Vrolijke Kerstfeest!!!!!

Merry Christmas from Zuster Mergenthaler:

Wow so much has happened and it was an awesome Christmas week. One of the best christmases of my life. I am so grateful the Savior was born. Now the streets of suriname are all smoky because people go crazy setting off fireworks. I dont have time to update, but I wanted to share this super cool story that happened yesterday:

We were going out to contact and we were just gonna go on the gongrijpstraat but when we went over the bridge of iniquity I had a very distinct picture in my head of this building where we used to teach the portugese dude addicted to ecstasy (haha did I tell you about him? Anyways....) so we head over there because I know this is from the spirit. Then when we get there, I feel like we should contact the street behind it. At the end of the street was an old investigator who was SUPER ELECT but told us to stop coming. We contacted the whole street up to her house but didnt really find anyone cool. I was a little dissapointed, but then I thought might as well try Anthea, the cool old investigator, so we did. When we klopped, she came right out and said she was watching a movie a couple days ago and felt the spirit telling her she needed to meet with the missionaries again. Two days later we show up! It was amazing. Especially since I probably wouldnt have followed the spirit if it had said to visit Anthea directly....God knew just how to lead us there. It was siiiiiiick.

I love you guys and hope you all had a great Christmas! Happy New Years!!!!

Lobi

Zr merg

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