So, Carnival was Monday and Tuesday, and we were stuck inside. It's been awesome. Totally. We played cards for two days straight, and I have pictures to prove it. I even played mahjong with cards! We had Sister Hyde and Sister Graziano staying with us, so that was fun. We ate cake and cheese puffs and spaghetti. We watched pretty much every Mormon Message ever published.

The music started Sunday night. I fell asleep listening to it, and when we woke up in the morning it was still going. But don't worry! It stopped during the day, only to start up again that night. So, fun stuff.

I just found out today that Richie, the investigator we were preparing in Barbados, got baptized last week! I am so happy! He's gonna be awesome.

Valentine's Day we ate heart-shaped pancakes. We took the bus to PEC, and on our way back, the driver refused our money and said, "Happy Valentine's Day." Kinda weird, but oh well.

All in all, it's not been the best week for missionary work, but today we will start getting our area back on track and finding those who are prepared. In district meeting today we talked about teaching recent converts and less actives. We concluded that no matter what the missionaries do, if the members aren't involved, nothing happens. One missionary related about how when he stopped coming to church, it took a friend inviting him back and then the bishop coming up to him and telling him he had been missed to get him back into activity; the missionaries didn't have anything to to do with it. So, it's really important that recent converts and less actives have that support system of members. Home and visiting teaching does not really get done here, unfortunately, but I think if they could implement that more it would be a great strength in retaining members. They would have any immediate support system. So, member work is really important.

I hope everyone had a good birthday :)

Much love,

Sister Aida Tibbitts