Transfers

The first mission transfer is complete. Elder Biver is gone and Elder White is in! Elder White is from the Vernal Utah area. He will be leaving the mission in a few short months.
In St. Vincent most people are a form of Christian religion. The main religions are 7th day Adventist, Spiritual Baptist, Anglican, a few Catholics, a couple of Jehovah Witnesses and a lot of small churches.
Quinn has not run into any Voodoo yet. There is talk of Jumbies, which is a Zombie. Quinn has no need to worry, seeing as he is a prominent member of the Utah Zombie Defense Agency already. The flower below is from the Botanical Gardens. Size is not realistic in pictures, so just picture this flower 6 inches across.





Quinn is excited to teach a Rastafarian this week. Hopefully there will be updates next week on how that meeting went! Good luck Quinn.

Well Well Well

This is Nickie, Quinn's sister-in-law. I have taken over the charge of updating Quinn's blog. Cami and I will both be updating as much as we can from the letters we have received. Here is what is going on so far:
1. Quinn's first area is 1/2 of the island of St. Vincent. He is really enjoying it there. He only gets bitten by a bug about once a day, and that is usually at night.

2. His first companion and trainer is Elder Biver. He is from France (I think). They seem to get a long pretty well. Below is a picture of his first apartment. They have A/C but he says the only time it helps is when you first walk in a room and you get overtaken by a wave of cool, then you are right back to sweating again.

3. Because of the heat, hair is not a real necessity, so everyone there shaves their head. Quinn has joined in and as you can see, he now has no real hair yet. That is a long was from the wings and long hair he had a year ago. I wanted to post a before and after picture, but I could not find a picture of him with long hair, so you only get the after shot. This is him singing with a few other missionaries.

4. One P-day (day that they get to do laundry and fun stuff around the island) Quinn and his companion went to Montreal Gardens. I am including a few flower pictures that he took.


5. There are some very interesting areas around the island and of course Quinn will find them all. I believe "Mount Ever-Rest" is in the Montreal Gardens, but I have no idea where the sign is from.



6. Quinn has been to a place where they filmed part of "Pirates of the Caribbean" I am not sure what scene it was from, but from the sounds of it, it is absolutely beautiful.
7. Quinn has had his first baptism. It looks beautiful. They are teaching a family and are shooting for a goal of 5 baptisms this month. I know he has the strength to do it. He is working very hard, sun up to sun down. He is spending a lot of time in small towns. His area is so small they are only a branch with about 30 people coming to church each week. He spends time traveling to small towns around their 1/2 of the island.

8. This week should be transfers. He should be getting a new companion and I will update as soon as I find out what happened.