Another week in the life of a Senior Missionary Couple

Another week in the life of a Senior Missionary Couple. 

Our weather is just boring.  We are between 77-84 degrees.  A cloud will come over and rain, and then move on, but the temperature stays about the same.  So we are getting use to not having to worry about a jacket or even an umbrella.  We are enjoying eating outside on our little patio.  Our landlords cropped the trees, so now we can really see the whole side of the island.  We don’t seem to have any problems with mosquitoes.  We still wear insect repellant when we are down near the projects.  But here on the north side of the island the people take to heart not to have standing water and places that would bred mosquitoes. 

We were in Kmart the other day and across the store we hear, “Elder, Elder”.  A lady came running up and said that she had just arrived on our island and that she had been having the missionaries teach her on Tortola.  So we have been finish up teaching her.  She left her significant other on the other island. They are not married and the missionaries had told her that she would have to get married to be baptized. She went back to Tortola last weekend.  It will be interesting to see if she comes back.  One day we were teaching her and her Auntie and her cousin and 3 children came in and we just kept teaching.  The children really enjoyed it.

We are still teaching our 3 young men.  They are friends of the Markhams, they are a family here in the branch, with a son the same age as the boys.  The one has been to church the last 3 Sundays.  The other one came this last Sunday.  And the 3^rd one, didn’t clean his bedroom so mom made him stay home and do laundry!  They are a fun group.  This week we are teaching the Word of Wisdom and Chasity.  We will see how that goes.

Elder Berger is getting better and better all the time with his Spanish.  He taught a sister about prophets and even gave the closing prayer in Spanish.  The sweet sister had tears in her eyes.  It really means a lot that he works hard to speak their language.

Today is P-day, so we need to go grocery shopping, one of my favorite things to do and the least favorite thing for Elder Berger!

This a picture of the newly baptized member Lynn, with her daughter Laura and Laura's boyfriend - Kyan, and her son Matthew and grandson Jayden.