My best friend June Edward said she was taking a trip to St. Croix because she had some friends who wanted to grow our business. She said that everyone seemed excited and that they were going to have tastings every day over the weekend. I looked at my schedule and said I’d love to go. We planned Memorial weekend not knowing if anyone would attend the meetings, but by faith and prayer we continued on our way.
The morning of the trip we had to leave Naples, Florida at 4:30 am. I asked June to call me that morning when I went to sleep at 2:00 am after a busy night at home nursing. She called and I didn’t hear the phone, but she kept ringing while she left a message. I woke up to the beep and soon after we were on our way at 4:45am. Our flight from Ft. Lauderdale was leaving at 7:40 am and we arrived at the airport at 6:15 am.
The check-in line was a mile long and we joined the outside line. I heard someone say that international flights are inside. I went up to the counter and asked if we needed to join the line inside and was told yes. We joined the next line that was so long it went out the front doors. We wait patiently and pray that we can catch our flight. The Spirit Attendants passed and called different countries and passed us and called San Juan, PR. We said we were going there and they took us to the Express Checkout. We go through the checkout and arrive at the security checkpoint. At this point, we were asked what flight we were on and given the blessing of priority to go through security. The security guys from Ft. Lauderdale expressed their love for our drink and we discussed our future trip! It was like a big family! We continued to our terminal and our plane was boarding when we arrived. We quickly take our seats and board the flight. Blessing #1 was fulfilled.
We arrived in San Juan and were directed to our baggage claim and then headed to American Eagle to fly to St. Croix. When we got to the check-in counter, the agent told us that our flight had already left. We couldn’t believe it because we hadn’t been in a hurry thinking we had a lot of time. He said we’re lucky because he has availability on the next flight, but it’s usually all booked up. The next flight was leaving in 45 minutes and we had to go through Security and find our Terminal.
We got to the Security Checkpoint and it was so crowded that we asked the attendant if he could help us as we didn’t want to miss our flight. The doors opened from the inside and this man in a red shirt came out. They told us to follow him and that he would take us to our destination. We followed the man in red and were taken to a security check that had no queue. We quickly passed through the checkpoint and began to see where we had to go to get to our terminal. A man passed by in a cart and asked people walking if they would like a ride. I don’t usually take these carts, but felt it would be a good idea as we hadn’t determined where our terminal was at this point. We hopped in the cart and were driven what seemed like 2 miles to the terminal. Without this shuttle car we would not have made our flight. We arrived just 2 minutes before our flight departure. We were very hungry and Dian quickly grabbed something for us to eat. Blessing #2 was fulfilled.
We got to St. Croix and our friends picked us up because they had borrowed a car from Antonia’s friend Ann! Thank you Ana! Along the way we discussed how many people they had connected with and what the feeling was on the island. I told you that we would be happy with 10 new members for our team! We arrived at our hotel, the Frederiksted Hotel, and were offered a better price than what we booked. The day was beautiful and we went around the area posting our meeting flyers and educating people about Juice. Every person we talked to seemed to have a personal connection to LovingJay and as far as she was concerned, her Nutrition Business was the way people went. We went to a wonderful local lunch and discussed renting a car for the weekend. Antonia used to work for a car rental company, so we went there to get our car. We arrived and they only had two cars left and it was going to cost us $45.00 per day for a 3 day rental. We asked them if they had any special offers and gave them a taste of our drink! Dian talked to the owner and he said go ahead and give them the $99 weekend special! We had our third blessing.
Driving on St. Croix is on the left, so our wonderful friend Alicia was our driver. Blessing number 4 was provided.
We, as a team, worked on educating people about our nutritional drink and went to our tasting presentation at the school at 6:00 pm Thanks to Alicia’s sister we were able to use the school for free! We had a good turnout with all heads counted around 17 people!
The next day we decided to enjoy the morning and went to our open meetings at school, but it was a weekend day and there wasn’t much traffic, so we changed it to a training session. Then we made phone calls to people and June talked to her brother and he had some contacts for her to call. He was able to educate a girl on St. Thomas over the phone and signed up for our team.
Through her cousin Ashby, she gave us some contacts and thanks to them we were able to get the phone number of LovingJay, the most popular woman on the island! We chose Dian to call her and during the phone conversation she asked if we could meet her as we had heard so much about her. She said yes and we went to her house for a date at 4:00 pm I don’t want to be funny, but she really is the most loving person I’ve ever met. Her smile lights up the sky and she shared with us her thoughts on our drink and how we could work together as a team in this business. We are a close group and do everything to help each other. She said that she would love to join our team and we signed her up on the spot. Our 5th Blessing had taken place.
We were so excited that LovingJay had joined our team so we left to go home, but Alicia had to visit a relative before taking us to the hotel. We stopped at the Agnus & Mervin Georges home and were instantly greeted like true friends. We started talking about our Nutritional Drink because Mervin’s back has been bothering him and we got into a full discussion and they decided it was worth moving forward and they joined our team. After we left his house, Agnus took us to his brother’s house and they gave him a tasting and he is tasting the juice. Our Agnus had become the fastest star on St. Croix! We gave him a shout of Congratulations! We then went home around midnight so excited about our wonderful day! Blessing number 6.
The next day brought us a beautiful Sunday and we wanted to attend a local church! Agnes called to let us know that her church would like to hear about the healthy drink after the service. They were going to send us Darius Benjamin a wonderful man who would take us to church! Blessing number 7. We arrived at church and enjoyed a wonderful sermon on Faith and Prayer! After the service Dian gave a ten minute education and then we put on the movie! After the video we talked to so many people and gave some tasting bottles!
We left the church with great joy and went to our afternoon meeting at the Drive Inn. The Drive Inn brought together about 40 people who heard the story and enjoyed a free tasting. We left that afternoon with a sense of fulfillment and knew that we had planted seeds of Nutritional Health and ways that they could educate others and receive wonderful compensation. We then went to LovingJay and June received a free consultation for her new journey in her beautiful body! We went and provided training to family members so that they could provide this training to others on the island! Our day was filled with new faces and experiences that were truly amazing and a true family has been established on St. Croix.
Our flight was to leave at 12:40 pm and the hotel manager, Mr. Trouchard, had been thinking of joining our team. He decided that he would join us and before we left we were able to get him to sign up as the newest member. This made him our 10th member and if you remember at the beginning of this story he had asked for 10 new members! Blessing number 8.
Our trip went smoothly and we had no problem getting on each flight! We arrived home safe and sound with our hopes and wishes that our new team members on St. Croix will soon be enjoying juice. Blessing number 9 had been fulfilled!
If you have enjoyed this message of blessings, we hope you will be blessed too! We pray every day for our sisters and brothers in our Nutritional Drinks business that they can be successful and go out and Drink it, Feel it and Share it! It only takes you to ask someone what you would like and your purpose can be answered.