46th Week

Hey Family and Friends!

Like the rest of you, I received and email from my father last week
saying that I was poor at managing my time and I thought that bum! So
I thought I'd set the record straight and make sure I emailed you this
time.

We have been super busy and super wet this last week. I think it
rained just about every single day and it waited everyday until we
were outside and far away from shelter. I guess that isn't a problem
as I keep getting reminded that my future wife will become beutiful
because of this. Hopefully that is true because you have no idea how
wet we get sometimes... No idea at all. The best is when you go out in
the morning and the humidity is so sufficating that you just want to
die. Then you ride anyways and you look to the North East (Where the
rain comes in this area) and there are the dark-scary storm clouds.
Then you know it is over and you might as well give up. Either way, I
always seem to enjoy it nonetheless and usually we are not cold just
wet so I guess that is a plus right? I'd rather be wet then cold.

We have a baptism coming up with next week and we are pretty excited
about it. It'll be on the 28th of May if everything goes through and
we just have a bit more to teach and then the interview on
Thursday/Friday. If that all goes as planned then you'l have photos
next week of our success! By our, I, of course, mean the Lord's
success. We just come along for the ride.
Other then that there is a big push to find new investigators because
when you baptism someone you can't count them as an investigator
anymore they become a member. Hopefully we'll have some success there
as we really only have one person, Aaron, in our teaching pool and we
baptism him this Saturday.

I'm glad to hear that you all surived May 21st. I don't know if that
was a big deal in America but it was huge in Suriname. Just about
everyone we spoke to asked us what was going to happen and what they
had to do to prepare themselves for the end of the world. Of course,
we said baptism and then they told us they didn't think the world
would end. It was good because people would listen to us but bad
because people took it a bit far. We even had one member want to open
the church on the 20th of May to have a prayer group to prepare. We
put the kabash on that.

Things are going pretty well and I love being here. Suriname is fun
and the people are fantastic. Nederlands gaat goed. Ik ben niet de
best, maar ik mijn best doet. Ik houd van jullie en elke avond ik voor
jullie bid. Ik hoop alles goes is en dat God jullie zullen helpen.

Love you all!

Elder Nathan John Nielson
De Kerk van Jezus Christus van de Heiligen der Laaste Dagen.