Our hearts are so full of love for our precious new granddaughter, Lucy Gwen Price, born April 29, 2018 to Carly and Kegan Price of Stansbury Park, Utah. Mommy and baby, Daddy and 6 very excited siblings are all doing well.
Sammy (12) and Lucy Maddie (10) and Lucy
Three sisters were thrilled to finally hold their precious new baby sister.
Kallie (4) and Lucy
We love Lucy!!
(Carly and I always enjoyed watching reruns of I Love Lucy.)
It seems like we say this almost every week, but we truly did just have an amazing week. On Tuesday, we attended the Spanish Town Zone Conference.
Early on Wednesday we drove to Ocho Rios (north coast) and stopped in Linstead on the way back to inspect elders' apartments.
The mighty elders of Ocho Rios
How handy - a banana tree right in their front yard
Fortunately, we were able to get back to Spanish Town in time to attend a very special baptism. The man who was baptized is the father/grandfather of a family we feel a special bond with because we were at the Panama Temple with them for their sealing last fall.
August 2017
The
beautiful Harrison family at the Kingston airport
waiting
to fly to Panama.
With Papa Harrison
Papa Harrison calls Elder Cederlind his hero and new white son.
This brother had "gone through" multiple sets of elders until finally being touched by the Spirit in just the right way to want to enter the waters of baptism to begin his journey back to Father in Heaven.
Father and Son
Andrew Harrison was so excited to baptize his father.
Andrew and his son, Dondre - the future Elder Harrison
Thursday found us in Montego Bay for the North Coast Zone Conference. It was a long but fantastic day. Besides attending conference, we also inspected the elders and sisters apartments and then drove a set of elders back to their home in Ocho Rios. We put a lot of miles on the truck and were so glad to arrive back at home safely and pretty much fall into bed.
With Elder Harrah,
one of the Assistants to President Pearson
Everyone loves his smile.
The members of leadership of the mission usually wear the matching Jamaican ties at Zone Conferences and other such meetings.
Sister Pearson and the darling young sisters of the North Coast Zone
We love attending baptism, so this was an extra special week. Saturday we traveled on one of my least favorite roads over to the east to Yallahs for the baptism of a young adult who is the son of another recent convert whose baptism we also attended.
One of our enthusiastic elders who enjoys leading the music
We met once again in the shade of this huge mango tree
in a Yallahs Branch members' yard.
A little wind-blown but happy as can be for this mother and her son
We just hadn't been in the truck quite enough this week, so we travelled to attend the Junction Branch (about 2 1/2 hours away) for Sunday meetings. One of the mission elders serves as the Branch President and is doing a great job with this small struggling branch. After the regular block of meetings, training on their responsibilities as leaders in the branch was given to the branch council members. We then stopped at the elders apartment before heading home. We had dropped off a big crock pot of stew, rolls, and dessert at their apartment before church so they'd have a nice meal to come home to. We made it home before dark and then the fun began as we anxiously awaited every little update until Lucy was born.
We have another wonderful week ahead of us with the expected visit of a Major Vision Initiative specialist and his wife to hand over and offer training on a new piece of vision equipment at University Hospital of West Indies here in Kingston.
Dr. Jesse Hunsaker
We've included the link for the recently released
2017 LDS Charities Annual Report.
Until next week...all our love.
You certainly had a busy week which makes the mission zip by! Lucy looks beautiful...how many grandchildren do you now have? We were especially touched by the baptism of the man by his son! What a special experience that must have been for both of them. Thanks for sharing some of your amazing mission experiences. We hope this coming hurricane season is not nearly as exciting as last years!
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