BIG CHANGES!!!

Well, big news. Quinn is leaving Trinidad!!! He will be leaving Wednesday (January 20, 2010). After Zone Conference Quinn found out that he will be moving to Guyana. He will be the Zone Leader there!! His old trainee, Elder Livingston, will be the district leader down there. His “greenie” will also be going to Guyana and will be another district leader. Quinn sure knows how to teach them to be successful missionaries!!

He will be in Georgetown, the capital. The area is called Grove. Guyana has the second worst living conditions of any mission in the world. He mentions that he will have a “cutlass” but I am not positive what that is. He guesses:
• No Running Wager, just a big black tank
• Showers in Buckets
• Not sure what the apartment will be
• Filter all water, because it is so bad
• A local missionary companion (Elder Bharat)
• Most people cannot read
• Daily Blackouts
• A SWEET scripture case made out of alligator
• Lots of alligator to eat
• A cool leather belt with his name on it

With Quinn leaving on Wednesday, he will have to leave before the baptisms he has lined up for next month. He has 6 set. They have also had 4 less active people come back to church.

He did not feel the earthquake that destroyed Haiti.

Zone conference was incredible. They discussed about ways to get the work to really take off. They are going to work with strong members and get referrals of the less actives in the area. They too are working on the retention of the members. Isn’t it amazing that the things we study and work on here, are the same things that they work on there.

Last thing to look forward in Guyana:
• Haiti is the only country in the Western Hemisphere poorer than Guyana

At least while in these other countries Quinn is not forgetting his roots: