Vince & Corliss's Mission

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Area initative

An area initative is a project that has been approved by the Church. Sister Whitehead is standing next to a 5 acre field that has been cleared so 11 members of the Church can grow large gardens to supplement their meager incomes. We have 300 projects like this in Jamaica to work on over the next 18 months of our mission. Some of these initatives include chicken coops, goats, pigs, bees and raised gardens.

Wonder market

Sister Whitehead is at a farmers market in a little city called Negril. The farmers were selling everything raised in that area. Markets like this one is usually a cheap place to buy fruits and vegetables.

Beautiful Jamaica

Elder Whitehead is standing in a members yard that is next to a mountain. Jamaica is such a beautiful island and has such lush foilage.

One of the many funny signs in Jamaica

It isn't uncommon to see men going to the bathroom anywhere they want. This is a sign we saw on a large college campus in Kingston. I doubt that anyone pays attention to it.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Rehabilitation center

The Church gave lots of crutches, walkers and canes to a large rehabilitation center in Guyana. The organization was very grateful for our help. Many people in Guyana need these items because of the lame and crippled.

Planter boxes

We are doing a fun project in Guyana with a farm group. They are building planter boxes and green houses for the secondary students in Linden. These students will come to this project and learn how to plant seeds, transplant small seedlings and how to fertilizer them. They will take these seedlings home and plant gardens at their houses. Most families don't have gardens and with an 80% unemployment there, the gardens will help a lot.

P-day

Every once in a while we get to play on an island. We are in our p-day clothes on a beach on Tobago. Tobago is a smalll island next to Trinidad. Both islands share the same government and currency. We took a very large ferry from Trinidad to Tobago to work on some projects.

Yummy fish

This is a King fish that they serve in restaurants in the islands. We ate this fish in Tobago at a little restaurant on the beach. It was wonderful.

Big cannon

Sister Whitehead is pushing me into this large cannon in Tobago. Actually, we were just playing with the large old weapon. It had a 14" diameter hole in it.

Plug your ears!!!

This shows a picture of a huge semi-truck loaded with tons of speakers and a huge generator. There were 16 of these trucks in the childrens carnival parade. When the truck passed us, the concussion actually hurt our insides. What noise and discomfort. Carnival is a yearly celebration held in lots of countries including New Orleans. This is a picture of our celebration in Trinidad. It is a very wicked 3 days when the adult events occour. Much drinking and nudity. All of the missionaries have to stay in their apartments and cannot leave for the whole time. Good idea. They play games and eat and eat.