"Wauw, dit boek is echt groot. De woorden zijn zo groot dat je van de maan dit kan lezen!" ( "Wow, this book is really great. The words are so big that you can read this from the moon!")

Hoe gaat het allemaal? (How are things going?) 

This was another fantastic week, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas but mostly because we've started singing Christmas songs in Sacrament meeting. It has been cool watching people change during the holiday season.

A woman named Sister Benjamin (she kills me sometimes) is really funny; when I flew to Trinidad I brought a giant Book of Mormon with me since she can only read big print because of what Diabetes has done to her eyes. We came to her house one day, just for a moment since it was getting late, and we gave it to her and her face lit up. We opened it with her and the words are so big! If you can't read that, you can't read anything. But it gets more funny, on Sunday she bore her testimony and she just talked about how no one visited her until be showed up, how now she got a giant Book of Mormon and now she's powerful! You go Sister Benjamin! She also beat us to church because we picked up some investigators.

Something cool that happened this week was we were walking to an appointment on Belladam when we wave at a Sister from the church and she starts off by saying, "Elders, I'm vexed with you!" (she wasn't actually vexed, she just wanted to gaf with us) and so as we were talking with her, I saw a woman and her two sons walking with groceries. I didn't think too much of it until I saw the mom struggling and the little boy trying his hardest to lift the bag of rice he was carrying, the mom consoled the boy and they started to walk again. My heart broke and I felt that we needed to help her right that minute! I ended the conversation with the Sister as politely (and as fast) as I could and we walked really fast to where the woman was. When we caught up, I asked her, "Ma'am, may we help you carry your groceries?" She graciously accepted. As we walked with her and carried her bags, she was just saying how grateful she was and how God does send people to help those in need and answers prayers. When we arrived at her house, I looked back to see how far we had come, I could not imagine having to walk that distance in her shoes. I appreciated the chance to help!

Last Friday we had MLC, the rest of the Zone Leaders in Guyana headed to the Mission Office in Georgetown and we stayed the night their. I had originally planned on sleeping for about an hour since we had to wake up at 2:00 in the morning. It was about 12:00 am when things started to wind down and some people went to bed, Elder Peterson (he's heading home the same time I am) and I just gaffed the whole night since it'd be easier than waking up and being more tired. It was fun haha. We then drove to the airport, got there at about 3:25 and got on the plane at 5:50ish. MLC was awesome, I also got to see the Suriname crew! I also got a going away picture with my MTC Sisters since they're going home this month, it's crazy to think so much time has passed by already!

Well that was my week summed up, I hope you're having a wonderful week!

Lobi,

Elder Hardy

Mission Leader Conference - Trinidad Port of Spain Mission, in Trinidad. 

Sister Ashcraft, Sister Jorgensen and I; his MTC family

Guyana Crew at the Trinidad airport

 view from outside our house

 funny license plate

"Is de bal in de goot gevallen?" "Jawel" "Shucks." ( "Has the ball fallen in the gutter?" "Yes" "Shucks.")

Good afternoon everyone!! Sorry to send this a bit later today, we had our Thanksgiving today! It was pretty fun; we ate turkey, pumpkin pie, rolls and other thanksgiving related items!

Afterwards, Elder Fry of the Senior Couple talked about the Plan of Salvation in relation to the Book of Mormon. There's a special relationship between these two because the Plan of Salvation, Redemption, Happiness, etc. are all mentioned in great detail in the Book of Mormon. Why is that important? Because it teaches us that God has a plan and that the path we are currently on is not Plan B, it's His plan and it's perfect!

This week we're having MLC in Trinidad so the other Zone Leaders and I are flying to Trinidad to meet with the rest of the mission, should be inspirational!

This week has been fun with all of the walking around we've had to do, it's mostly been a mish-mash of contacting and trying to sit with everyone we know. It's working out, mostly! We've met a lot of cool people and have had some very spiritual lessons.

One of my favorites was with a man named David. David used to sit with the missionaries but stopped for a little bit but kept reading the Book of Mormon. We were on our way to District Meeting one day when David walked past us and stopped and bore his testimony about the book and how he knows it's of God. He used to read the Quran but said, "I've stopped reading it, I like this book better, it speaks to me." He's so cool!

Well, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Lobi,

Elder Hardy

Attached is a picture of my Thanksgiving meal; microwavable pizza and a Dr. Pepper and Sister Benjamin's makeshift Nativity scene.

"Het is aan het regenen." "Waar zijn de wolken!?" ("Its raining." "Where are the clouds !?")

Good morning everyone!

This week has been pretty crazy with transfers and everything! I wish I had enough time to tell you how stressful everything is but let's be honest, who has time for that? Ain't nobody got time fuh dat.

Anyways! My new companion is Elder Payne, he's from Idaho (no he's not a potato) and came to the mission the same time as I did. He's pretty cool, it's interesting thinking that it's taken this long for me to see him since the MTC. We had Zone Meeting with Curacao through video conference. It didn't work out too well because of technical difficulties but it was kind of cool. The hard part about being a new Zone Leader is that I have no clue what I'm doing but I need to act like I know what I'm doing, similar to how I started doing missionary work, I suppose! In all honesty though it's been a blast, I just love being on a mission, this is the only time that I or one of the other thousands of missionaries around the world will have the chance to do something like this. We'll never have this opportunity twice and I'm grateful that I'm here now!

I attached some pictures of when I found one of my favorite drinks and final pictures of the Rose Hall/ Corriverton District.

Sorry about the short email,
Hopefully it won't happen again,
Sorry if it does,
I'll let you go now,
Lobi,

Elder Hardy

Waar moet ik heen gaan? Over de rivier. Wonderbaar, meer vissen!

Good morning everyone! This week was yet another spectacular one here in beautiful Guyana.

This week we had the opportunity to go to Zone Conference with all of Guyana. Lots of Elders. It was really cool, we talked a lot about working with recently baptized members of the church. We even had some members there who were preparing for missions and we had two people share their conversion stories of when they first got baptized. It was really cool, they talked a lot about the strength they received to actually make it, the converting power of the Book of Mormon and one woman talked about how because of the missionaries' invitations, she's "addicted to praying". I even got to meet an Elder Peters from the Netherlands, it's pretty fun talking with him because he was a little surprised to be speaking Dutch. He said, (in Dutch) that it had felt like forever since he spoke Dutch.

We also got our transfer calls, I'm going to La Grange, it's by Georgetown and over the river. I heard they even have a chapel, I'm really excited! I'm definitely going to miss Rose Hall and Elder Andrus but it should be a good experience.

I also got my alligator scripture case, I think I might name him either: Charmander, Snuggles or Al(ligator).

I forgot to mention, on Monday or apartment got flooded because of our washing machine pumping out water on our floor. It took us about 3 hours to bail, clean and replace everything back but it wasn't too bad; we still got to go and teach a lesson!

Not too much time today but I hope you all have a spectacular week!

Lobi,

Elder Hardy

A Note from Elder Andrus about the above photo: We flooded the apartment again! By we, I mean I…LOL We spent 3 hours bailing, mopping and sopping up water. There was 3 inches of water in the bedroom. It was SO bad. We cleaned it all up though. And now it smells really nice! Looking on the bright side. Lol

The Branch President's wife sends photos through facebook! We LOVE getting them! I believe her name is Malenie Hussain, although she goes by Pretty Maria on facebook. :)

Elder Andrus, Elder Hardy and President Hussain (branch President)

Elder Andrus and Elder Hardy BFF's

Yes those are I love Jesus hair clips,