Hello family,
So yes as you know I worked in Wanica this past week. It was cool to work with a native and it helped my Dutch a lot....or maybe it just destroyed it but in a good way to sound more like a Surinamer.
Elder Wehl is a really good missionary. he sleep farts though. I told him it sounded like an elephant was in his bed. he fell on the floor laughing. He laughs a lot .....a lot. He also has an active snese of other emotions. At the end of the week I said the zone leaders called and were going to pick me up to take me back to Koewarasan. he cried and said he was going to miss me. He really seriously cried......After just a week. It was awkward because i thought he was joking at first, but nope. It was for real. I was not ready for that one. I guess i should be appreciative that I was around someone with that kind of charity to love someone so quickly. I do love him, but i was quit ready to shed tears about leaving someone I would be seeing the next week.
The baptism went great. The hardest part was getting the baptism form filled out. Sis. Wijngaarden's family were all yelling at me telling me how to do it because they had taken a year of English in school so they thought they knew what they were doing. WHY WOULDN'T THEY JUST LISTEN TO THE NATIVE SPEAKER! I've spoken Englich(whoops.... IRONY ATTACK) for 19 years! THe service went great though. We had another area baptizing so we had 4 in the same day.
Even with all that I'm happy to be back in Koewarasan with my assigned companion. I'm really hoping that we get to stay together next transfer. We've developed a great friendship. I think that's been the difference in having some successthis transfer. When you have a companion you want to work with it lets you have the Spirit with you and you can do the work of the Lord not just the work of to white guys in a strange land.
We had 5 investigators in church on Sunday. 2 of them have a solid baptismal date for next Saturday. We'll be working with the lady who is afraid of tithing this week to see if we can't strengthen her faith to just get baptized and see what miracles follow. One of the baptisms is that Muslim girl and the other is a Hindu(by race not religion) lady named Zr. Basant. SHe would be getting baptized this saturdya but she had to take to daughter to the hospital because a pepper exploded in her face so she missed chuch.
I also got the letter to Grandma Jean sent off while I was outside of the jungle last week so you can watch out for that letter. It has some new pictures in it.
Hmm what's a random detail....My bike is .........well old. We don't bike as much in this area so I have some fatness accumilating around the mid-section. No strange foods this week.
Oh yeah Br. Salijo said hi to me yesterday. He was impressed with dad's elk.
Well that should be good. I love you all. thank you for everything: your prays, letters and evrything else.
Love,
Hayden
