June 22

Hey everybody and happy father's day! This week went by quick and is

also going to be my last with Elder Van Den Herik! :( We got transfer

calls and he is going to an area in Tammenga, the building where we

take all the baptism pictures at! I'm super excited for him and it's a

great area to serve in but we're definitely going to miss serving

together! The news I was staying came during my interview with

president Mehr, I will spend at least one more transfer here and my

new companion will be..... Elder Prestera! A completely new elder

coming from the MTC who I will be training! I'm super excited to be a

trainer and I'll meet my new companion on wednesday night or thursday

morning depending on what time his flight gets in. I will still be

fulfilling my role as district leader at the same time so I will

probably be a pretty busy missionary these next couple weeks from what

it seems like! I'm super excited at the same time though I hope he's a

great elder and I know we'll have a great time together. In other news

me and elder Van Den Herik biked up the commewijne bridge the other

night for fun and it's a MASSIVE bridge and I almost died on the bike

ride up, and then actually almost died on the way down when my brakes

started to burn up!! hahahah but luckily I'm still here to tell the

story, it was a great view, the pictures weren't that great though

since it was dark and everything was so far away, but it was a

stunning sight. For p-day paramaribo district played some basketball

and did some slacklining, it was a pretty good time all around, and

then to show off to everyone I did a backflip off a tree and people

were pretty impressed! hahah it was a relaxing day and pretty fun, me

and elder Prestera will have a pretty big teaching pool when he comes

in and I'm certain we'll see some success in our time together. He was

probably one of the first people called to the "Trinidad Port of

Spain" mission instead of the West indies which is pretty crazy to

think about! The whole mission is looking forward to president Egbert

coming in just next week! We will certainly miss president Mehr though

he's an awesome guy and I've loved having him as my mission president.

He's super excited about the split though and said that it's a really

good sign of growth for all of us and proof of the Lord hastening his

work all over the world! I'll let you all know next week how my first

couple of days as a trainer go!! I love you all and I hope you have an

awesome week!

Elder Carpenter