August 17

Hello and greetings from your favorite south american missionary,

there are some cool things to report on this week, namely the fact

we've gotten five new missionaries in the country! 3 elders and 2

sisters came in sometime around wednesday night. From what I can tell

so far I really like all of them and I think they're going to be a

great addition and strength to us here. Every single set of elders in

the north zone is training this transfer which is pretty crazy, and so

our thoughts have begun to turn to a younger generation and making

sure they adapt comfortably and learn everything they have to about

being a missionary! It's been really fun to get new people and the

branch is excited about it as well, speaking of which I just gave a

talk yesterday that I had kind of forgotten about until the last

minute! I only got one notice and with how busy our schedule is I

totally forgot until we were actually in the church building, hahah. I

thought winging talks was difficult enough as is but to do it in dutch

is a whole nother story! hahah But in all honesty I think it went well

and a few people came up to me and said it was good so I took

confidence in that at least, hahah. In other news our area got broken

up since elders came back into paramaribo last transfer, and we lost

almost all of our investigators to them :( but it's how the boundaries

used to be before sisters came no one expected them to leave this

transfer though, but it's okay. it just means we'll have to spend some

time building up our teaching pool this transfer which will be no

problem for us. Anyways I think that's about it this week I don't have

a lot of time since this cyber cafe is closing early for some reason,

but i miss you guys and I'll talk to you again next week!

Elder Carpenter