Week 28

Whagwan Everyone cause medaya!

this week has been pretty good. we went from 2 member present lessons each of the past 2 weeks to 6 this week! our RCLA numbers were a little down. but we still had a lot of less active members come back to church this week too! so in short... this week was awesome...

well thats the week... talk to you all next week

Love,
Elder Meacham

Haha just kidding. here is really how the week went ;)

Monday 3-3-14
So this week i didnt spend so much on food haha. last week i spent like 8000. this week i only spent 6500 haha. next week im gonna have to see what i can do to spend less. somehow i run out of all that food before the end of the week haha. i also finally got my bike fixed haha. so this week we were able to ride around instead of walking everywhere. really happy about that just so that everyone knows. i also had to go with the zone leaders to get the truck washed. we went up to a member who owns a car wash. she gave it to us for free, which was way nice, and then said that she wanted to talk to us. we talked to her and she basically told us about the struggles that she is going through right now and she really wants us to help out her son too. her son just came home from his mission. he should be going back out tho in 6 months. but she also said that she never really has a desire to go to church when he is not around. she has been baptized for like 4 months and he is on like a few years. she told us that she wants us to visit more often. i told her that we had no problem doing that haha. the problem is that she always misses every appointment cause she is always at work. we are gonna have to work on that haha. but thats what missionary work is all about. we also were fed by Nakeitha today. curry chicken is one of the best things down here and thats what they fed us! its super good! im sad that the US doesnt have curry ;( we also decided today that we were going to see if i could go one day without someone saying something along the lines of "white boy". i get that like everyday. its really funny but it gets annoying after awhile haha. we will see what happens tho.

Tuesday 3-4-14
So today was pretty interesting. most of the people we saw today were really old members who are less active. of course they are only less active because they are old and dont have a lot of money. other than that they are the sweetest people that i have ever met. we also went to a member, sister baldeo, and got a referral from her. we saw that the peron was walking out of her house so we started to go after her to contact her. well sister baldeo has some devil dogs, like they are really "the spawn of satan". they started to come after us so we got out fast. bad thing is, i wasnt far enough so they came pretty close to me. i picked up a hand full of rocks and they backed up a bit but then started coming for me again. i was backing up and throwing some rocks at them. they werent very happy about that. i was almost bit right in the ankle. but i got out of the gate in time haha. but they dont like me anymore. i almost wanna just take a machete and threaten them with that each time. i really dont like jamaican dogs haha. they are the only ones who i think have been so aggressive. but we went and contacted that person. they werent interested. so one rejection on the day. i also got some white boy comments today so a new start tomorrow haha.

Wednesday 3-5-14
Today was another great day! we had a great district meeting, as always. then, during the night, we had a lesson with Christinea, a less active member. we kinda sat there and talked for a bit. but once we were going to share the thought, she remembered that she left her scriptures at church the week before so she didnt have them. well right at that moment her neighbor came up and said "can i give you a present?" when she took the gift out from behind her back.... it was a Book Of Mormon. we kinda just sat there in awe. her neighbor is not a member just so you know. well we finished the thought with her and then went over to her neighbor. apparently they were taught by some missionaries a while ago cause thats how they got the BOM. we asked if we could come back another time and they said that next week would be good for us to come back. so we are defiantly going to be going back there haha. we then went over to the Campbells house, the recent converts who live right across the street from us. we went over there to teach their daughter, who is being baptized at the end of the month. we went with the Word of Wisdom. small note: the daughter is like 10 years old. well... her parents THREW DOWN on it. there is no way that kid is ever going to break that commandment! and if she does her parents will chew her out and rebuke her. they taught the entire thing. it was so cool! dont worry tho. it was super nice and the spirit was there the entire time! :D

Thursday 3-6-14
the first thing that we did today was go up the the carters house and do some service. we just raked some leaves out of their yard. we started to put them on the side of a small road next to their house to burn them. well the people down the road were really mad. they started to cuss us out. with jamaican cuss words. the difference between american swear words and jamaican ones are the fact that american ones are rude, but jamaican ones are very rude, disgusting, and insulting. lets just say that we heard almost every single one that there is. the spirit did not dwell in that place haha. but after that we had an ok day. we went over to the McCalla house to check up on them. sister McCalla, the less active i talked about from monday, was not there but we did talk to her daughters for a bit. they are really cool and crazy. they really remind me of kailey. i will get to that on friday haha. they are sad that their brother is home but they are happy at the same time. i have heard so much about their brother. apparently the entire branch just really looks up to him. to me, i see a future mission president in him.

Friday 3-7-14
so real fast, i have gotten white boy comments everyday this week. so funny haha. while contacting in the scheme we live in, i got another white boy comment. but this time it had a jamaican swear word in it. it was by far the worst thing that i had ever heard. i was a little offended. haha. but oh well. we also went back to the McCalla house, like sister McCalla asked. again she was not there. but we talked to Sherefah again. she is the one that reminds me of Kailey A LOT! she may only be 13, but she talks just as much haha. no joke, she went on for 30 minutes straight on how she had her foot run over by a car a couple years ago. no interruptions at all. really crazy. but i love the McCalla family cause they remind me of my family back home haha. while there also, we were standing in the back yard, it has a fence there, and i guess that someone looked over the fence. all of the sudden we hear this "white man angel" from behind it. we started laughing a bit. then we just hear "black man devil". man did that give me a good laugh. the look on Elder Normans face was pretty priceless too. for once i get a good comment down here haha. we also went back to the campbell family tonight. we took Nakeitha and her family to it as well. today we talked about the Law of Chastity with the Campbells for their daughter. well we kinda took the easy way out. we let the parents talk about it. it was easy for us haha. they werent really uncomfortable with it at all. funny quote from that, brother campbell asked his daughter if she understood and she said "ya. i looked it up on the internet". by far one of the funniest but weirdest things that i have heard out here haha.

Saturday 3-8-14
today started out bad and then turned really good. the morning hours for us always start out super bad. everybody is either at work, or doing their wash. we did see one member tho and had a pretty good lesson with her. after that a lot of stuff blew out. we had a short thought with an investigator. he went on about he shattered the law of chastity once. not really fun haha. then we saw his sister later in the day. she is really cool. her name is Antonette. she seems really sincere about everything. she always asks really good questions and says that she is learning a lot of new things. we have yet to give her a day but soon come on that. we also went back to the campbells. we always go there on fridays and saturdays. today we talked about keeping the Sabbath and Exaltation. The Exaltation part was way fun. the campbells ate the thing up. if any one can read about it the best place is in the Gospel Principles book. its way cool.

Sunday 3-9-14
Church was pretty packed today. it was the most people that i have ever seen in a church building in Jamaica! there were like 100 people there. we also had a new investigator come to church too. we are gonna try to get a lesson in with him this week. we went over and saw Matthew Cardoza, a former missionary here. Levi might know him. he was here in like 2007 or something. he has been a little less active and so we are trying to get him active again. we went and shared the atonement with him. it was a really good discussion. after that we had kinda an interesting day. everyone else blew out. we ended up talking to Nakeitha for a bit. we helped her out with some anxiety problems she is having with her relief society lesson she is teaching next week. she just gets a little nervous. everything will be great tho. she has that lesson in the bag.

SO that is now my week. in all.... i really love this week. my testimony was strengthened a lot and my consecration went way up too! i love the gospel and everything about it. these next 18 months or so are gonna be such a good time!

I ran out of time for pics so i will try to send them next week.

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought
Alma Chapter 29