Ocho and Kingston

Monday afternoon we headed for Kingston for our monthly FHE.  We drove to the Whiteheads and visited with them for awhile before heading to the mission office for FHE.  Normally we go to the mission home but they are having some of their tiles repaired so we met at the office instead.  Elder Pearson gave the lesson.  After we were done we headed to the Whiteheads for the evening.  The Vance’s came down to visit with us also.  They were staying with Sister Wege but she was in bed due to the Chikungunya.

Tuesday morning we drove to Pricemart to do some grocery shopping and then headed to Spanish Town to pick up 130 hygene kits for our November 1 service project.  The Ocho Rios branch is going to the St. Ann’s infirmary to assist the people there.  It should be a great project if we can get our branch members to participate.  From Spanish Town we drove to Linstead to check out the elder’s apartment.  We then drove home to unload groceries and then headed to Mango Valley to drop off a PEF check for one of our members who is going to school.  We then drove to T and R’s to drop off their PEF checks and then stopped at the L’s for a visit.  Sorry for the letters instead of name but I have decided to do that to protect the privacy of our members.  I was talking to Sister Vance after she went private with her blog because someone had typed in their name and saw it on her blog.  She has also gone to single letters.  When we got home I fixed dinner and then we headed out again so see if we could catch P L at his home.

I want to back track a little.  Friday, Brian picked up R so that they could do some branch business.  I had him drop me off at L’s so that I could visit with them.  Sister L’s niece was visiting also so we had a nice visit.  I read them Tad Callister’s CES talk on the blue print of Christ’s church.  It is an excellent talk and I highly recommend it.  Sister L’s niece really enjoyed it and she is not a member of the church.  We did a few more odds and ends.  The problem with putting off my blog is that I forget what we did sometimes.

R with his son J.  R is Brian's counselor and he was able to baptize his son.  B is standing next to Brian.  He wanted Brian to baptize him.  He will be a great addition to our branch.

Brian, B, and Elder Hall and Elder Jones.

  

Saturday we went to Lime Hall early in the morning so W could wash our car.  We drove down to the river.  While he was washing the car, we saw this beautiful piece of property and commented on how lucky that person was to live there.  She must have heard us because she opened the gate and invited us to see their property.  She is from Germany and she is married to a Jamaican.  She has lived in Jamaica for about 16 years.  Her husband loves to landscape and they are in the process of making a vegetarian restaurant.  We told her that we would come back and try the restaurant when it opens.  She was fun to talk to.  We briefly discussed religion.  Our missionary nametags kind of open discussions for us.  After we left Lime Hall, I came home and made two banana cakes for the CES fireside that Brother B was going to hold after our block on Sunday.  Brian had to run some errands so it worked out great.  When he got home, we drove to Spanish Town for CES training and then headed back home for B and R’s baptism.  It was a nice evening. 

Sunday  was fast and testimony meeting.  Quite a few members participated.  We were few in number because of the Chikungunya and other problems.  The CES fireside was really nice.  We had two seminary students and one institute student attend.  After the meeting, Brian had branch business so it was about 5:30 when we got home.  It has been a busy week!