Happy Fathers Day!
I'm glad your Fathers day was good dad. Mine was too. The branch has a small little dinner becuase there are only 2 dad's really in the branch they decided to include the Elders in the eating.
We didn't have any ivestigators in church this week except The 2 little Grootfaam girls and it's still a question if they can get baptized alone because dad and mom aren't making a real effort to come to church. We don't know what's going on with Lloyd. If he doesnt come to church next week I don't think we can keep teaching him because it took 2 months of teaching to get him to church once. But if he keeps reading like he usually does hopefully he'll keep that desire to be baptized. We have another ivestigator who is pretty cool. I don't know if I said someting about him alrady but he is 19 and lives in a house owned by another church. I think he really knows this church is Christ's church but he just doesn't know what to do if he leaves his church.
Jase you can tell Sam sorry for me ,but I lost all my adresses so I dont't know how to write her back because I would love to. And tell Grandma J that her letter from June 1 just got here. She wanted to know. And tell her thanks for keeping up so many letters. She's awesome.
Well my language is going good. I get compliments all the time on it. But I still hardly understnad what people are saying. Luckily My companion gets most of what people say.
So by the end of this transfer i will have been in Suriname for 6 months...in the same area! I'm certainly not mad though. It's kind of fun having to get to the area so well. I feel like I'll stay for at least one more transfer so Elder Bytendorp can know the area a little better but who knows what could happen.
We're gettin along just fine. Elder Bytendorp likes to correct me a lot more than Elder Schroth did but when I am humble about it i find its actually a help to me.
I love you all so much. But now I realize I can stand to be away for another 18 months:)..of course not without much help but I know I can do it. Thank you for your support. I hope you all are having a great summer so far !
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
June 7, 2010
Hello family amily amily(i don't know i just did it)
I'm starting to love to get your letters for a different reason now. I use to think it was a time i didn't have to think about the pressures of missionary work. Now i love them because... well i don't know just because i love you all i guess. It's helps me to think of the big picture i guess. You're all just goin about life and doin the things you do without me. But i'm happy about that.
We've had a lot better week this week. We had a spritual lesson, i called a lady "brother", and i was riding up to contact a guy and he did one of those step for step fart things. SO i jsut thought i'd contact him anyway to see the look on his face when he figured out that some one was right behind him.
The spiritual lesson was great though. It was this family that had been on and off investigators for a few months and we were about to drop them if somehting didn't happen. We shared Moroni 10 3-5 and broke it bown for them and that brought the spirit very strong. Then i decided to ask the dad to have a kneeling prayer and ask if Joseph Smith was a Prophet. Elder Bytendorp said he felt the spirit really strong right when he asked. I didn't really know because i didn't really understand what he said ha ha. But I know i had to be feeling the Spirit to ask him to do a kneeling prayer. They have of few things to take care of before baptism but their daughters come to church quite often so maybe they can be baptized by the end of the month.
Me and Elder Bytendorp have gotten along pretty well. It's still in the awkward stages of things but there's no problems to interfere with us becoming good friends. Except that he has Disney music cd that makes the neighbors question what the heck we are all about. ha ha. But he's pretty good. If i think there's a way we can be more obedient as a companionship he's pretty open to hear about it.
I'm really happy to hear Jase is enjoying his summer so much already. ANd i'm glad to hear there are still very strong friendships within the family. See Dad he doesn't need the bpoat to have fun...but i do so you just get nice and rested for the next 2 summers. And i pray everyday that you wont' need that surgery and can heal properly and get back to beating young black kids at basketball.
Well I could probably think to complain about some pressures and wondering if i'm doing good enough f0or what Heavenly Father wants of me, but that's no fun to hear aobut so I'll just say this. THis is definitley a transfer of learning as i lead the area and try to teach it to some one. I've been able to lead lessons even with the language and had a companion who wants to be obedient too.
I love you all very much.
Love hayden
I'm starting to love to get your letters for a different reason now. I use to think it was a time i didn't have to think about the pressures of missionary work. Now i love them because... well i don't know just because i love you all i guess. It's helps me to think of the big picture i guess. You're all just goin about life and doin the things you do without me. But i'm happy about that.
We've had a lot better week this week. We had a spritual lesson, i called a lady "brother", and i was riding up to contact a guy and he did one of those step for step fart things. SO i jsut thought i'd contact him anyway to see the look on his face when he figured out that some one was right behind him.
The spiritual lesson was great though. It was this family that had been on and off investigators for a few months and we were about to drop them if somehting didn't happen. We shared Moroni 10 3-5 and broke it bown for them and that brought the spirit very strong. Then i decided to ask the dad to have a kneeling prayer and ask if Joseph Smith was a Prophet. Elder Bytendorp said he felt the spirit really strong right when he asked. I didn't really know because i didn't really understand what he said ha ha. But I know i had to be feeling the Spirit to ask him to do a kneeling prayer. They have of few things to take care of before baptism but their daughters come to church quite often so maybe they can be baptized by the end of the month.
Me and Elder Bytendorp have gotten along pretty well. It's still in the awkward stages of things but there's no problems to interfere with us becoming good friends. Except that he has Disney music cd that makes the neighbors question what the heck we are all about. ha ha. But he's pretty good. If i think there's a way we can be more obedient as a companionship he's pretty open to hear about it.
I'm really happy to hear Jase is enjoying his summer so much already. ANd i'm glad to hear there are still very strong friendships within the family. See Dad he doesn't need the bpoat to have fun...but i do so you just get nice and rested for the next 2 summers. And i pray everyday that you wont' need that surgery and can heal properly and get back to beating young black kids at basketball.
Well I could probably think to complain about some pressures and wondering if i'm doing good enough f0or what Heavenly Father wants of me, but that's no fun to hear aobut so I'll just say this. THis is definitley a transfer of learning as i lead the area and try to teach it to some one. I've been able to lead lessons even with the language and had a companion who wants to be obedient too.
I love you all very much.
Love hayden
Thursday, June 3, 2010
June 1, 2010
I'm glad to hear that Jase gets a break from the stress of school now...more time to study scriptures??? And that's cool you got to go down and see Elder Schroath. He might have been humoring you when he said i was his favorite companion, but we did have a great last few weeks together.
I'm glad to hear your doing a little better Dad. I hope you don't have to get surgery and you can get back to your life as my hard working example.
Wow my you miss school? You must have had some great kids this year. I hope you have that same luck for next. It's weird to think that summer is going to pass without me there. I know what you mean when you say it feels like I've been gone forever, it's weird though because i feel like it hasn't been that long at all but also very long.
My new companion, ELder Bytendorp, is very different from Elder Schroath. Elder Schroath was just solid and seemed like he new everything that i didn't, but Elder Bytendorp has been in areas of Suriname where they only speak Surinams Or English, So his Dutch is not too much better than mine. He's only 2 transfers ahead of me as well. It's a difficult switch from going from trainee to holding down the area. This week was weird because i had to work in other areas until my compaion got here so it seems like i had already forgotten my area a bit at first but now i'm getting the hang of things again. I've mostly been praying for the Lord to be patiently with me as i try to do these things the right way. I'm grateful that you have faith in me and encourage me to keep going because i need all the strength i can get. I'm still in the stage where i wish this was a lot easier, but then i guess there would be no point in going if i wasn't going to grow. This is the hardest thing on my mission so far because i'm so worried that the area is going to fall apart sometimes, but then i realize it absolutley cannot fall apart. And if the misson President ever pulled missionaries out of the area then that would just be the Lord's will. I wish I could understand the Lord's will better not worry when somebody doesn't come to church and thinks it's my fault. I do everthing i know ow to do. It's not a perfect effort but the Lord knows what i was capable of before i came here so i must do my best and as Henk says " God does the rest".
I love you all very much. Tell Grandpa V happy b day soon.
Love Hayden
I'm glad to hear your doing a little better Dad. I hope you don't have to get surgery and you can get back to your life as my hard working example.
Wow my you miss school? You must have had some great kids this year. I hope you have that same luck for next. It's weird to think that summer is going to pass without me there. I know what you mean when you say it feels like I've been gone forever, it's weird though because i feel like it hasn't been that long at all but also very long.
My new companion, ELder Bytendorp, is very different from Elder Schroath. Elder Schroath was just solid and seemed like he new everything that i didn't, but Elder Bytendorp has been in areas of Suriname where they only speak Surinams Or English, So his Dutch is not too much better than mine. He's only 2 transfers ahead of me as well. It's a difficult switch from going from trainee to holding down the area. This week was weird because i had to work in other areas until my compaion got here so it seems like i had already forgotten my area a bit at first but now i'm getting the hang of things again. I've mostly been praying for the Lord to be patiently with me as i try to do these things the right way. I'm grateful that you have faith in me and encourage me to keep going because i need all the strength i can get. I'm still in the stage where i wish this was a lot easier, but then i guess there would be no point in going if i wasn't going to grow. This is the hardest thing on my mission so far because i'm so worried that the area is going to fall apart sometimes, but then i realize it absolutley cannot fall apart. And if the misson President ever pulled missionaries out of the area then that would just be the Lord's will. I wish I could understand the Lord's will better not worry when somebody doesn't come to church and thinks it's my fault. I do everthing i know ow to do. It's not a perfect effort but the Lord knows what i was capable of before i came here so i must do my best and as Henk says " God does the rest".
I love you all very much. Tell Grandpa V happy b day soon.
Love Hayden
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