Week 2

Whagwan!? thats patois for whats going on. Jamaica is awesome! i love it more and more everyday! Cool thing that happened today since it wont be mentioned till next week if not now, we found a cockroach in our bathroom and burned it. we stepped on it and had it staying still and then one of the elders got the bug spray that i bought and a lighter. it was the coolest thing ever to see the bug spray light up and everything just hit the roach! i really wanna find another one just so that we can do that again!

Day 20 Monday

my first p day was awesome and not at the same time. doing emails was awesome and it helped me so much! the rest of the day was us trying to get all of our bikes fixed. i think we spent the rest of our pday waiting for them to be fixed. thank heavens we have a repair guy for that but our bikes really suck. i spent like $1000 jamaican ($10 US) just to fix it! it may not seem like a lot but when you only get $200 US a month its a freaking crap load! Mac & Cheese and Ramen are like my best friends when it comes to food. they are cheap and easy. i want more but money is too tight.

Day 21 Tuesday

it rained like crazy this morning! luckily we went out to teach like right as it stopped. but then we had an appointment blow out later in the day. we called a guy named junior to see if we could come by and he said yes. he said he lived right up the street in a yellow house. so we started going there but never found the house. everyone was saying to just keep going cause he lived at the top in a pink and white house. we thought that it was weird but went with it. well we found the pink and white house. but it was the wrong junior. ya the guy who lived there was really named junior! we talked to him for a bit and he seemed way chill! we set up an appointment for him and like 3 others on thursday!

Day 22 Wednesday

we had district meeting today. i was hoping to see some of my MTC friends there. the only one that is in the same district as me is Sister Wilkinson. We talked for a bit about our time so far in Jamaica and how awesome it is! i never saw this until she told me but i have a tan! somehow i did not burn that bad and i have a sick tan! never thought that i would see the day of that! we found that one of our investigators has a sin that is gonna have to have president brown do the interview. he will probably come out next thursday to do it and just go teaching with us then too. thats really sick but kinda scary too! im starting to get homesick but its not as homesick as i thought that i would be. Biking is getting easier but it still hurts since i havent been on a bike in like 5 years. hopefully it starts to "cool" off here soon.

Day 23 Thursday

Personal space is one thing that does not exist here. especially with driving. whenever we are on our bikes, people pass by us going 100kmh (60mph) and they are just like 6 inches away! its the scariest thing! Something was up with my knee today when i woke up tho. something with the bone was hurting. i think that i just smacked it against the wall some time during the night. by night time it was ok. to be honest i wake up every morning thinking to myself that i wanna go home, but once i get out and teach a lesson then i just wanna stay! missions do weird things to you but its so worth it!

Day 24 Friday

with all of the american music that is played here i am starting to realize that there is gonna be a lot of songs that im gonna miss. my companion has no idea what most songs are that i listen to cause they all came out within the last year! anyone wanna keep track of all the songs that come out? haha. my teaching skills are getting better each day! im talking more and more with each lesson. the bad thing is that my bed is infested with bed bugs. yes they are real. the first night that i was here i woke up with like 20 bites. i sprayed my bed and so far its worked pretty well. i will have to check again in a week tho. another good thing, soda is like $70 here! thats like 70 cents in the US! sometimes ill stop at one of the corner shops and get a bottle. it feels so good to have them. ive even seen some for like $50. they dont have mt. dew tho so that really sucks :( 

Day 25 Saturday

looking back it feels like ive been here for a day, and looking forward it seems like forever! time is something that really gets screwed up when on a mission! days are weeks and weeks are days! the only thing im hating now is that i cant remember where some stories are in the scriptures. we had an investigator not keep a commitment so i shared the sotry of the man who went to the prophet and was told to wash in the river jordan 7 times. i had no idea where to find that so i had to say it from memory! we are encouraged to have them read the scriptures so that really sucked for me. Lots of people ask us for money when we are riding around too. Port Antonio may seem rich but it is still poor. its kinda funny to see peoples reactions when we tell them that we dont get paid for this and they make so much more than we do every month. some people treat us like trash too. white men in nice clothes is too much like FBI or CIA to them haha

Day 26 Sunday

well the members didnt get in a fight this week. we showed up an hour early for church for an appointment and the guy didnt show up! we were ticked on that cause he is supposed to be one of our super elect people. but after we moved on from that we saw that our 9 year old investigator showed up! and he showed up by himself! this is big for us cause his entire family is less active and his dad is basically an alcoholic. this kid is one of our best investigators and is so sick! hes way shy but gets excited when he knows he understands! our 10 year old one didnt show up tho. we are trying to rebuke his family as lovingly as we can. they are all less active too. we dont blame the kid as much cause he is 10. we are trying to get the parents in both families to understand that it is mostly their responsibility that they have their kids to church and that they come with them. hopefully that works out well.