Baptism Bliss

Dripping wet and "skinning his teeth", nine year old Neville couldn't be happier! It looks as if Elder Bishop has just baptized him in lemonade!

Between General Conference sessions, Ricky Bahudur, the father of this beautiful family, called home from Georgetown (where he works all week) to his family to say,


"I'm ready to be baptized. Can we do it next Saturday?" Needless to say, they...and we...were all ecstatic!


Elder Young, who had taught and baptized the rest of the family previously, returned from Georgetown 3 hours away to New Amsterdam to perform the ordinance.

It was hard to say who was happier, Elder Young or Bro. Bahadur.


That night we had a family home evening with them on prayer and Ricky shared how he had prayed about joining the church. He had planned on being baptized next year but suddenly in his heart he knew he couldn't wait another moment. Elder Bryan, who is 6'5", barely squeezed in the photo.



The previous Saturday a.m. before conference, the family (minus the dad) spent several hours in our kitchen while the mother, Karen, showed us how to make roti.


Here is a sample of Karen's perfect roti.


And Elder Bullock making some of his perfectly scrambled eggs to put inside the roti.


And here we are munching down on our breakfast burritos made from roti, scrambled eggs, bacon, hash browned potatoes and hot pepper sauce with the Bahadur family and Elders Bryan, Richards, Hamilton and Bishop.

The elders are never disappointed when they have an opportunity to eat!

The Guyanese love their food with fiery hot pepper sauce. You can see some in the bottle in the middle of the table. Elder Bryan's stomach must be lined with something fireproof because he can never seem to get quite enough of it!