Zone Leader training in Trinidad was wonderful. President Gamiette is an incredible teacher, he's so so talented. He's also a very inspired mission president. We'll be able to have a lot more interaction with him now with the new duties.
Yes, it's lots of fun to travel. Trinidad accents are beautiful. They are a little bit softer than Calypso from Pirates of the Carribbean, but still great.
Wednesday June 15:
6am arise and work very hard the whole day. Teach some good people and had a great time with Elders Guinn and Thompson. Got home late, at 10. Drove to Uitkijk to pick up Elder Van Meeteren who is now a Zone Leader in Guyana, and the two Elders he was with, Freeman and Lundgren. Drive to Koewarisan, drop off the other two Elders and head back home with all of Elder Van Meeteren's stuff (yes that is a dutch name, but he's american).
11:30, arrived home and began packing Elder Thompson's stuff. We were all busy in one way or another trying to get ready for the trip. Elder Van Meeteren realized he left his medication in Uitkijk, so they went to get that, which is about 75 minutes round trip. At about 2am I fell asleep and woke up to our 3am alarm. Got up and showered and put my clothes back on, then drove to the Jansen's with us all. From the Jansen's we went to the airport, where our flight left at 6am.
Arrived at 6:15 in Trinidad (time zone change - about an hour flight).
8:30 arrived at mission office where we were informed that we would be heading north to work until the conference that would begin at 6pm that evening. Went and ate at Subway, and then went north. (I had my first good experience at Subway too. The Trinidad Subways are way better than American ones.)
6:15 we arrived at the conference late, and everyone gave the two Elders in charge a hard time. Learned a lot until 9.
9:30pm We went to the Elders' apartment and had to study some things for the next day, finally went to sleep at about 10pm.
The next day, we began the conference again at 9:30am, finished at 5pm, and hopped on our plane to Suriname, got home at 1:30am, and we were up and getting ready for the day at 6:30. Apparently, as Zone Leaders, sleep is optional.
The whole experience was great. President Gamiette taught us about how we can take weaknesses to the Lord to make them stronger Ether 12:27,37 and 2Corinthians 12:5-10. It was good talking to a lot of these great missionaries. Apparently, Elder Lake did come to fix me, but also to train me to be a zone leader. Nobody knew about it though, not even him.
Elder Guinn and I are glad to be working together again. One tricky part will be that we both get very very sleepy when it's hot, and likely will have a few funny experiences falling asleep in lessons. I don't think it'll stop the progression of people though.
We saw a moon bow the other day, I think Tuesday night. The moon had a big rainbow around it. It was way nice looking. I took a picture, but it's awful.
I like this area a lot, and am glad to be here again. Have fun in Powell. I'm a bit jealous honestly. I love you all.
Elder Hulme
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