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Terri’s First Haircut in Africa – and Kevan was the Beautician!
Parfait (Perfect)!!! This is for Lori who spent 2 hours teaching Kevan how to cut my hair – he did a FABULOUS job! Now I’m ready for my Easter bonnet!
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Seigneur, mon Dieu – Music at Emanuel’s Graduation
The literal translation is “Lord, my God.” In English, this hymn is entitled “How Great Thou Art,” which you will see in the chorus as “Que tu es grand!” As an introduction, may I explain how music is...
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Happy Birthday Liz !
It’s hard to be away from my only daughter on this very special birthday but, hey, what am I gonna do ? (sorry about the punctuation, I’ve gotten into the habit of doing it the French way because I...
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Housekeeping
While doing some image housecleaning today, a lot of the images got moved and thus the links broken. It may take a little bit of time, but we’ll get everything put back together. Bear with us please.
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To My Family: All is Well in L’bashi
Purchased locally at Ma Maison . . . need I say more ?
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It’s not REALLY all about food . . .
but I know those who are thinking about coming here to serve a mission worry about starving to death. I promise you, you won’t. Kevan has started baking our bread. The bread here is good – and if you...
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Brick-making in Kananga
I wish you could be here to see this. I think my jaw was dragging on the floor. When we flew into Kananga, I saw all these terraces in the rich, red clay on the hillsides. On the way to zone...
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And you thought handcarts were a thing of our Pioneer Past !
I know that Kevan posted a couple of pictures like this, but I think I got a larger sequence. This reminds me so much of my parents’ mission to Mongolia. You can’t be a true Mongol unless you can pack...
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Société de Secours (Relief Society) in Mwimbila
Kevan mentioned in his post how crowded priesthood was. I’m here to tell you, it had nothing on Relief Society. It was CROWDED and that’s saying a lot seeing that I was in a Daybreak Ward that...
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Elder Wright and the “Jambo” song
Introducing the Elder Wright original, “Jambo,” which is “hello” in Swahili. It is a favorite of the missionaries to whom he has taught it. Everyone loves it when we try and speak a language that is...
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Time to get started again!
We have received our next mission call. We have been called to the West Indies Mission to begin 13 April 2015. Kevan was called to Member and Leader Support and I to Mission Medical Advisor....
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And we’re off to Trinidad
Today, we embark on our second mission to the West Indies. We are excited to serve but absolutely blind as to what we will be doing for.the next 18 months. No matter! As Elder Perkins quotes Elder...
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From Trinidad to Sint Maarten/St. Martin
We left Trinidad at 3 PM and arrived just 15 minutes late at just after 9 PM. That is pretty good for a flight that landed on four different islands prior to St. Martin (SXM). Below are some pictures...
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First day on the Simpson Bay Resort beach
It’s P-Day and as the Thompsons prepare to leave, we had a day to explore the resort’s beach. Very nice. There were lovely gentlemen there to take lounge chairs and an umbrella wherever we wanted....
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