I love you a ton mom and I miss you a lot but the best part
about learning Dutch is that I feel like I'm getting back to the family
heritage. Thank you for sending me that family history info from your cousin in Florida. I will have to send them a postcard from Suriname once I figure out the mail system. I'm excited to finally get on my mission regardless of how unprepared
I feel! Today I did an endowment and in the Celestial room I said my prayer in
Dutch, it was an awesome feeling, everything I wanted to say I had just pop in
my head. My grammar wasn't the best but the words were there. It's starting to
sink in that this is going to be quite the journey, my favorite teacher,
Brother Norton, one of the biggest studs I've ever met, went to Suriname as
well. On his last day for the last half hour, he showed us pictures of his
mission in Suriname, it was really cool and is lot prettier than I thought. He
also showed a picture of a man with a cigarette in his mouth and a birdcage in
his other hand. In Suriname, every Sunday at around 10 am on the buses, people
bet on songbird vs songbird, they put the two cages together and have them sing
against each other. As they begin to "duke it out" someone keeps
track of how they're doing, by the end of it someone decides who won based on
the songs against each other, it was pretty funny to hear about.
The pictures you sent me made me laugh and miss them all!
The cousins are so cute and I wish I could be there for it! Jeremy and Courtney
have grown since we last saw them. Seeing the picture of the Cribbs makes me
wonder how they're doing and missing them too! Also, how's Chambray? Seeing the boys helping Uncle
David made me laugh quite a bit and it was cool to see them! I was looking at
the picture of them at the waterpark and one of the two sisters in my district,
Sister Jorgenson, asked, pointing at Cole, if that was one of my brothers. I
told her yes and I said, "You can really see where he gets it, huh?"
We had some laughs over that, the sisters are really cool. When we first got
here 3 of the missionaries in our district were in relationships, Elder Lewis,
Sister Ashcraft and Sister Jorgenson; Now Sister Jorgenson got a "Dear
Jane" and her mom sent her a get better kit, it even came with a pinata
with her ex's face on it! Elder Lewis broke off with his because he figured it
was better not worry about it on the mission and Sister Ashcraft is ending
because she dated the guy for two weeks before he left, he talks about marriage
a lot and he said "I love you" over email to her! We did a pros and
cons list of him but she already made up her mind, we all agreed with her but
it was just fun to do and it made her laugh a lot! I'm excited to finally leave
the MTC but part of me is going to miss it. On Monday we had to help the Senior
Missionaries as they arrived here, it was pouring rain and it was pretty
awesome! My companions and two other Dutch Elders and myself volunteered for
the job of leading them from their cars into the building, we had umbrella's
and would run over to help them. Mostly my shoulders and my hair got wet but it
was fine, my toes got a little wet but it wasn't anything bad, to think that
where I'm going it's like this all the time! Sometimes I entertain the thought
of changing my last name to "Vandeventer" or "Van Hardy" I
like the first one more though! Just a thought! I miss all of you so much! I
also got to see an apostle last night, President Nelson of the 12! It was
broadcasted to all the other MTC's and we were in the stands singing in the
choir, the director is really cool, he got here near the end of my 5th week but
at least he came! I got a newspaper the other day and in the sports section it
said that the Red Sox weren't doing that hot, give Sean my condolences!
Love you lots,
Elder Hardy
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