Goodbyes and Hellos

Hey everyone! Tuesday was a big day! It started in Garrand, Saint Lucia which is where we stayed for 4 days with the Augustines and company!

Stephen and Faith

This is the company! :)

Shadow(close) Toby(back)

Tinker

This is where the pigs are! :)

 Their home in Garrand, Saint Lucia

Balcony

The day before which was Monday is when we booked our tickets on the plane for Tuesday. We were originally going to take the high speed catamaran but because of all of the hurricanes the water was too rough and all of the boats were cancelled untill Friday of this week. So our plane ride was Tuesday at 245PM from Saint Lucia to Antigua with a connected flight to Dominica. We arrived at Dominca and the plane that we were on only had ten people on it in which only 4 got off (including us).

Anthony!!

S.Diego!!

Dominica from the plane!

WE ACTUALLY AND FINALLY MADE IT!

Leaving the airport!

 When we arrived at Dominica and got into the terminal a brother who worked at the airport asked "are you one of Jehovah's Witnesses" and then he took us to the brother that was waiting outside and greeted us with a giant hug and said "Welcome my Brothers!" From there we went straight to the meeting! :) So we landed first at 540PM and the meeting started at 630PM. We rushed to the missionary home and dropped off all our luggage and jumped in the back of the pick-up truck.

Missionary Home (second floor)

 We made it to the meeting with 5 min to spare and were sweating out of our minds! :) The singing at the meeting was extremly loud and there were only fifty brothers and sisters! It felt as though we were at a District Convention because we had to sing louder to actually hear ourselves. During the meeting we were announced as part of the congregation and following the meeting everybody greeted us with warm and loving hugs, hugs and more HUGS! We made plans for service the next day, Wednseday for the morning. And of course we want to share with you a couple of experiences we had while out in service our first day HERE in DOMINICA. hahaha not in Saint Lucia.

Meeting place for field service! Wednesdays

The first experience was Anthony's! In Anthony's words - Peter and myself went to one of his calls we parked on the main road and he started walking into the bushes then i noticed it turned into a trail which had dirt/clay steps. A minute or so into the trail we arrived at a house which turned out to be his wife's on/off study. We spoke for 45 min to an hour. She had been sick and not able to move for a few days and was mostly blind. We shared eight or so scriptures encouraging her to keep up her studies and she was very thankful and she now had a big smile on her face. I'm not used to talking for so long, usually we just have a 5 min conversation and thats it. Really, what a refreshment it is when REAL talking is involved!

Brother Griffith and Me! (notice NO tie)

The second experience. In S. Diego's words - At the meeting for field service i was teamed up with my partner, Brother Cilroy. An extremly wise brother who was older with youth like qualities. We worked the Carib reserve which is south of Marigot and there is a lot of walking involved. We visited two or three of Cilroy's calls and was able to talk to each one for a good 40 min! :) The amount of scriptures Cilroy tied in together to help encourage and teach his calls was impressive. He must have brought out at least 15 scriptures just from memorization! There was a steep hill that we had to climb down in order to do a couple of doors, it took us about a 5-10 minutes to walk. When we arrived at the houses i was able to use my presentation at the doors and was able to receive my first call! I talked to a teenage boy for about 30 minutes and he had many questions including what gods name was. It was amazing to me how many questions he had as a teen, and that to me was quite amazing. Both of us talking now - Those were just a couple of experiences and hope to share more with all of you and skype us, if you want to hear more experiences and with more detail!!

15 min walk through woods to get here. my (sdiego) first calls house is on the left.

 Two sisters and Me at service meeting group

 We climbed down the "cliffs of insanity" (our words) to the beach and rocks to see a gorgeous view of the island! Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is on our way from the airport to the Missionary home! the ocean and the 1 of 365 rivers on Dominica!

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This way to the beach!

Cliff Jumping anyone!?

See even the chickens follow Jesus command and go out by twos! :)