Humanitarian Efforts

Thursday was a busy and a productive day. We were invited to lunch at Samuel and Lydia Jones home at French Fort up near the signal towers. Dr. Jones had company from Texas (her daughter and her husband and his parents) and Trinidad (her son and his family). It was a little overcast when we arrived so the views of the ocean and mountains weren’t as clear as they would be at another time. We shared with them our search for a humanitarian project. Dr. Jones shares my passion to do something for children with special needs. They provided some excellent suggestions. We fielded many questions about the church and why we joined. Each of them had or do have LDS neighbors or acquaintances. Dr. Jones’ mother is a member and she lives in Florida. It was a delightful afternoon. We headed out at 4:00 pm so we could get to our next appointment with Maria and the missionaries. Elder Ross was to give her the baptismal interview for her baptism on Saturday morning.

It was cloudy so these shots aren't very clear. The view is awesome. The Atlantic Ocean is in the distance on the left and gorgeous green hills on the right.

In the distance is Dwight Yorke stadium and the ocean in the background.

The home is all lit up at night for security purposes and the lights draw these flying creatures which crash and are on the porch in the morning. On the table is a huge moth. Lydia sprays them with a clear paint to make them shiny and preserve them.

It rained a couple of times while we were visiting, consequently, the long, long (longer than John & Michelle’s) driveway out to the pavement was even muddier and wetter than it was when we arrived at 1:00 pm. As we were traveling up a hill, we started sliding and slipping in the mud and slipped right into the ditch. I called Lydia and she sent the 4 men to pull us out using the 4 wheel drive truck. Alas, they couldn’t budge the car because of the incline, which was very slippery. In fact, the truck almost ended up sliding into our fender twice. We all got in the truck and went back to the house to call a tow service to pull us out of the ditch.

The tow truck arrived and added 2 chains the existing one to reach our car from the flat spot at the crest of the hill. They were able to winch it out easily and we were on our way by 5:45 pm. The missionaries had to meet without us at 5:00.

I didn't get a shot of the tow truck pulling us out because someone was talking to me through the whole thing. We had to pick up a receipt for the services so I shot a picture of the truck at the business site.

We arrived home about 6:10 just giving us enough time to be ready to go to dinner at our landlord’s, Celia and Angelo at 6:30 pm. They had invited Yvette, a friend of theirs who works at Channel 5 doing business promotions, to join us for dinner to discuss humanitarian projects. They gave us similar suggestions that we had received at the Jones’ earlier. Again, we were able to share information about the Church. Angelo and Yvette are Catholics, and Celia belongs to the Church of England. They received most of the first discussion. We had to leave at 9:55 pm to call and reschedule with Maria for her interview.

Angelo is the cook. He make some yummy bread and steak for us. Yvette hadn't arrived when I took the picture.