Goodbye Elders and Hello Natasha

It's transfer week, once again.

And it is goodbye to two of our favorite zone leaders, Elders Mundy and Fillerup.

Elders Kaspers and Robinson, the two at the end of the table, had early goodbyes 3 weeks ago when they returned home to be able to start school. We all went to dinner at a Guyanese restaurant at the Church View Hotel. It is the only restaurant here in New Amsterdam where we enjoy the food.

Most of what you eat at a Guyanese restaurant is some type of curry dish, especially chicken curry with plain rice, cook-up rice (has beans & a few vegies in it with coconut milk), fried rice, and roti (the bread that is somewhat like a tortilla). You mop up the sauce with the roti and it tastes yummy!

This is roti with potato curry. I loved it! I had my meal half eaten before I thought to take this photo! They use a lot of curry and masala with pepper sauce or hot peppers.

Here we are...the Relief Society sisters of New Amsterdam Branch. They are well dressed, don't you think? Amelia, who is standing just next to me, was baptized about 2 weeks ago.

Meet Natasha who is 15. She works this little snack shop and sells the things her mom cooks each day, such as egg balls. An egg ball is a oval shaped ball of mashed casava (sort of like a sweet potato) with a hard boiled egg in the middle. Then it is fried and served with some "sour sauce". It is a great snack to buy on the street. Dad and I invited her to church one day when we were buying some of her snacks.

Two weeks she was baptized. Check out Elder Williams black socks!

Meet the Phagwah family. They are a really family. The dad is the president of our Canje District of the Church here in the area where we live. He is over 6 branches.

About 3-4 years ago, he sold everything he could, including his refrigerator and bicycle, which was his only means of transportation, and flew his family to the temple to be sealed for eternity.
This family is the only family in our district that has been sealed together in the temple.

Some of them are wearing clothes that were sent to me by my good friend, Carol Webb, to share with the people in Guyana.

The father works for the bottled water company and earns about $10-15 a day.

These are his four beautiful teenage daughters and wife. This family is a blessing, a good example and an inspiration to all that know them.