Hey Mom!!
This week was pretty crazy for us here. We had a wedding reception on Wednesday, a thanksgiving (just a fancy way to get people together to celebrate) for the member who passed away on saturday, and then we were invited to a Hindu Prayer on Sunday after Church. That was crazy, they give you all different kinds of Curry on a big old leaf with a giant pile of roti. They are so nice, and most of them don't really practice their religion, they were born into it they're going to die in it that's what they all will tell you. It was really cool, and they invited us back to their place for a wedding on Friday too so that will be interesting! I will definitely send pictures of that.
It has been raining cats and dogs lately here, which makes it hard to contact and move around, but its been a good week, especially exciting because of transfer calls. We have a baptism this coming weekend as well, which will be really awesome. She is the one who dropped us and picked us back up, and she has really been progressing. I am excited for her to be baptized. My second one on the Mission!! :) I'll be sure to post some pictures! We also have a next one set up for the 18th if she comes to church this coming week! Lots of prayers please! She NEEDS to be baptized.
So transfer calls. Are you ready for it? I AM TRAINING!! 3rd transfer training! I am so excited. His name is Elder Anderson and I meet him on Wednesday! I am so nervous but I am so ready for the challenge and for the responsibility that comes with training a new missionary. I want for this to strengthen me and make me a better person and a better missionary. I have heard that training prepares you for real parenthood, so we'll see how it goes. Have you sent me any pictures of you guys yet? I need some really bad! I want pics from the airport too if you've got them! This whole experience is shaping me into the man I was meant to be from the start, I just know that by the end of two years I will be better than I ever would have been had I not gone. This decision will shape the rest of my life, and I am so very grateful to have such a great support system back home. Nobody else in the world could have helped me the way you have Mom. Your example and great support really helped me to make this decision and coming out will be the best decision I have ever made. I love you to heaven and back mom, and if there is anything I can do for you you let me know! Lots of pictures coming!! :)
Love
Nick
Hey Dad!!!
This week was really crazy. It rained buckets off and on, so tracting was super annoying. I have to get used to it though because we are smack in the middle of rainy season here and it is horrendous. When they say it they mean it. There's a tropical storm running through the Caribbean so it is affecting us as well.
This week was really crazy. It rained buckets off and on, so tracting was super annoying. I have to get used to it though because we are smack in the middle of rainy season here and it is horrendous. When they say it they mean it. There's a tropical storm running through the Caribbean so it is affecting us as well.
This week we had some big events take up a lot of our time. We went to a wedding at the Arima branch building (lots of good food) and then we went to a thanksgiving (kind of like a wake is the closest thing I'd compare it to) for the member who passed away, and then a Hindu Prayer on Sunday after Church (we weren't at the ceremony but we did eat. TONS OF CURRY, so good) we hit almost all of our goals numbers wise, and we had 3 investigators at Church, 1 who will be getting baptized this coming saturday. She is the one who dropped us and picked us back up again a couple weeks ago. It is really cool to have been able to see her testimony grow over that short period of time. She and her 1 year old son Malik will be people that I will never ever forget. Everytime I meet people I want for you guys to meet them too. I know its a long way in the future, but I hope that you and Mom will consider coming to pick me up, I want to introduce you to everyone that I will have grown to know and love here.
So transfer calls. This week was tough because as I've told you before one of my goals was to be training after my 3rd transfer. Most of the Zone Leaders and the Assistants did, and I felt like if that was somewhere I aspired to be later on in my mission that this would be the jumping off point. Well, I reached my goal. I am training a new missionary after 3 months in the field. His name is Elder Anderson, and I am so stinking nervous and excited to meet and get the opportunity to train him. I haven't met him yet, but I will on Wednesday morning. Elder Whitlock is going to Sangre Grande in the east side of Trinidad, so I'll get to see him when he baptizes our investigator Saturday and off and on throughout this transfer. I am so grateful to have had him as a trainer, and I know that what he has taught me will tarry with me throughout my entire mission. I can feel my patience being increased, even if it is only little by little. I feel so very humbled that the mission president would have the confidence to have me train after just 2 transfers, he only knowing me for one, but I know that with the Lord, all things are possible. I think I told mom he was from Washington (my trainee) but he's from SLC apparently. Theres another who is from WA but I don't have any idea who's training him.
Dad, thank you so much for being such an amazing father to me. I know that the Lord sent me here to learn to be the type of man that you are. Hard working, loving, dedicated, hilarious, gentle and kind, and you have helped me to see the type of characteristics i want to develop because you have all of them. Thank you for working so hard to support Eric and I throughout our childhood and for being there whenever I have needed a lift. You mean the world to me dad, and if I have ever done anything (and I know that I have) to disappoint or make you sad I sincerely apologize. All I want is to be the best son and brother I can be, because that is the way you raised me and you deserve nothing less. I will strive for the rest of my life to be the person I should have been from the start. and I have you and mom to thank for showing me who that person really is. I know this Church is true. God lives. Jesus is the Christ and he has suffered and taken upon himself all so that we can have the opportunity to repent and live with them again. Without them we are nothing, and I will spend the rest of my life perfecting myself so that all of us can rejoice together in the Celestial Kingdom. Joseph Smith is a true Prophet, I have never had such a burning testimony about something in my whole life then the fact that The Book Of Mormon is true and it is the one thing that can bring us as close to our Heavenly Father as we can possibly be. I love you Dad. Can't believe Ichiro is a yankee by the way, who did we get for him? The Sox need pitching, we need to refill the ol farm system. 3 years they'll be in the Series you watch. Love you so much dad. Can't wait to hear how things continue to go for you. What is the new address btw? Keep me posted!!
Nick
Nick
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