Thanks to my daughter-in-law, Angee, I now have a new background that doesn't distort the pictures.
Not last Sunday but the Sunday before, President Gopaul asked us if we would go with him and the East Chaguanas Elders out to a village east of here called Caparo. Of course, we said yes. We went home from church, finished preparations for dinner, fed ourselves and 6 hungry Elders, then got in our car and drove 40 minutes to Caparo. It was like going from a city that looks and acts like some of the worst neighborhoods in LA to a city like peaceful and quiet Wellsville, Utah. It was so refreshing to see countryside like that.
Our goal in going was to talk to the few members there are in that area who do come to church to see if we could get one of them to allow us to use their house to hold a one hour church service in. We are hoping to reactivate these people and to get some new converts from that area which hasn't been touched by missionaries for quite a while. There were two households with members in them. Each said they would come to the meeting and both said we could hold the meeting in their home.
Since then, Elder Leishman and I and Elders Endemann and Hickenlooper have made many trips out to Caparo. There are so many people out there who haven't heard the gospel message. The Elders are pretty excited to go into an area that hasn't been tracted out and blitzed in years.
We will have our first church service on Sunday, Dec. 21st. I'll have some picture of that next week. Not the service itself, of course, but of the people who came. The happy ending to this story will be when people start accepting baptism. The next transfer day is Jan. 7th and I know the Elders want to get some more baptisms before they get shifted again.
