There haven't been any pictures from Quinn in the past few e-mails, but there have been some interesting updates:
In talking to President Gamiette, Quinn is pretty sure he will not be in Grenada for another transfer. The apartment they are currently in will be taken over by 2 sister missionaries. There was no indication as to where Quinn will be moving.
They are eating pretty well in Grenada. Mostly it’s pasta or rice. Quinn is becoming quite the cook. He has tried oildown, and he loved it The one he tried had land crab and pig snout in it. He will soon try lambie (fish from the conch shell) and sea eggs (sea urchin – white ones).
A few weeks ago they found a really cool beach. It is really small and no one knows about it. There are 2 beach chairs and 2 palm frond umbrellas there. There is a rock ledge that slows down the waves, making the water very shallow. The missionaries are allowed to go into the water up to their knees, so they love this spot.
They had zone conference in St. Lucia. They set a bunch of mission goals. There is a big shift from just baptizing to more retention. It was rumored that every English speaking missionary in all the islands of the mission would be there. I am not sure if it happened, but it sounds cool. That would have included Elder Manwill, who was in Quinn’s MTC group, and Quinn hasn’t seen any of them since being out.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
What happened in October
Quinn has been pretty busy these last few weeks.
They built a bunk bed. The elders that were living with Quinn and his companion finally found an apartment, but it only had 1 Queen bed, so the boys got creative and built the bunkbeds. Buying one was too expensive. It took a few weeks, but the finished product was great. They painted it in rasta colors, which happen to be the colors of the Grenadian flag. Quinn was the mastermind who drew up the structural drawings for it. It looks pretty sweet
He hasn’t taken too many pictures lately, because he has seen everything 3-5 times in the 3 months he has been there.
Quinns take on General Conference October 2009: “General conference was awesome. As always, Elder Holland’s talk was incredible and destroys any false beliefs that members or nonmembers may have held. I love his talks more and more every time I hear them. President Monson’s talk in priesthood was great too, about anger. We see a lot of it down here.”
One experience of the anger he sees was a man who put his arm thorught a window in St. Vincent. He had big flaps of skin hanging down. Both Quinn and his companion went into rescue mode and made sure he got to the hospital. It was a while between the time it happened and when he actually told us about it because he didn’t want to freak out Patti. But now he knows exactly what happens when you punch a window.
They had a wedding and a baptism. Majellia’s brother and his fiance’, Ron and Terianne. The Rasmussens gave him a Book of Mormon a long time ago and he said he burned it. Turns out that he didn’t and now he is getting baptized. It’s amazing what the spirit can do to people. TA also said she wasn’t ready to get married and baptized, but she prayed about it and she decided that she should. So that will be happening Saturday.
Majellia’s twin, Marellia should be getting baptized at the same time, but Quinn has not said if that baptism actually took place. She has backed out on her baptism date several times in the past.
They visited Fort Matthew again, it's a blast. They got a tour from one of the guys in charge of restoring it. During the invasion in '83 the US bombed it on accident. It was supposed to hit the military base just up the hill, but they missed and hit the fort which was being used as a mental hospital. OOPS!!! They're working on restoring it and making it really cool. It won’t be finished for 5 years, but it will be nice for Quinn to go back and visit and see the progress.
Thanksgiving, celebrated on Laceys Birthday (October 25th), in Grenada is to celebrate when the US came in and liberated them from the Cubans. Pretty interesting holiday.
They had all of the people Quinn has baptized in Grenada at church one week. 2 got the priesthood and 1 was confirmed. The rest had either already received the priesthood or were girls. Quinn has only baptized 3 women my whole time out and the rest have been priesthood holders. Pretty cool. The big problem in Grenada is the opposite of other countries. In Grenada the men all line up to get baptized and the women that are stubborn.
2 more missionaries are moving onto the island! There will be 6 now. Quinn will still be with elder Livingston, and Elder Coronado will be training a greenie.
President Gamiette and his family were all here for the weekend and they absolutely love Grenada now. His daughters were asking if they could miss the airplane back to Trinidad. They speak English pretty well, but the younger ones are having a hard time learning. It was really cool to have all of them there. There are going to be some really good changes on the island.
Not sure what this is, but Quinn sent it so you all can see it:
They built a bunk bed. The elders that were living with Quinn and his companion finally found an apartment, but it only had 1 Queen bed, so the boys got creative and built the bunkbeds. Buying one was too expensive. It took a few weeks, but the finished product was great. They painted it in rasta colors, which happen to be the colors of the Grenadian flag. Quinn was the mastermind who drew up the structural drawings for it. It looks pretty sweet
He hasn’t taken too many pictures lately, because he has seen everything 3-5 times in the 3 months he has been there.
Quinns take on General Conference October 2009: “General conference was awesome. As always, Elder Holland’s talk was incredible and destroys any false beliefs that members or nonmembers may have held. I love his talks more and more every time I hear them. President Monson’s talk in priesthood was great too, about anger. We see a lot of it down here.”
One experience of the anger he sees was a man who put his arm thorught a window in St. Vincent. He had big flaps of skin hanging down. Both Quinn and his companion went into rescue mode and made sure he got to the hospital. It was a while between the time it happened and when he actually told us about it because he didn’t want to freak out Patti. But now he knows exactly what happens when you punch a window.
They had a wedding and a baptism. Majellia’s brother and his fiance’, Ron and Terianne. The Rasmussens gave him a Book of Mormon a long time ago and he said he burned it. Turns out that he didn’t and now he is getting baptized. It’s amazing what the spirit can do to people. TA also said she wasn’t ready to get married and baptized, but she prayed about it and she decided that she should. So that will be happening Saturday.
Majellia’s twin, Marellia should be getting baptized at the same time, but Quinn has not said if that baptism actually took place. She has backed out on her baptism date several times in the past.
They visited Fort Matthew again, it's a blast. They got a tour from one of the guys in charge of restoring it. During the invasion in '83 the US bombed it on accident. It was supposed to hit the military base just up the hill, but they missed and hit the fort which was being used as a mental hospital. OOPS!!! They're working on restoring it and making it really cool. It won’t be finished for 5 years, but it will be nice for Quinn to go back and visit and see the progress.
Thanksgiving, celebrated on Laceys Birthday (October 25th), in Grenada is to celebrate when the US came in and liberated them from the Cubans. Pretty interesting holiday.
They had all of the people Quinn has baptized in Grenada at church one week. 2 got the priesthood and 1 was confirmed. The rest had either already received the priesthood or were girls. Quinn has only baptized 3 women my whole time out and the rest have been priesthood holders. Pretty cool. The big problem in Grenada is the opposite of other countries. In Grenada the men all line up to get baptized and the women that are stubborn.
2 more missionaries are moving onto the island! There will be 6 now. Quinn will still be with elder Livingston, and Elder Coronado will be training a greenie.
President Gamiette and his family were all here for the weekend and they absolutely love Grenada now. His daughters were asking if they could miss the airplane back to Trinidad. They speak English pretty well, but the younger ones are having a hard time learning. It was really cool to have all of them there. There are going to be some really good changes on the island.
Not sure what this is, but Quinn sent it so you all can see it:
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