Week 19

Hey everyone!

So this week has been pretty weird. i know that last week i said that i had a concussion, ill get to that haha. it was also transfer week. elder dalley left so i got a new comp. which i will also get too later as well ;) i forgot my journal so i dont know what day it is but oh well haha.

Monday 12-30-13
well last week i said that i had a concussion. i called sister brown and she said that i was suffering from a mild concussion. im not sure if i told you the story so ill try right here: me and elder strickland were playing around a bit, i got a broom and he got a police baton that he bought when he was in spanish town. i let go of the broom and ducked. he thought that i was gonna continue holding on to the broom so he swung and hit the broom. since i let go of the broom it hit me right in the head. i had a good size bump there and then i starting having headaches and nausea. not a pleasant thing to have haha. so we stayed in for the whole night cause i just felt like crap. i also could have no solid foods so ice cream and i got to know each other a lot better today haha. that night i was not allowed to sleep more than 2 hours at a time. that was not a very fun night. i was pretty tired when i woke up haha.

Tuesday 12-31-13
well i was still sick today due to my concussion so we didnt do much. i tried to go out at first. we did some service for Sister Campbell, the investigator, but after that it was all down hill. i felt like crap again with headaches and nausea so i took a little nap. we didnt know how long i was allowed so we just assumed the 2 hour thing was still in effect. but then we stayed in until 7 cause i still felt like crap. i still did when we did out but i had to get out of the house somehow. the lesson was pretty good. she went off about some random stuff so i dont know how she took the lesson.

Wednesday 1-1-14
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!! nice to think that i had my new year before you guys haha ;) but i was still having some headaches today. i was supposed to go out with the other missionaries while elder dalley went down to transfers but i thought that i was just going to feel like crap. so i got permission from president brown to just go down to transfers instead. transfer meetings are super spiritual i learned. when i first got on the island i didnt know what was happening so i didnt get much from it. but now its like "wo, thats super cool and why didnt i think of that hefore?" type of deal. i wish that i could go down to each one haha. but i got Elder Davis as my mission mother. he is from a place called Kirtland, New Mexico. he told me that it is right near the 4 corners area. ive never heard of it haha. he is a super awesome kid! everyone in the mission refers to him as a spiritual giant and its so true! im really excited to work with him for at least 6 weeks. we somehow got back in time to teach some lessons so we went and did that for a couple of hours.

Thrusday 1-2-14
today we finally had a lesson with Keena, a former investigator from a year ago that we have been trying to have a lesson with for a long time. we had a really good lesson with her. i didnt say much cause elder davis was talking the whole time. i pulled him aside after the lesson and talked about that. we worked everything out so our unity should be good. its just weird getting used to a new comp. that should be fixed in like a week tho. everything will be soon good haha. we also had a lesson with another former investigator named Donna. she is pretty solid. we taught the restoration to her and another kid who we found out is hated by all of Jamaica. not going to say why. too personal. but he is pretty cool in my mind. we invited her to be baptized, she said no cause she was baptized into the Pentecostal church already. we then told her the importance of the priesthood and how a man can be baptized 100 times but if its not with the right authority then God doesnt see it as a baptism. she understood that really well and then said yes to the day. she is really solid we will just have to work a little bit with her. its been a long time since she was able to meet with the missionaries.

Friday 1-3-14
i really dont remember what happened today. the only thing that i really remember is that i got in a small bike wreck. it was way funny. we just started to pull out of the church on our bikes. i only looked one way and i was looking for cars. it was safe on that side so i pulled out a bit, then looked the other way and see a guy on his bike coming for me. he couldnt stop in time so he t-boned right into me and my bike. he was pretty pissed off haha. i just said sorry a bunch, brushed off my self and his bike, and went on our way. im not hurt tho. i think that it hurt him more than me. and maybe some of his self confidence haha

Saturday 1-4-14
Today we taught Keena and Donna again. the lessons were super good. we taught Keena the restoration cause we did the plan of salvation last time. she was very understanding and a lot less flirtatious this time haha. we are not going to be going through that again. but she is excited about being baptized so thats good haha. Donna we taught the book of mormon too. she was super understanding of it. she is very prepared. we almost dont have to do any work. missionaries love that haha. people who are so prepared that you really dont have to do any work. those are the elect and we live for those people haha.

Sunday 1-5-14
today was a super interesting day. we had donna and keena come to church, although keena was very late.but we still have them on day for baptism, something i havent had in like a month. we also had a few less active members come back. including an apostate member. i was super shocked by that one. it was sister taylor. the one who wants to take her kids names off the church membership records. she even bore her "testimony". it was more of a super rebuking time for her. she has a grudge with a member here who has her grandson. its a very confusing situation that no one is on her side for. she came and rebuked but stayed for all of church so that was a good thing haha. hopefully she will start coming again. we are starting to have civil conversations with her and she seems a lot more happy than she was before. something is changing, i just dont know how fast that its going to be. her daughter Ashagaye was not at church tho. we went over and found out why. she gave us a big scare. first she told us she was on disiplinary, so we thought she broke a commandment. then she cleared that up by saying she was on probation, so then we thought she broke the law. she then cleared that up by saying that she was grounded. we were a little frustrated haha. its a dumb excuse. well have to work on that one haha

well thats all i got this week. my concussion is healed, and this may be my last 6 weeks in porty. its sad but its gonna be a good transfer!

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham