We are here in Trinidad having a great time. We Finished the Sylphil Home for abandoned children's project in Tobago. We had a fun closing ceremony. All the children were there and we had drinks and a strudel type treat, they loved it and we had a great time. We are working on some other projects here in Trinidad. We have a container coming in with clothing,shoes,school kits,heigine kits, new born kits, toys, and about 40 wheel chairs and we are working on a container of 250 Wheel chairs. It is great be in the service of the Lord in helping some of his children. We also have time for us to do some sight seeing. The last two days we have been at the Grande Riviere, this a place where lot of turtles come in to lay their eggs. During May and June there can be 300-400 turtles a night come to the beach to lay their eggs. It is the end of the season so we only saw 3 turtles, they are the leatherback turtles and they were from 4' to 5' 6" long. They are huge turtles. There was another one, a hawk bill but she went back into the ocean and we didn't see her. We saw the whole process, digging the nest,laying the eggs, covering them, then she made it so know one could find the nest and went back out to sea. It was great. We saw a lot of little baby turtles. They have to dig out of the nest which is 2' 6" to 3' 6" deep. When they get to the surface the local dogs and the vultures are waiting for them. Most of them don't live for 5 minutes after they reach the surface. It is very frustrating to see them killed so quickly. If they make it to the water there is a large bird that circles and when they come to the surface to breathe they swoop down and grab them. Some of the people walk the beach and gather up the turtles as they hatch and keep them until dark to put them in the sea. We were able to hold some of the baby turtles and touch the large females. It was a good experience and we learned a lot about turtles.
We are getting ready to fly back to Guyana at 6:45 in the morning. We have a lot of work to do there. We now have 4 new projects approved. Wheelchairs for the Ministry of Health, school supplies for the St Paul's boys Orphanage, desks and benches for the North Georgetown Primary School and books and video equipment for the University of Guyana Library. It is very rewarding to identify projects and have them approved by the Area Presidency. They also approved an NRT project for Guyana so we are going to be very busy when we return. We are working on projects for St Vincents, St Lucia and Grenada as well as more in Guyana. We are excited to get back to Guyana, it is coming home when we get there. We are posting some pictures on another blog. Until next time!!