More flooding & Kevon

Feel like swimming?

Try spending a hot afternoon in a trench. These boys seem to be liking it!


This trench is of the small variety in front of someone's house, so instead of alligators, it probably is filled with lots of trash, thick mud and filthy water!

Elders Webb and Fillerup are trying to get back to their flooded apartment. They need to get back and put on their knee high rubber boots so they can do their visiting.

When it rains in Guyana, there is no shortage of water.

The many animals that are wandering everywhere can always find a spot to drink!

Here's a good shot of Jade and Travis's house just after an extra heavy downpour that lasted all night.

Meet Prince (83), his wife, Christine (65) and her grandson, Kevon (14).

They live together as a little family. I've never asked why Kevon doesn't live with his parents, but living with Granny is common around these parts.


They are standing at the top of the stairs of their tiny, tiny house. The stairs are very scary to climb and one of the four posts the house is set on was leaning when we visited Prince and Christine. As we sat on the small couch, which occupied almost the entire room, I was afraid the house would go down at any moment.


The post has been repaired, but unfortunately, the new post wasn't tall enough to make the house level. But the workman was paid, and probably will never return to do things right.

Here are the insides of their house. Everyone is sitting on the small couch...the only furniture in the room. The camera is setting across the room where the kitchen is set up to automatically snap this shot.

All three have been baptized recently.

Kevon has just been baptized by Elder Webb in the little font in the back of the New Amsterdam chapel.

Isn't this just a perfect shot! Kevon is darling and definitely one of our favorites.

He looks like he is just glowing in this photo. I see Elder Young in the background.

Speaking of favorites, I have to add this precious family, Granny and the 2 little brothers of Travis.
Travis, front middle, is the husband of Jade. Here they are having a FHE with Elders Fillerup and Webb. Delroy and Rudy, whom we absolutely adore, are in the back with their Granny. She always wears a hat.

Here's Rudy (13) again. He's on the right and is with his 2 friends on their lunch break from school, at our door looking for something to eat and drink. Rudy stops by our house at least once a day.

And here is darling Delroy (9) with his nephew, little Travis. I am attempting to teach Delroy and Rudy how to read. So many children and adults here in Guyana are unable to read.

I'll end this post with one of my favorite views of these parts...the swaying coconut palmtrees. Guyana is becoming more beautiful to us each day.