02 May 2010

Hello from Trinidad,
We left the MTC on the 26th of April at the early hour of 2:00am and spent all day on planes or in airports. We arrived in the DR about 9:30 and by the time we made it through immigrations and to our Hotel it was late. The next day we had more training, our brains were saturated before but they gave us the fire hose training method. The next day we spent with E/S Francom and had some OJT. It was very informative and enjoyable. That night we went to the Santo Domingo Temple. The next day we were off to Trinidad We arrived about 10:00 and it took us over an hour to clear immigrations. They didn't want to let us in because our paperwork was not complete but they finally gave us 30 days to complete it. The next day we met with President Gamiette, he is a great man full of enthusiasm. The rest of that day and yesterday we spent cleaning our apartment. Today we went to the branch for church and it was so great. The members shared great testimonies and the Stake President taught the Priesthood lesson. After the meetings they served lunch and we were able to sample the local food, it was quite spicy but very good. In the morning we fly to Guyana and start all over again. I guess we need to get use to Immigrations and customs because we have eleven countries that we will be working in and all of them will have them. Our biggest challenge in our lack of computer skills and dirty apartments, Sharon about worked me to death in Trinidad and Guyana will be at least as bad. I know that with the Lord's help we will be able to accomplish what he has sent us over here to do. We are very excited to start our adventure in Guyana and all the other islands of the West Indies. We appreciate all of your prayers and support. We miss all of you.
Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Lynn and Sharon