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SO. MANY. CAT CALLS.

From Zuster Merg:

I realized after emailing last week that I never sent a weekly...oops. But, hey, I'm in Suriname! Woooohooo. I love it here. I'm in a trio with my best friends, Zus. Orchard and McGuire. We are over two areas 1.5 hr bike ride apart right now, but gaat goed. When the plane touched down and I saw the jungle and all the random starving dogs and old houses and pee-water trenches and smelled the humidity I knew I had just come home. Feels good. We have had some awesome experiences, taught some elect-out-of-your-mind people and gotten a lot of cat calls. I forgot about how bad the cat calling was here. Literally every 2 minutes. I told Zus Mac that I was going to start carrying a spray bottle in my bag and every time I heard "Hey hot thang" I was gonna unleash my secret weapon....but no, gotta be Christlike. But I've been doing a lot of praying for Christlike love for drunk men on the bike. Some of the awesome stuff that have happened.....
--translated for sacrament meeting after not hearing church in Dutch for 6 months. It was rough, but practice makes perfect? (*apologizes to all the Portugese members profusely*)
--Sister Evelyn sees me again and the first thing she says is, "wow, you've gotten so fat. What do they feed you in Bonaire?" Stress, Sister Evelyn. It's part of being a missionary. Man, that woman makes me laugh. 
--had a ward activity about missionary work. We did role plays with them on how to share the gospel with their friends. Cavin (a new member) and Rodney (the guy we found biking next to him that was baptized and recieved the priesthood and is now Young Mens president I love him so much I could rant for days) did one together and it was the funniest thing. Cavin explained the whole Word of Wisdom perfectly! Proud mom moment.
--after a long day of fall throughs yesterday, we decided to stop by a contact because it was getting too dark and dangerous to contact. We klopped on his house and he comes out and immediately goes, "Sisters, come in!" Turns out this guy is elect. Like super elect. The first thing he says when we start the lesson is, "So I've heard you guys have prophets and apostles. Can you tell me about that?" WHAT?? I'm super excited for him. The lesson was just like radiating with the Spirit. 
--Clint, one of our investigators, shared his testimony in sacrament meeting. It was the BombDotCom
--Mike, one of my old investigators, is finally married. We tried to get that guy hitched for 3 months!!! So I was so happy to see his ring when we went to visit him. He's as awesome as ever. 

Lots of other stuff, but that's all I have time for. God is truly working miracles. I love you guys!
Love,
Zuster Mergenthaler






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