28 th Week

It has been a crazy and hectic week to be sure. We've been super busy rushing to appointment to appointment. Great example is that we had to rush about 5 kilometers to get to impromptu appointment. We did it in 20 minutes. I was pretty pleased about that especially because it seemed not matter which way we turned the wind was in our face. The stupid wind always seems to be in our face but maybe thats because we go so fast?

Here is your visa update. We apparently needed one more paper, that we didn't know about, and so I completed that last Wednesday for the most part. Only problem is that I needed to do finger printing on the form. Normally wouldn't be a problem but the question is will they accept Suriname finger printing? We shall see. The greatest difficulty with the finger printing is that Suriname's police don't do it unless you've been arrested. So we had to have a member who is on the police force arrange it for us. That wasn't completed until Friday. They then decided to give the paper work to the President of the mission to take him to Trinidad and fedex it from there. So he got the paperwork and took it with him to Trinidad today. Hopefully it'll get sent in the mail today but I've got a feeling it won't be out in the mail til tomorrow. So the paperwork has to get to Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City. Get walked/mailed to the police there and then returned by walking/mailing and then the form can be faxed to us. My visa expires on the 16th but the visa offices are closed on the 15th and 16th because it is the weekend. So it really has to be back before the 14th at about 3pm. My gut tells me it won't be. In that case I think they'll be bringing me to Trinidad to wait out my papers arriving and then send me back to get a new visa. I honestly have no idea though. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

This last Saturday we had a Zone Conference with President and the Assistants and also the Elders from French Guiana. It was really good very spiritual and uplifting and really encouraged me to do a better job to be a better missionary. We talked a lot about finding which seems to be a weak point for me so hopefully I can no apply what I learned and do better. I guess that is always the test in the end. I'm really loving the work and I don't want to be anywhere else right now, but I would prefer it a bit colder.