Our Last Play Day

It came as a big surprise when we were invited to dinner at the Cooks on Monday night, to discover we – along with Elder Kenrick and Sister Rose Benn (who will go home to Georgetown on June 9) – were the guests-of-honor! The Summers came over from Linden and the Treseders arrived from Berbice for a delicious spaghetti-feed followed by some good conversation and planning for Tuesday when we would all get together for a play day! 

Sister Sappington’s “mystery trips” included climbing about a million stairs to the top of the 103-foot Georgetown lighthouse for a beautiful view of the city and of the Atlantic Ocean! From there, we traveled to St. George's Cathedral (we had been there before, but some of the couples had not had the pleasure). Then we popped in for a quick tour of the Umana Yana Conference Center where a group of world leaders gathered some years ago. We also enjoyed a VIP tour of the Guyana Parliament Building in downtown Georgetown. Built by the Dutch 182 years ago and later occupied by the English, it has been the seat of Guyana’s government since the country was granted independence in 1966!

Guyana doesn’t have many tourist attractions, but these few simple side trips - on what is likely to be the last play day of our mission - have been on our things-to-do list since we got here! And, it was a delight to share these little adventures with the couples with which we serve. We will certainly miss them when we go home!