George Blackhood, Baby Mamas, and a FUNNY Story

George Blackhood

48 years old...   Member for 8 years...  In a wheel chair....  When he was 28,  3 men came into his house attempting to rob him.  When he refused to give them money a man stabbed him in the back, cutting his spinal cord.   None of the men were caught or paid for their crime.  The man who stabbed him, came to him later asking for forgiveness saying he did not mean to cut his spinal cord, forcing him to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.  George told me today it took him 8 years to forgive the man.  ( I have no idea how he could forgive him at all!)   George comes to church every single week.  He lives up a hill with very steep steps and has to get down the steps anytime he goes anywhere.  He very often will get a ride in a taxi to church and drives his wheel chair the several miles home, up the hills and alley sized streets, then up his very steep steps to his house.  He has no income and I have no idea how he has money for food or anything else he does.  He always has a big smile and is very inspirational to me.  

Baby Mamas

Every day we try to find people that have not been to church.  Yesterday we visited with one lady who had 3 kids....all different fathers, not married, no man lives there....  Then we went to visit another lady who has 2 kids....two different fathers, not married, no man in the picture.  Then another girl, 17, with her first baby,  and of course, not married.  This is very common here, in or out of the church.  In fact it is more common than babies being born into families or even born with a man living at the home.  Most of the women are single mothers.  The women here have lost hope and are worn out very young.  

Funny Story

Our mission president got pulled over and given a $500 ticket (about 6 American dollars) for not wearing his seatbelt.  After a week or so he went to pay the ticket.  The DMV (or whatever the Jamaican equivalent is) could not find his ticket to pay.  He could not find the original either.  They told him to try another office.  Now mind you, that every time you go to a government office it is a l-o-n-g wait.  He went another office and they could not find the ticket either.  They told him that if he found the original to bring it in and pay it.  Later, he found the ticket and returned to pay for it.  By this time the due date was past and they told him he had to go to court.  So he went to court, but he had to make an appointment  so had to return the next day....which he did.  Then they told him it was the wrong court and he had to go to another court which he did.  Then they told him he had to have an appointment so he was to come back the next day.  Now, remember he is a very busy man and he had wasted 5 different days trying to pay for this $6 ticket.  When he finally got a court appearance the judge (a lady) told him that his fine was $2000 Jamaica dollars.  (About 24 American dollars).  He did not have that much with him so the judge said he would have to spend 30 days in jail.  He asked if he could go across the street to an ATM and the answer was “NO” .   So he was escorted to the jail.  He asked for a phone call where he called the Assistants to bring him money so he could get out of jail....  all for a $6 ticket.... which he has tried so hard to pay.  Remember this is a retired FBI agent, well versed in the penal system in the US.  When he was telling us this story....and really I can’t do it justice in writing.....we laughed so very hard.  

Success

We feel the sweetness and tenderness of humble people.  We love the relationships made.  We are so lucky to get to go with the elders when they teach some people.  What a choice experience to  feel the spirit as we talk and know investigators and/or members feel it too.  We feel protected and blessed more than we can express.   As discouraged as we get at times, the joy outweighs all else.  

We love you very much.

Elder and Sister Herbert

Mom and Dad

Papa and Grandma

Beautiful garden and Bath, Jamaica

Dead Mongoose..(The jamaicans brought the mongoose to their country to kill the snakes.  The snakes are gone but tons of mongoose!

Girls in school uniformes...all the kids wear uniforms to school.  (They love to have their picture taken).

Service project in an Old Folks home....great time

Beautiful ocean off the east coast.

Discouraged today

We were teaching this young girl a lesson and witnessed a mother knocking her 6 year old son into a metal fence where he bounced off and fell on the cement.  He was ok, but he just sat there and cried.  No noise, just tears falling from those little eyes.  Found out his mother was NOT angry with the child....but angry at the child’s baby daddy.  The child was running out to see his mother as she was coming home from work and she was yelling on the phone.  The little boy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

How sad that this little boy can not trust his mother for love and kindness.  Do we wonder how he will act as an adult when he is angry?  

I love what we do and I understand that we are providing answers to help them succeed in this world as well as the next.  Sometimes I get tired of the poverty, desperation, crime, and people begging for money every where we go.  OK....complaining over.

Thanksgiving Letter to Kids

(Just a little background...  All the Elder and Sister Herbert's children are married and live apart from each other.  Two are in the military and move around a lot with their families.  One is in Alaska, but lives a far distance from Mike and Bonnie live.  All have 2 or 3 children of their own.)


I hope there will be a time in the future where we can all be together again on Thanksgiving. We love you guys so much.  You will never know (Well maybe you will since you have your own children that you love so much) how much joy you bring into our lives.  Thank you for all the things you do to make this a better world.  Thank you for you good decisions, for your love of the Lord, for providing homes for these beautiful little spirits, and providing opportunities for them to know Heavenly Father by your teachings and examples.   Every night we thank Heavenly Father for you.  We love you so very much this Thanksgiving Day.

Love you,

Mom and Dad

Things We Are Thankful For

Some of the things we are thankful for

A leg that does not hurt:

I stepped on a dog Thursday night in the dark, and he turned around and bit me on my leg.  (I would bite someone who stepped on me too!).  I felt so bad for the owner because they are the kindness and most wonderful people.  (They are so poor and there is no such thing as insurance for this kind of thing in Jamaica).  Because it was so dark, I could not see how bad the bite was until I got home.  I knew it was bleeding and was actually glad because I felt the bite was cleaned out by the time I got home.  I washed it as well as I could, with soap and the cold running water in our bath tub, covered it with band aids, and did not think too much more about it.  By Saturday night by leg was swollen and red, I had a fever, and I was quite frightened.  I really do not feel comfortable going to a doctor here.  Someday if you ask me, I will tell you of my miracle, but today I woke up and everything was ok.  The wound was not red, my leg was not sore, my fever was gone, and I was able to do everything required.  Tender mercies!

Relief Society Sisters:

I went to a Relief Society visiting Teaching Seminar and ONE lady showed up.  But the undaunted RS President waited them out. About 7 ladies came 50 minutes late for a different pie making activity.  She just started our meeting 50 minutes late and we had a wonderful, spiritual, meeting with the 7 (actually 10 by the time it was over) ladies.  We laughed and talked and learned from each other, as women of the church all over the world.  What a great experience to know that rich or poor, black or white, old and young, we need one another, and depend on one another to fill our needs.  Women need women!

Safety and Amazing young missionaries

Jamaica is a very interesting place, not unlike many places in the world.  It is filled with drugs, poverty, vigilantes, gangs, and violence.   Most of the time we feel very safe.  I think of these young elders and sisters and the places they go on their bicycles and am amazed.  I think of my own children and their experiences in the gettos on their missions, and Erin in Ecuador, my nieces and nephews who served valiant missions, and know the Lord watches out for those that serve Him.

Cooler Weather

It has cooled down immensely these last few weeks.  It is about 80º every day and we don’t feel like we are going to die from the heat. Sorry Alaskan friends and family, I know that is a low blow!  I think we have forgotten what snow feels like.  We will have a rude awakening when we get home.

Other Senior Couples and a beautiful island

Last Saturday we took the departing senior couple up to Stawberry Hill, 2500 feet up the mountain.  Now that they are gone, we are the senior, senior couple.  It was so beautiful.  It always amazes me how such poverty and desperation exists on the same island as such beauty.  We had lunch and enjoyed the fellowship of wonderful people.  We have made such dear friends of these senior couples, from all over the states, who have come to serve.

P-Days

Monday we went to Port Royal, the same from pirate days.  It was once considered one of the richest and most wicked city on the earth.  It was home to some of the most notorious pirates in history.  Henry Morgan, Black Beard, Jack Sparrow are a few that came with their loot to trade and relax.    It seems the Lord has His ways of dealing with those people some times.  In 1692 there was an earthquake and half of the city fell in the ocean.  It continued to rain and flood until most all the inhabitants were either killed or left the island.  At one time, Admiral Horatio Nelson commanded Fort Charles, the British Fort, located at Port Royal.  It claimed to have over 140 cannons which served to protect Jamaica from foreign invasion.  Today is serves as a most interesting museum.   On a spiritual note Elder Flake placed a copy of the Book of Mormon to the tour guide. 

Busy Days

Most days are spent with a list of names that need to be found and visited.  It is hard to describe the joy when we finally get to see some of those we look for.  Day after day we are hot and sweaty, tired and grouchy, and love it when the end of the day comes.  Then we go back home, write up what we have done, and love every minute of it!  It is quite the experience to find people with no address, no street signs, layers and layers of homes with seemingly little organization.  Between dodging pot hole, people, bicycles, animals, reckless drivers, beggars, and food stands, Mike is exhausted after a day on the road.

Humanitarian Service

Our Humanitarian senior couple has proposed an exciting self reliance project and it has been approved by the church.  They will be recieving $400,000 to provide projects for some of the poorest in Jamaica. (Not just members of the church!)  It is really a cool thing.  The people had a choice between goats, chickens, or gardens.  They will be given everything they need to make a successful project.  It has very stringent guidelines.  For instance they must complete training and  serve others as they set up their projects.  There are several ways to “Pay Back” what they get.  They will have to be totally responsible after it is set up.  We hope they get it going before we leave so we can see some the of the progress.  It is such an amazing thing the church does...it does not just “give” things away, but arranges it so the recipients have to step up to achieve their own goals.

All our dear family and friends

We love you all so much and are grateful for your prayers and support.   We hope your Thanksgiving week is filled with love of family and appreciation of life and liberty.

Ocho Rios.... a famous tourist place

 Holding a beautiful baby

 A poinsettia Tree

 The seniors at Strawberry Hill

 Elder and Sister Herbert....posing

 A cannon at Port Royal

 Making pies at Relief Society

 A 3 year old...dead asleep on grandma's lap

Men playing dominos.... a huge pass time 

Kevin Butler

Dear Family and Friends,

One day runs into another and at the end of each week, we look back, and can’t believe all that has happened.  We thought we would be hit by the hurricane “Tomas”, but he passed right by.  It was supposed to go right over Turks and Caicos, but so far all reports have been very mild impact.  We have not been able to reach those we know in Haiti, so we don’t know what happened with the storm there.

We spend all the time we can in our areas finding, visiting and talking to all.  We are making some friends in each area and enjoying the relationships we build. 

I have to tell you about Kevin Butler.  He was baptized two weeks ago along with his aunt, Joan Lynn.   The day before he was baptized, his doctor told him he had to come in for a procedure on his heart.  Kevin said he would not come in that day because he was going to be baptized.  The doctor said he could have a heart attack anytime and he should not put it off.  Well Kevin got baptized on Saturday, confirmed on Sunday, had to leave early because he was not feeling well.  Went into the hospital with a mild heart attack, had the procedure and is ok.  So we went to visit him and he started telling us all these wild stories.  He is a pathologist...born in Jamaica (He is Jamaican)...grew up and was trained in the states....very smart.  He works for the government here, and at least now, one of his jobs is to prepare bodies to go to the mortician for burial.   We sat for an hour and wondered if this guy could be a stand-up comedian.  I have never heard such wild stories in my life.  I will only write a few stories for you, but believe me there are many more....some would scare you to death.  I don’t want to frighten anyone from coming on a mission so I won’t tell them all.

1.   When he first came to the island of Jamaica about a year ago, he met a man and told him his name.  The man asked about his father and when he told him his father’s name he told him to go and talk to a woman who was standing near by.  The woman pulled out a birth certificate that prooved she was his mother.  Kevin quickly called back to the states and talked with the only mother he has ever known.  As soon as Kevin told her the story, she said she always wanted his father to tell him the story but never had.  Kevin had truly just ran into his birth mother by chance.  Come to find out that soon after he was born, his father has wisked him out of Jamaica and to the states so he could have a better education and a better chance.

2.  One day he went to where he had to pick up a body.  He took it to the morgue, took off her clothes and washed her down and left the room to get his equipment.  When he walked back in she was sitting on the slab wondering why she was there.  She had been in a Coma, they had pronounced her dead, had waken up and had no idea where she was what had happened to her.

He has had many life and death situations where he has come out alive.  I know these stories seem to have very little to do with spiritual experiences, but in reality I think it does.  He is very strong and very converted.  Priesthood strength is so desperately needed in this country and we feel that Satan has tried to destroy him several times before he could be a force for good in the church.  

Today on our visits we had a grand adventure.  We usually spend an hour looking for each person we find.  We always have someone with us to show us the way but it does not matter, there are always mazes.  To see one of the ladies we had to park and walk up a mountain.  She lives there with her 3 children.  We saw a place for a fire where they cook outside.  Their home is just a one-room, plywood structure, up on the mountain.  We had a great visit....so fun!   

Five of the people we visited last week came to church on Sunday.  That made us feel so good.  Now, if they would keep coming, then it would truly be a miracle.  We feel so blessed in so many ways.

We love you all.

Elder and Sister Herbert

Elder and Sister Flake with Joan Lynn and Kevin Butler.

 At the wheel chair give away.  The church brought in 200 wheel chairs to give away.  Wonderful day

Jerk chicken and pork.  They cook this over coal and on this certain “sweet” wood for flavor.

 Outside picture of family we visited today

 Streets we go down to visit. Houses behind the tin fences.

Courageous Parenting

I was listening to conference and was so impressed by this talk.  so many things I wish we had done differently.  If you did not get to hear this, you should.  


Love you very much. 


Mom

"Visiting" Experiences

Had many “visiting” experiences this week.  More wild driving and many people invited back to church.  We saw several in Portmore and in Spanish Town.  When we get home we are so grateful that we arrived home safe.  More driving scares than people problems.  After an afternoon of visiting,  both of us feel great and are exhausted.  There is often tears of joy and/or regret.   We invite them all to come to church.  One of the biggest problems to church activity is transportation.  Many do not have money for a bus or a taxi.   I take good notes about our visits, otherwise they all melt together and I forget details.  

 We visited one lady yesterday that says she can’t come because she has a 17 year old, handicapped son and can not take him anywhere.  Their home is dark and dreary and it made me so sad.  In the US there would be a bus to pick him up and take him to school, giving her a break and helping him to learn.  She was such a sweet lady.  Even other RS sisters can not travel to her home to take some of the burden.  She is one of the many that have heavy loads.

We love you and are thankful for your influence in our lives.

Love,  Elder and Sister Herbert

Sister Price showing me her banana tree

 Oshane and Sister Osborn helping us find our way

A grandma babysitting.  (What I will be doing in a few months, I might add!)

Spanish Town Elders and Oshane 

Great Day!!

Went to Portmore meetings.  Before the opening prayer there were 19 people in the chapel.  Before the sacrament there were 30.  Before the closing prayer there were over 60 people in attendance.  (There is a lot of work to do!)   I taught the “Law of Chastity” to the Gospel Essentials class.  After all the meetings we went with the elders visiting.  We had 16 names to try and find.  We learned 2 had moved many years before.......   So their names have been sitting in the branch records for a very long time.  No one had gone to find them.  Out of the 16, we only found 4 home.  (We contacted  5 others but could not see them today.)  Each of the 4 that we visited were very warm and open to us.  One said that ours was only the third visit by a church member he has had in the 10 years he has lived in his home.  We talked to three of them about going to the temple.  Seeing those four people (and contacting the others) took us 6 hours.  We came home exhausted and thrilled with our experiences.  What a grand time.... to invite people to come back to church.  I know not everyone jumps with excitement when they see us, but it is still a wonderful opportunity to request that our brothers and sisters come home.  One of the inactive men we saw during the week was there today at the Sunday meetings.  Mike requested he visit with the mission president, which he is excited to do.  It was clear he was happy to be there and so thrilled to begin his way back to activity.

I wish I could paint you an accurate picture of the people and places here.  The poverty abounds....( however nothing is as bad as our dear friends in Providenciales).  Of course some live better than others, but many houses are joined together, woven in a maze of tin.  The streets that run by their homes are really just dirt allies.  It amazes me how the elders ride bikes all over.  They go into areas that would scare their mothers to death.  There is awful crime.  We are very careful and know the Lord protects us.  Even in the poorest areas, most homes have high metal fences and gates with big padlocks for security.  One funny thing is that here, as well as in the Turks, they see the white shirts and name tags and think we are the FBI, or CIA or “Men in Black”.  Everyone we have talked to has been very polite and helpful to us.  

There are so many potholes that most senior couples have had several flat tires.  Many of the extreme potholes are due to the unseasonably heavy rains.  We are amazed that there are not more accidents than there are.  As far as we can tell, there are no rules to drive by.  Tonight we learned that we are going to get a brand new Mitsubishi, Lancer to drive for a few months.  It is really Sister Hendrick’s (mission president’s wife) car.  She does not want to drive here and they are short some cars so we will drive hers for a while.  It is a very fancy car, and to be totally honest, we are not very excited.  There are so many opportunities to ruin a nice car.  I was just getting so I could drive the other one around, with it’s many scrapes and scratches.  I do NOT want to be the one to put the first marks.

We laughed so hard at a member’s story to us last week.  He told us he had gone somewhere in the states.  He did not want to hurt our feelings but he said, “I just can’t tell all you white people apart.”  If I made a statement like that in the states, it might not be politically correct and some might be offended.  We thought it was great fun!

New Lanser on the “road”.  We bottomed out several times.  (Mike was not happy!)

Elder and Sister Herbert in Spanish Town

 A Spanish Town road

New Experience

Went visiting tonight in Spanish Town.  Went to one house, a Sister Chang. First of all we felt lucky to be there alive.  The streets are no wider than our alleys and it is like playing dodge ball with the oncoming cars and the potholes.   It is scary enough in the daylight but in the night it is treacherous.  After we got to the house we were ushered through the house to her bedroom where she and her two adult member daughters were enjoying a few words together.  After a few minutes of visiting, we heard yelling in the kitchen and the mother and daughters ran in where her two grown brothers were arguing over a girlfriend.  I would have thought nothing of it but the ladies were very upset so it made us know it was serious.  One of the sisters literally pulled and pushed her brother into the room where we were and locked the door from the outside.  He stood on her bed to a high cupboard and pulled down a miniature machete (they called it a “cutless” and it was about 15 inches long).  He came and pounded on the door yelling that he was going to kill him and several other things, much of which we did not understand.  He finally found some keys and went out a back door and around to the front.  I guess a neighbor had pulled the other brother into his house and locked him in.  They use these huge padlocks to secured the metal fences that surround and protect their houses.  After a few minutes the ladies came back in to where we were.  They were so upset and embarrassed.  The mother is just starting to come back to church.  I hope this will not hinder her progress.  She said the one son will be calm in the morning, but she is not sure what will happen with the other brother.  Poor woman....can’t imagine.  Elder Herbert asked if at any point I felt threatened and the truth was neither of us did.  I only felt sadness that they were so angry with each other and that a mother must endure that pain from her sons.  

Temple

Tonight we challenged three people to make any effort needed to go to the temple.  At least one wanted to go so very badly.  It would be wonderful to have several people ready to go to the temple before we left.  One lady has been a member for 24 years.  She was baptized in 1986 and has never been to the temple.  The church has a fund to help first-time temple goers pay their way to the temple.  I am not sure if it is available in the states, but for those in the Caribbean, it is a great blessing.  Most that we talk to have never heard of it though.  The people here usually go to the Panama temple.  The Dominican Republic is much closer.  The problem is that there are no direct flights from here to the DR and all flights go through Miami.  You must have a Visa to enter the states....even if just getting on another plane for DR.  Most here do not have Visas so it is easier to go to Panama.  Wish we could take the opportunity to go to both before we left the Caribbean.

Rats and other wild animals

The other night there was this huge rat running across our counter top in the kitchen.  (OK.  So it was a baby teeny, tiny mouse, but when a wild, ferocious, man eating, rodent comes through your kitchen, let’s see how you describe it!)  Mike got the fly swatter (thank goodness for my protector) and shooed him away.  We have since put down rat poison, but I think he was too afraid to come back.

Lunch with the senior couples at Port Royal

First Walk

I drove all by myself to the Flakes this AM.  First time.  Today was a holiday so there was little traffic on the road which made it easier.  We walked for a full hour and enjoyed the cool  morning air.   It was the first good walk since we came to Jamaica. 

Beautiful, green countyside

 Lover’s Leap drop off with ocean

 Lover’s Leap

Singles

Went to church in Spanish Town 1.  PEC meeting at 8:30 AM and church at 9:30.  As we left the PEC meeting the Branch President  told us we were speaking.  The elders had informed us that he wanted us to bear our testimonies, but he had actually wanted us to speak.  Anyway, I think it went well.  Sunday School and Relief Society went very well and then we went visiting with Sister Whitehorn.  Later that evening we went over to Flake’s and planned the Single Adults.

Troy.....Single adult dance instruction

 Holky Polky

Out of Order

Went to District meeting this AM with President Hendricks.  He introduced us to President Deans (who is the district president) and there were a few of the district councilmen there.  We were introduced and President H gave them a short version of his vision of a Stake that would take the place of the district.  He wants us to work with the potential Temple members...those who have not taken their endowments...those who do not pay a full tithe.  One big problem is that people move all over this island, and the records are soooo out of order.  In one branch they have over 600 members on their roll but only 50 come to church.  They had listed 135 high priessts.  What we found out was that they did not know how to put them in the "Prospective Elders"....so they used the “High Priest” category to put the names there.  Funny

Trip to Junction

The Shaffermeyers called us and asked us if we wanted to take a trip with them.  They had to go to pay for a plumbing order.  So we left at about 11 AM and drove to Mandaville and on to Junction, paid the bill, and on the Lover’s Leap.  We ate at Burger King in Mandaville on the way down and had ice cream form Devon’s on the way home.  We got home about 7 PM.  It was a wonderful day and so fun.  We were in the mountains making it much cooler.  We had such fun with the Shaffermeyers.  They are a riot! 

Jamaica Me CRAZY?

(If 5 is my favorite number then 10-10-10 must be 6 times better than my favorite!)

Short Version

Busy week....enjoying Kingston....crazy drivers.....spaghetti streets..... rain every day .....loving interacting with senior couples.....missing the Turks and Caicos terribly.....new apartment....new assignment......eating too much.....miss walking.

One week in Kingston

For the first few days we were at the mission home, enjoying the spirit and love there.  The day we got to Kingston there were 7 new elders coming into the mission field.  We enjoyed everything about them.  Loved sharing conference with them.  Then on Monday they went out to their various assignments and 9 new elders and 2 sisters came to the mission home because their mission was over and they were on their way home.  We had a wonderful dinner and testimony meeting and then they were on the planes and going home on Tuesday.  Funny side note.  One of the new elders....first day in the field on Tuesday..... a thirteen year old kid pulled a knife and held it to his stomach.  (Did not cut him!)  The elder took him in a head lock, secured the knife,  and told him to never bother the elders again.  I think that is a story he won’t tell his mom until he gets home.  Scott had some stories like that which he did not share until he was back in Alaska.

Money:  84 to 1....with 17.5% tax

We use Jamaican money here and it is a trick getting used to it.  I went to the store yesterday and spent over $15,000.00 Jamaican dollars..... which is about $180.00 US.  It just looks better if you say $180.00.  They do use pennies here but they are really worthless.  Think of it.... it takes 84 Jamaican pennies to equal one of ours.  It was so expensive to live in the Turks and Caicos.  We think this will be a lot cheaper...thank goodness.

Senior Couples

It is really different to be here where we can interact with the senior couples.  Where we were before we had little contact.  We went to the airport to pick up a new couple from southern California.... the Smiths.  For those of you who know Darryl (Bishop) Smith from Anchorage, it is his TWIN SISTER!   She is a fireball.   Then Diane Clayton met another couple in the Phoenix airport on their way to serve in the Jamaica mission. They are here now.   Another fairly new couple is related to a couple we met in the MTC.   The church makes the world a much smaller place.  (We haven’t found anyone related to the Ramptons yet, but if they were here, I am sure they would recognize someone.)

Driving...  The only thing I can compare it to is China.  People are crazy!  Yet in their own way they are very considerate and let people in.  But I am always gasping and closing my eyes while in the front seat.  I did drive yesterday and all went well.... but Mike was having a hard time keeping his mouth shut, I could tell.  One of the problems is that the roads wind around and around and there are very few street signs.  There are some major roads which help  find our way and I can’t believe how quickly Mike picks up directions.  He has a feel for the layout already.

New Assignment

We have been given two branches in which to work, Portmore and Spanish Town 1.  I hope we can find and influence those the Lord will have us touch.   This week has been like a vacation and we are ready for work.

Rain

At least once a day for the last week we have had rain.  Sometimes a torrential rainfall.  The week before we came, there was extensive flood damage in Kingston because of the rain.  Houses fell into the gullies, property just falling into crevices.  They only know of 12 dead, but lots more are still missing.  I don’t think they will ever really know, because there is no way to count them.  These are just the ones reported.   I wonder if there is not a lot more damage from the rainstorm last night.  It is like you turn on the shower and go outside.

Our Apartment

We found, what we thought, was a very nice apartment and moved in on Thursday.  There is so much we have discovered after moving in that we are unhappy about.  But it will work great for the last 5 months.  It is still a one bedroom, which is all we need, and is much bigger than the one in Providenciales.

We love and miss each of you.

Elder and Sister Herbert

Picking us up from the airport in the rain

Conference in the Mission Home....Look like conference at home?

 Present from our kids....We love them

 The Smiths.... Darryl Smith’s twin Sister

Our new apartment

 Our car for now, a Nissan Tida  ....we get a new truck soon!