chicken foot soup

So good to hear from you! 

One strange thing you see often here and if you want to see men in there underpants just come to Guyana and you will see it everyday! They don't care here! men and boys of all different ages. (Guyana Fact)

It sounds like you holiday to Vancouver was pretty nice. I'll have to check it out sometime! 

Well this weeks been really good! We have been working pretty hard and as a result we had two baptisms on Saturday! Brother Chu and Mohamed! The service went really well and we had a ton of Members show up! There was a little bit of a struggle with brother Chu since he doesn't have total use of his legs due to  a stroke he had a few years back and we had one of the oldest members, Brother Jacobs, in the branch baptized him but we ended up having them kneel in the font. It worked. 

We have been working with the Fortune family but they are having some struggle coming to church due to Sister Seeta being very sick. Sister Seeta had a miscarriage and they saw some fake christian herbal doctor on T.V. They took her there and the Herbal doctor did a blood test and left. When She came back she said the Lord told her that she needed to give her this herbal juice. When she showed it to us it looked like green juice in 3 empty 1 liter water bottle you buy at a store with painting tape on it to mark how often she needed to drink from it. It cost them $125,000 GYD or $625 USD. They didn't have that money so they borrowed the Money from there daughters boss and trusted the Doctor because she said it was from the Lord. Too say the least it didn't work and she is even more sick and now in debt. They are taking her by a real doctor on Tuesday at a private hospital and its going to only cost $ 40 000 GYD. She should be properly treated there. I just don't know where they are going to get the money from but not once have they asked for any financial help. They also promised to come to church once Seeta is feeling better. Guyana is a pretty crazy place!

We had the two baptism and then the other La Grange Elders had one the same time as well!

A picture of our Investigator Priya at her house with water all the way up to her steps. 

She has been taught everything we are just waiting for her to get a divorce from her previous marriage and be married to her new husband. The problem is she got a really bad foot infection and when she went to the hospital the doctors told her they needed to cut off all the dead flesh on her foot. They told her they couldn't give her anything to numb the pain because they needed her to tell them when they were no longer cutting dead flesh but actually cutting the live flesh. She showed us her foot and yup there is a big chunk missing from the bottom of her foot. She can't get it wet so that makes it difficult to leave her house and all of her money instead of going towards her divorce goes to getting her foot treated. Regardless of that she tries her best to be at church each week! She's awesome. We set a goal to be baptized by August 25 and so that's what we are praying for. 

Chicken foot soup

Elder Garner and I on a bridge in Belle West.

Love you all!