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| Elder Little - San Fernando, Trinidad |
So this
week was pretty crazy, that's for sure! Had a lot of goodbyes to say and a
couple days straight of just being lost in this new massive area! But it's definitely been an adventure!
On
Tuesday we had Zone meeting in Grande which was nice to have the whole zone
out for the last meeting together before the transfer, but directly after the
meeting all of the new trainers were supposed to have a meeting
with the president and all of their new trainees and we had it set up to do it
at a members house. The member told us that he would be home for sure, but he
wasn't... So of course because I was the only one who knew the whole Grande
ward everyone was looking to me to try and find a new place to have this skype
meeting and there was no other members around so we all just headed to this
public internet cafe hoping that it would be at least a little bit private. 12
missionaries crammed into this little cafe and at about 12:45 got it working
and found out that it was over... So that was a bummer for the trainers but we
did see the Suepaul's in town and they bought us lunch so that was super cool
of them! We tried to go and say goodbye to a few people and then had to leave
to drive Elder Hopkins to the airport so that he could catch his flight to
Tobago and then it took us over an hour and a half to get home because of some
political rally in Grande. But we did get home in time for Brother Samaroo to
have a doubles eating competition with us and the Sisters which was super fun!
I ate like 7 and I thought I was going to die...
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| Final Night in Sangre Grande we had a member buy us doubles which was very kind of them! Dorrance, Sister Paul, and Elder Peterson |
On
Wednesday morning we went and said goodbye to Brother Bisnath and then the long
day of driving began. We drove about 45 minutes to Valsayn to wait around for a
few hours just hanging out with missionaries until we could leave to show the
new sisters in our zone how to get to their apartment because they are
blanking.(blanking = Working in a new area where there wasn't missionaries before) But it turns out that Elder Little never had the chance to get his driver's license yet on his mission and this is his last transfer so there is no use
getting it now, so that means that I am the driver of this sweet 2014 Corolla. We left the office at about 2:30 and followed some other zone leaders to
Couva so that some sisters could trade cars, which they ended up not doing, and
then drove all the way down to San Fernando to drop off Elder Naylor and pick
up elder Albis to take elder Albis and Elder Ahanonu to Point Fortin which is
literally the tip of Trinidad and because of traffic that took us about two
hours so when we finally got to Point Fortin it was like 6 o'clock and we had
been driving all day long so we took a breather and sat for like 10 minutes and
got back in the car to drive back to Sando and get home by like almost 8:30. It
was a long day for sure!
On
Thursday we did our studies. A tradition they have here is before weekly
planning starts they walk down to this bakery and buy some pastries. It was a
change of pace from the usual Thursday morning 4 hours of studying and
planning. But we had a sweet lesson with a woman who is going to get baptized
the first week in September named Marjorie and her granddaughter Jasie-Ann!
They are super cool and super understanding! it's so nice to be able to teach
so many nice, teachable people! We had a super funny lesson with an
investigator and we were able to take the Ward mission leader Brother Simmons
with us! He's a pretty old guy, but dresses like he's 25 and he's just
hilarious! Best Ward Mission Leader I have seen in my life though! We were
teaching and the investigator mentioned how a few months ago she got really
depressed and started drinking and smoking and Brother Simmons said "I
used to smoke four packs of cigarettes a day and I have drinken enough of that
(points at empty beer bottle) to float a ship!" It was classic!
On
Friday we had a funeral in the morning for a recent convert's father who was
supposed to get baptized two saturdays ago but went to the hospital the day
before and passed away the following Monday. The whole ward was pretty
shaken up about it. It was a really nice service and then we went to this place
called the Creek and there they do cremations, but they build huts out of wood
and put the casket and body inside and light it on fire. It is pretty crazy and
big traditional thing here in Trinidad. But it was pretty crazy and hopefully
we are able help some people strengthen their testimonies on the plan of
Salvation! But we had some sweet lessons later in the evening, one especially
with this cool active member family named the Basdeo's! We read an article out
of the Liahona with them and talked about how it applied to them! Super cool
family!
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| First day in San Fernando we went to a funeral where they burned the deceased. |
On
Saturday we did a ton of finding to get our investigator pool up. So we met a
bunch of people and spent a lot of time in the hot sun! But we saw Marjorie and
Jasie-Ann again which went super well and were able to go and visit them again!
But we saw this member family in the evening and their tradition is whenever a
new missionary comes over they have to sing a solo for the whole family... Elder
Little knew, but failed to mention it to me before hand, so yeah... That was
interesting and awkward to get to sing a hymn in front of this family I don't
know... But they are super cool! They've been sealed in the Salt Lake City
temple and when they went they stayed with some friends who live in Kaysville, so
that was really cool to get to chat with them for a bit!
Sunday
was amazing! Church here in Sando is run so well it hurts! There was immediate
fellowship for our investigators and everyone was super nice! The bishop here
is amazing and really loves to work hard! But we had a sweet lesson with a cool
member family named the Bings! It's kind of my goal these first couple weeks to
just meet as many people as I can, with over a hundred people coming to
sacrament meeting each week it will definately take some work! haha
It was
a great week and I'm excited to be here in Sando to kill Elder Little on his
last transfer! We should have some really cool success these next few weeks and
I'm excited to keep pressing forward!
Love
and Blessings,
Elder
Dorrance
Thanks to Sister Samaroo in Grande for the following pictures and for the awesome tacos:(my camera batteries has died so there may not be many pictures for awhile)
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