Monday, September 29, 2014

September 29, 2014


September is quickly closing.  Wednesday is the first of October.  Hard to believe that we have been on our mission for a month.  Life is Utah seems like forever ago.  We Face Time with every one of our kids but Elizabeth and we called and talked with her, last night.  It is fun to hear how everyone’s week went.  We just need to learn not to all talk at once!

We had a typical missionary week, we had two of our lessons a “no show”.  One wouldn’t commit to our coming over again.  So that makes us sad L. But we taught 3 lessons and challenged another for baptism and she said yes.  So we will see how that goes.  She has lots of questions.

Today is our P-day, so it is laundry, vacuuming, cleaning, gosh if I didn’t know better I would think I was home.  Steve is vacuuming the car, we get a lot of sand from riding home from the beach. But I think the water exercise is helping my knee a little.

The weather seems a little cooler.  We aren’t sitting in front of the fans anymore and we even ate breakfast outside this morning.  We have little breeze which we usually don’t get where our apartment is, so that cools things down a little.

We have been invited to two member’s homes for dinner.  That really made us feel good.  We asked them to help with the missionary work and pray for missionary experiences.  The youth are starting to give us back the Book of Mormons we asked them to write their testimonies in.  Some amazing testimonies!

We are getting to know the members of the branch.  We have some West Indians that have been members since 1980’s.  They are such stalwarts.  We have a group of ladies that only speak Spanish.  Elder Berger always has fun with them as he tries to learn some Spanish.  One lady just smiles and him. I wonder how much they get out of sacrament meeting…but they have a special Sunday school class that is taught in Spanish, they are truly Gods daughters. Our core leadership is all whites from the states that are working here. We are praying that we can baptized locals who will be able to be in leadership roles.

That is our news for this week.  We need to get groceries today. We found that it is a shopping event, since there is no one store that is generally cheaper.  Each store seems to have some things that are way cheaper than the others.  So it makes it worth the going from store to store.  We found some wheat free cookies for Steve - $8.00 for 12 small cookies.  Only for special days!

Driving here has not gotten any easier.  Seems like everything on the island is slow until they get behind the steering wheel of a car!  Then it is the Indianapolis speedway!
 
On the point of Megan's Bay

 
 
 
Our landlords

Yummy banana's outside our apartment
 
 
 

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