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 --