The highlight of the week was in the happiness, the blessing, the joy, the delight of wishing Dora (Sister Faux) a Happy Birthday! on Saturday. We started the day by participating in the baptism services of two young converts, Brandon Harding and Jasma Lubin. Jasma was baptized by her father Andy, who was baptized last April, so he was excited; not only in her being baptized but that he was able to do it. The baptismal services took almost three hours. One candidate was late in coming; and since President Nicholas is in England for a few weeks that left Elder Faux with the only vehicle to shuttle people from the church to the baptismal site and back again - so one thing we are learning is patience. For lunch we bought pizza and other than our Temple Preparation Class in the evening just had a quite day together. Zone conference was on Wednesday in Castries but we drove there on Tuesday. Sister Faux and Sister Treseder had to put the final touches on the Wednesday zone conference luncheon- 46 people to feed – in addition to something for their breakfast Wednesday morning. Elder Faux was needed to help shuttle from the airport to the church and/or their accommodations four couples, twenty elders, President and Sister Gamiette and three children, plus his two assistants. Elder Faux had to chuckle to himself when the elders, who are doing things way beyond their years, approached his auto they would began calling out “Window, window”. Just like the family in days past when they loaded into the car. Once again a motivating conference as President Gamiette, and we have said this before, is a masterful teacher. And we must also report that all the work in preparing the luncheon paid off as it was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Elder and Sister Faux accepted Elder and Sister Treseder offer to use their extra bedroom on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. We were planning to drive back to Vieux Fort Wednesday evening until Elder Treseder provided us with one reason why we should stay. It was a good choice as we were really tired and besides on Thursday morning we went to the beach to swim and lounge in the waters of the beautiful Caribbean Ocean. At the conference we met for the first time Elder Manwill from Annabella, Utah, a neighbor of Bishop and Zanette Sorenson and family when they lived there-a picture enclosed-and for Sister Mele two pictures of Elder Vi.
Sister Faux: Last week was a busy week starting out Monday, preparation day. The Elders come to our apartment to do their emailing and since there are four that takes some time. Then we usually serve them lunch that takes some time but is fun. while Elder Faux took the elders to see the Dennery Falls, a one hour drive one way, I started to do some preparations for zone conference, making cinnamon rolls for their breakfast and also preparing the meat for Taco salad. I make the Taco seasoning for the meat and it is pretty good and less expensive. We provided cinnamon rolls, bananas, and milk/juice for the elders Wednesday breakfast. The milk was for breakfast and the juice for the mid-morning snack but somehow they did not know, and it didn’t matter anyway as it was all gone at the end of the lunch. One thing I thought interesting was if the elders had been in Guyana they were not used to milk as they cannot buy it there. They use the milk you buy in cartons and will last a long time on the shelf before opening. Those elders were concerned about drinking milk as they said it makes them sick now as they have not had any for so long. But six gallons of milk disappeared over the course of the two meals. Oh, the many joys of serving a mission. Tuesday we left early so Elder Faux could help picking up people at the airport. That day we went to lunch with the couples and also to dinner. For dinner we went to their hotel, the same place as last time. The menu was completely changed from six weeks ago and ready for the tourist season-fewer items on the menu and much more expensive. We had a good time and it is fun to get to know the other couples. As Elder Faux said we stayed over two nights and it was fun. Thursday night when we arrived home I was so tired I went to bed at 8 pm and woke up the next morning at 7:30 am. Another joy of a mission. The rest of the week was rather quiet and that is nice on occasions. I don’t know if you know the countries of our mission so I will just write the list. We have St Marten (French) St Marten (English), Guadeloupe, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad /Tobago, , Guyana, (all English) Suriname (Dutch speaking) , French Guyana and Martinique (French). For zone conference the missionaries fly in from St Martin, Grenada, St Vincent including four couples. I hope this is all correct.
Well I must go for now—Last week we ask for names for our mission guess how many we received. That is right - none! I am a little disappointed. Have a nice week…The Church really is true. Love Elder and Sister Faux --

Dear Family and Friends, This may be a very different way to begin a mission blog but we have a request to ask of each of you. Our Mission President has ask each couple in the mission if thry will submit a list of twenty names of couples that would be would be able to serve a senior mission. This would be in the West Indies Mission and could begin as early as January 2010. We currently have 22 couples serving but from January to September of next year we will lose 14 of our 22 couples. Can you think what would happen in this mission if we only had 8 couples serving 148 young missionaries? This information was sent to us by Sister Myers of the office staff. Would you please take a look at your family, friends or acquaintances and please help us out. We need the names, phone numbers and/or email addresses and the office will take it from there. Please don’t deprive those you love from receiving the many blessing that can be theirs if they have a desire. Thank you very much. Just send the information to our email address ddfaux@gmail.com. Thank you once again.
This has been somewhat of a slower week as compared to last week. Wednesday morning the elders came to our apartment for a zone meeting which was held via telephone/computer connections. Since our zone covers four different islands it is easy to see why this mode of meeting is used. The computer used for displaying the visuals effects and the telephone/speaker for the audio. For the most part it works quite well. Elder Westover gave us a bit of a concern for part of the week. He woke up Monday morning with his right cheek all puffy and swollen. It was not painful and no evidences of any kind of a bite. By evening it had subsided significantly so we hoped whatever it was had run its course. Alas, not so. Tuesday morning the swelling was back and involved some of his lower lip-again subsiding as the day went on. Wednesday morning when he arrived for the zone meeting broadcast his lower lip was so swollen it dominated all his facial features. Thinking it might be something to do with his pillow/bedding we bought him a new pillow and Dora washed all his linen. Thursday morning he looked more like Jay Leno than Jay Leno. We had been in contact with the mission nurse all this time and she concurred when we told her that branch President Nicholas had arranged for Elder Westover to see a FNP their family. So an appointment was made for Friday morning and wouldn’t you know it? There was hardly any swelling for FNP Mimi to see. Nevertheless she gave him a thorough examination finally deciding he had had an allergic reaction to something. Anyway, so good so far and we think the linen washing and new pillow went a long way in solving his dilemma. We were in Castries most of Thursday meeting with Elder and Sister Treseder. It is zone conference next week and with more than forty to prepare a meal for we thought we should get it planned. We had a nice visit, which of course, included having lunch together.
Sister Faux: I spent some time yesterday telling you about our week and then hit a wrong button and that was the end. We had a good week Monday the elders were here and two them did their washing as their washer was broken, they did emails, and had lunch, so that is always a good day for us. Friday I made 12 hot pads for those that came to RS that night and also made cinnamon rolls as a treat and then demonstrated how to make the rolls. It was an okay evening but need to find something that really interests them. Any suggestions? I thought I would tell you about the meat selection at the grocery store. Beef buys from New Zealand---minced beef, beef kidney, beef feet, frozen goat meat, boneless beef, lamb neck, frozen local pork, frozen pork ribblets salted, frozen pork tails, bangamary fish filler, butterfish fillet, tuna fish steak, dolphin fish steak, ring fish steaks, chicken backs, and chicken parts. Now that is only a part, so if anyone comes to visit us we will get some of these great tidbits if you have a desire for them. Hope you have a great week. Love, Elder and Sister Faux