I loved this birthday present!! Sam sent me 25 match box cars to give to the children of Jamaica - plus some other small toys - I've divided them among the senior couples so we can all bring some joy into the lives of these beautiful kids. ... thanks so much Sam!!
This is our YW Camp for the Spanish Town District - notice the tents in the background ... all from the emergency container the Humanitarian couple brought to the island....yay for camp!!
Sister Evans learning how to run the mission - and doing well!
Elder and Sister Evans - wonderful new office couple from Arizona - we are so grateful they are willing to serve in the mission office ... this is their 5th mission - two at home and then Tonga, West Indies and Jamaica.
We took Elder and Sister Evans on a small tour of Kingston on Saturday, August 25th. This is the Papine Market - farmers bring their fruits and vegetables down to Papine (northeast Kingston) on Friday and Saturday each week ... we love the fresh vegetables!! The Evans enjoyed it also. These three ladies were just setting up their banana selling spot - good bananas!!
As we drove to Yallahs on Sunday we noticed what we thought were dogs in the road eating garbage .. when we got closer it was pigs!!
It has been storming with lots of thunder and lightening and rain - and the ocean on the way to Yallahs was three different bands of color - the brown with all the run off of the rain, the typical aqua of the tropical sea and then the darker blue of the ocean - we thought that was kind of interesting.
Elder Smith was released as the Branch President in Yallahs, Sunday, August 26th. Elder Evans was sustained - President Hendricks is in the back between Elder and Sister Evans. Sister Evans plays the piano (keyboard) and that makes the branch happy - aren't theses beautiful people? We will miss them. Elder Smith figured out he will have a total of four Sundays in our whole 23 month mission that he wasn't a Branch President!!
