Sunday, March 3, 2019

Tender Times

Monday the 28th we looked at a few more apartments and found one that would work. In the afternoon we finalized our apartment in Tobago. This place will be quite a lifestyle change and we are looking forward to it, but, even as I say that my heart is tender because we know we are leaving people we love dearly so the excitement is tempered with sadness as well.
Before we left Tobago I did take the opportunity to swim in the cove and ride the waves. I do love the ocean!
Tuesday we flew to Trinidad and then back to Georgetown. Our good taxi driver, Sherlock, was there waiting for us to drive us to Georgetown. We picked the car up which had been repaired and all of the tons of sand cleaned out of it! Then we made the harrowing drive back to Linden in the dark....until you have experienced it you could never understand the overriding feeling of fear that envelopes me for 2 hours each way. Even as I write this, the pit of my stomach is aching as I bring up the memories. The drivers are lawless, risk takers and drive at high speeds and you never know what they might do. Obviously we made it home or I wouldn't be writing this but it takes something from me and my relationship with Dave gets wounded because he doesn't fear like I do and drives very much like the Guyanese but he feels at peace because he trusts in the Lord's protection. This has truly been one of the hardest lessons of the mission so far. Having to do this drive as often as we have has been very taxing on our relationship and there has been need of lots of patience, understanding, forgiveness and curbing criticism. All of which usually doesn't happen until we have been home for a day or two. Sad, I know. I am writing this as my history of the mission and it is not "peachy" all the time. Anyway, perhaps and hopefully, I won't be writing about the horrors of driving anymore.
Wednesday, we did a little shopping for food to last us a little over a week and Dave worked on the expense report that is quite involved with three different currencies and is required each month. We got a call from President Baird asking me to accept the assignment of managing ALL of the apartments in the Trinidad Port of Spain Mission......I didn't put an exclamation point here because I'm trying to catch my breath.....Sister Thackery, part of a wonderful senior couple, has been doing it and they are going home on March 10th and there is not another couple coming to replace them, so I get to do it......the only thing that helps me with this is that quote "whom the Lord calls, He qualifies" This will be a great challenge for me but Dave is a wiz at this stuff and I know he will help me along the way. So, that meant another trip to Georgetown to get trained by Sister Thackery, which we did Thursday in the day, which is better than the night but not by much. We spent a couple hours with the Thackerys drinking out of a fire hose and I came home pretty much in a daze.
So get this. the housing manager is responsible for leasing and terminating all of the living quarters of all of the missionaries in the mission. That's six countries and seven different areas since Tobago is an island off of the country of Trinidad and with 130 missionaries (give or take) plus they have to be inspected every month, the smoke alarms and the water filtration systems need to be maintained and ordered and apartments renewed as the lease expires....are you sensing my stress level rising? Really, it will be good for me and a part of me is excited to get into it but we don't have a good internet right now so it will be something I delve deeper into as soon as we get to Tobago. Sister Thackery has gotten it in very good shape and in a comprehensive format so it will be good.
Friday we had a nice visit with the Emamudins, Molly and Haniff. We are trying to get the temple cards ready for their parents so they can take them to the temple when they go. I can only imagine the joy that will be felt as we get to do these beautiful, precious ordinances for them and their deceased parents. Sarah their daughter will get to do the Baptisms for her grandmothers! I can hardly wait!
That evening we taught the first lesson on the temple prep class and it was wonderful! We are trying to get in as many of the seven lessons as we can before we go.
Saturday was a day to remember forever!  Pamela and Joel were Baptized!!! We gathered for the Baptism and just a few minutes before it was to start, Elder Moracca asked if I would give a talk on Baptism. Before this mission, if someone would have asked me to give a talk at the spur of the moment I would have been a nervous wreck but here, you just talk about what you know and testify and it's all good. I was grateful to be able to do that. Dave was able to Baptize Pamela and it was so tender. She has waited many years to be Baptized. She needed to get married and Joel was kind of dragging his feet and she also didn't want to get Baptized without Joel. So, they got married and Joel stopped smoking, drinking and agreed to be Baptized! Holy Cow!! Truly, this is what joy feels like! Heavenly Father gave us such a blessing to be here in Guyana and meet and fall in love with these precious souls and then witness as they covenant to be followers of Christ. They have had a lot of very good missionaries who taught them well over the years. Praise the Lord!
Sunday, we went to church and as I was sitting waiting for the meeting to start, I felt some things sharp on my skirt. Here in Guyana there is a grass that has very sharp, tiny seeds that cling to everything they touch and they don't wash off, you have to pick each one off with your fingers. Well, I looked at my skirt, which I had washed, and there were several of these seeds. I started picking them off one by one and the feeling rushed over me.....this my be the last time you have to pick these seeds out of your clothes and I started to tear up. This area has been hell and heaven all at the same time, not hell as in the place to live but more hell in the scarcity, hardship and Dave and I learning more about each other in different situations. We will never be the same because of what we have been able to experience. We thank our God for the great blessing of being here!
Dave was able to Confirm Pamela such that she can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  Sweet Sabbath day!
 Pamela and Joel Maksyhung
 Aren't they the cutest!
 Family, branch members and missionaries
 Sweetness!
 JOY!!
 Haniff baptized Joel. They live in the same area in Lower Kara Kara
 Us and the beautiful Maksyhung family
 This is Rambutan. It's a fruit grown in Mexico but we found it at the market in Georgetown
 Isn't this cool!
 It has the texture and similar taste to a grape
 Mammea fruit...it's a fruit....looks more like a potato or something like that
 sliced and peeled, the texture is like a firm peach. I'm thinking it wasn't as ripe as it should have been
 Each side has a pit in it. Very curious and very yummy
 I have no idea what the history of this car is but it's been here for years. They prefer to leave vehicles where they die for whatever reason. Makes for interesting yard art eh? 
 This is a better picture of the Kisskedee bird. I love it's yellow breast. 
There are also baby blue birds but we haven't been able to get a picture of one. 
 Look closely at where the helmet is...Many Rastafarian men have long long dred locks and wear stocking caps to bundle them up. I don't think the helmet will protect his head though.  
 It's amazing to see people walk around very normally balancing large things on their head
 Here we have garbage pick up on our street. Notice the Rastafarian with the yellow hat. When I see them  my neck hurts thinking about supporting that much weight on my head.
The darling lady in red holding the baby and her children's father come to church very often. She and I have a soul to soul connection. We have never really talked but we just love each other. She isn't a member yet, but I hope someday she will choose to be. Her name is Lisa Daniels
Today, Sunday, is Mashamana. It's a holiday of sorts. Tons of people milling around, kind of a dancing parade and lots of loud music which we will probably get to enjoy into the wee hours of the morning.  We don't have internet in our apartment so we tried to go across the bridge to go to the church to get some things done and the bridge just had a continuous stream of cars coming onto our side, so we had the brilliant idea to ride the boat across!
Which we did!

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Preview of Paradise

It feels like it's been weeks since I have written. I wonder why some weeks seem longer or I guess more things happen during that week to make it feel like I haven't recorded for awhile.
The process of the new chapel has been slower than molasses......we are hoping the gentleman that owns the property where the partial building is, will be patient or we will lose this site. We are hoping that it will get under contract soon.
Monday was kind of a regular day. It's been nice to have water to use whenever we want so I don't have to time showers, dishes or washing clothes. We went to seminary with the new teacher Sally.
Tuesday was a special day because one of our Seminary students got baptized!  Rockley Joseph. He is 13 years old and I love him! He is a very quiet and shy guy but you can tell his heart is so good! We had seminary and then his baptism after that. Dave was blessed to be able to baptize Rockly.
Wednesday, we went to Haniff and Molly's and got all their temple clothes ordered on the internet. We asked President Baird if he would allow us to escort them to the temple and he said yes! So now we will be making all the arrangements to get us to the Manaus Brazil temple. The church has a program called TPAF (Temple Patron Assistants Fund) where members can donate to help get other members to the temple for the first time. You can apply and the church will pay for all the transportation, clothing, meals and lodging. Can I tell you how much I love this church! Can I tell you how much I love it's members who are so willing to give of their abundance so that their brothers and sisters in poorer situations can have the necessary opportunities to receive all of the blessings our Father in Heaven has to offer each one of us. Anyway, we have filled out the application and now we will hope and pray that it goes through for them. They will be traveling with their 11 year old daughter Sarah to be sealed together. We will of course pay our own way but truly, this would never happen for this family without the TPAF program.
After we finished with Haniff and Molly we headed to Georgetown for the night because we had an early flight (we thought) to Trinidad the next morning. We needed to give the office couple the car to have fixed because Dave was hit a few weeks prior, when I wasn't with him, or surely I would have yelled "stop or slow down" or something to prevent it from happening.....I am being snarky of course. So, without a car we had our first taxi ride to the airport at 5am! Our taxi driver happens to be a member of the church and he told us some pretty horriffic stories of his adventures on the road. He told us that his wife keeps telling him "Honey, if you love me, you won't drive fast."  So he doesn't and I was so grateful! He will be picking us up when we return on Tuesday.
Thursday, we were up at 4am and out the door at 5am to get to the airport by 6am. We were there even before any of the ticket attendants. As we were checking in, we were told that our 8:15 flight was delayed until 1:30pm. Unfortunately, they do not notify you if there is a change of flights or times so we had nothing to do but wait in this very small airport for the next 6 and a half hours....we were trying to get to a special zone conference in Trinidad with Elder Soares of the twelve apostles. We thought it was at 2 and then told it was at 5pm. When we finally got in the air at 2pm, we thought we would be able to make the meeting. Well. it happens to be Carnival time here in the Caribbean and the airport immigration and customs was C R A Z Y!!! We waited two hours to get through immigration and having 7 large bags for two people for only 6 days looked very suspicious to the custom agent so we had to go through the xray machines and they didn't like what they saw so then we had to go and open every suitcase. We were bringing as much of our stuff here that we could to keep at the mission office in Trinidad until we moved completely in a couple of weeks. When the x-ray lady told us to get in the "red line" which is the searching line, which was very long, but you have to go passed the out doors, I tried to signal Dave that we could just slip out with our bags cause everyone was pretty busy and wasn't really paying attention to what one person was doing...so I actually went out the doors with out any issue but Dave didn't follow me and was being a good citizen or something....so, then I had to make a big scene and come back in the doors you are NOT supposed to come through...yikes! Apparently, I momentarily forgot the badge I was wearing and just wanted to be out of there and couldn't stand the thought of standing in another long line knowing that the Williams', the senior couple in Trinidad, had been waiting to pick us up at the airport and wanting to get to the meeting with the Apostle for 3 hours! Finally at 5:30 we are in the William's car and learned that the meeting had been postponed until tomorrow and there was an adult meeting at 7pm that we were headed to right then. Sweet Sister Williams had prepared some sandwiches and sliced apples for us to eat on the way. We arrived at the chapel in Trinidad at 6:30 and waited for the Apostle to arrived. The Chapel was packed! Elder Soares and his beautiful wife and Elder and Sister Gonzalez and President and Sister Baird came and we all rose and they passed by shaking hands. It was a wonderful meeting and a blessing to end a very trying day. We slept at the mission office that night.
The next morning, Friday, we went to what used to be the Mission home, a beautiful home with mango and avocado trees in the yard, and waited for the Authorities to come. There were only 20 of us total in the room and we just sat around in a circle and Elder Soares and Elder Gonzalez answered the questions from the young Elders for 2 hours! I was filled by the Spirit and feel so grateful to have had such a unique and powerful experience to sit with and be taught by an Apostle of Jesus Christ! He told how he had been to Israel and what the roads were like and how far the people in Jesus' time had to walk to get to be with Him. It brought to my mind what the people here in Guyana have to do in their lives, and the thought came " How far would you walk to get to spend time with your Savior, Jesus Christ?" You probably wouldn't care how far you had to walk, you would just do whatever it takes to get there. I believe that's how we need to think about the Sacrament. Partaking of the Sacrament is spending time with our Savior and it shouldn't matter what we have to do to get there. It's a blessing and a privilege to renew our covenants and spend "time" with our Savior. That really could apply to how often we get to the temple as well. People here really don't have the opportunity to do that like we do, but those of us who are close to a temple may want to rethink "how far would you walk to spend time with your Savior?"
Elder Soares shared a story of when he was a young missionary. He served as the branch president on his mission and was given the task of finding the next branch president. He said he worked as hard and as diligently as he could but after 8 months time he was transferred and had not been successful in finding the next leader. He begged to stay to make it happen but was told it was time for him to be elsewhere. Years went by and he always felt a disappointment and guilt when he would think about his failure. One day at the temple he was approached by a young man who remembered him as his branch president as a youth. Elder Soares had taught and baptized he and his family. This young man did serve as the branch president in later years and he was now serving as the Stake President in the same area. Dave felt like that was an answer to prayer for him in trusting in the Lord's timing of our leaving Guyana. We feel like we could do a lot more but we may not realize for years how the Lord always magnifies our efforts to strengthen this precious branch of Saints in Linden, Guyana.
Our flight to Tobago left at 2 pm so we left right after lunch of pizza hut pizza!!! I try not to eat things that come from animals but that pizza tasted pretty good after months of "cook up" which is rice and beans and chow mien noodles or fried rice and roti.  The flight to Tobago was only 15 minutes and left right on time! Tobago is gorgeous! It's a tiny island with beautiful bright blue water. We rented a car, went to Digicel to get a chip so our phones worked then drove around the island a while and went to our hotel. Dave had reserved a resort place that has it's own private cove beach and canopy beds! Haven't you always wanted a canopy bed? Be honest....I know I have!  anyway, it's a lovely place and I keep thinking about when our children will be coming for a week to visit. This may be a good spot to do that...dinner at the hotel was delicious, roasted vegetables and spinach soup! That may not sound delicious to you but after the same food for three months any change is delicious!
Saturday morning we got up, had breakfast at the hotel and went to the beach. They have a wooden rope swing that I sat on while Dave made calls to see if we could check out some apartments. There are some large black volcanic rocks that I walked on and they started moving and I was startled to see "plenty plenty" (that's what the Guyanese people say for a lot of something) black crabs of all sizes scurrying here and there, hanging on for dear life as the waves crashed on the rocks. It was a little creepy at first cause they looked like large spiders that had infested the rocks but they sensed our presence and always tried to go away from us so no worries there. (that's for Amy)  After setting up meetings to see the apartments we were able to check out 9 different sites. It was fun to drive around the island and feel the difference of being in Guyana. Don't get me wrong, I love the Guyanese people and even most of the country but it is challenging to live there. Here in Tobago the roads are all paved with very few potholes. There are traffic lights at most if not all intersections which people observe. There is relatively fewer traffic as well and the speed is much slower and non-aggressive. There isn't garbage on the streets or in the yards, very few abandoned or unfinished structures. Too be fair, we haven't seen the whole island but at first glance, it's seems to be more developed and structured than our lovely Guyana. There are not all the little shops all over the streets and the animals for the most part are fenced although they do have cow crossing signs at places on the highways. It's the dry season here so it definitely is not as green as Guyana. The people are not as friendly or as beautiful in general as our lovely Guyanese. I am probably a little biased and will love the people here just as much as we have in Guyana in just a few days time.
We were gone until dusk looking at places and feel like we have some very good choices.
Sunday, we were up and at the Church, which is only 5 minutes from the hotel, by 8:30am with not a soul there. We sat in the car for a few minutes then we saw an elderly man walking with a cane headed for the church. When he went to the front door we figured he must be there for church. We got out of the car to go meet and visit with him. His name is brother Randolph Murray and he is the 2nd Counselor in the Branch Presidency. He is 91 years old and is a member of two years. He didn't have a key to unlock the door so we waited some more. Soon another lady shows up and she is the Relief Society Pres. and she has a key. By now it's 8:50 and we are the only ones there. After a few more minutes, a few more people show up and Dave helps brother Murray prepare the Sacrament table. At 9:10 the Branch Pres. comes and five minutes later His other counselor starts the meeting. The organ doesn't work so the Pres. has a blue tooth speaker he links to his phone to play music for the hymns. Dave is asked to say the opening prayer. By the time the Sacrament is passed we have 19 total people in the room. There are 109 members on the record. All the room is filled with women and three children, no Deacons, Teachers or Priest, no Young women and no other Elders except for the three men on the stand and Dave in the congregation and one other older brother at the Sacrament table. Sweet brother Murray passes the Sacrament as slowly and gently as you can imagine a 91 year old man with a cane would do. Of Course you can't compare him with Pres. Nelson because that's just not a fair comparison. Dave whispered to me before the opening hymn that we were asked to speak...As I basked in the Spirit which can always be felt if you are seeking it, I thought about what I would say....After the Sacrament the counselor announced for Elder Weeks to speak. It was 9:25. He gave a lovely 25 minute talk. It was 9:55. The counselor got up and announced the rest hymn and then said I would be speaking. I kind of shook my head and said "the time is up" so then the Branch Pres. said just sing the closing hymn. and then the counselor said "well, we will have you speak next time"  which is just fine by me. We had an enjoyable discussion with the Sisters. all 8 of us and then church was over. It was wonderful to meet these valiant saints here in Tobago and we are very excited to meet all the other members who were not there.

Out first sighting of the ocean
Baptism of Rockly Joseph with missionaries and Dave
Branch members at the baptism ( I was taking the picture)left to right:
Romeo, Elder Bigelow, Romario, Elder Holman, Keioma Dover, Dave, Elder Leitch (kneeling) Rockly, Dawn (Rockly's mom) Elder Moracca, Molly, Sunita, Haniff, Sally
Joy!
Our blessing and privilege of being in this company
Sister Atkins, Sister Williams, Elder Williams, Dave, Me, Sister and Pres. Baird, 
Elder and Sister Soares, Sister and Elder Gonzalez. 
I don't know all the Elders in the back because this isn't our normal area. But they are all great!
Not just one canopy bed but two canopy beds!
The swimming pool at the hotel and the view 
The lovely rock of plenty plenty crabs
panorama of the private cove beach and swing
The Tobago branch building. Chapel in the main floor and classrooms on the second floor
One possible Senior apartment, the second floor area
Another possible Senior apartment, the lower right quadrant

One of the many crabs on the rocks

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Beautiful Guyana

Sunday, the 10th, after church we headed to Georgetown. We had tickets to go see Kaieteur Falls. There is a Latter Day Saint couple, Curt and Mary Whittaker who are american diplomats that live  by the mission office in Georgetown who we met and they invited us to stay with them when we came back to GT. So we did. They invited all the other senior couples for dinner and we had a lovely evening. We slept very well without roosters and dogs and with heavenly hot water for showers.
The next morning the Bohnes picked us up and we went to the airport. The Bairds, Haakes, O'Dairs joined us, the Bohnes and Thackerys there. It was wonderful to have the President and his wife join us because they rarely get any time off to relax and enjoy an outing. We all got in a twelve seater, one engine plane and took off! It was so cool to look down at the beautiful country of Guyana! After a while we were completely engulfed in the clouds and you could see nothing but white. It was kind of unsettling to know the pilot's view was as obstructed as ours but yet he continued flying having only instruments to guide him. We all had to have faith that our pilot knew exactly what he was doing, have faith that he was well trained and capable of getting us where we wanted to go safely....Hey, that just reminded me of a Hymn. "Jesus Savior, Pilot me"  I really appreciate and understand that much more now from having that experience. We all have to have faith that Jesus knows what He's doing, that he truly accomplished living a perfect life in order to qualify to pay for all of our sins, and that He did indeed suffer and die and performed His mighty Atonement for all mankind to take us safely to where we want to go. We needn't be alarmed or worried when we can't see the way clearly in our view. We just need to get on the plane (make covenants) with the Savior as our pilot and stay securely buckled in (keep our covenants) and we will get to our desired destination (Eternal life). Very cool! Don't you just love it when life testifies of Christ!
We did land safely. Our tour guide walked us into the forest. It was raining and very cloudy. We were told we didn't have a guarantee that we would be able to even see the falls when we got there. The first view was so cloudy that we could only hear them and at some moments, see a faint glimpse of them. We were disappointed but there were other views to try, so we walked some more deeper into the forest. By the time we got to the second spot the sky was beginning to clear and the midst would roll in and out. At some time it would be totally clear and we got some great views of these magnificent water falls. They were discovered in 1870 and have a drop of 741 feet or five times the height of Niagara Falls. We walked to a couple more view sites and then walked back out to the plane.
We then got back in the plane, the pilot flew over the falls and then circled back and flew over them again so we could see them now that the sky was clear. It was so amazing! Then we were flown to another set of falls, Orinduik Falls. We went from a rain forest to a desert, the hinterland, where the Amerindian people live and borders Brazil. Really it was way out in nowhere and we didn't see any villages until we were up in the air. The Orinduik Falls flow over solid jasper and we were able to walk...well, I crawled over to them because it was so slippery. It was a lovely day and it was so nice to spend time with some of our senior companions here in Guyana.
We spent the night with the Whittakers because Zone Conference was the next day.
Zone Conference is always such a treat! We get taught by some pretty amazing elders and of course President and Sister Baird. We always come away with something we want to work on to be better disciples of Jesus Christ. I wondered if this would be our last zone conference with this group since we have our Tobago visas now... The Thackerys will be going home on March 10th. They do so much! I don't know how things will get done without them. Elder Thackery is the Area Auditor as well as in the Georgetown district Presidency, and Sister Thackery has been managing all of the missionary apartments in Guyana! We may get to see them again since they live in Utah!
Thursday and Friday we were back in Linden with our regular schedule of Seminary, then Saturday, after a baptism, it was back to GT for a YSA Valentines dance. Valentines day came without us even remembering it. I mean as far as getting cards etc. for each other. It's interesting how when you don't live with a T.V. and don't really have a lot of leisure time to walk the malls or go shopping, how commercial events don't even enter your mind. Being on a mission really changes how you think about what is going on around you and what is and isn't essential to this life experience. I know it will be different when we return home but it's really a fascinating thing to go through here.
We got a hotel in GT so we wouldn't have to drive back to Linden in the dark after the dance. It has a swimming pool! It felt great to have my whole body submerged in water. I am an avid bath taker and have not been able to have a bath for three months so it felt wonderful. We just floated in the water for about 30 minutes then got ready for the dance.
Infrequently, Dave will get hiccups that just about kill him. He got them just before the dance. We aren't sure why they start but when they do the pain and intensity of the spasms nearly bring him to tears. He was a really good sport and still danced and tried to stay as long as he could. They wear him out physically because he'll get several in a fast sequence which keeps him from being able to catch his breath as well as enduring the vice like grip on his diaphragm. Hiccups can be cute and funny but these are brutal! We had fun dancing and mingling with all the YSA but went back to the hotel so Dave could try to get them to stop. The only thing we had to try was my cough medicine. He took that and was able to get to sleep a little. We had to wake up early to get to our 9 am church in Linden because some of our seminary young women were speaking. Dave was still hiccuping and drove the hour through the really bad traffic then I took over and drove the last hour back to Linden. I am surprised really how well I do driving on the other side of the road with watching for cars, bikes, people and animals. I do have to say, I am proud of myself! I got us home and Dave went to bed and I went to church. I had turned Primary over to a sister in the branch but she wasn't there today so I taught primary and then hung around after cause we were supposed to have branch counsel. After 45 minutes I found out it was cancelled because many of the leaders weren't there. We regularly take people to their homes after church because they live so far. I was asked if I would do that. I was nervous cause Dave always drives but I did and we all survived. It's a very long, bumpy red dirt road but the kids in the back trunk kept saying "up........down.......up........down" as we'd go over the hills, which made it fun! I made it back to my apartment safely and found Dave asleep and not hiccuping! Hopefully, they will go away and not come back anytime soon!
For the record: We now have usable water 24/7  Praise the Lord!
 Boarding our little plane
 I was right behind the pilot. President Baird is to my right.
 The other senior couples
 At the trail head to the falls
 We think this is the plant that loofah sponges are made out of
 The group. The falls were roaring just a few feet away but we couldn't see them
 This is a tiny Golden frog. It's about a half an inch long
 The miracle of a macro lens
 A handsome, wonderful man walking in the rain forest
 bird of paradise
 The mist cleared!
 This is a view of the Potaro river, a tributary of the Essequibo below the falls
 Of course, pictures never do anything this huge, justice but there you have it. Amerindian legend of The Patamona tribe has it that Kai, one of the tribe's chiefs (whom the falls are named) committed self sacrifice by canoeing himself over the falls to save the tribe from being destroyed by the savage Caribishi tribe.
 Here you can see how the mist would roll in and then open up our view.
 This is the rarely seen (so they say) Guiana Cock-of-the-rock. He/she is looking straight at you. We were excited to spot him in the forest.
 This is the view from the plane
 These are the Orinduik Falls
 Getting my money's worth with Sister Haake
 I look like I've fallen but I was just getting soaked for fun
 Some of the Amerindian children that come to the falls to sell their crafts
This is a panorama of the Kaieteur Falls. So grateful we got to go and see this part of Guyana!


Zone Conference
Brother Mortimer McClean two from the left

Tender Mercies

This will be the last tale I will be recording of our Trinidad Port of Spain Mission. I will begin with the 34 hour travel time to get back ...