8th Week

The talk at the dinner table is when does Nathan fly to the West Indies and how we wish we could go to the airport. Remember the good old days when the family could go to the airport and see their missionary off. Of course in those days there wasn't email so you never knew when you would get a letter either. When I think about it, I will gladly trade seeing my son at the airport for regular letters. Nathan will get to call between flights. When we got todays letter we were expecting to receive his flight plans but as you can see he is delayed. Please pray for his visa <./em>

Another week gone by and another beginning,

This last week has been extremely exciting for us all and actually just ended with a bit of a bummer. We got our travel plans in the mail last Friday and we were super excited to be leaving on Monday the 16th at 3am in the morning for the Aiport to catch a 6am flight to Dallas-Fort Worth. Instead though, we just found out about an hour or two ago that my companion and I, the only Dutch speaking missionaries in the entire MTC going to the West Indies, have been been delayed at least a week beacuse our visas have not arrived. As I've mentioned in my earlier emails this isn't unusal as the last 4 groups of Dutch West Indies have also been delayed at least a few weeks. So we will be here at least one more week and then if we don't hear anything about our visas we'll be temporarily reassigned to a English speaking USA mission. I'm hoping for Washington DC or somewhere pretty cool. Either way we'll go where we are supposed to go. Everything else has been going great. We've been keeping busy focused and excited about the work. My companion and I have been teaching really well and things are great.

Some interesting things that have happened to me in the last week:

In our weekly personal interview with one of the two teachers, Brother Griffin asked me to, "Stop answering all the questions so quickly." Apperently, both teachers feel like I'm answering the questions too quickly and not giving the other elders a chance to think about it and then answer. So I've been working really hard on not being so smart... It's hard for me, I won't lie. It made me laugh and think about being in Law School. In Law School they have a term for someone who answers all athe questions all the time at that is the Gunner ( The person gunning for the A ). The saying goes that if you don't know who the class gunner is then it is probably you... Whoops I guess I'm the gunner in the Dutch district 36E.


Loving the MTC, but I don't know if I love it enough for another week... Just kidding


Love

Elder Nielson