Guyana, Barbados, Puerto Rico and yes I'm crazy!

Ok, I love to see pictures more than read stuff, so this is gonna be tons of pics. This is me with the last group of youth that I helped trained to be HIV/AIDS peer educators. It was a very diverse group.

This is me and Matthias in Lethem. He helped by biking me to different houses to that I could administer a survey to the youth in this hinterland region. This region has Amerindins-indiginous people- and they are so kind! Lethem is right on the boarder of Brazil and so I crossed into Brazil for an afternoon to eat some beef on a stick and drink some Guarana.

These are some of my soccer boys. I would play soccer with neighborhood kids most nights after work, that is, if the field wasn't flooded from all the rain. They were always happy to see me cause I brought the ball-yes, I brought a soccer ball to Guayana. Once a PE teacher, always a PE teacher.

These last two fotos in Guyana are my favorites! Every Saturday they would have baptisms at the chapel. It was a little crazy at first to see them get baptized in chocolate brown water(which is how all the water in Guyana is), but very special and powerful!

This is a photo with a few of the kids in the primary which I taught for 3 weeks because the primary president had gone inactive. I had 17 kids, ranging from ages 2-12, for 2 hours. To make this more of an adventure, 3 were recently baptized and 12 were there because their parents were investigating the church. It was crazy town, but behaved pretty well because I promised them each two cookies. Oh, the power of a cookie!

I met my friend Megan in Barbados and just did it up for 3 days. We went on a Catameran cruise to swim with the sea turtles and fish. Then we went all over the island, at flying fish, Marlin, King Fish and Tuna. All were amazing!

One the way home, I had an 8 hour lay over in Puerto Rico. We all know me, and I couldn't stay in the airport. So, I went to see San Juan-the capital city. It was fun to run past the old fort, cathedral and then hit the beach before I was back to the airport. Now I am back in Provo and enjoying alittle golf with Taki.