52nd Week

Happy Birthday America!



Hello to the rest of you too!



So imagine this, you are sitting in a tropical country on the fourth of July and no one else seems to care that is around you besides the only other white person you've seen today, your companion. Bummer right? Well either way, because America is so awesome, Elder Bell and I sang all the patriotic hymns in the English Hymn Book this morning and we are planning on buying hamburgers and cooking them at home. Not sure what else to do because we are not allowed to handle fireworks.... Oh well it'll be fun! I need a good America tie by the way to anyone that is sending me a random package. Or just more ties. If you send one though you should write your name(s) on the back and then I can show people who sent it to me!



We are doing really great right now. The Lord has been directing the work and it has been awesome. Never before have I seen so many people stop the Elders randomly to ask us when we are coming. A less-active that had moved so we thought we couldn't find him, another Less-active that had lost contact with the branch, two past investigators that seem eager to be baptized. The Lord truely knows who he wants in the Church and it is our job not to screw it up! Luckily we are promised in the Leer and Verbonden (Doctrine and Convenants) that we can't mess it up. Makes you eager to keep working knowing you can't make too much of a messs. My favoriate example of this is Fraiser. Fraiser was a random referral from someone who just said, "Try that house but they aren't home yet." We came back to discover a man that would have been baptized but needed to get married and then got married but the Elders had already been withdrawn from the area. Hopefully we can help him progress and be baptized. I'm looking forward to it for sure.



Zone Conference is this Thrusday. That means that Elder Bell and I have to take the Taxi for three hours Wednesday night to make it to such an event. We kind of live far from everyone else. Either way though... Théy've asked us to present and I'm pretty excited about it. We are talking about extending baptismal inventations on the first contact. Should be great.



Well I better leave it there. I love you all!





Elder Nathan John Nielson

PO BOX 2932

Paramaribo Suriname

South American



ps. Just in case ya'll forgot.