October 9th, 2017

Dear Family and Friends

The longer we serve this mission, the more we realize that the Lord has His hand in all the little details of our lives. As the local young men and women recieve their mission calls we are directly involved with their paperwork and submission. Dad has to interview every one of them, to place his Stake President/Mission President remarks on their application. One of the young women, that has been serving from Suriname, we have been especially close to. Her family are strong active members in Paramaribo and when she was traveling to the Dominican Republic to the MTC, she stopped off in Trinidad, so Dad could teach her about the temple endowment and set her apart as a full time missionary. Her call was to the Belguim/Netherlands mission and of course that made the ties even stronger. She had even served with us in our mission for a transfer, waiting for her documents to enter the Netherlands.

One evening after she had arrived in the Netherlands, she was doing service in a care center for the elderly. She met a man who said "I am a member of your church." Sister Ibrahim asked him about his conversion and he said, "Do you know an Elder Egbert? He was the missionary who taught me the gospel." Sister Ibrahim went on to say that she thought she may know who his Elder Egbert was. She explained that he was a Mission President and she had served in his mission prior to coming to the Netherlands. She sent her parents a photo of her visit with him and when we were in Suriname, her father shared it with us. It was the man Dad had baptized over 40 years ago. 

We are grateful for tender experiences like this, that remind us of how much our Heavenly Father loves his children.

Love 

Trini and Dad