21 May 2010

This is a brick road in Suriname it is about 15 miles long
This bug is for Reagan
This is how they deliver building material and other things in Guyana

Today is Sharon's birthday so we are going out to dinner to celebrate ( if we can find the restaurant we want to go to) we had two locations and could not find it at either one. We have been in Guyana almost amonth now and we can find a few things and we don't get lost much any more. We haven't mastered the streets yet, there are a lot of one way streets but no signs. We found one sign indicating one way. I'm not sure why a street is designated one way or two way, they are about the same size ( about 18' wide) and people park on both sides of all the streets. We are learning our responsibilities and it is getting better. We had a handing over ceremony on one of the Whiteheads projects this week and another next week. We will be going over to Trinidad on the 27th and we have a handing over ceremony over there the following week. We have a few more projects to finish up for them. We went to Suriname last weekend with President and Sister Ricks. We drove all day. It took us 12 hours including the ferry over the river. We are starting a wheelchair project here in Guyana, a Neonatal Resuscitation training, possibly books for the library at Georgetown University, furnishing prosthesis' for a group here in Georgetown and President Gould wants to talk to us on Saturday the 29th about projects he want us to do in Trinidad. There is so much need down here that the challenge is going to be which projects to do, not finding projects. The members of the branches are great people, the have a sweet spirit about them and strong testimonies. Many of them don't have very much and it is a challenge for them to fulfill their responsibilities because they have to take a taxi to get to church or do their VT or HT and every phone call cost money. The church is growing fast in Guyana, it is outgrowing the Priesthood necessary to run the branches. Sometimes the Branch President will only have a clerk and no counselors. Sometimes the Branch President has only been in the church 6 months or a year. They have a real problem with young adults going inactive. It is a great work an we are grateful for the opportunity to be part of it.