10th Transfer - Oct.28 to Dec09

This was our 2nd transfer in Tobago. (For those of you who don't speak the language of missionaries, a transfer is 6 weeks. Missionaries think in terms of transfers not months.)

In this picture are Elders Ackeman and Larson at their last baptism before the transfer ended. They baptized the neices of a couple who had been baptized in August. Kerron and Natasha are guardians of the girls since the death of their parents.


Two new elders were placed on the island, Elder Jensen and Elder Linton. Elder Jensen had been serving in Chaguanas, our first mission area. Elder Linton was in Guyana at the same time we were and was among those of us 'detained' in the police station.

In this picture with Elder Leishman are our daughter, Jacquie, and our grandson, Dan, with Elders Linton and Jensen with Beverly Pantin, who was their first baptism on Tobago.

Jacquie, Dan, and Helaman came to Tobago for a week at Thanksgiving time. We had a great time showing them around the island and playing in some of the many beaches.



We had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving Day. Jacquie, Dan, and Hela were still with us and so were Elders Jensen and Linton.

We were joined also by Tim and Lizzie Gattin from Oregon who were vacationing on Tobago during the holiday. Tim was a missionary in the West Indies 15 years ago having served in Trinidad and Guyana but had visited Tobago with his parents when they came to pick him up after his mission. When they came to church the Sunday before Thanksgiving after seeing the elders walking around downtown, we invited them to share Thanksgiving dinner with us. (Tim was the one taking the picture.)