Hey everybody! I hope this email finds you all well, we're not up to too
horribly much this pday, we had plans to do something but it looks like
they're going to fall through at the moment so not positive what lies
in store for us today. The Paramaribo district is continuing to
flourish, and all three of our trainees continue to adapt surprisingly
well to the missionary lifestyle! We had a couple of cool things happen
to us this week, we've been focusing on increasing our teaching pool and
finding new people and I believe we were really blessed to be led to
some awesome people. My favorite story from this week was probably while
we were biking to an appointment and saw a lady walking down the road
with a BYU shirt! Hahah it was so random we just had to stop her and ask
her about it. Unfortunately she had no idea what byu actually was but
seemed pretty interested when I explained that it's a university from
our church! Afterwards she accepted an invitation to sit with us and we
have a return appointment later this week! Her name is 'M' and she
seems really cool. Another cool person we met actually contacted us on
the way to lunch, he stopped us in our tracks and wanted to say a prayer
with us on the spot. apparently he wants to change some things in his
life right now which is pretty much right up our alley and so I'll keep
you guys posted with how it goes with them this next week! One of my
investigators who got taken to a new area in paramaribo, 'O,' came
to church this last week! He's technically not my investigator since
elder whetten and lewis are teaching him but it was still great to see
him and apparently he has a new baptismal date for
september 19th
which i'm super stoked about! This next week is going to be zone
conference with president egbert and so i'm excited to see how his first
zone conference with us goes! He seems like a really cool guy and so my
expectations are high. Elder prestera gave his first talk this sunday
in sacrament meeting and did a great job! He only asked me to translate a
few sentences for him the rest was all him and I was impressed with how
well it went! Our branch has been seeing some real growth lately and
I've been feeling super grateful to be apart of it! I love and miss you
guys and you'll hear from me again soon!
Elder Carpenter
Elder Carpenter said it is a rare sight to see people doing actual WORK in Suriname.
The type of buses they ride in from time to time.
This guy was drunk and yelling at someone who had sprayed water on him while he was sleeping on the ground.
street art
street art
view of the street from the church
more street from church
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