Week 22

Whagwan! 

 so i was sick the whole week so we didnt get a lot of stuff done. having 7 bottles of mtn. dew isnt the smartest thing in the world i found out haha. president brown wasnt very fond of it either. Jamaica is still awesome so dont worry about anything haha. its a weird thing to think that i might be transferred here soon tho. transfers are on feb 12th and since i have spent almost 6 months here, i have the best chance of leaving here. not sure tho. fingers are crossed and praying haha 

 Monday 1-20-14

 so pday was pretty bad this week. with me being sick for the whole day we didnt do anything. the rain fell again so everyone just stayed in again. i just slept the whole day. my fever was at like 102 so i felt like crap the whole day. i took an real cold shower tho and that helped. also a priesthood blessing. that was the main thing that i needed. it helped a butt load. 

 Tuesday 1-21-14

 so i was still a bit sick today but i decided to go out. we had a lesson with Kashane and Sue-Ann on getting a youth activity set up so that people can see that mormons arent weird people. it seems like a great idea and they were all for it. its gonna be super fun cause its gonna be at the beach and a lot of people should be coming. we also had a lesson with Asha-Gaye again. we have really been trying to work on her coming back to church. she is starting to come back. last week was the first time i have seen her at church in like 3 months so its a good start.

 Wednesday 1-22-14 

so district meeting was really good today. there were a lot of things said that i am gonna start to apply in my missionary work more. really weird. we also went to pizza hut for lunch. thats gonna start being a weekly thing haha. is nice to go somewhere and have some american food. having jerk chicken every weekend is just enough jamaican stuff for me haha. but when we got home from Ochi i felt like crap again so we ended up staying in. i feel really bad for that. the rest of the week i am not going to stay in. our numbers really suck and we really havent done anything all week. it sucks. no more bed for me during the day! haha 

 Thursday 1-23-14 

so today we did a trade off. i went with Elder Strickland today. it was pretty fun. we tried to see Janet but it didnt work out the way we hoped. i did show him "mission man" and he loved it so we printed the chords out to the pokemon theme song for the uke and then the lyrics to mission man. kinda a small obbession we had for the rest of the week haha. i was still a bit sick but nothing bad haha. we also went and saw brother james about helping out with the brach. there is a little bit of contention here. we are starting to teach all the members about the 5 main things they promise when they are baptized. Law of Chastity, Word of Wisdom, Tithing, and Keeping the Sabbath, as well as the Book of Mormon. we were told by pres brown and by the senior couple that works up here that that would have the contention die down. its gonna be tough but it needs to be done. we also had a FHE with the Taylor family tonight. it was super fun! the whole family was there and participated really well. when the lesson was done they actually asked us to give another one because the spirit was really strong. one of their friends had some questions so we taught about her concerns. she is a former investigator so we are gonna reteach her. we have an appointment for sunday! but the games after were very intense. i felt like a noob the whole time haha 

 Friday 1-24-14

 so today was really interesting. we taught Delano at his dads house, brother james. brother james had us explain a lot of stuff that elder strickland and i had left with him the day before. it was a litte frustrating. he didnt really study it he just asked us all the questions about them. i wish that people would get the point to studying the scriptures. he also tried to keep us there for a super long time. we finally had to use the cerfew rule to get out. it was pretty funny haha. but earlier we went to Asha-Gaye again. she admitted something to us. she didnt understand repentance for it so we went through that. we kinda chastized her for not understanding it so i felt pretty bad but at the same time it had to be done. she is gonna talk about it to the right people now. 

Saturday 1-25-14

 today was pretty good. we had a lesson with janet. i didnt go cause elder davis had elder strickland go for it. he is a sabbath expert so thats why. i went with elder ashby for the morning but we didnt see anyone. after the trade back, we saw kadeen. the lesson we didnt really plan for cause her and her friend wanted some questions answered so we changed it up to answer their questions. we also went back to Asha-gaye again. we were going to just read with her and have nothing about repentancecause we felt like we chastized her pretty bad. but she kinda wanted that talked about a bit more. we did and she understood it. she wants to get what she did off her chest really bad now so when she gets taht interview then it will be a good thing. 

Sunday 1-26-14

 so church today was pretty good. one of the members gave a really good talk on how the branch needs to love each other more. it was the talk that everyone needed to hear haha. after church we had a lesson with sister blake on what we can do to help her with her children. she said to just pray for them. we also went through the 2000 stripling warriors and upped her spirits with that. we also went to Shanice, the person we found from the Taylor FHE. she is super interested in changing her life around and the lesson we had was super good! she is on date for the 15 of febuary. she seems really promising cause she wants to put forth the effort to be baptized. she says that she also has small habits that she needs to get rid of but thats what the lessons are for haha. So thats the week. sorry if that seems short. being sick for half the week affects what happens in the day haha. but i hope you all are doing well. i love this gospel and i know its true. it blesses lives and changes them for the better! 

 Love, Elder Kurt Meacham