What a difference a week makes!

Greetings from Bonaire! 

Elder VV's fall on the Playa, just one week ago, was an adventure. 
Some people were wondering how things are. Well he is as good as new! All healed and though it looked terrible he now looks great. A 7 day make over...Here are the 4 faces of Elder VV

Zone Conference

Greetings from Bonaire!

May 6th was our final Zone Conference . We arrived at the airport a few hours early per instruction for our flight at 8:40 am. We were told that there was really not a flight at that time. We waited to see if there would be space in the 10:40 flight...No such luck. Finally we flew out on the 1 pm flight so we waited about 5 hours to take a 20 minute flight to get to Curacao for our 11 am meeting and then returned to Bonaire at 9 pm! Insel Air should have some competition!

We had plenty of time to study and ponder and doze off and read and talk and play the BofM scripture game with the Elders and pose for pictures.

It was a great Conference and since it was supposed to start at 11am. We arrived just in time for lunch!

President Egbert taught about the Temple and we read from the scriptures about the Temple ordinances. It was a very important afternoon then it was back to Bonaire. 

The missionaries who would not be a the next Zone Conference were asked to bear testimonies. It made me think about all the things we have learned from the President and the missionaries and how thankful I am for this opportunity to serve a mission.

We have come to love so many of the missionaries and the Egbert's. It was a sad time saying goodbye

I know these pictures won't mean as much to you all. They are for me.

These young men and young women are representatives of Jesus Christ. They take their job seriously. They teach about our loving Heavenly Father, The Apostasy and the Restoration, the Book of Mormon and the Atonement.

While these young men and young women are still only kids and sometimes they act their age... we have learned so much from them and we have come to love them very much. The Lord is using them to do his work.

"Rain drops keep falling on my head!"

Greetings from Bonaire!

The long awaited rain finally fell last night! It hasn't really rained since Christmas day. It has been very dry so the rain was much needed. We wanted to see how much rain and what was going on so we were on our way to go walking.

We got in the car and drove down to the playa. We got out our umbrellas even though it really wasn't raining very hard. As we walked Elder VV did not see a post sticking up because of his umbrella, and tripped over it!

He fell right flat on his face... "it was like a sledge hammer on my nose" he looked horrible. Passers-by came and wanted to call an ambulance but he was really ok he just looked bad and it kind of knocked the breath out of him. He got a cut on the bridge of his nose and a cut on his forehead. As he lay in the street bleeding his eye socked filled up with blood and so when he got up the blood dripped all over his face .

We just happened to have a doctors appointment that morning at 8:30 so we went home,cleaned up all the blood, and when we saw the doctor she said that he needed stitches.

It looks like he was in a big fight.  

Being a missionary is dangerous business. Let op! (be aware!)

Oops! I fell

All fixed up

Outside the doctor's office

Return to the crime scene