This morning the School Superintendent and helpers came to our apt. to receive over 600 school kits. Can you imagine the excitement for so many children who wish for one pencil of their own...to have a backpack with not just one piece of paper...but real notebooks for school! It will enable some children to go to school. Education is so important and The Church of Jesus Christ reaches out to the whole world.
We also have Hygiene kits in our apt. for the many families (close to 1,000) who will receive water lines to their homes because the Church is helping the government supply the lines to the homes and the training as well in hygiene and water conservation and usage. The Church has donated many wheelchairs as well as clothes and food, medical supplies and schooling to those in need. The Humanitarian missionaries help with the physical needs of people. That would be a great mission too and it has been fun to see a small part of their work in these projects here in Fogo! Our friends, The Brodericks are the Humanitarian missionaries right now for Cabo Verde.
Grandpa and Andrade, (a great young man, and a prison guard, who was baptized a few months ago.)
Saturday we gave hygiene kits to each of the 103 prisoners here (a towel, two bars of soap, 4 toothbrushes, (the good kind that Ashley likes!), combs, and toothpaste in each). We spent the morning visiting at the prison. Our young single adults (just over 40 of them) had a program and activities planned for the visit. The prisoners were very kind and appreciative.
Grandpa talked to them about making wise decisions. He said that having a good and happy life is a choice each of us must make for ourselves! Lucindo, also spoke about joining the church after he was released from Prison and the difference it has made in his life. He is completing his paperwork to serve a Mission.
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