Dear Family,
It was an eventful week filled with surprises. I'll tell you the biggest one. I got a phone call from the mission president Wednesday morning informing me that I was getting another new companion! Her name is Sister Vernes. She was born in Germany but has lived in England the last three years. Her mom is from Curacao and Dad is from Holland. She went to the MTC but they put her in the beginning Dutch class but she can already speak it so they changed her to the English tract. That's why she came in the middle of the transfer. So yes, I'm now double training. It's pretty nice having two companions that can speak Dutch. Plus they are both willing to talk and great teachers.
NEW YEARS WAS INCREDIBLE! OK, not so much the teaching--that was ok--but the fireworks. I'm sure it must have been similar to you mom and dad. It was out of control. We went outside and I could hardly hear anything let alone see anything because of the smoke. I took a video so you all will have to see. We probably stayed outside for like 20 mins. But once inside it took a while for me to fall asleep because of all the noise.
We are working hard in our area and starting to see some good success. We have some new investigators this week. One her name is Patricia. She is super religious in whatever church she goes to. We went for our appointment with her and when we get there she asks if we can come back because she was going to sleep. Right when we pull out our planners to make another appt, it started to rain so she let us in. Tender mercy. I don't know yet how she'll accept the gospel but she really wants to learn more about Joseph Smith.
We also taught this couple named Radjan and Mariska. He is Hindu and she is Catholic. They were so nice and really willing to learn more. Can't see them until next week though.
Ilsa and Virgil are good. We saw Ilsa and not Virgil the week. But Ilsa has been reading. She is pretty old though so I don't know how she'll get to church unless we can find a ride.
Shenelva is doing pretty good. We got the YW president over there and she came to church on Sunday. She still wants to get baptized on Feb 6th but we'll see.
On Saturday Pres Egbert was in town so we had a zone meeting. Pres Egbert is really focusing on the Book of Mormon. He says the reason why the church isn't growing in our mission is because members aren't reading. So we are really focusing on that in teaching our investigators and members. I learned a lot that day. Also had a good interview with him. We always have a fun time talking.
I fly to Trinidad on Thursday and come back on Friday. Nice and short. But I'm so excited to be with the other missionaries. You feel so secluded down here so it'll be nice to see others.
My companions are doing great. It's definitely gonna be interesting training both of them but they are teaching me a lot. Zr. Zeegelaar's family is out of our area so we never go over. We did see her sister and brother in law though. That was fun. Zeegelaar tries to be so formal with them but I tell her it's ok to talk to them and stuff. It's really cute- haha! I have a good feeling about this transfer.
Love,
Elizabeth
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