Toya's baptism went great!

Toya's baptism went great on Saturday! She was confirmed yesterday and received a calling. She is now the 1st counselor in the Young Women's Presidency!


Elder Barker, Toya, President Nicholas and Jonathan.


I was excited for my last baptism as a missionary.


Too bad I won't be around for more! The other baptism that we were hoping to have for Cindy (the lady from the hospital) isn't going to work out this week, but she'll be getting baptized soon. She is also moving up to Castries.

The most frustrating thing is that sometimes members do stupid things that they know are wrong. They can be bad examples for our investigators. I'm sure that what happened had an effect on Cindy's baptism not happening tomorrow like we hoped. It's good we have Christ's atonement and can repent!

These are a few pictures from last week:

Remember our Ugly Tie Tuesday? Guess who the winner was!


The Faux's took this picture of us at Sulfur Springs.


I was thrilled at my surprise party at last district meeting. Another great tie!




These are the last pictures of the Vieux Fort Missionaries before Elder Barker & I go home. Elders Bowles, Barker, Brenkmann and Jonathan with Elder & Sister Faux (they will be going home soon too).


We had to end it with a fun one!


For our last couple of days, Elder Barker and I are planning on showing Elder Bowles and Elder Brenkman where everyone we're teaching lives so that they can show the 2 missionaries that are replacing us. We have also started going through our stuff and packing. I would love to take some more pictures but for some reason my camera isn't working at the moment. It was fine on Tuesday but it hasn't worked since. We'll have to get it checked out when I get home this week!

I just found out that my flight to Trinidad on Wednesday goes to Barbados, then Grenada, and then to Trinidad. I'll end my mission with 52 flights! See you soon!

The scripture of the week is 2 Timothy 4:6-8.

Toya accepted a baptism date!

Toya accepted a baptism date for this weekend! We are really excited about it. We might have another baptism on Tuesday next week if everything works out.

We had a cool experience with one of our other investigators. Her name is Cindy. She called us this week and said that she wanted us to come visit her right then... in the hospital. It turns out that she lost the baby that she was carrying (she was 2 months along) and it was making her really sick. They were going to do surgery but after we gave her a blessing everything turned out just fine and she was released from the hospital that night! It was cool.

Last Tuesday was distrit meeting in Castries. It was ugly tie day!


We went to some sulphur springs today. This is one of the nasty black rivers of mud. It was warm!


Elder Brenkman and Jonathan. We ended up getting a lot dirtier. I couldn't take a picture of it though because I didn't want to ruin my camera.


I took this picture of the Petit Piton this morning while we were in Soufriere.


This is the ship that they used in the Pirates movies for the Black Pearl.


You'll be happy to know that I'm not trunky, I'm too busy! But I have found takers for some of my clothes. The rest of it will go to the branch and then they can pass them out to people as needed.

My ankle is doing well, it only hurts when there is a lot of pressure on it and it is twisting. It's getting much better though. The toe is doing fine.

I'm glad the steel pan finally made it. It is as authentic as it gets. It belonged to a pan-maker, named Daniel, who has been in the business for 20 years. It was his own personal pan that he used in performances and shows.

The scripture of the week is Alma 26:35-37.