so mini news, my Book of Mormon that ive had for the last 11 years has fallen apart. i had to get some new scriptures. i was pretty ok with that cause i got the new 2013 Quad! first time in my life that i have had a quad! plus they are the new ones! they look really weird on the inside but its by far the best version!
Day 76 Monday
Most productive pday ever! we didnt teach a lot (of course. never cut into a missionaries pday haha) but we still had an awesome day! really we only had one lesson but it was a sick one! we taught Roshane. he is a 7th day who is 19 years old and super committed to Christ! the only problem is that he is stubborn and thinks that the 7th day church is true. which from what ive heard is an apostate group from the LDS Chruch. i guess that Ellen G. White, their "prophet" used to be a Mormon. but anyways during the lesson we decided to reteach the book of mormon. the last lesson we had didnt go to well so we thought that it would be the best thing to do. Usually when we teach Roshane, he tries to teach us. this time he didnt tho! we sat there and just listened to us! we also shared the mormon message about Elder Hollands testimony of the book of mormon. it brought in the spirit so strongly! hopefully this will help with his conversion and he starts reading the book!
Day 77 Tuesday
Traveling i think is our best investigator now. we always have appointments with it haha. we are starting to go out to Brother Banter in San San a lot cause he is supposed to be baptized on November 16th. problem with him: he believes almost everything that he sees on TV. were gonna watch a video with him here soon and see what that does haha. our other main lesson was with a former part member family. i say former cause the one person in the family who wasnt LDS was baptized just a few weeks ago. i really love to teach them! Brother Campbell (the new member) is super funny! he is always cracking jokes when we teach him! its never at bad times either so that helps majorly!
Day 78 Wednesday
i realized today that we only have 3 full days of teaching. the only days we have are tuesday, thrusday, and saturday. all of the other days we have church, meetings, and super planning, and pday i guess haha. going to district meeting is worth it tho. Elder Dalley does a good job with them. everyone thinks that ill be the next district leader and train the 1 missionary that will be coming in next transfer. its how it has worked with all of the missionaries that he has trained. they are the leader and a trainer for the next transfer haha. we ran into loreen at the church too. she is Janets kid. we decided to teach her cause if we keep waiting to teach the whole family then she will never be baptized. we had a pretty good lesson with her about the word of wisdom. she lives it already haha.
Day 79 Thursday
i hate not knowing where people live. with the 4 missionaries here we split the parish at the church. we got a super prepared investigator but she goes to church over by our house. which is the other missionaries area. we are hoping that she lives on our side of the parish. she is super prepared! she is a referral from a member. they are best friends so it helps a ton with member present lessons! she even gave us a referral on the first lesson! the person is out in Buff Bay so its the other missionaries person haha. Buff Bay is a 30min drive from here if you are going toward Ochi. we then had a lesson with Kenroy later in the day. he is Kadeens friend. the lesson was on the book of mormon. just like monday with roshane, IT WAS AWEOMSE! we played elder hollands testimony again and he said that he was definitely going to read it! we are so going to play that if we can for every lesson on the book of mormon!
Day 80 Friday
almost everything that we had scheduled didnt happen. we only had one appointment follow through and it was with Brother Colthirst. the blind LA member. he is still super awesome tho! we met up with loreen again tho. its weird for us cause we told her the next time we could see her was tuesday. we moved some stuff around and decided to go and see her. she is progressing really well. she just needs to come to church! we then spent over an hour after the lesson helping her find taxi fare to get home. apparently she thought that Kashane would give it to her but really he had no money to give. we remembered a member that lives near the church and sheepishly begged him for money for her. he willingly gave it tho so thank heavens for that. she did put something in elder dalleys backpack tho. ill ask him about it tomorrow.
Day 81 Saturday
today we had a day of service. we just cleaned up the beach for a few hours today. the news even came and did a small story on it. they interviewed me. ill bet $10 jamaican that they will put me on the news cause im a white boy haha. after that i found out what loreen put in elder dalleys bag. she gave him a song that she had wrote for him. at first i thought it was nothing but when i started reading it i freaked out. she has a crush on us. its really scary. i thought that we might have to have an emergency transfer. its super creepy too. we called the zone leaders about it and they laughed. they also said we need to teach her the law of chastity if you catch my drift. on a scale of 1-10 on how bad it is with 10 being horrible, its at like a 13!
Day 82 sunday
remind me to never go less active or go apostate. we went to a members house to coordinate for a lesson and her mom came our. her mom stopped going to church a few weeks before i came here cause she got offended. she has now almost completely denied the church. its so bad that i almost kicked her in the face when she told us that it was the biggest mistake of her life to let her kids come into the church and that she wanted to take all their names off of the church list. she can make her choice but her kids still have their choices!
So thats my week in Jamaica. not a bad week if you ask me haha
Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham
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