The Monkey

Yes my Dutch is improving a ton.  Elder Job speaks perfect English.  It seems that the only country in which you don't learn another language is the United States.  Also, everyone learns English from TV and video games... That makes it easier I'm sure. 

I had no Idea that Eric and Austin were already mission ready, that came so fast.  Ghana Africa is the highest baptizing mission in the world last I heard.  East side of Brazil should be similar to where I'm serving.

I drove to French Guyana today.  Turns out if you don't stay there very long and if you leave at 6:15 in the morning, it's not too long of a trip. We arrived in Paramaribo at 3:15.  It was basically uneventful.  I had some guy yell at me when I asked him where I could pee.  I don't understand why people are so easily mad.  Volgens mij is het net als wat we lezen in 1Nephi16:2 waarin als je een grote zondaar ben, het word makkelijk om pijn te voelen in God's licht.  Ik heb geen Nederlands naar jullie gestuurd in een lange tijd.  Hopelijk schrijf Ik duidelijk genoeg voor je google translator. 

 

The Monkey.

Wednesday was great.  We had an appointment fall through at about 2:30, the absolute hottest part of the day.  So we were chilling in the shade of a tree cooling down a bit before going back into the sun.  We started talking about monkeys and before we left we prayed that whoever has a monkey that we find that day would be baptized.  We then went about our business for the day.  6:30 appointment fell through, and as we were walking away, I asked the woman that we were going to visit if she knew anyone with a pet monkey in the area.  She pointed out where, and we found the monkey.  Klopte de deur en er kwam een jonge buiten, we vroegen hem als hij het goed zou vinden om van Het Boek van Mormon te lezen.  Hij zei ja, zo we deelde een les met hem en z'n broetje.  Het was een geweldige les en ze vroegen ons om terug te komen.  

Looks like they have a real chance at progressing.  Oh, and their names are Roberto and Dilano.  Nothing in this country is spanish except the names. 

Thursday was great.  We found 9 new investigators on Thursday.  I've had entire weeks where we didn't find that many new investigators.  The only issue was that none of those ones in particular were from members. We're going to be working on that this week.  Elder Job is great to work with.  He's not scared of the people or of teaching or anything it seems. 

Oh!!! big news.  Marina, our investigator in Munder, got baptized on Saturday!  Boy was that good to hear too.  All those days wondering what we could do to help her, fasting with her and praying with her really payed off when Elder Guinn told me about that baptism.  And the family that we found together, family Roos, is still progressing and doing really well. 

I love you all. 

-Elder Hulme