This is where we started our mission in the West Indies. We arrived on St. Vincent August 23, 2008, after a week in the MTC in Provo, Utah. We lived on the top story of this three bedroom, three bath home (way bigger than needed) ---VIEWS were phenomenal! Breezes blowing through and we loved every minute of it! The family below us would bring us pineapples, bananas, avocados 
and cake or breadfruit.View off our front balcony--nice place to sit and study.
We combined with Elder McNeal and Elder Scott teaching and "shadowing" in the Caliaqua Branch. The members were sweet, humble people. We would give "travel" to Brother and Sister LeBorde every Sunday and for Family Home Evenings at the little building every Monday.
Elder Beute and Elder Kahaialii joined us on P-Days with Elder and Sister Hatton. They all served in the Kingstown Branch.
Elder Scott doing what Elder Collins did just moments before and I didn't capture that moment!
And Elder McNeal enjoying quiet.
Ann Marie, Ran, Shantell a
nd Prince.We walked up a narrow trail through overgrown trees and brush in the dark to visit this cute family..no one had a flashlight...a little interesting.
The island was quite hilly and one could see the ocean from everywhere. The missionaries were "mountain goats". They worked from dawn to past dusk.
While we were there, we also went 4-5 days a week to help Sister Brooker learn how to read. While I taught her, Elder Collins would help Brother Brooker read, so that he would feel more comfortable reading the scriptures out loud in church.
We enjoyed being part of Juan Rodrigues' baptism in the ocean.
Three days prior to leaving the island, we we
re driving home and felt a strong impression to pick up a lady (Clair Primus), carrying her grandchild up our steep road. She expressed her desire to meet again with the missionaries; so, we told Elder McNeal about her. After we left, he visited with Sister Primus and on November 8, 2008, she was baptized with her daughters, Camille and Akelia.
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