4th Transfer: Week 1 ~ "I am in Nassau!!!!! WOOHOO!!"

Me and Sister Bailey at our house
for the last time:(

Hey Mom I am in Nassau!!!!! WOOHOO!! I was so very sad to leave Jamaica:(. I said good bye to everyone. Everyone signed in my journal :). It has been such a wonderful blessing to see what me and Sister Bailey have done for Ochi.The families that we reactived now go to church every Sunday. They sacrifice to go to church. All the members called us their missionaries and I told everyone that we will meet again!

I was so unhappy to come here but now that I am here I absolutely love it! It is a 2nd world country and the only tourist part is a separate island called Paradise Island. To get there you cross over a

President Lester at his new house

huge long bridge that connects us to it. That is where all the tourist things are. One day I want to go to Paradise island for a p-day! Then downtown Nassau has one little strip of little shops. The flight was 1 hr and 30 min. I cringed! My bags were almost over weight so i will be sending a lot of things home. I am wearing cute things again because we have AC inside our church building :) Woohoo! Oh yeah, I have an address so if you want to send me something you can send it directly here to Nassau. We use Bahamian money and American money together. Isn't that weird? It gets confusing sometimes and guess what?! I e-mail at the church now! No more internet shops and them shutting down on me! Oh my goodness FREEDOM!

Ochi Market

 Africans and Haitians live here. Haitians speak Creole which is French and Patois mixed together. So you know how Jamaicans just speak Patois? Patois is English and some Spanish. Creole is French and some Patois mixed together. Our members speak English even though they are from Haiti. If we have an investigator who speaks Creole we bring a translator. How cool is that?!

A funny story this week. I went inside the grocery store here and I had culture shock!!! It looked like a mini walmart! I was sooo happy I almost started to cry!

Forest Fire

There was food everywhere, lighting and a little bit of AC and they didn't have food that was expired!! I was so happy! They sell lowfat milk here...finally. In Jamaica they only sold pure cows milk. Even though it is a 2nd world country everything looked so amazing to me. I think I have forgotten what America is like. So don't be surprised if when I come home I have culture shock. I thought this kind of looked like America and everyone is like "this is nothing like America, its a 2nd world country" so.. I have officially forgotten what it is like there.

I absolutely LOVE NASSAU! All the people here are so amazing and NICE!! They're so very sweet. It is so wonderful here. These 6 months

Sister Bailey, Sister Walker
and me with Marj

 will fly by so fast! My companion, Sister Woolf, is really nice. We know each other so well already. We have seen every side of each other. She is a sweet sister and I love her. She is going home in September. She is awesome and I am happy to be with her. Sister Woolf even said that this might be a nice transition stage for her before she goes home because she said that she had major culture shock coming here from Jamaica however there is poverty here as well. But I won't forget patois, me and Sister Bailey talk it all the time...even me and Sister Woolf haha! I know the Lord puts me with my companions for a reason but I have learned 

Tracy and Rohan's Family

that Satan works on companionships first. I know that without a doubt! because it all starts with the companionship working together to have the Spirit there in our lessons. These sisters are awesome though. We all have different weaknesses and we can still be there to uplift one another. I have really learned to love these sisters so very much! 

The work here is very hard because everyone works. In Jamaica nobody worked so we could see anyone when we wanted. But here they all hide and work! So when we make appointments they all cancel! but its okay we are doing our best here.

This is cute little old Sister Whiley

I had a cool experience. We decided to just find so Sister Woolf looked at me and said, "okay I am frustrated right now. You have the spirit so direct us to a persons house by following the Spirit". So I said okay. I then came by this nice little humble home and I glanced at it and some thing spoke to me and said for us to go and knock on that door. So we did and this man was so excited and he was so nice! He said he loved the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and would love to know more. So we will be seeing him again some time this week. So that was a really cool and spiritual experience. It has been very hard but I have really been relying on my Father in Heaven. I always get

It's just the four of us!

put in these kind of situations but with trusting in him everything smoothes out and it will eventually get better.

Mom when I come home can we go straight to the temple? I want to go inside a temple so stinkin bad! Satan works hard. I have noticed that he works on me so much. Some nights a random person comes to me in my dreams and tells me to go home. And I don't even think of home at times? So I don't know. Its tough but I just have to pull through and keep pressing forward with faith!

Welcome to Nassau!

Aunt told me that you and dad are preparing a husband for me and that I will have 2 kids. She was hilarious! I was like "okay Aunt" and she just said that she was following the Spirit. HAHA! She is very old. Oh my goodness it was hilarious.

In our apartment we have AC! Oh my goodness I freeze to death at night now! From one extreme to the other. We have been having so much rain here though. So I don't know if we are having a hurricane? It has been pouring rain and it has been flooding the place here. It reminds me of Noah's time.

My first couple of days:)

Did I tell you how tiny Nassau is? As we were landing I could see the whole island of New Providence. Nassau is the city we are in. Me and Sister Woolf cover the whole bottom half of the island and the other 2 sisters cover the whole top part of the island (Sister Oman and Sister Bailey). It's just the four of us on this island doing the work on our own. Pretty cool huh? We are driving. Thank goodness we have 2 cars. Sister Oman can cook! She is going to make us some chicken enchiladas thank goodness! and we are thinking about making home made pizza and having a pizza night :) Sister Woolf is from Atlanta Georgia :) and Sister Oman is from a little town in Colorado.Trust me we have already had a lot of

A rainbow!! We got so excited!

conversations about our favorite state :).

But a funny story! Oh my goodness I can't believe I haven't told you this story! So okay me and Sister woolf were driving and it was flooded everywhere.. and she went over a speed bump a little too fast but we didn't see it cause it was flooded and she ended up hurting the bottom of the car and water got in it. It was so hilarious! we were laughing so hard. Isn't it funny as a missionary you go through some thing that is supposed to be a trial but you laugh and think it is hilarious? life of a missionary is always fun.

So our branch is called the New Providence Branch but everyone in the mission calls it Nassau cause it is easier. We actually have an actual Bishopric now! It is so exciting.. and an actual building :). We have like 90 members here. Its still kind of a small branch but bigger than Ochi thats for sure :) Its awesome.Woohoo! President Brown really prays a lot to know who to send here. We have to Skype with everyone for district meetings and zone meetings but for this Zone Conference coming up in August (I think the 23rd?) all the off islands are flying into Nassau and President Brown will be here which will be a lot of fun :) There are 4 elders serving in Freeport. They are the only off island Elders. Did I tell you that Elder Cornish is actually coming to our zone conference? How cool is that?!

I am going to be twenty!! woohoo!! partyyyy it up!! My sisters say they are going to make me a cake. I am so excited! but Sister Woolf said that Sister Oman likes to flour. So I will watch out for that. Sister Oman is younger than me. Her birthday is August 18th :) so she will be turning 20 too. So guess what?! After my Birthday it will be my 5 month mark!! its like having 2 birthdays in 1 week. Oh my goodness its just so awesome to be here , nice break! and I will be getting a haircut before I go back to Jamaica.

Oh okay well hey mom the other sisters are here and our time is up!! So I have to go but I loved talking with you and you guys have a safe trip to San Antonio!! Bye mom LOVE YOU GUYS AND THE FAMILY!! TAKE CARE! I will talk to you next week! LOVE YOU ALL BYE!