Answers to Questions

I promised Mom that I would answer her questions. This week she asked about water purification, our area, and our district/zone. The answers may be interesting to others who follow my blog as well.

The water in St. Vincent isn't as bad as other places. We are actually fine without purifiers since all the islanders drink it just fine, but our apartment does have a nice purification system. We live in an area called Glen which I guess is part of Calliaqua...ish. There are really vague boundaries between the little areas/neighborhoods here. But Calliaqua is the main area that we are in and we are considered the Calliaqua branch and the Calliaqua 2 proselyting area because there is also a set of elders in Calliaqua branch who are actually the Zone leaders. I don't really understand how it works, but as far as I know our zone is also our district...the entire island is one zone/district. We have district meetings once a week in Kingstown at their chapel and then zone meeting once a month I think, but they are basically the same thing it just changes who is in charge. The district leader is in Kingstown. We also have zone conference every other transfer where we meet with I think Barbados and Grenada...maybe St. Lucia too. But this transfer it is different. Next Monday we are having the member of the seventy who is over our mission, Elder Cornish, come to speak with us and the branches. President and Sister Mehr, our Mission President and his wife, will be here too. So that is counting as our Zone Conference and all the other islands are having mini zone conferences on their islands as well.

We are at the end of my first transfer now. It has been a great six weeks! Sister Crompton and I are still companions which means that I am off the hook and won't have to train my second transfer like she and so many others have had to. I am very relieved about that and don't mind being here another transfer, because I don't know if I'm ready to get to know a new place. Sister Crompton is breaking the record for the longest time a sister has stayed in St. Vincent, at least in a straight. She has now been here for 6 months and will be here another 6 weeks. We'll see what happens after that.

I love you all and miss you lots!

Love ya!
Sister Bratt

 

Members teaching us how to make "doughboy" a coconut bread.

 

Sister Crompton grating the coconut.

 

She had to show us her braiding skills!

 

 

Brother Drakes and his concrete house that he and another

member built.

 

A member's dog and her puppy.

 

 

Sooooo cute!!!