This week we have included a number of pictures of some of the children we encounter. In their own little way they are all so cute and delightful we thought we would share them. At our district meeting in Castries on Tuesday we had our first opportunity to meet Sister Missionaries Camejo and Girdharry. They are the first sister missionaries to be assigned to the West Indies Mission and will be serving with the Castries Branch along with Elders Williams and Cromwell. Sister Camejo is from Guyana and Sister Girdharry from Trinidad. We have been alternating meeting sites between Vieux Fort and Castries but now it appears Castries will be the meeting place as the vehicle Elder and Sister Collins drive does not have accommodations for six persons. After our district meeting lunch (and much to the dismay of Elder Faux it appears his favorite sandwich shop in Castries, Gyro’s, is closed) we took Elder Sturdevant to look at two resort hotels, The Bay Side and The Windjammer, as he is looking for a place for his parents to stay when they come in September. Each was luxurious- gorgeous ocean view and beautiful beach areas. They are more of a destination than a place to stay while you visit around. Just to indicate the magnitude of the tourist trade on St Lucia we were told the Windjammer occupies 64 acres of property. One Thursday we visited the Coconut Bay Resort which is a five minute drive to the east of Vieux Fort. And again we were surprised and impressed with what we saw including the number of guests. We were given an escorted tour of the resort and as we finished we were treated to a complementary Smoothie beverage. One good thing the St Lucian government has done that we think is good is to keep all the beaches public domain rather than let the large resorts, or other entities, privatize them. In case you are wondering we have been engaged in missionary work as well. We have gone with the elders almost daily to visit with sisters, Kisha and Leann. Sister Faux has mentioned them before. It seems Kisha’s biggest obstacle is deciding if she wants to tell her boy friend goodbye or not. Leann’s appears to be her mother, and since she is under 19 that is an issue. Even though mother does not attend her church regularly she is still hesitant about Leann becoming an ex-Catholic. Another young lady, Chevon, is also being taught and she has somewhat of the same problem except it is her grandmother with whom she lives. Her grandmother has threatened to kick her out of the house if she joins the Church, so there you have it. Sister Faux: As you can tell we have been checking out the resort hotels, and if I were coming to visit St Lucia/ Vieux Fort, Coconut Bay Resort would be my choice. It sits right on the ocean, has three swimming pools, wonderful spas, entertainment every evening, and food all day and evening and that is included with the room. The spa costs but I think everything else is included—looks fun. It would be fun to be rich for a few days, oh, maybe not rich, just have extra money. They all are very nice resort hotels. Just a couple of things I have noticed -the elders never wear watches-too hot. Mosquitoes are bad, just for instance I have nine bites on one ankle, miserable. Plus a million, at least, on the rest of my body. Well maybe not quite a million but many. Dave has five on the back of his leg and two are larger than a quarter and three others normal size. One week ago I bought 16 bananas for EC$2.00 and that would be about 68 to70 U.S. cents. This week when we drove to Castries we went the Soufriere (Caribbean) side of the Island. The elders were really quiet but I thought they were just listening to a Truman Madsen DVD we had. I looked back and Elder Sturdevant had his head down over his legs. I thought that they were very tired that morning. After we had arrived in Castries they both said the trip had made them car sick. We took Elder Ash that way and it made him throw up –that was the day he left. Most of the trip is just one ‘S’ turn after another. I thought it was funny but I don’t think the elders caught the humor of it. We went for our walk a different way a couple of days ago this week. The second time Elder Faux said “we will go the opposite way today so it will be shorter” How dumb does he think I am—then he said that the hills were more down than up….It is all the same distance and the hills are just as bad one way as another. He still makes me go and it is hot and humid. It is just over three miles when we go the new walk and we have so many more people to say ‘morning’ to and so much more traffic. However, I am thankful we can still do it. This week President Nicholas talked to the man in charge of all the West Indies Mission physical facilities about getting air conditioning in our building. That would be so very nice. We will have to send some inside pictures of our church building. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints still is the true church. Sister and Elder Faux…Have a nice week