Sisters and Sewing

From Sister Biven . . .

Cabo Verde

Here is our map of Cape Verde.  It's on our apartment wall and is helpful when missionaries call, to be able to see where they are.  Our humanitarian responsibilities are for the southern islands, at the bottom.  We live on the bigger one, Santiago.  Immediately left on the map-- west-- is Fogo, the volcano island.  Then beyond it is Brava, which is sparsely populated and only has one missionary companionship.  The far right island in the southern group is Maio, which also only has one missionary companionship.

Our Sisters

A few days ago we got a call from the sisters in our own ward. We do the apartment inspections, so they called us with a plumbing problem. I tried to take a photo of Elder Biven with his wrench at the kitchen sink but the light was poor.  So instead of that I have a photo of the sisters and I entertaining ourselves taking selfies, while Elder Biven was a hero and fixed their sink.  Our sisters are Sister Gonçalves and Sister Bailey. Sister Gonçalves is from Angola and I love her very much, she isn't timid about speaking to me in Portuguese and expecting me to understand! She has helped me a lot.   Sister Bailey is from Jamaica. She is a native English speaker with beautiful Portuguese language skills.  I have appreciated her help with translating at times.

Sewing Class

One of the member self-reliance projects initiated by the previous couple, the Carnells, from Canada, was to provide sewing machines and teach the sisters to sew.  Here is a photo of Sister Davidson, a super talented seamstress, working with the sisters in our ward, teaching them how to use the machines.  








The project last week was to sew little bags, what fun we had!!  The sisters were very proud of their work and we took a photo.