Week 15

So i was gonna send some photos this week but my camera died and i dont have the batteries to power it back up. But i will send them next week. Promise. But this week has been pretty good. im gonna say that you guys want a run down on how everything went. well ok. haha i guess that this is how the week went:

Day 111 Monday
I have been super bad at keeping up on my journal. its like sunday night right now and im stressing to get this done. but thats my fault haha. ill be sure to repent of that. But i dont remember much of what happened. all i know is that we had plans to see a new investigator, and that blew out. we tried to contact a couple of former investigators that other missionaries taught over the last few years. that was pretty ok. we found a few and set up appointments for later in the week. after that we went over to the Campbell family and had a little Family Home Evening with them. we went over the restoration. we thought that it would be a good set up for the preisthood for brother Campbell and a good way to have Crystal, the girl who lives with them, pray about everything. lets just say that i think that the first one is the only one that really worked. Crystal doesnt take this too serious and her boyfriend in the Campbell family is very less active. like inactive. somehow we will get them to church tho. we then tried to play a game called "Liars Dice" with them. people got bored after like 5 minutes so they all just quit. party poopers haha

Day 112 Tuesday
Since Elder Dalley and I have been struggling with people to teach for the last few weeks we had a lot of appointments set up with people that we found in the former investigators section of the Area Book. We had plans to get like 5 new investigators today from all of them! well it didnt work out.... we got to meet like one person and it was a referral. more on that later. most of the appointments ended up falling through. one we even had to cancel with a part member family cause we didnt have the time to go there. we were halfway there before we realized that. we had to turn back just so that we could get to a place called Long Bay. Thats like a 30 minute taxi ride from Porty. that is where we met the one person that became our new investigator. it took us a little longer too cause we had no clue where we were going. its the farthest out that either one of us has been. She wasnt picking up her phone, like every Jamaican, so you can imagine the stress haha. we did have a good "How To Begin Teaching" lesson with her. for anyone that is planning to serve a mission, study chapter 10 in Preach My Gospel. its something that can make or break you mission haha.

Day 113 Wednesday
Today was a little funny and stressful haha. of course we had district meeting in Ochi today. but we did a tradeoff cause ochi was planning on having a baptismal interview either today or tomorrow. Elder Adams, who as i said in an earlier letter is from Ephriam, Utah, came over to Porty. on the way back we hit a huge straight part just past Oracabessa. We heard a big pop from the car. we all thought that a tire had blown out. we pulled over and saw that all the tires were fine. what happened is a cover under the car, one that protects the parts if you go off roading, had fallen off and smacked the road when we were going like 120kmh. the thing was torn quite a bit so we couldnt put the thing on. plus one of the screws was gone so it was impossible. we had to stay there for like 10 minutes. We called the office elders, and they couldnt tell us much. about the time we got off the phone with them the APs showed up. i guess they took a long lunch or something. after much talking, we just pulled the stupid cover off. then they took the Pajero to Kingston again to be fixed and we took their truck. lets just say that i really want a truck like that when i get home haha. super nice thing. 

Day 114 Thursday
i dont know what to think of today. im wondering just how inspired that the planning last night for today was. basically every single plan that we had for the day blew out. the only things that did not blow out were our dinner appointment and a lesson with Sister Campbell the investigator. but that lesson was pretty good. we reviewed the restoration with her. it seemed like she had forgotten a few things, considering that its been like 3 months since we last taught that to her. the spirit was really there in that lesson. but everything else just kinda was there. our lesson with a member was terrible, all of the people we were going to contact or see didnt show up. and i feel like we wasted our time for for most of the day. we did find a new person so that did brighten up the day. but its really frustrating to see that everything just blows out. i feel like we are doing everything we should be. something will happen tho. i know it.

Day 115 Friday
so day we switched back from the trade off. we also were going to get the Pajero back from the ZLs today. that made things a little tricky. we ended up having to do our big super planning in Ochi. the ZLs were going to give us the car back in Annotto Bay on our way back at like 3 or so. we did have an effective planning tho. one of the most effective planning that we have had so far since ive been in Jamaica. but since we were in ochi and then stayed in Annotto Bay we didnt get home until like 5:30. the rest of the day we didnt have a lot of time to do much so we really didnt have any lessons.

Day 116 Saturday
Im almost out of time so this is gonna be fast now:

we killed around 100 roaches today. eggs and all. our house was just crawling with them. we found a nest of them in one of our cupboards. we took some Pyro bug spray and a cig lighter and torched them all haha. its quite fun. not a recommendation tho. we broke the cupboard by kicking it. ya dont ask.

Day 117 Sunday
im frustrated today cause i feel like everyone in the district is having super big miracles and we can barely get someone to teach. i was reading with the question of what to do and i found it. i just need to be patient and keep being obedient. one day the teaching will come. its just a matter of time.

Sorry the last part was so fast. i just ran out of time. ill be sure to get more in next week.