LDS Branch building.
View from the church.
Basketball court.
Aerial view of Dulce, pronounced dool-sey or dool-see, not sure which yet.
Probably where Elder Dittmer will be living, since white people must live on the LDS property on a reservation.
When I did an initial google search of Dulce, first is Wikipedia, followed by several hits about how this is considered the second Roswell (alien encounters!) Apparently there is a secret underground alien base, plus so much more! I'm very excited to hear stories!
Anyway, the reservation is made up of approximately 3,000 people, 90% are Jicarilla Apache Native Americans.
It looks like there is a supermarket, a couple restaurants, True Value, a gas station, schools, and a small casino.
Elder Dittmer's new companion is Elder Spencer Sperry from West Jordan. (This upholds Isaac's run of a new companion every transfer.) His mom said he replaced an Elder that had been there ONE YEAR.
When I did an initial google search of Dulce, first is Wikipedia, followed by several hits about how this is considered the second Roswell (alien encounters!) Apparently there is a secret underground alien base, plus so much more! I'm very excited to hear stories!
Anyway, the reservation is made up of approximately 3,000 people, 90% are Jicarilla Apache Native Americans.
It looks like there is a supermarket, a couple restaurants, True Value, a gas station, schools, and a small casino.
Elder Dittmer's new companion is Elder Spencer Sperry from West Jordan. (This upholds Isaac's run of a new companion every transfer.) His mom said he replaced an Elder that had been there ONE YEAR.
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Monday
It was a pretty normal prep-day. The other missionaries went to Durango, so we went around town visiting places like the bookstore and a few members.
Tuesday
Today we went to take care of some dogs owned by a man named Chris, then we went out, saw a few people, and ate food. It was a pretty normal day without much excitement.
Wednesday
We took care of Chris's dogs again, and we did some Family History stuff. I did some indexing! After that, we set out, tried to find people to teach, and were able to hand out 3 Books of Mormon. We also helped the owner of the Millwood in Mancos take care of 7 years worth of receipts and other papers. Luckily, it was pretty organized.
Thursday
We went to district meeting and for the first time since I've been in this district we had a district lunch with tortillas, beans and cheese. We also had popsicles. As always, we went to Coldstone afterwards and got ice cream. After that, we went back to town and tracted a lot, and we were able to hand out lots of copies of the Book of Mormon. We even went to the library and talked to the front desk lady named Sherry. She was happy with us coming by and sharing messages with her.
Friday
Today is the day that I and Elder Adams do weekly planning, so that took up a lot of our day. After planning, we visited the Fellows family. Sister Fellows wants her son to be baptized, so we are teaching him the missionary lessons. Our district leader randomly decided our district needed to meet up and have a little discussion about being unified because he felt that something was keeping us from being unified. I think that issue was more of a Cortez thing, because me and Elder Adams thought that the meeting was kind of silly. It was fun, though! I played piano to start the meeting. After that random meeting, we drove back to Mancos and basically just turned in for the rest of the day and did our companionship studies.
Saturday
We woke up at 5:30am and went to the library to help set up for a 5k and a half marathon. We talked to a lot of people and had fun setting up canopies and the start/finish line for the runners. After that, we did more service at 10:00am for Sister Wilson, who just took ownership of a thrift store in Mancos. It was fun looking at all the weird stuff they have there. Later, we helped out with the marathon again by taking the stuff down, and they gave me and Elder Adams a Mancos t-shirt. TRANSFER NEWS!! MANCOS IS GETTING SHUT DOWN!! This makes me unhappy because the work was picking up in Mancos. In fact, me and Elder Adams had planned on setting someone on date for baptism today, but now we don't know how that'll work because there won't be missionaries in Mancos. Elder Adams is going to Bayfield Colorado, and the missionaries are calling him the Colorado King because he will have served in Colorado for over a year now. I'm going to Dulce, New Mexico! I am excited to go to a place that people are calling 'dangerous'. I think the more dangerous an area, the more excitement there is to be had! Obviously I'm a little danger prone, but that's OK!
Sunday
Me and Elder Adams pretty much were saying goodbye to everyone, and people were very sad. it was a sad day for Mancos. Elder Adams got all of his stuff packed in like an hour, and my stuff is still unpacked. I don't know how he did it so fast!
I'm looking forward to being back on the reservation!
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