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
