This week was great! I really love being here in curacao and more than anything being a missionary. I was comtemplating my mission up until now. What i've done what i have not done. and have more than anything realized how many things i have to be grateful for. I have been able to learn so many things. Both from just being in certain situations and also watching other people. Watching how people act and seeing that all is pretty much a choice of attitude. I am so grateful for all that i have learned. We are all finally in our own apartments now. 1 companionship in each apartment. Last transfer with 4 in ours we saved a lot of money on food that's for sure but also it was much easier to create a break in our unity i noticed. When you don't get along with your companion you have two more to talk to not fostering the best relationship with my companion so i am excited to be with just my companion this transfer. It will be good!
So the news i recieved. Monday night president martineau called me monday night and told me that i will be the district leader here on curacao and pretty much i am a zone leader just without another companion zone leader. Then he continued to tell me that there will be 8 missionaries at the end our our mission in the ABC islands. That there is going to be 2 on Aruba 1 in curacao and 1 in bonaire. He mentioned that there will be four missionaries from the Group right before me. Elder Slade my old companion and 3 others. Then he said that there will be 4 from my group to be the last last ones. Myself and three others will be the trainers for the other missonaries we will be here in the islands with the group before me then they die my second to last and my last transfer i will train a new missionary from the other mission. I will be ending in the Santo domingo East mission.
Question is there a senior couple from our stake in santo domingo? i swear in a conference from santo domingo i saw a couple i recognized.
But yeah my final interview will probably be in DR and i might get to go once more to the temple there before i come home. =) i am excited for that. Hace falta.
That is the news. I am going to be in the other mission! WOohoo! This week we got a great new investigator that bore her testimony in Gospel Principles yesterday. She was being taught by the sisters and now is our area. She says that shemoved here to work and worked for a few weeks. Then she lost her job and hasn't gotten more work. She then ran into the sisters. She said at first the Book of mormon seemed strange to her. then she started to read. She has read half way through the book of mormon came to church for the first time yesterday and feels like god wants her to use this time he has given her to prepare. To read and learn more. So i am pumped to work with her.
My companion is a puerto rican and his driving drives me nuts. =) he is always pushing overdrive on and off trying to drive faster. and changing from drive to 2 and low. becuase he thinks thats what your supposed to do. =) he also always turns off the air conditioner before turning off the car. also when we come to a red light he puts it in nuetral and pulls the e brake ....and the list goes on. =) funny. Much better though we get alongand my spanish is just getting better and better. I am trying with dutch and will be for a while now. President also said for the next three transfers i will stay here in curacao. We are getting an extended stay permit for church reasons and so yeah. I have 5 transfers left in my mission next three here and last two in aruba.
FUNNY.... there is a guy next to me chatting with a girl and speaking spanish he's from ecuador. Saying some personal things and she must have told him she couldn't hear him very well becuase he said. "there are other people here i can't talk to loud" then she must have asked how many or something. then he said "well most of them are People from Holland so they don't know anyway but theres more people" It makes me laugh understanding all that he's saying.
Two of my elders here got broken into and things stolen. one his camera (old one and new one) and the other 150 USD and his Social security card and Birth certificate =/ so we went and moved them immediately. Then this morning i moved as well from one apartment to the sisters old apartment. pretty nice one. i'm excited.
Yesterday i was on a tradeoff. It was really good. We went to our new house and toked over there. we tried to follow the spirit and one of the last houses we toked was a party. I normally don't like to talk to parties because if one is against then all of them get a bad view but this time i just felt a last minute nudge. Just like "everyone needs it!". Started talking to someone and they started asking me "Do you know marcus" and i said no... this is my first day in this area. she then said no in banda bao. which is Barber. and then thoughts went flying and BAM he walked out of the house. His cousin was having a birthday party. he was a member that got baptized there and he is 14 now. He was the only one in his family that got baptized hesaid he misses church since they closed it down there. But we set up a time to go see him and get him back to church! Woohoo! The lord!
Thats my life here! Good Stuf!
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