Saturday, April 23, 2011

Book of Mormon Activity

From beginning to end the Book of Mormon activity was fun for everyone! Whether you were old or young or in between,

you could learn about the prophets and the books in the Book of Mormon,

or relay marshmallows on the Sword of Laban,



or fight Nephite and Lamanite wars,





or throw stones,

or just blow hot air!

And, "BINGO" (Book of Mormon Bingo, that is) the party was almost at it's end!

Guerlina Dessanon's Baptism

Fun before the serious business of the morning.Group members, and non-members, minus the George Family, who arrived late but in time for the baptism.

Denis leads his wife into the water.

He listens to last-minute instructions from those on the sand.

Denis reads the baptismal prayer from a paper,

which at this point is almost dry,

but got more and more wet

each time it was necessary to repeat the prayer and ordinance.

We lost track of exactly how many times Denis tried to immerse Guerlina, but by the time he did the paper was definitely WET!

OK. One more time,

and then Guerlina was an officially baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Road was a little crowded on the way to the airport to pick up Eric and Vicki the afternoon of April 7th but after that all went smoothly,including their arrival at Melville Hall Airport aboard this LIAT Dash 8 (blurred by a chain-link fence).
We loaded their little bit of luggage and all the goood things they brought in the back of the Ford Ranger and headed for Roseau.
Vicki and Eric brought Reginald his own set of scriptures with his name engraved on the covers and, boy, oh boy, was he happy!

One thing that had to be done aside from people-watching and site-seeing was laundry, but even that was enjoyable! Brother Johnny was more than pleased with his new visitors!
This part of the trail in one section of the rain forest leads to Emerald Pool
and a refreshingly cool dip for those who opted to participate.
We fell victim to this 'local' at Scott's Head who 'saw us coming'! He climbed a coconut tree, sold us coconut water and the biggest papaya one can imagine....and charged us only EC$50. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
After Family Home Evening (which was bumped to Tuesday evening to allow us to have dinner at Christabel Cooper's and Elenore Walther's house Monday evening), Terry finally mastered the "up in the air Junior Birdman" maneuver.
And so did his Uncle Reginald............................. ALMOST!
Just as certain as death and taxes, which must be paid when they come due,
all good things must end. LIAT Flight 754 finally arrived in the rain more than 45 minutes late! All that remains after the tail left the tarmac are memories!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Eric & Vicki Clark's Visit

The sun was just setting as the Clarks got their first glimpse of a departing cruise ship on the leeward side of the island of Dominica Thursday evening. Between Thursday and Saturday evening they visited the local baker inside his tiny bake shop with the 100 year-old oven . . . . .
. . . . and tasted his delicious local bread.
They went to market Saturday morning for produce . . . . . .
. . . . and a colorful experience.
They realized not all LDS meeting houses look alike.
Sometimes they thirsted!
They shared their 'chariot' along the road with folks in need of a ride.

And then realized they were too tired to share anything more.