Mary, Jesus, and the baby?

Not long after arriving in Jamaica, we began to be introduced, not by choice, to a guy who sells crafts at the local shopping center where we get groceries. Most times, while getting our groceries, we would try to put off his pleas to buy one of his carved turtles, birds, or monkeys or to give him a little money to get home in a taxi. Realizing that this would be an ongoing problem, we decided to change our approach. While we are owners of a not so finely carved turtle with eyes that are out of place, we thought that buying a herd of turtles or goofy animals may not be productive. So, we decided to see if he could carve us what we want him to carve. Last year, we asked him to carve a nativity set for us. Jamaica is a very "Christian" country and we were shocked to realize that he did not know the story of Jesus. We tried our best to share with him the story, but we were not so sure that we got through. After printing him off a picture of the nativity, squabbling over a fair price, and giving him a few weeks, we got an interestingly carved nativity that we gave to some friends for Christmas. At mothers day, he carved us an interesting mother with 2 boys at her side for Keri's gift. And, just the other day he wanted us to place another order. We thought maybe we could start putting together a nativity for ourselves and ordered Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. Tony, the carver, replied, "No Problem, I will do Mary, Jesus, and the baby." Wow, we have a long ways to go, even after trying to straighten him out again, he repeated that he will carve Mary, Jesus, and the baby. Unfortunately, Tony cant read, but hopefully as he is carving Mary, her spouse who is not named Jesus, and Jesus, that his interest will be perked to pursue who this Jesus is and seek the answer to the real meaning of Christmas.

P.S. - We will try to post a picture of "Mary, Jesus, and the baby" when we pick it up next week.