This week has been interesting. Blanking an area is pretty hard, but we are meeting a lot of new people. We have been meeting with several less-actives and recent converts, trying to fill up our time. One of them is named Scott; he is both a recent convert and a less-active, but he did come to church yesterday. Our concern is that he is more converted to the sisters than the church and that he is not truly repenting. Since he has finished the new member lessons, we felt free on passing him over to the Elder's Quorum president for home teaching. That will either teach him the true meaning of church or drive him away. Hopefully he will stay and gain a stronger testimony. We also called and met up with a less-active who has not been to church in 7 years. The missionaries have not met with him in over a year, but he said that he had been thinking of going back to church; obviously we were more inspired than we thought :) He just needs to start following the Word of Wisdom and he will be set. He did not come to church yesterday, but we are seeing him tonight, so we'll ask him what's up.

 

Sister Mehr came out with us on Wednesday. She is a really inspired and smart woman. We went contacting and she was a great help and inspiration for us. Since the missionaries are on so many different islands, it is hard for President and Sister Mehr to go out with all of us, so they take the opportunity when they can. We might have President Mehr with us in the next week or two, since he apparently wants to go visit a particular less-active who lives in our area.

 

I got asked what food I have eaten since I came out. You can buy "normal" food here in the groceries, but when we eat at members' houses we get a little more different stuff. I've had macaroni pie, doubles (Bajan and Trini; everyone told me there was this huge difference and that Trini doubles were a lot better, but honestly they tasted exactly the same to me), Jamaican patties, papaya, coocoo, plantains, flying fish, mauby, sorrel, bake n' aloo, and some other stuff. The food here is really good, for the most part, though sometimes it seems like it is aimed to make you fat . . . IDK, I like eating it :)

 

On Saturday we took one of the senior sisters, Sister Miller, with us on our adventures. She has never gone proselyting before, and she said it was a neat experience. She took some pictures and was going to put it on her blog.

 

This morning our zone went up to Maracas Falls in the mountains. It is a very short hike to a very sparse, if tall, waterfall. Besides it were a few random Hindu flags.

 

I hope y'all have a good week :D

 

Love, Sister Aida Tibbitts

At Maracas Waterfall

Out teaching with Sister Miller (senior sister)