Hey everybody! This week was super busy but also eventful!! I'll
start it off by wishing all of you a happy Paghwa! You guys probably
don't really know what that is but it's a national holiday here. It's
the Hindu holiday where they throw all of the colors, from what I heard
from the people here it has something to do with good overcoming evil.
But everything shut down in the city for it and we went to a member's
house for lunch to celebrate it with her and her family! It was super
fun and the white shirt I was wearing is going to make a great souvenir
(it's not good for much else now to be honest) but I had a ton of fun
and I thought it was a really cool opportunity to see the difference in
culture and how they celebrate their holidays. My favorite part of the
day was when a truck with forty or so Hindu people came down the street
and we all threw colors at each other it was sweet, and afterwards we
were totally on tv! When a news guy came by and saw a bunch of white
guys celebrating paghwa here in suriname he stopped and interviewed us,
we told him we were missionaries for the church of jesus christ of
latter day saints and we were from America and i think it was a really
good opportunity to let people see who we are and that we're not just
boring all the time. There's also the wierdest rumour that goes around
that we're FBI hahah so hopefully our TV appearance puts that theory to
rest as well. In other news we had a baptism just yesterday! One of the
less actives in our area who we recently re-activated just asked us if
her son could be baptized! So we were really excited about that and
everything went great! We picked up a lot of new investigators this week
and worked really hard to meet new people and I have no doubt our
efforts are being blessed with success! I'm so grateful to be here and
to be serving these awesome people, and I've found that the burdens of
missionary work are always outweighed by the satisfaction I receive from
helping so many of these people change their lives for the better and
grow closer to their savior. I hope all of you know how much of a
difference this experience has already made and will continue to make as
I do my best to help the people here. When you truly start to love the
people and make them your focus everything else falls into place and
works out. I'm grateful for all of you guys and love and miss you all I
hope you have an awesome week!
Elder Carpenter
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