March 14, 2010

Our thoughts are with family as there are quite a few birthdays and
special events happening right now. We send our love through this
wonderful technology and are so grateful for the time in which we
live. It has its challenges but also compensating blessings. We are
looking forward to Easter and the upcoming General Conference and it
is a joy to think about watching the sessions and knowing that we will
all be watching it at the same time.

There continue to be so many spiritual experiences that help us know
that we are being blessed as we strive to do the work. We had a
wonderful day with the McDonald family on Wednesday . They are the
family we talked about last week and we went with them to town to get
their birth certificates and to apply for a marriage license. It was
a fun day to have five of them with us. We were blessed to have
people that knew Elder Wheeler and I to help us with the process. It
made what could be a tedious job enjoyable. We picked up Elders
Gordon and Tyau in Diamond as we were taking the McDonald's home and
gave them another spiritual lesson about the gospel. We talked about
the wonderful events that are scheduled to take place for their family
the end of this month. Their marriage is scheduled for March 25 and
their baptisms for March 27. They are so excited about all of it.
Kashawna continues to write down everything that is taught and reports
on what was taught in the last lesson. What a smart girl she is.
They made it to Church today a little late as they had trouble getting
a van. Kashawna, Reon and Reonique were so glad to see us and loved
Primary. They all loved their experience at Church. Another
wonderful thing that was started this week was the Literacy class.
The program the Church has is truly inspired and uses the scriptures
to teach reading and writing. Gracie and Jennifer are the first
students and are a delight. We were to start class at 11 and they
didn't get there on time. We held class for an hour and they wanted
to keep going and we would have if we hadn't had other commitments.
We will hold class for as long as they want this next week. We also
had the Lord's help at Immigration this week. We had seven of us
that needed our passports renewed and we thought we had everything
ready. Elder Wheeler had gone around the block to get the airline
tickets showing when we would be leaving the island and the Elders and
I went into the Immigration office to get in line. The first Elder
was at the window and the immigration person was telling us that one
of our letters was not formatted correctly and that we needed our
sponsor to appear in person with each of us. She was pushing our
papers back at us and pretty much dismissing us. We have never needed
our sponsor with us and we had a letter from him with our papers.
About that time Elder Wheeler came in the door with our sponsor who
had seen him at the Liat (airline) office and decided to come with him
to the Immigration office. It took some doing but what could have
been a several day ordeal was taken care of in about an hour. No
doubt about it, we are being blessed. We also took the Tobierres to
the airport on Friday. Brendon and Cardian are originally from St.
Lucia and Brendon received a good job offer in St. Lucia. So, after a
challenging but blessed time here in St. Vincent, they are headed back
home. They were married, baptized and had a baby here in the last
seven months. We have loved them and we are excited for them to be
back where they feel more at home and have a good job. They came to
St. Vincent to help Brendon's grandparents, the Cupids, and Brendon
has not been able to find steady work here. Their baby, Athena, is
adorable. We hope that they will be ready to go to the temple in a
year.

Well, we have pretty much used up another day and we love it. We
realize everyday that reading the Book of Mormon and prayer is the
answer to any doubts questions or concerns that we have. It is indeed
the most correct book and will bring us closer to God than any other
book. We love you all and are so grateful for your support and love.

Much love,