Top of the Island

This week was good. We were able to meet some pretty prepared investigators this week, so we are excited about that. One is a young mom with two kids. She had some awesome questions that we were able to answer about the Bible and the Trinity. She already believes that what we are saying is true. Now we just need to get her to church. There are a few issues she needs to work on, but hopefully she will do the right thing.

The other really awesome investigator we found this week is actually a man that has been living in New York, but is here for a few months with his mom. Most people in St. Vincent have either visited or lived in Canada, England, or Brooklyn. It is very interesting.

On Sunday we were able to watch the broadcast. We just had sacrament and then instead of talks or classes we watched the downloaded broadcast. I really enjoyed it. I liked the way it was put together with the video segments and such. I thought that it was very motivating for members especially to get more involved in the missionary effort in their area. I think every member should see it. It was also cool to hear about the new ways that we may be able to use technology. I don't know if we will get to experience it here, because it is hard to access computers very often, but it is still very exciting.

I will upload some pictures from our trip to the top of the island last Monday. We went to visit our Branch president and his wife. They live an hour or more away depending on stops and such. The roads are windy which makes it seem longer. But it was worth it. I was able to see some black sand beaches, a ship wreck, and President Young's garden and home. His wife is a great cook who studied culinary arts in Germany as well as somewhere else. She made us a meal of quiche, rice and beans, baked plantains, salad w/ tomatoes and cucumber, cole slaw, bread, and papa (papaya) for dessert. And I ate it all! It was actually really good. Jess should be proud! haha. That was the first meal I have been fed while here, but Sister Crompton has learned to make saltfish (codfish) and breadfruit and callilou soup. She has made the soup quite a few times and it is good. It has mostly vegetables and the callilou which is like....well its closest to spinach if I had to describe it. It is basically a big leaf that they chop up and then boil down in soup. It is very nutritious and doesn't taste too bad. Other than that all I have really tried is fried fish and chips. They used king fish which isn't too fishy so I liked it alright. It did have the bones in it though which I wasn't too fond of, but it wasn't too hard to eat around them and pick them out. Mostly we just eat LOTS of mangoes and bananas! That is what we eat pretty much twenty-four-seven. I never knew there were so many different types of mangoes! Our favorite are the grafted, especially the Julie grafted or the "big buff" which is a type of grafted too, but it gets huge!

Well, I'm out of time, but I love you all so much! I hope you are doing well!

Give my nieces and nephews kisses for me!

Love,
Sister Bratt

Pres & Sis Young (Branch President) live an hour away (29 miles) in Sandy Bay
                                             on the North end on the island Windward side
                                   

Sister Young weaves baskets from the Ping-Wing growing behind us. She's a great cook!

 

 

 

 

President Young grows everything :corn mangoes ,limes, papaya, bread fruit, cinnamon, grapefruit, all vegetables,--- if it grows here he has got it!!!