Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Jane got a calling!

Sorry that it has taken me so long to e-mail you guys this week. Things have just been nuts around here thanks to transfers and things like that. Elder Morris and Elder Welch are both gone so it's just Elder Lundberg and I here in Vieux Fort until our companions get here sometime this afternoon. Elder Welch is off to St. Maarten and Elder Morris is going to St. Vincent.

Elder Lundberg's new companion is Elder Harris. He's been up in Castries and he is a pretty cool guy. I will be with Elder Barker. Yup, my old MTC companion. I'm not too excited about that but we'll try and make it work. We'll just have to see how it goes. If it doesn't go well, maybe I'll ask to be transferred to St. Vincent so that I can serve in every part of the English side of the mission. There isn't an elder in the mission that has ever done that. If fact, there isn't anyone that has even served in as many of the countries as I have. That's cool!

Samuel still hasn't been baptized. I don't know what it is that is keeping him back. He's ready but just isn't putting in all of the required effort. As for Baby, she is doing fine. She was unable to come to church though so that sets us back a little bit. Jane and Sheba are both doing awesome. Jane got a calling this past week and is super excited about it. She is in charge of making sure that the building gets cleaned every week. It's funny how important it is to Lucian's to have a clean building!

For p-day this week the other elders all wanted to go fishing with our branch president. For some reason he is under the impression that you have to go hours before the crack of dawn to catch fish. So we were on the road at 1:58 AM! It was terrible. They only caught 2 fish the whole time we were there and we were there for 4 hours! I said "they" because I spent my time just tending to a fire that I started to keep the mosquito's away. I pretty much thought it was a waste of a morning. Oh well.

President Gamiette is still making new rules, changing them, and then changing them again, all within a matter of a few days. The latest is what qualifies as a member lesson. We have been given 3 different definitions for it in the last 10 days. It's frustrating to not know what we are supposed to be doing or which version of the rules we are supposed to follow.

I don't know what else to tell you about today. It was a pretty slow week and nothing much has happened so far week besides gettng our companions moved out.

The scripture of the week is D&C 20:29.