Sister Elizabeth Wood: I'm Really Bad at Coming Up With Subject Lines 2/16/2015

Dear Family,

Well nothing tooooo exciting happened this week! The weather was nice! Not too rainy and not too hot. Suriname is pretty awesome. I'm learning to love it here.

On Saturday we did service for a member doing some painting so that was fun! We usually have a service project every Saturday to do. I love them.

As for investigators:

Ernesto, that little bum, didn't come to church! We walked a far way to get him and then took a bus, but we got there and he said he had to clean his room...I wasn't happy. But sometimes I have to remember he's 15. But still. He's a super great kid though. He'll get there. He obviously needs more converting, but he also needs to come to church to get that converting to the gospel. We are pushing his baptismal date...again. Haha it's all good!

Rita is a great lady. She talks a lot though so it's very hard to teach her. She comes to church though which is great! She likes church a lot.

Mohan is doing good. He came to church this week! Mohan's wife is interested. She sits in on every lesson. We can't speak her language but she seems to understand most English pretty well. I don't know what will happen with her.

We didn't see Sabayo's this week at all. I still haven't figured out how to get them to church. There are a good number of members with cars but not a ton. And yeah it makes things hard when they are a family of 8. Faizel, I think we are dropping. He told us he doesn't want to get baptized anymore. He started going to another church. We tried helping him in all ways. Maybe it's just not his time.

Biking is still awesome! It's really fun and I get some nice tan lines. My current fav is my bag strap line against my chest and back...nice. Yeah there's not a great veggie selection but it's not terrible. There are definitely some great fruits here. I've tried so many fruits I've never eaten before my mission. I couldn't even tell you what they are. I think we are starting to get into mango season cause I've had 6 mangos given to me just yesterday. FINALLY! I've been waiting for mango season. I hope you can try Sour Sap in the Philippines.

Loved the pictures from this week. Sounds like you are all doing great!

Missions are pretty wild, I have to say. Each time I go to bed I can't believe another day is gone. You learn so much in such a concentrated amount of time. I feel different, but at the same time I don't. It's weird.

Dutch is coming slowly but surely as usual. I really am beginning to understand. I'm putting together more sentences and it's really cool when I say something and they understand. On Sunday I said the closing prayer in RS. After all the women started cheering. Haha they all thought I was gonna pray in English. They were very proud of me!

But anyways, all is well. This is already the last week of the transfer. I don't expect anything to change this week but you never know!