Our first visit was to Tasha and Anrood and their 7 children. Tasha is 29 but she and Anrood have been married since she was 14. Tasha is one of my best primary presidents. She was baptized 4 years ago.
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Of course, we went to visit Geeta and to have lunch with her. We watched her fix the whole lunch. Here's Burt with them.
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And now it's my turn.
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Her kitchen is the cutest. She finally has her first refrigerator and she thinks she is in heaven. She showed us how to make roti and curried chicken with potatoes.
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We ate outside under the house. The wind was softly blowing and it felt great.
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Here's a look at the yummy lunch. Roti on the left is a flat bread similar to a tortilla. The Guyanese prepare and eat it daily. Vegetable fried rice, fresh pineapple, watermelon, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, and shredded cabbage were served with the curried chicken and potatoes.
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Here's a look at Geeta's house as we said goodbye.
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On to Vickey's house. He is on the left and will enter the MTC in Provo June 30. His granny who raised him has had one leg amputated. I can't remember why. The rest are his cousins.
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Carl looks like he was in heaven with Vickey's little cousins all gathered on his lap.
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Once again, we said goodbye...this time to Vickey in front of his Granny's house where he was raised.
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On to Jade and Travis' house. Carolyn is holding their baby, Janellie.
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Carolyn brought some clothes for Jade to try on and here's the ones Jade liked best.
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She loved all the clothes. She was tickled about this little red sweater. She squealed, "Oh, I've been wanting one of those!"
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Melissa is Jade's sister-in-law and is her same age. Here's the dress Carolyn gave Melissa. They both wore their dresses to church the next day.
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As we said our goodbyes, we all lined up on the step for a group photo.
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And one more photo across from their house. Aren't the palm trees great?
Elder Bullock, what is going on with you?
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Carl is with Travis, who is 24. He's been a member 1 year and is the branch president.
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And here's the whole family...Jade, Travis, little Travis and Janellie.
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Carolyn, looking very graceful as she crossed the bridge on our way to Samantha's house.
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She looks like she's telling Carl to hurry up. I think Carl was checking out the yucky trench. There are alligators in there, you know!
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More clothes from Carolyn...this time for Samantha. Her husband was struggling to button all the tiny buttons.
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Samantha and her husband, Ameer, with their family. They fed us once again. We were already stuffed because we'd eaten at Geeta's but we managed to eat again. Carolyn was holding a sweet note the family had written to Carl and Carolyn.
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And now it was Nanda's house. She is the District Primary President. I work a lot with her and she is a special friend to me. She loves teddy bears. Can you tell?
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Here's the rest of Nanda's family with Carl and Carolyn.
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Carl just couldn't resist grabbing this tiger after being surrounded by so many soft teddy bears. He begged me to take his photo with it.
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We had to show them the open market where we buy all our produce.
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At the district training meeting on Saturday, we took this photo to show just how small some of the Guyanese women are and how tall Carolyn and I were in comparison! I don't know who the little girl was but she jumped right in the front of our photo.
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The Bahadurs are a special family. They have all been baptized...even the dad. That's unusual here for the dad to be baptized. Jamacie, the only daughter, is one of my 2 piano students.
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After church on Sunday, we lined up some of the sisters.
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Then, we lined up some more of them to show off their long Indian hair. Almost every Indian girl or woman has long hair...often to their waist or longer.
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Then, I turned them all around so you could get a better look at it.
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On the way home from church, we ran into Nanda and her family riding home from church...all on one bicycle. Wow...
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At the end of our visits, Carolyn said, "You're right, the best part of Guyana really is the people!"
2 comments:
I'm envious that Carolyn got to hold Jenellie. And have I mentioned how beautiful your skin looks? You look beautiful all together. Your smiles are congatious! And hey, if your feet keep getting more tan they just might become brown enough to pass for Trey & Warren's biological Grandma's by the time you see your family again. haha. But not brown enough to pass for Janellie's Grandma! Nope. It's sure obvious how much they all love you & Burt--and how much you love them.
So fun to have your sister come for a visit - looks like you had a lot of great adventures.
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