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| With Alvina and her baby |
We had a super sweet week! We started it off with a branch activity we had up on the North side of the island. We all got together and had a fun game of jeopardy. It added a whole new level of difficulty when half the kids that showed up didn't speak any English. We hadn't planned on any Haitians coming either, so we prepared everything in English. We had to make some crude translations for everyone to be able to play, but it ended up still being super fun and everyone had a great time.
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| Jeopardy in Portsmouth |
Then we headed down to the South side to do some work out there and found a couple really cool people. We ran into this one guy who was super interested in our message on our way out to do some shopping for the Branch's food supply.
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| After church in Portsmouth |
We've also started teaching this one kid that we met a while ago playing some basketball with them. We just happened to run into him later on by his house, and he called us out and told us he was one of the kids we played some ball with earlier. It was pretty cool cause he said he actually looked up to us while we were playing cause we weren't talking any trash to anyone else like everyone else that was playing was doing. We were just trying to help everyone have fun. We gave him a Book of Mormon, and he said he had already seen it before but that he'd read it before the next time we came.
We finished off the rest of our week by "working up a sweat" during our "battle" with the branch and some of their friends up on the North side of the island again (they call exercise working up a sweat and a soccer game a battle here). Pinky, the first councilor, has been wanting to have a battle for a long time, and we finally got around to one. It was cool cause once you start a game, a lot of the kids from the town want to join in and play.
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| Setting up for the battle |
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| With the Ger family |
We were also invited one last time to have a meal with the Ger family. The father of the family, Delicon, has been living here in Dominica for about five years trying to save up enough money to bring the rest of his family our here from Haiti. They were finally able to make it out here shortly after I arrived to the island. Everyone besides Delicon hadn't ever met missionaries before until us, and we have just started to teach them a few weeks ago. They were pretty sad to hear that my companion would be leaving next week and that I'd be leaving about a month after that. They wanted to sing us a goodbye song before Elder Segura left to go back to Puerto Rico.
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| Delicon's daughters |
