So everyone is always asking, what do you do on your mission?
I decided to take pictures of all the places we went and that fizzled out
after the first place. I just never remember to take out my camera.
Below is one place we went to four times in the 12 days we were in
St. Vincent. When a missionary comes into St. Vincent, they are given a
30 day visitor visa. A few days before that expires we go to the
immigration department and apply for a 90 day visitor extension visa.
There are five forms for each missionary. We wait for a long time
each time and thought we would be efficient and do several at once. When
we went back to get the renewed passports we were told that we had come too
early and because of that they only renewed the passports for 60 days. We
still had to pay the $25.00 for a shorter period of time. We can only
renew them 3 days before they expire. We will not be efficient in the
future. Then the clincher.....all the missionaries are flying to St.
Lucia for zone conference on May 22nd. When they come back to St. Vincent
they all go back to a 30 day permit even though we had over half of them
renewed until August. So we will be back here in June renewing all 14
missionaries visas.
While we were downtown Kingstown we noticed these old buildings.
We decided to stop and see what they were. This one is an old
Catholic church, school and soup kitchen. We soon found that many
homeless people prey upon those coming to worship. One man in particular
touched me as he looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame and could not speak,
only grunt. He was thrilled when Elder Goddard gave him some money.
On the same block are several churches. This one is right across
the street and is an Anglican church and graveyard. Across the street to
the right is a Baptist church and school.
During our stay on St. Vincent, President and Sister Mehr came to set
apart the new Branch Presidency Richard called when we were here two weeks ago.
With him were the A.P.'s. Elder Larsen and Elder Hatch. They will
be the AP's for the new Barbados Mission that will begin on July 1st with
President and Sister Harrington. These young men are so vital in teaching
and helping the new mission president as he begins his service. They are
great young men!
One morning I got up and this man was chopping the tree outside our
kitchen window. He was thrilled to pose with his cutless for this
picture.
We greet our landlady's parrot every morning. She is always happy
to see us and can say....pretty boy (they taught her that before they found out
she was a she) and hello.
Anytime
President and Sister Mehr visit an island is a grand occasion and all the
missionaries want a picture with them. Sister Jensen and Sister Tongi
set the timers on the camera line-up.
We were in St. Vincent from May 4 through the 15th. Two days were
spent inspecting apartments. What we found is that they all needed cleaning supplies.
They get so little MSF money that I can't blame them if they
say....should I buy bathroom cleaner or eat? We filled up our trunk with
comet, Mr. Clean, Lysol bathroom cleaners, garbage bags, garbage cans, light
globes, dish towels, dish cloths, dish soap and the find of the
day........drying racks. We have been looking for these since we went to
St. Vincent in October. We found them at True Value and had the clerk
take our picture for the momentous occasion. When we have gone into the
Elders apartments we have seen some unique ways to dry their clothes. None
of them have dryers. They were thrilled to get these drying racks!!!
I
have to write that 5 out of 7 apartments were beautifully cleaned. They
did a good job! We'll work with the 2 that were pretty scary.
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