Friday, November 14, 2008

Jamaica!!

Kent received his mission call yesterday and he is going to the Jamaica Kingston Mission. He will be speaking English and is quite relieved over this. He took 4 years of Spanish and didn't enjoy it at all. Kent will be going into the MTC on his birthday which is so cool! This is something he has planned and hoped for all along - to go on a mission as close to his 19th birthday as possible. It is amazing how just receiving the call has brought such a wonderful spirit into our home. I can hardly wait to see how that spirit grows while he is on a mission (not to mention how fun it will be to watch him grow as well.) I have been researching to find out more about his mission and I found out that it includes Jamaica, Nassau, Bahamas and Freeport, Grand Bahama, Grand Cayman, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the Turks and Caicos Islands (at the lower end of the Bahama chain but a separate country). It is going to be an amazing experience for him.

4 comments:

Hansens said...

We are so excited for Kent and for all of you. Sounds like a really tough place to go huh! Maybe someday in the next couple of years, we'll get to visit some of those places. It's just a dream, but a nice one.

Congratulations Kent! It will be a wonderful time for you.

Rosie and Derek said...

Congratulations!!! That is so exciting! I have a cousin who recently returned from that mission, we'll have to have them talk somtime.

ashleyboice said...

congrats! That is awesome.

Donette said...

CONGRATS KENT! When Cal and I went there last September for our Honeymoon, they were really into Shania Twain. The man at one of the shops was always dancing and singing along with her songs behind the counter. He said he wished they had a country radio station or that he could buy some cds of some other country singers. But there isn't exactly a Best Buy or Walmart there, so those things aren't really available like we take for granted here. The KFC in Montego Bay was the biggest fast food building I've ever seen, although I think there was a Pizza Hut or something else in there too. We ate jerk something at least one meal every day it was so good. It was the tail end of hurricane season which meant that it rained almost every afternoon and some of the evenings, but coming from Nevada, it was quite pleasant. Not only do they speak English in Jamaica, but you can drink the tap water there too! Not sure about the water on the other islands though.