22 week

Hello Family!

What a wild and crazy week we've had its been one of ups, one of downs, and we even got someone in the font on Saturday which was amazing. This email hopefully will be a bit longer and again I've attached pictures but I'm not sure if they are going through or not so hopefully they are... If they are not then I apologize and beg your forgiveness. Let us begin.

Weslyn:
Apparently just before I got here Elder van Meetren and Elder Freeman contacted into a man that said we could find him at the local Police Station. Well we went back to see where we was and what was up with him. To our surprise, he is actually under house arrest at the Station. We actually have no idea why but we got the approval to continue to teach him. So we are. He's the best type of investigator because we know exactly where he is and if he is available or not.... Interestingly enough though, he speaks seven or so different languages. So if I ever pick up Portuguese he could still understand me. He also is very interested at least it seems so. For some reason, I think it might be because we are the only ones to stop by and see him every so often, but who knows! Hopefully, that nagging reason is incorrect but we'll see how it plays out when he is released at the end of the month.

Ricky:
Ricky was baptized on Saturday but to tell his full story, I've got to go a little bit back. First a week ago, we were teaching him and knowing that the baptize was coming up we finally taught about the Law of Chasity. He accepted the law with no problems and so we asked, "Do you have a girl?" He replied, "Ik heb een Vrouw niet een meisje." Translation, I have a woman not a girl. That always makes you worry but luckily there were no problems. So we got to Thursday of last week and Ricky had his baptismal interview. Everything went well, but the District Leader said he needed a seconded interview. We were confident that he'd be able to pass so we got it set up and ready to go. Only to have the person doing the interview, District Leader of the Suriname District(Basically the Stake President, but not really) cancel on us a few hours before it was scheduled. He rescheduled instead of Saturday morning. Again no problem right? Actually no. The District Leader was then an hour and half late for the appointment. Which by then Ricky had left his house and went into the city. Elder van Meetren and I spent the next 5 hours trying to get a hold of Ricky with no success as we also attempted to fill the font. We finally got a hold of him, but then the District Leader couldn't do the baptism because he didn't have time. So we had to call Elder Jansen, the senior couple in the mission, and have him come out to do it. Luckily he was able to do so, but around this time we got back to the church only to find that the font had overfilled! We got that mess cleaned up and by the time we talked with Elder Jansen again we discovered that our District Leader who did the first interview misunderstood Ricky and the second interview wasn't needed. What a mess! It was a really happy moment though when he was baptized and we were also super stoked when he was confirmed. I've attached a picture of us all at the baptism. I love Ricky and he'll be a great member of this branch, he better be.

Other then that, we had a short sleep walking incident. I guess I sleep walk sometimes. No one was hurt but we actually are not allowed to talk about this story... Maybe after my mission I'll tell you.

We also got the mail on Friday! So thank you for all that sent me a letter I loved them and I appreciate them deeply.I'm doing great though I want to mention that I am now 90% of the man I used to be. That is of course two weeks old but isn't that great. Thats quite a bit of weight if you think about it.

Gotta go,

Love you all,

Elder Nathan John Nielson