Week 11

so first off, i have a Patois (pat-wa) Bible! its so funny. whoever can guess what verse this is will get a shoutout next week! (its all i got ok.... haha)

"Den Pitta memba we Jiizas did se: "Bifou di russta kruo, yu a-go se yu no nuo mi, chrii taim. pitta go outsaid an im baal, an im baal, an im baal so til."

Just remember, i have to listen to that almost everyday from people speaking it. its super hard! this is not an English speaking mission!!

Day 83 Monday
it rained like crazy during our lesson today!  we were having a Family Home Evening with the Campbell family. the lightning was right over us. there was one flash that had no delay to the sound! it was super loud! and its not a crack of thunder, its a big BOOM!!! super sick! the power was out too so it was weird. thats really only like the 3rd time ive been inside a house when the power is out. it was also weird cause we were trying to teach someone in the family who is not baptized by not teaching her directly. its really confusing. we are just trying to get her with as many experiences with the spirit before we teach her directly.

Day 84 Tuesday
we had like 2 lessons today. thats super sad cause the first one didnt happen till like 3pm. it was brother banter. he is doing pretty good. he is still a little crazy but there is no doubt that he is converted. we taught him about the sabbath and he was acceptive to it. that surprised us cause he is a former 7th day. somehow he didnt bring up the whole saturday is the sabbath thing. we are starting to think that he was never too converted to the 7th day church. the other lesson we had was with loreen. we taught her the law of chastity and rightfully so. the note she gave us on friday was super sketchy. she said that it was just a misunderstanding. we dont think she knew what we were talking about. she said that it was an assignment that she did for a class tho. that just means too things. 1) she is super naive. 2) that is one creepy teacher. we set up another appointment with her tomorrow. she gave us another note so that lesson is gonna depend on what is in the other note.

Day 85 Wednesday
today we had district meeting. as usual, it was really good. i also got the Patios Bible :) super funny as i said before. driving to ochi always sucks tho. we never get back to Port Antonio until like 3 or 4pm. the only lesson we had once we got back was with loreen agian. we dropped her. we found that the second note was even worse than the first one. we talked to her about it and she said that she had given it out to other people too. it was a quote from a book. we decided to drop her until after transfers just to be safe tho. she said that she would continue to read tho. she is in like alma right now. i did confirm with Kashane tho that she does have a crush on Elder Dalley so now we have to wait until he leaves Porty to teach her. kinda a downer but its better safe than sorry

Day 86 Thursday
so Chantel, a referral we got from Asha-gaye in the branch, is awesome! she is the one that we almost had to give to the other missionaries cause we didnt know where she lived. she got a very weird answer to know that what we teach is true but we'll take it haha. she wanted to see a bird with a yellow belly. idk if she saw it in a dream or not but she saw it so she believes us haha. dont worry tho. we taught her how the Holy Ghost works so she can get a real answer. she keeps a all of the commitments tho. she is very prepared. we just have to have her parents give written permission to be baptized on November 30th cause she is 16.

Day 87 Friday
it hit me today that transfer calls are in a week and then transfer day is in just under 2 weeks. its weird to think that i may have a new companion. i almost dont want that but it will be good to expand my teaching. everyone says that im gonna train the Jamaican elder from Linstead that comes but i think that its gonna be my MTC comp elder henderson that does that. our numbers for key indicators this week have been super low. me and elder dalley decided that we got a bit lazy and we are going to repent and be sure to not do that again. brother banter was the only lesson that we had today. he finally got the Godhead. we just need him to realize that he prays to God the Father, not Jesus. hes a work in progress...

Day 88 Saturday
our main lesson today was with Roshane. he came in and told us that he doesnt need to read cause he already knows that the 7th day church is true. we tried for like 20 minutes to tell him he needs to read to really know. we finally changed our approach and committed him to read to know if we are a true church or a false church. we felt bad about that commitment but whatever gets him reading at this point is fine by us. if there is one thing that ive learned out here its that i dont like the 7th day church a lot. they are very stubborn where i am.

Day 89 Sunday
church here in porty is always a party. a lot of the members dont have all of their screws in the right place but they are very converted. its hard to know what they say a lot tho cause of all the Patios. maybe the bible will help haha. jk. there is a reason that will never be part of the standard works haha. we taught the Campbell family about missonary work. not sure if they got the point to the lesson so we may have to reteach it haha. oh well. ive also been super bad at my journal. i never thought that writing would be a big stress and work to me. oh well. it does help me with my emails home ;)

not really much else to say. see you all next week!
Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham