Week 24

hey everyone!

so this week has been super good! we had transfer calls this week. i got my call. i will get to what happened later haha.

Monday 2-3-14
so this P-Day was kinda long. elder davis went fishing with elder strickland. and since everyone knows how good of a fishing partner i am (suckish) ;) i stayed behind with elder ashby. we took a while on emails and shopping so i think i got a total of 1 hour to myself. oh well tho. after all that tho we went and had a lesson with Asha-gaye. yes we go there a lot but she is a less active member that we are not going to give up on. we had a very spiritual lesson with her on why she needs to be reading and praying. hopefully this time it really sinks in on what we are saying. we also went and had family home evening with the campbells. mondays are kinda the day that we go and do that. we shared Helaman 5 with them. i have been really obsessed with that chapter lately and im not sure why haha. it was a super good lesson. we didnt get to what we wanted to get to but it was still super good.

Tuesday 2-4-14
so today i kinda got sick again. dont worry its not like it has been the past few weeks. i just had a little bit of heat exhaustion i think. when we went up to Kashane's house i didnt feel to good. i had a little barf attack at his house haha. i thought i was good after that but i wasnt. so i went home and stayed in. i was super pissed at that. but i cleaned the house up a bit after i took a nap. elder ashby and i gave the house a small deep clean. other than that, i did nothing today.

Wednesday 2-5-14
today we went over to Ochi for district meeting. it was pretty good, as usual haha. president brown was coming up today to interview the youth for a temple trip coming up here soon so we had to get back fast cause we had to take Asha-gaye there to talk to him about something and he also wanted to interview us later in the day too. well we did get back in time. Asha-gaye walked away tho. we took her to the church to talk to him and after we left he got back on his phone. she felt a little weird so she just went back home. kinda frustrating but oh well. i had a good interview with pres brown tho. he has a really cool way of just making you feel so much love. it lasted about 40 minutes. kinda shorter than normal but oh well. it was the first one i had had since i got on the island so i was just glad to have one. we also had a good lesson with Shanice. she is a little bit of a party person so we taught the gospel of jesus christ and had a big commitment on repentance. she knows she is doing some wrong things so i think we should be good for a bit haha. she is only 50% sure about baptism right now but its cause of all the stuff she is doing. that will change soon with more lessons and her applying them.

Thursday 2-6-14
so today was a very interesting day. we had a lesson with Kadeen. that was a pretty good lesson. we taught about sacrifice. we are starting to teach out of the Gospel Principles book with her. it makes things a little easier. we also went up to sister wilson. she seemed a bit sad. im not really sure why tho. hopefully we will be able to find out what it is here soon. we also tried to have a family home evening with the taylors. it ended up being just Asha-gaye and her mom joining us while everyone else just stole our bikes and rode them around. it was a good lesson but very distracting too. sister taylor wasnt too glad about all of the distractions. we are gonna go back on monday haha. it will be better :)

Friday 2-7-14
today we went and checked on sister clarke. she is doing a lot better than before. we found that her dead husband never went to the temple so we got his info, got his stuff updated on family search, and got the name printed! there is a guy in MoBay that is gonna do the work when the temple trip comes up. its gonna be so sick! we also went and saw the Campbells again today. they are still doing good haha. we tried to get a referral from them but to no avail. the shop was pretty busy. thats really all we did today.

Saturday 2-8-14
ok so here is the transfer call day. as it turns out..... IM GOING TO SPANISH TOWN!!! my comp is gonna be Elder Norman. he is from lindon utah. in case any of you are wondering, yes, it is Sawyer Norman. he is gonna be my new comp for the next 1 or 2 transfers so we are super stoked! elder davis will be staying in porty with elder strickland and ashby. ya they are going to be a tripanionship. porty is now a 3 man area for 6 weeks. kinda weird but cool at the same time. Elder Davis and I went down to Kingston today to return the van. somehow we got the thing down there. it wouldnt start at first so we had to get it jumped. but we went on a split with the APs. lets just say that i really wanna serve in Kingston haha. the members there are all set for missionary work! we went to one member where we shared a scripture just to give her a compliment, and she gave us 3 names of people that she is gonna invite to church! it was crazy

Sunday 2-9-14
so it was my last Sunday in Porty. its way sad but im excited for Spanish Town on Wednesday. mostly what i did today was get my signing journal signed by a few members. i am going to get more of them to sign it on Tuesday when we get more time. thats really about it. we went and checked on brother James i guess. he is gonna have to have his toe amputated. his diabetes just killed his foot really bad. Delano was also having some trouble with stress so we gave him a blessing. we had brother james do it since he is Delanos father. it was super awesome and the spirit was defiantly there.

So yupp thats my week. next week youll be hearing of me in spanish town and how the move is. i am so glad that i get to move to a spot that i am needed but also sad that i have to move from Porty. i love it here. but Spain Town is gonna be a blast!

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture of the Week
Helaman 5:12 AND James 4:14