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I Smell Like a Surinamese Dog

Hallo iedereen! Another wonderful week in Suriname. It's rainy season and we just biked an hour to our Zone Activity, but it started raining halfway through, so we got a little damp and now we smell like our favorite kind of dogs: Surinamese dogs! I'm sitting here trying not to smell myself while I write this email lol. Lekker eh. Some stuff that happened this week.....
--We set up a booth in front of the church for people to grab a cookie and pamphlet/book of mormon. We were practically chasing people down while caroling at them haha. We met some really prepared people, which was so cool. I told one guy we have another testament of Jesus Christ and he goes, "No shoot!" yessir! We also had a crazy guy try to punch some of the elders and there was almost a fight, but he couldn't really touch them. He was like lunging but couldn't. I know what was stopping him was the power of God cause God protects his missionaries. 
--taught this suuuper elect jamaican woman named Trisha. At the beginning we asked if there was anything we could pray for and she goes, "pray for me to reach my goals this new year" then after the prayer we ask her, "so what are your goals?" and she says, "I want to come closer to Christ. Then she goes, "Wow, I love God SO much. He has always been there for me. I'm so glad you are here to tell me more about Him" ahhhh. The spirit was tangible and we were all so happy during that lesson.
--gave out half of our Book of Mormons all wrapped up to our members so they could give them out to their friends. Every single member we gave them to had someone in mind. I know the Spirit prompted them and it was so cool to see. 
--Jose came to the Christmas party and church! And loved them both! Even though both were not the most organized things that have ever happened. We are going to see if he wants a baptismal date this week so yay.
--taught Clint's girlfriend! He surprised us and we were so excited. I hope we didn't come across as weird to her cause they are both so chill and me and zr penman get really excited about the gospel every time we teach haha. But the spirit was there, so that's what matters.
Yeah, those were the highlights! Oh, and the saddest news......zr. penman is getting transfered away. I'm getting another newbie: Zr. Elmer! Man, am I gonna miss Zr. Penman. She is truly an amazing missionary. One of the biggest things I have learned from her is that we have to be creative. As we have prayed about creative ways to build those around us, we have been so led by the spirit. She's helped me break out of the missionary routine I think we sometimes fall into of doing the same things over and over again. I love her a whole lot. She's just a ray of sunshine. Well, tot volgende week!
Lobi
Zr Merg

Pic 1: The gang outside the church garage
Pic 2: Gang gang
Pic 3: Elder Giordanni being a doofus
Pic 4: dream team
Pic 5: Went to the only place in SU with christmas lights
Pic 6: Killed like 20 huge cockroaches in the church to get the garage clean for our christmas event. Don't worry, I didn't drop it.
Pic 7: Again, the one and only: my daughter zr penman














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