Week 16

So this week has been a little nuts. Rain has been falling like CRAZY!!!  but youll have to wait till you read the rest of my letter to find that out haha

Day 118 Monday
well the rain came down today. AGAIN!  the concept of it being December and still raining and being 80 degrees is so strange to me still! its gonna be a long time before i have a white Christmas, the only thing white about christmas down here is the missionaries and the tourists haha! anyways, we were going to go out to Clear Springs to teach the Dago family, they have an unbaptized member in the family. but the rain started coming down and since it was dark i couldnt see all to well. we turned around and went to the Campbell family. we were hoping they wouldnt be too mad cause we were going to go by there later in the evening. only sister campbell was a bit annoyed haha. we stop by there a lot that she just kids around with us about it haha. we will be sure to give her a small break tho. we taught brother campbell about the priesthood duties. he is preparing for the Melkedzick Priesthood so he needs to pass and bless the sacrament a few time before he gets the high priesthood. just realize one thing everyone, missionaries never leave you alone. when your less active, they come to get you to church. when your active, they come for referrals. save the time and just come to church and introduce your friends to the gospel haha.

Day 119 Tuesday
we were completely rebuked today! the best part, president brown had nothing to do with it! i dont know what he would rebuke us for haha. we went over to a Less Active persons house (sister brown) and tried to teach her. we got a little bit into the lesson, we had a prayer and started to teach doctrine, when her son came out. we asked him if he wanted to join us, and he freaked out. he started just ranting about some random crap. the only parts of the conversation that i got were were he said stuff like "im never going to join you! my god is not white! white people put my forefathers in slavery!". sister brown then told him that he was bringing disgrace on his family. he was not happy about that. we decided to leave. the spirit just left really fast. he was still going off about when we left haha. lets just say that we are not going to teach him for a very long long time haha.

Day 120 Wednesday
so most of our day was us driving to Montego Bay for zone meeting and then back to Port Antonio. Zone meeting was super good hto. it was all about finding people to teach through our own efforts. the mission kinda slacked off on that after the zone meeting on working with members. its something we will have to work on a lot. luckily we were able to get back to Porty in time to have a lesson with Kenroy. we found out that he believes that everything we have taught him is true, but he wants to come to a full knowledge before he is baptized. we showed him elder holland talk on how believing is good for now and it will come to a full knowledge later. it seemed to help a bit. he didnt give a hard commitment to his baptism day so we are going to get that next time.

Day 121 Thursday
today was a little interesting. we went back to sister brown today, and did not get rebuked by her son haha, and continued the lesson that we were having on tuesday. she is very confused. the missionaries who taught her really screwed up big time. she was baptized before she had a testimony of anything and she feels bad about it so she doesnt come to church. she does everything else she just doesnt come to church. she wants to know if its true tho. all of the questions she asks are super sincere. some are even questions that other ask us just to bash, but hers are not like that. we also got a new investigator today! she is a 7th day  but is super understanding. she understood the priesthood cause she told us that a baptism is not valid without the Authority of god so a baptism wouldnt be valid in heaven without it. hopefully she will be baptized here soon haha!

Day 122 Friday
Traveling as a missionary is one of the most frustrating things ever. we are not allowed to use the Pajero for anything other than getting to Ochi, Mo Bay, and Sav for meetings so its always bikes and taxis for us. We had to take a taxi to Long Bay today, which is 30 minutes away by car. Ulacey was an interesting appointment. we were hoping to have her 8 year old son as a new investigator, but that didnt work out. he cant hold still for more than a minute. not much of a surprise tho. like, hes 8. what else are you going to do. we did get a new investigator from it tho. there is another girl there named Danae that we gave a pamphlet a little bit ago and she joined in on the lesson. She is really understanding. its just gonna be hard to get all of them to church cause of the distance from Long Bay to Porty. Ulacey still doesnt understand that we dont do Bible Study. its something that we are going to have to really work with for the next little while.

Day 123 Saturday
Today elder dalley and i stayed in for a while cause we are both sick. he slept while i played cards. it was quite boring. hopefully i dont get that sick on my mission. i hated that with a passion. number wise, we didnt really do anything today. all we really did was have a lesson with Sister Wilson. we tried to get a referral by using the Book of Mormon and what it means to her, but we didnt get a referral from it. its gonna take just the right lesson for us to get a referral from her haha. one day tho. i know this is short but thats really all that we did today. everything else just blew out.

Day 124 Sunday
we had a no numbers day again. but the difference was, we didnt teach anyone. everything that we had planned blew out. we tried to be productive tho. chruch was pretty good. we have to work on the gospel principles teacher tho. she tends to only look for certain answers, she is the one that talks the whole time, and she swears too. its odd cause she is doing it in the church and sometimes its the lords name in vain. something we really need to work on haha. but the biggest rain storm of my life came today. we were over in Anchovy trying to find something to do. we talked to a member and then started going home. thats when the rain hit. there was like an inch of water on the roads and its was raining as we were riding in the dark. IT. WAS. NUTS! kinda fun tho haha. i got super soaked tho. im really glad that i have started to put my stuff in plastic bags. it tends to help out a ton! nothing got wet at all!

Rain is super crazy down here as you can tell. we had a big storm on friday too that i forgot to mention. we were at the church so it wasnt too bad since we were inside haha. but thats all that i got for this week. see you all later!