With special permission from President Gamiette, the St. Vincent Missionaries (that includes us!) traveled by ferry boat to the island of Bequia--Monday 28-June-2010. Lots of fun! Left to right: Elders Tyau, Henry, Jones, Dyson, Noah, Logan, Scott, and down in front-Elder Buhler.
On the boat!
We pass what is the future docking for cruise ships in St. Vincent.
Elders Noah and Logan liked the side lower deck! Thus--so did Elders Jones and Dyson!
Leaving St. Vincent!
Arriving Bequia!
Welcome Bequia!
Into a travel truck to see the island!
The Turtle Sanctuary......
Tired?
Waiting for our truck...
Next stop: Sargeant Brothers Model Boat Shop--Awesome! Elder Collins with a couple of the craftsman; there are seven of them--mostly brothers.
The water!
The market!
Mexican Food for lunch...
Time to depart......
Gone!
Home in time to e-mail; grocery shop; and clean-up before going out to teach the gospel. Great P-Day!
On arriving home from our trip to Grenada to Zone Conference (Saturday- 26 June 2010), we hurried right along so as not to be late to an afternoon baptism for Urleen Smith and Noreen Delpesche at the Kingstown Branch Chapel font.
Here they are with Elder Dyson, Brother Gary Adams and Elder Scott. These three spent time teaching them the gospel.
Sister Noreen and the Elders
Sister Urleen and the Elders.
Urleen with her three children: Angel, Odecsia and Dominic
Ready for the program.
Last, but not least, Elder Tyau was the missionary that found Sister Urleen in the first place.
Fun! On 25-June-2010, St. Vincent traveled to Grenada for our South Islands Zone Conference! A new island and it is "almost" as gorgeous as St. Vincent!
Rasmussens picked us up from the airport and we checked in at the Grenada Grand Beach Resort--where actually all we did was spend the night--didn't even swim in the pool or walk the beach (!) Didn't arrive back to our room until 10:00 PM that evening. And traveled home the next morning, Saturday, at 7:00 AM.
The view from the church building and the Rasmussen's apartment (top floor with balcony)--the very same beach that our resort is on. The Church and the apartment--the Sister Missionaries also live in this building at the back in a cute smaller apartment. You can see their building from the Church and both buildings are right on this Grand Anse Beach with this gorgeous view!
We had lunch with President Gamiette at the shopping mall in town --nice experience. (the missionaries went for Pizza) We then took President to interview the missionaries and we traveled the town. Here are some pictures of the hospital complex out on the point and their new cricket stadium. Even Flamboyants in Grenada!
About ready to start! Elder Scott and Elder Dyson.
On the back porch of the church--enjoying the view--left to right: Elders Noah, Tyau, Buhler, Jones, Logan, Damm, and Henry.
Elder Collins visiting with Elder Stewart
Now to work
Visiting with Sister Toussaint, originally from Guadeloupe and is learning to speak English quite quickly--her native tongue is French. (beautiful smile!)
Sister DeFreitas--it was so fun to see her again. I could hardly stop hugging her; she was in Linden, Guyana with us--remember!
The Rasmussens! What a special couple; they return home to Twin Falls, Idaho in October. We will be able to visit them as we have a son, Curt, and family that live nearby.
Studying prior to conference beginning!
Look who is playing the keyboard for zone conference--our own Elder Buhler.
Ready for conference! It was fun to meet the Grenada missionaries (including Elders McKeachnie, Johnson, Ence, and K. Jones and of course, the Sister missionaries--DeFreitas and Toussaint). Hopefully throughout this blog, all of them were captured!
The missionaries are studying hard on their teaching mastery program; here is President Gamiette awarding those that have passed their first phase.
And the teaching begins! President Gamiette does a special job!
The Sister Missionaries responding.
Elder Stewart and President Gamiette on the same page!
Elder Noah and Elder Henry responding.
President Gamiette and the Assistants, Damm and Stewart teaching
Conference this time was held from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM (actually, it lasted until 9:00); so, at break we took pictures of the sunset and ate a supper of Subway Sandwiches--yummy!
Our two TALL Elders: Elder Jones and Elder Stewart
President Gamiette interviewed people for their temple recommends during the break and after conference. We teach a lot about temples and our goals to be worthy temple recommend holders. Elder Collins and I are teaching a temple prep class in Calliaqua right now; the Rasmussens are preparing to take a group from Grenada to the temple in Santos Domingo.
This conference was filled with activity; we broke into learning groups and teachers moved around to our separate groups teaching different "teaching methods". Then in the general meeting when we came back, we did an activity with blindfolds and human obstacles--who listened to the adversary and who listened closely to the spirit? and/or which missionaries listened to their branch leaders and which ones did not? These Elders really aren't just lazying around with feet on tables etc.; they are setting up obstacles! Great Fun!
We all loved our conference experience; and will take the concepts we learned and become better gospel teachers! If we but fill our hearts and minds with gospel principles, we can teach with the spirit; and then our investigators will be touched by and learn from the spirit!
