and cooked food and went exploring and played this games where you had to look for signs and on the signs was a scripture which led to another sign it was very awesome. We had a lot of fun. But i love you guys so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stay safe and get better Dad! Love you all with all my heart!

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Jacob Thomas Plymale wrote:

Hola papi! Que tal. Todo esta bien conmigo. Nos quedamos aqui en hato mayor....yo y mi comp por otro mes y medio. Haha things are going good here. We got the call and ya we stayed. Things are great with me. I have my friend in El Seibo right next to us so we chill every monday. We eat yuka and chicken. And sometimes spaghetti shakes. You should try them. So good. The cool thing about being here in Hato Mayor is that our President trusts us. We are so far away from everyone. Every area is in a zone surrounded by other areas and missionaries. Out here....we pretty much are on our own. We don't have any supervision out here. We are an hour away from our leaders(zone leaders) El seibo does baptism interviews over the phone with President. The district or zone leaders are supposed to do them. So i love it out here. It leaves us to be mature and not do anything stupid. What happened to Jack? Did rachel take him with her?
Kenna- here's a spiritual story.......You can share the story of when we had to take the guy to the hospital for having a seizure. But at the biggining make sure to emphasize that we were supposed to pass by her earlier but decided to hit up an inactive named freddy first.
If you have already used this story in sacrament here's another one- so it was my first transfer and i was feeling super depressed. Satan was putting bad thoughts into my head of Dad dying while i am here in the DR. So i turned to prayer. I prayed over and over in my room crying. The next day i was still feeling super depressed. So i turned to my comp for a priesthood blessing. He placed his hands upon my head and immediately i felt peace. In the blessing i was told that everyone will be there when i get back. I never felt so happy in my life. That is the power of the priesthood. I know this church is true with all my heart. It's so clear to me now. I love you guys so much. Stay safe and be good. Or i'll woop your skinny little hides...ya hear? Hey dad......tu quieres mas leche :)

Hello family!!! Things are going great here. Dad reyendome comes from
the word reir which means to laugh. And it was an action so i had to
put me. Haha you know a lot of spanish. I didnt even know. I should
have givin you more credit you little mexican you. Que pasa ese? Its
way more laid back out here in the campo. They are nicer out here.
Lazier.....but nicer. If you could combine the fast pace life of the
city with the niceness of the campo you would have the perfect
investigator. Right now we are working with the branch. Cause of the
drama happening we want them to fix themselves before we find more
people. We have 5 new members that are already inactive. And nobody
has taken the time to pass by and make them known that they are loved.
Dios bendiga los estados unidos!!!!!!!! Haha where´s our relief
society in the DR! But things are going good here. Just chilled in a
little pueblo called El Seibo with one of my best friends in the
mission. Elder Ellsworth. He live in my room in the MTC. So we love
hanging out together. But ya i was going to send pictures but my
computer doesn´t function like i would like it haha. That´s what you
get for using a computer in a 3rd world country. But hey i love you
guys so much. Stay safe!

Papa! Yo no sabia que usted sabia espanol! Jajaja yo estaba reyendome. Era algo raro a leer un email de mis padres en espanol. Ya this computer is american so i can't find the enie. But Happy New Year! You sent the text to the wrong phone haha. My old comp called me up and told me you had send me a Happy New Text lol But it's the thought that counts right? I love you guys so much. Things are going way good here. Today we hiked up a mountain. I'm sending pics. It was way cool. It was me and five dominicans. Way cool. You had to use trees to get up cause there wasn't any footing. Haha we were all slipping and what not. I've seen skype before. But i don't have access to it. But that'd be way cool. Lol Dad don't tell the whole world that we talked that long. Technically we're only supposed to talk for an hour. But i figured that family is first. But things are normal around here. The branch here is terrible at gossip and drama so we're trying to help fix that so we can bring more people into the church. We can't bring people into a disfunctional family haha ya know? But ya that's about total. I love you guys so much. Stay safe and have family prayer and scripture study! It's the coolest! Paz y Amor viene de este hombre! Yo mismo jajaja