Sad Goodbye, Bright Future

After church, we had a zone conference with the mission president's first councilor.  Then drove everyone around until 6pm, then talked to people on the street for an hour, and then went and taught Tony, who missed church, but still could get baptized in the short future.  Me, Elders Lake, Baker, Guinn, Thompson, Norton and the new one, Pedersen all stayed in my first Suriname house, Topibolaan, where I will now be living.  I'll be working again in my first area.  
We went to bed at 1:30 Sunday night/Monday morning, woke at 3, then went to the airport.  Said goodbye to Elder Lake at 4, drove home and slept from 5-6:30.  Then drove people all over until now, 5pm, plus, I got a haircut.
Elder Lake went to Trinidad, and will stay there until Thursday, and be home Thursday night.  I am back together with Elder Guinn who has been in Munder for the past 4 months.  Elder Baker and Elder Badoni will take over Blauwgrond.  I'm really quite bummed to be leaving Blauwgrond and the people there.  I was really enjoying seeing them progress.  I just hope I can keep all the good habits that I begun with Elder Lake.  Hopefully drop the bad ones too.
This week we watched the long Joseph Smith movie with Zr Devredis.  It was an enjoyable spiritual experience.  If you haven't watched that, I'd recommend it.  We watched it at Zr. Salik's house.  They are friends and are hilarious together.  They are always joking in their funny guyanese/surinams English.  Zr Devredis is having a hard time adjusting from her Catholic culture to the LDS culture, but I think she'll make it after a bit of patience and help.  Lionel is making fantastic progress.  He never ceases to be strange, but he came to JOVO (young single adults), and to church, and stayed all 3 hours unlike last time.  He's very excited to finally get baptized.  Milton is still not married, and has absolutely horrible communication problems with his girlfriend, they don't seem to ever talk.  He came to church too, and had a good experience as far as I can tell.  Brother Parabirsing was doing some fantastic fellowshipping, which is unheard of in this country.  It's unfortunate that it seems everyone dislikes one another.  One thing that really stuck out to me about the JS movie, was how much the people were their own people.  How the whole point of the church was to help one another.  That seems to be missing here, and I don't really know how to fix it.  The families rarely sit together, and almost never is it 5 out of 5 if they do.  I'll be pondering how to teach this to people.  
I love you all so much.
-Elder Hulme