June 29

Hey everybody!! This week has been a great week!! I'd like you all to

give a heartfelt welcome to Elder Prestera, who is now on his fifth

day here in Suriname! Me and him have been getting along great, he's a

good guy and there's lots to learn from him as well as to teach!

What's cool about elder Prestera is that he's actually twenty-three!

He and I have a five year difference between the two of us! Crazy

right?? Hahah but it's still been a good time and we have a couple of

cool investigators we're working with, he's been enjoying the work a

lot so far and I'm guessing that trend will continue hopefully our

entire time together! One of them is named Brother 'S,' a referral

from a friend who's came to church the past two weeks in a row, if all

goes will we really want to extend a baptismal date with him this week

so I'll let you guys know how that goes! Elder Prestera has been

soaking everything in pretty well so far, he's amazed at the amount of

stray dogs, and how many people get out of their cars just to pee on

the side of the road, and the fact he's in the jungle... Hahah the

only thing that's probably been the same is the Gospel he's been

teaching but he's been really good at that and he's learning Dutch

really quick! We bought him a bike the day he came in and it's pretty

nice I'm a little jealous, it's silver and European, so pretty fancy.

It's been so crazy showing someone all of the exact same things

someone showed me nearly 9 months ago! Hahah even down to the little

cracks in the road while we're biking. I know the city of Paramaribo

like the back of my hand at this point so it's going to be bittersweet

to pass it off to someone else! we've been lucky with the rain, i

don't think i got soaked this week fortunately, Elder Prestera keeps

praying for it, on the other hand, hahah he's dying to see a real

jungle downpour, I'm hoping that our prayers can just cancel each

other out or something, not positive how that works exactly but we'll

see. I planned all of the pday activities with the zone leaders last

week and it sounds like we have some cool stuff coming up! We'll be

playing sports on my birthday, and apparently there's a place called

overbrug with a cool view and a volleyball net we want to go to, so it

should be a good transfer for pday's! That's most of what's happening

with me for this week, I love my trainee and I still love being a

missionary!! I'll talk to you all next week!!

Elder Carpenter