54th week

Hey Family!





Well well well its been another week. I don't have forever but I thought I'd share a few quick stories.



First - We saved a man's life...Maybe our own.. We pulled up to a stop-light at about 8pm and we still needed one more contact for the night. Well just happened, that there was another man there so I started to contact him. It wasn't successful in terms of numbers but we ended it with pleasantries just after the light turned green. Well just before we started to go again a man on a bromfiets (somewhere between a scooter and a motorcycle) sped through his red light. I didn't think about it but Elder Bell pointed it out that if we hadn't stopped and talked to the man and had left just as the light turned green one of the three of us probably would have gotten t-boned or that bromfietser would have crashed trying to avoid us. Funny thing there too is that we shouldn't have been on that street but a mistake lead us there. We both felt like the Lord was providing for us and keeping us safe.


Second - We had a great branch activity this last week. Elder Bell and I mostly organized it but we were just super stoked it went through. We had some fears about branch unity so we thought lets just have a good time together. So we all met up at the Sports Hall. Basically an indoor basketball arena and we played games (Basketball, Rugby) and had a lot of good food. It was a success as we had 38 people at the activity and we usually average only 10-15 people in church! I was pretty excited about it. Only bummer was when we were on the way we crossed through a field and somehow my bike locked up. So I went to the ground. As I was falling though my leg hit on my brand-new-sharp metal pedals and I got kind of cut. What a bummer! Oh well though, being the strong person I am, even with a bum leg I dominated Rugby (I'm bigger then everyone else besides Elder Bell by about 2x and faster too oddly enough) and scored all the points in our teams dominating defeat of Elder Bell's by 3.



Third - We celebrated Pioneers Day this last week by eating pizza. Recognizing that neither of us have Italian blood we though we would celebrate that too often forgotten people. So we bought frozen pizza and cooked them and "celebrated." Sadly, the "American" style pizza we bought was more like a cracker with cheese on it, but it was a change of pace none the less


As you can see things are going okay here. We lost all of our baptismal dates on Sunday because no one came to church but that's okay. We are working forward with faith. Sometimes we find ourselves in the midst of the mist of darkness in Lehi's Vision. We have but two choices. Turn around and be lost or hold fast to the iron rod(Word of God) and keep going. I've been trying really hard to when in doubt choose faith. It has been going great and I exhort you to do the same.!



Oh and we got our transfer calls. They officially kept us where we were Elder Bell and I so also made us a district. A district of two! Funny enough if you have a district then it has to be in a zone otherwise you could call yourself Zone Leaders... Either way you also have to have District Leader! You can guess where this is going. I think President just did this so I can't call myself a zone leader but it is what is is. We will petition for Zone Leaders next transfer if we are both still in Nickerie. (Just kidding about that kind of). This might mean I get to go to trainings in Trinidad this transfer and that would really cool.



Either way,



I love you all!



Love,



Elder Nathan John