Dear Family and friends,
Dad
and I returned from the ABC islands last Monday, just in time to take
care of a zone conference in Trinidad on Wednesday, and hop on a plane
bound for Suriname Thursday evening. We have been in Paramaribo for the
last 3 days enjoying zone conferences and interviews with our
missionaries, meetings with members, teaching in the rain, and hopefully
having one minute to eat a dutch pancake!
Right
now, I am spending time in a classroom at the church trying to catch up
on some emails while Dad is conducting temple recommend interviews.We
have a leadership meeting and a fireside still to go before we head back
to the hotel. The zone conferences have been on understanding the
blessings of the temple and the missionaries seem to enjoy it. We hope
they will realize how critical temple attendance is to their continued
conversion, once they get home. Marissa taught us that!
It
has been raining for the past two days and our bike riding missionaries
are navigating large puddles as they proselyte. They are a great group
of young people and have found out what it means to preach the word come
"hell or high water!" Their bikes are halfway submerged!
Today
we went to church in a little branch in Koewarsan. It was in the
country outside of Paramaribo. When we arrived at the church there was a
box of kittens on the front doorstep. I think someone hoped the Primary
would give a kitty to all the children who came. We did find homes for
two, but there were still three when I left. It is hard to think about
feeding animals when you can barely feed yourself. The people were so
friendly and humble. Although it was in Dutch, I tried my best with Dad
translating in one ear to understand what was going on. It was pretty
funny when he started reading my English scriptures to me in English and
said, "Do you understand what that means?" LOL :)
We send our best wishes to all of you as you are wrapping up a school year soon and preparing for summer fun.
You are always in our thoughts and prayers,
Love,
Trini and Dad
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