Sunday, March 15, 2009

Loads of Clothes

We have received boxes of clothes from so many of our generous friends, including the primary children from Kent, Washington. We say thank you to all of you for sending clothes that we can share with our Guyanese friends to help make their lives a little more comfortable and to put smiles on their faces.

We'll add a few photos we've taken of some of our friends modeling what we have given to them. See if you recognize anything that they are wearing that you might have donated.



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Be sure to check out their shoes.



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Baby clothes for Janelly, Jade's baby.



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A whole outfit for Roopa's mission...one of several we picked from the boxes for Roopa and Bibi that they will be able to wear on their missions.


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And here is Roopa, again.


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We have found about 8 little girls the ages of these, whom we have been able to give a pile of about 4-5 outfits each to take home. We see them wearing them to church each week.


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More little girls.


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One more with a huge grin!


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Here's a tiny one that is adorable!


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Here's some bigger ones that are adorable as well. Their names are Pretty, Prya, Ameritta, Navita, Sharmela and of course Roopa is in the middle. Most are wearing "box clothes"!



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This family has 7 children and the mother is just 28. She was 14 when she married. We have been able to help this family a lot.


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We were able to find church clothes in the boxes for Tasha's husband and older boys...all except church pants for the dad. So, I asked the elders if anyone had pants they had grown out of, and I was in luck...or I should say Tasha's husband was in luck. They looked great at church the next week all decked out in their dress shirts, pants and ties!



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Church clothes for this little family of boys, Richard, Michael, and Nicholas. They especially loved the ties!



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Little Travis went crazy over all the pockets in these long shorts.



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Nanda and her daughter, Aliena, are both pretty proud of their new outfits.



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Here's the older daughter, Alecia, wearing the same dress. Her mother sneaks and wears it when Alecia isn't home to stop her!



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Here's Alecia, again. She loves this dress!



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Nanda, Aliena and Alecia all love green like I do!



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Aliena figured out she could wear a little girl's dress as a blouse. Alecia wears this blouse frequently.



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Kevaul loved his long shorts. When I returned later to take his photo, they were hanging on the clothes line so I knew he'd been wearing them.



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Jamal had to pull his shorts off the clothesline for his photo, as well!



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And here he is posing with his soaking wet shorts.



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Nervani and Shavonni always have a huge smile and a kiss for me.



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Here they are with their mother, Tasha, who has the 7 children and is 28. The oldest child is 13!


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This just a big mixture of people saying goodbye to Elder Fillerup after church. Some are wearing clothes from the boxes.



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I thought you'd like to see how some of the boxes were packed.



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Linda must have spent hours rolling each item to its tiniest size. The clothes were all in the boxes like sardines in a can.


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Here is the Rosignol primary. Some of the children in the front rows are wearing some of the clothes.

Thank you all of you that sent clothes. I don't have photos of everyone. There were so many more that I just couldn't photos of them all!

3 comments:

Barb said...

What beautiful children and people. I heard customs was bad there...??? That it would not be worth me sending my son things??? If it is okay...I could send crayons, tablets...etc???

Robyn said...

Hi Bullocks,
To what address can we send things? I'd love to get our Primary on board! I am Christy Bacon Boot's best buddy, went to Israel w/ her & Lori, and was set up with Jamie years ago at BYU by the girls. :) I have LOVED following your blog. By the way, we have a Lauritzen family in our ward (Haslet, Texas) and I served in the Riverside Mission in 1990-91...comment for the later entry you wrote @ E. Lauritzen. Here's my email so you can send my some mailing info: robynb68@gmail.com

Thanks!!! Robyn Buckwalter

Cristie Jensen said...

It seems like you are having lots of fun. These people are blessed to have you in their area. Keep up the good Gospel work.