Week 21

Whats up everyone?!

So Elder Martin is doing way good. better than anyone could ever think. he had brain surgery down here and he is walking, talking, and being the same old goof that he has always been. Miracles are in the works with him right now.

Right now i am a little sick. i will get to why in the Sunday part down the letter. its kinda funny to be honest :)

Monday 1-13-14
Well having a Pday is awesome! Elder Davis and i went to the beach out in Long Bay. i will send pictures later. Our appointments today were really good too. We met with Kadeen about preparing for a mission. she is going to school to get a job so that she can save up for a mission but she decided after the lesson that she was gonna put work on hold so that she can serve in like 8 months time! its gonna be so sick to see one of my converts out in the mission field! odds are she will be called to Jamaica but oh well! she is way solid and is gonna make a fantastic missionary! We also went to the Campbells again for Family Home Evening. We had Sister Campbell teach the lesson cause we taught it last week. She did a really good job! the spirit was so strong in that home! its something that we are gonna do a lot of now when we go there. have the family teach the lessons. they are so much better like that!

Tuesday 1-14-14
So first off today we went to Janet early in the morning. im not a fan of going out there early like that but its the only time that she will see us so guess i need to do it haha. she is still a little frustrating. she will not accept the sabbath day still. we tell her the same stuff and she sees why, but she wont take that step of faith to apply it. one day she will get it tho. it may take a while but she will get it. we also had a lesson with Kadeen again. she had a question of why the sabbath was on sunday. she grew up a 7th day i guess. we explained it to her and she accepted it really fast. wish that janet was like that... haha. we tried to have a lesson with Keena but she flaked out on us again. idk what to think about all of that. we went over to have a lesson with Asha-gaye as well. her friend Dichoda was there so we had a lesson with her. it was pretty good and she agreed to meet with us again. she was taught about 18 months ago and was also dropped again right before i came here at the end of August. she is way cool but we have a ways to go.

Wednesday 1-15-14
well district meeting was really good today. as always tho haha. elder davis does a super good job at them. being the comp to the district leader is weird. who knows, maybe im the next one haha. we were gonna see Keena today but it flaked out again :l oh well. one day well get her haha. we also taught Dichoda again today. we taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ. she understood it really well. we tried to extend a Baptism day but she said no. we will work on her. she is prepared whether or not she knows it haha.

Thursday 1-16-14
today i went on a trade off with Elder Ashby. it was an interesting day. my bike got really mashed up so we had to walk like 2 miles back into town to the bike shop. then i realized after that i forgot my wallet so we went back home. then we went and did service for a bit. then went back to get my bike. like 3 hours later. it cost like 1000 just to get it fixed. really weird.but we had some good lessons. they have one investigator who is ready, he just has to have permission from his mom. he is very obsessed
with anime. he is way sick tho. it rained most of the day so we got super wet haha

Friday 1-17-14
today was just a super interesting day. we had like no lessons today. Kashane called us and wanted us to have a lesson with him. everything blew out so we were more than glad to go up there to have a lesson with him. he said that he was struggling with reading so we read. the lesson was super distracting. a lot of texting, small infants, and stuff like that. despite all of the distractions, i think that Kashane really learned something. hopefully it will show in the next few weeks.

Saturday 1-18-14
Today it just rained. and rained. and rained. and rained. and we walked to the church so we got really soaking wet on the way home haha. but we went and had a family home evening with the Taylor Family. meaning Asha-Gaye, her friend Kyle, and former apostate Sister Taylor. she has been coming to church and she is doing super good! she is way happier than when i first met her. we taught a short lesson and then went to games. we played dominoes and Egyptian Rat Screw. super fun with them. Asha-Gaye was sad that we had to leave and she wants to start this up as a weekly thing at the church. which would be an awesome finding tool! well have to see what we can pull off haha. we will probably be stopping by there next week for another FHE.

Sunday 1-19-14
so today it rained SUPER hard. we had like 20 people come to church. like 5 were here at 10 so church started a bit late. but it was a really good church service. the taylor family came back to church! or at least Sister Taylor came again and then Asha-Gaye came for the first time in like 3 months! i have been working my butt off trying to get her to church to be the example to her family and now she is! super boss! but afterwards we didnt have anything to do. we went home for a lunch appointment but the rain just kept falling. like SUPER hard! the 4 of us ended up staying in for the whole day cause it was extreme weather. elder strickland gave us a very interesting story. its impossible to explain. i also had like 7 things of mt dew today and that is why i am sick now. i feel like major crap. hopefully ill be good soon.

Well thats it for this week. lots of rain and now me being sick. im gonna get chastised by sister brown haha. wish me luck :)

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham