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| Playing sticks with Duran |
It wasn't quite as eventful of a week as we've been having recently. We started to digitalize most of the records and maps out the area for all the future missionaries that serve here. So we've been entering all that in as we've been doing our work around the island.
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| Getting our satellite phone set up for hurricane season |
We did have some cool experiences though. Danny, one of the guys we've been teaching is heading out to Trinidad in a couple weeks to go get an eye surgery. He's been going blind, but there's only one eye doctor on this island apparently so he has to head out there to have the operation. We had a super good lesson with him the other day. He said his girlfriend is going to go talk with her parents when she goes down to her home village to finalize it, but they want to get married when he comes back from Trinidad at the end of next month. So hopefully everything goes well with that, cause he wants to get baptized then as well.
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| With Elder Segura |
He got so pumped up about "breaking the chain" as he calls it. He said his parents raised him in a terrible situation without God and that their parents raised them like that as well and so on. He got super excited and started yelling about how he wasn't going to let that happen to their baby daughter.
He wasn't always in the best place, but has completely changed his life. We found him my first week out here. We were hiking up a mountain to go work in the area and we met him on the way up. When we went over to go talk with him, he said he passed by us in a bus at the bottom of the mountain and said he'd take it as a sign of God if we went to go talk to him. We've taught him about all of the lessons now, and is the most faithful guy ever. Every time we teach him a new thing, he always says "Why haven't you guys taught me that sooner? I didn't know I was supposed to be doing that." He may not know everything or have had the perfect life, but he understands the gospel so much better than so many people. The commandments aren't just rules or restrictions we have to follow. They're a guide or instructions given to us to be free from so many other problems and have a happy life. He has such a testimony of that and is so excited to be able to follow it.
Last Monday we headed down to Scott's head, the most southern part of the island. It's almost it's own island with a little pathway across between the water. We found some cool shells out there. Then today we headed over to Cabrits national park which is in the north side and also used to be it's own island. We almost weren't able to make it in cause we had to pay a pretty big entry free, but the park ranger let us in for free after talking with him for about 15 minutes. We got to visit Fort Shirley out there.
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| On Scott's Head |
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| At the tip of Cabrits National Park |
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| Panorama view from fort Shirley |
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| Inside Fort Shirley |
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| Viewpoint overlooking the town of Roseau |
Dominica fun fact: After all of my time here, I have only seen about two strollers actually be used for babies. Every other Dominican seems to find them as a great way to wheel around their boxes or crates of beer.
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| More pics from our hike with the Smarts |
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| Cool crab |
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| Island Life |
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| Flooded trail |
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| Unfolding fern |
