During this weeks zone conference, which is actually is made up of 3 zones, our zone the La Grange zone, prepared a special musical number to sing . These Elders sounded great! They sang How Great Shall Be Your Joy. We even had an award for the best smiler. This was a special zone conference. It was our President and his wife, Reid and Diane Robisons last conference here before they go home to Provo, Utah in about 14 days. They have been wonderful models for each of us. We wish them the best of luck in their new chapter as they leave this West Indies Mission and pick up where they left off at Brigham Young University.

This is our new zone. We are called the La Grange zone. But everyone has ordered alligator scripture covers, or hymn books, or tote bags. We are thinking of changing our name to the La Gator zone. We look pretty snazy with our gator scriptures. The Elders even convinced me to purchase an alligator purse. Not a fan of so much gator, I did get a purse (which I needed) but the purse I got does have a alligator on it. Oh, how I love to be part of the zone.

Shadetts anyone??

Here we have Scot with a Shadett. What the heck is this? Well, it is better than a grapefruit. In St. Lucia, they weren't quiet this large. This one is huge. They are hard to come by. They are not as juicy and you peel them and eat them as an orange. This is our favorite fruit here. It you love pink grapefruits, you'll love Shadetts

One of the things we just do here in Guyana is eat out a lot. We seem to celebrate birthdays, going aways, its monday, just about any reason to get together and it seems to be more often than not. But we love getting together and we love working with these other couples.

Our last time as a Diamond Zone

Here is the group we occasionally hang out with. Great group of guys and sisters. Imagine serving this crew breakfast every 6 weeks. We tried something new this time. The night before, we made a breakfast casserole with cut up pieces of bread, cheese, eggs, milk, vanilla and added cooked sausage and beacon on top, and let it sit overnight. In the morning you top it with diced tomatoes and green onions and bake. Was pretty easy and made the for a smooth dish. Sister Handly brought tons of fresh pineapple, watermelons and bananas. I think we might just have to do that again. Don't these elders look well fed and content?

Testing out the ping pong table

These fine elders of the Diamond zone love not only to get together every six weeks for an hour or so, they just love each other. Did you know they end all their phone calls with "I love ya" which was sort of weird when the first one said it to me. I don't really hear it often, but they sure say it to each other. They are really known as a band of brothers.

Pre transfer missionary breakfast

Look at these goofball elders. At this point our lovely breakfast is over and they are waiting turns for pingpong on our dining room table. Most of them get to stay, and oh, how we will miss the others as they transfer to a new area. Good luck gentlemen!