Off to St. Vincent :)

Yo!  I am sure that the Sister Clawson told ya, but we found out is Dengue! It has been crazy this last week! Between blood tests, sleeping, and saying more good byes. It was excited to leave though. As for my health I am doing a little better every day. I could feel the love and prayers from home so thank you. Thank you so so much! It has been a hard few weeks for me. And laying in bed made me super depressed and so the prayers really helped. So today I feel better then I have in 5 weeks. I weighed myself today and I have lost 27 pounds in the last few weeks. But I got up the energy and so I was able to fly out.
 

Well I flew into St. Vincent on Friday. The zone leaders picked me up and drove me an hour to my new area. I live in the boonies. It is called Georgetown. It is like farm land and poverty and just at the very bottom of the island. It is so beautiful. There are huge hills because St. vincent is made of a volcano. The people are super funny. They are nice and humble because of the poverty. I live in a way cool house. I live with my comp Elder Clement. He is a really humble obediant missionary. So we will see much success together. Also I live with two other elders. Elder Koafano from tonga, and Elder Walentine from bear lake. He played football and basketball so we get a long great telling each other our stories of the glory days in highschool lol haha. So outside my house, I have 3 coconut trees, my own mango tree and a few banana plants so i am set on food! 

View from the appartment

But as for the work it is good. I still get plenty rest through the days but work hard when my energy is there. I am apart of a group of like 20 members. I guess this last sunday there was only 4 members there so that was interesting. But we are going to make it into a branch before I am done with it. Our goal this week is to find a guy who knows how to print or paint well so we can get a sign for the church! it is going to look great! 

 

So the bus drivers here are crazy. The road is seriously straight zig zag all the way to town it looks like this ^^^^^^^^ I have never got so car sick in my life then on Saturday when we came to town for a meeting. It was pouring rain and we got in the van. I didnt know what i was in for, for the next hour and a half. With in five minutes I was super car sick and they managed to fit in 24 people into this small van, they were blasting soka music, and it was crazy. At the time I thought i was in hell but looking back I laugh at it. Mom I know you get super sick too. I am going to take you on this bus ride and we can feel the pain together. haha:)

Well i am glad to be able to talk to you all. It helps cheer up the soul. I am learning a lot about the savior this last week.. I have had a lot of study time. I am excited to get work done this week. 

thanks again for all the prayers and for fasting for me. 

Love, Elder Dixon

Where they met for church