A Mission Tour, Kits, and a New Roof

A Mission Tour with Elder and Sister Sabin

Elder and Sister Sabin arrive for a mission tour.

Missionaries from the islands of Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau and Sal.  

Elder and Sister Sabin are from San Diego.  Currently they are serving in the Europe Area Presidency at the area offices in Frankfurt, Germany.  Elder Sabin is a General Authority Seventy.

Sister Erickson spends a moment with Sister Sabin.

This was our first mission tour.  Definitely a spiritual feast.

The Sisters

Dental Kits

After the mission tour we spent a day on the island of Santo Antão visiting the schools that received the dental kits provided by LDS Charities.

Sister Erickson presenting a kit.  The man in the blue shirt was a health care professional that examined the students teeth.  The man on the left was the school director and kept a record of the dental exam.

Each kit contained a toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste and a bar of soap.  For some of these kids this was their first toothbrush.

These are the fourth, fifth and sixth graders.

This was one of the schools fairly high in the mountains.  The school district is making a concerted effort to introduce health care, dental care and nutrition into all primary schools.

The first graders were excited to get their kits.

Our trip back down the mountain.

Nilça gets a New Roof

 The Mindelo 3rd ward turned out to 'light the community' by building a new roof for a needy member.

Nilça's home is the pink house.  She lives here with three of her children.

Bishop Timothy (back to us on the left) and members of the Elders Quorum build the rafters.

Elder Edu from Nigeria and Elder Fermino from Brazil.

Nilça's two boys were great helpers.  Now they have a good roof over their heads.

Note the hammer.  All the bent nails were saved.

A Few Random Pictures

Our next car.  Sister Erickson gets to ride in the back.

The city street sweepers.

Road construction.

The Gospel rolls forth.

Bishop dos Santos and his first counselor.

The Couple of the Week

Elder and Sister Smith are from Utah and previously from the San Francisco area.  We were in the same district at the Mission Training Center in Provo.

They are in Zimbabwe serving as humanitarian missionaries as well as helping in the mission office.  The Zimbabwe economy has collapsed and boy do they have interesting stories to tell.  

After the mission tour we had these two missionaries over for a light meal.

Elder Sailors from Texas and Elder Shumway from Arizona currently serve on the island of Sal.  Elder Shumway's parents have just been called to serve as mission president of a yet to be assigned mission.

Our tradition of having Sunday dinner with a companionship of missionaries continues.

Elder Mugimbo from Angola and Elder Floyd from Northern California.