Week 31

Whagwan me youts?!

Everything here in Jamaica is just fantastic! this week we had 3 baptisms! the Campbell family had all of their children baptized on Saturday with the youngest also being confirmed while the other 2 were confirmed on Sunday!  man was the spirit there during those!

Monday 3-24-14

Today was kinda a crazy day. Elder Christensen was having his last Pday here before moving over to MoBay so we kinda ran around town doing some errands for him. also, my camera ended up breaking. man did that really tick me off. instead of having someone down here fix it, i just went over to Courts and got a new one. its super nice. so i will finally be able to send some photos haha. but there really wasnt much done today. i did cut down on my shopping tho. it was only like $5000 this week haha. i always run out of food before the end of the week so i need to probably spend a bit more haha. i dont know what to do but we'll see what happens. we also went over to the McCalla family tonight. we started out sharing the story of Lehonti, and then JD went missionary mode on us haha. all of the sudden we got into some really deep doctrine. most of the time we got there now we just sit and listen to him. its hard to believe that he is only a convert of 2 years of so. he knows more info on doctrine than most members of the church do! 

Tuesday 3-25-14

we had a really good day today. first off, i got my other bike back. it had been broken for a bit and another elder said that he would fix it up a bit. well he patched up the tube to it and then swapped bikes again. the only thing left to do with it was get some new brakes so we did that in the morning. im pretty excited to use it again :) we had a good lesson with Raheem too, a new investigator. we taught him a little about the Godhead. after the lesson he said that he felt really good inside. he is a really awesome guy and it just shows that he is really prepared to have the gospel in his life. the good thing also.... ITS A MALE THAT CAN HOLD THE PRIESTHOOD!!!!! that is one thing that we stress on cause the stake here soon is gonna need all the priesthood that it can get! later in the night we went over to the Campbells house. we showed them some stuff for the baptism on Saturday. we showed them the words to say, how to hold the person, and stuff like that. they are really excited to be baptized! even brother campbell, the dad, is super excited haha!

Wednesday 3-26-14

to start off the day we got an interesting call from the APs. they told us that they had received some late revelation on transfers. we were kinda worried that elder norman was being emergency transferred at that point haha. but thats not the case. they are splitting our district. it used to be all of spanish town was a missionary district but now branch 1 is one district and branch 2 is another. the APs called us to tell us that Elder Norman is now the district leader! we kinda had a good laugh about that one. all you who are in leadership possessions on a mission or were when you served, im sure you understand :) then we went up to the transfer meeting to say goodbye to a few missionaries who were going home. i got a few ties out of that one haha. while we were riding back tho, my tire got flat. that really really really really ticked me off. the same tire had already gone flat before we reached the church and i had to get a brand new tube for it. well the 2nd time the valve stem was ripped so i couldnt patch it. i just kinda threw my bike to the side haha. i dont like bikes too much now. im gonna try to convince Pres that i need a car where ever i go haha. so we are going to be walking again for the next week or so. just till i can get my bike fixed. but once again, I HATE WALKING! by the end of the day i was just super tired. whenever we walk the whole day i am just ready for bed before we even get home. the good part of the day is when we stopped by a less active members house, and she fed us. that really brightened up the day. we were not expecting it at all! she does have some really interesting beliefs tho. its really obvious that she has not been to church in a really long time.

Thursday 3-27-14

today really ticked me off. we had a total of one lesson today. we were walking from 2pm-5pm with no one seeing us. we had one person see us right at 5. a less active member who doesnt really want to come to church to bad. i think that we walked close to 6 miles straight! we had a small lesson with another member but she really didnt want to see us. it was more of a "i will let you in to be nice" thing. we also chopped yard in the morning so it made us even more tired. we did go to the campbells tho. that was a big highlight of the day. the zone leaders did the baptismal interviews for 2 of the children tonight. both of them passed. the other child has to be interviewed by a member of the branch presidency cause he is only 8 years old. that is going to happen on saturday. but that really was our entire day. it was just us walking around for the whole day. my feet were really killing me.......

Friday 3-28-14

so today we walked again. this time it was only for 2 hours that we didnt see anyone. and by far not as many miles on my shoes. i may be putting more miles on my shoes in these 2 years than i have on my car at home right now haha! there was a lesson that was super inspired that we go to tho. we went over to a family to see how everything was. the family has a returned missionary that is less active right now. we simply asked how he was and we had his mom tell us that he is going through a really rough time right now and that it is scaring her. we are going to do the very best we can to help. she doesnt want anything really brought up to him about it so we'll have to try to figure out the problem within the problem. its gonna be pretty fun haha. we also went to the campbells tonight and talked about the temple. they really enjoyed it. i kinda forgot that there are terms that LDS people know and always use that others dont know. i used them in the conversation. dont worry tho, it wasnt anything against a covenant or something haha. they had some really good questions about everything and we told them what we could haha. they are a fantastic family and i cant wait to see the next 10 years has in store for them!

Saturday 3-29-14

The Campbell children were baptized today! man was that a super spiritual experience! they have really come a long ways. when i first got here, only one wanted to be baptized and the other 2 were super shy. by the end they all were talking all the time and they are all baptized now! i wouldnt trade that for anything! this gospel is true and no one can convince me otherwise!! once the 3 kids went into the water, the spirit flooded the room like you would not believe! i never feel the spirit more than when someone fully repents of everything and partakes of the waters of baptism! you can just feel that it is the right path that they are taking and you love that they have made the right choice in their life! but after that we hung out with the office elders for lunch. elder henderson is now an office elder and he is the one that had the childrens parents be baptized so thats why they were in Spanish Town. we went to lunch and just kinda talked for a bit. after that me and elder norman did more walking haha. this time we didnt walk for so long with nothing to do. we had some people that we havent seen for a bit ready to go to today haha. at the end fo the day we had a lesson with Antoinette. we talked about faith. she understood it all and was even laughing with us on some things before the lesson. we invited her to church and she said that she would try to come next week cause she had some other things to do tomorrow. but its a step. she has a desire to come. it was a little hard to see people today cause CHAMPS was going on. thats the high school track finals for the island. its a really big thing. apparently they broke close to 30 records this year in it. people love their CHAMPS haha.

Sunday 3-30-14

today was pretty good. the chapel at church was full today and that is always a good thing. we confirmed the 2 older campbell children as well. the youngest was confirmed on saturday with him being 8 and all. we were expecting to go teaching with another member today, but they kinda blew out so that they could go and support a friend through a hard time. cant say that i blame them haha. we also went back to sister blake today, the less active who fed us earlier. she fed us again haha. she didnt come to church tho. we will work on having her do both haha. we shared a lesson on faith with her. the best i can say is that she said thanks for the lesson. she did feel the spirit tho. we just need to work on having those beliefs of hers be in harmony with the church. not the other one..... we also went back to the campbell family. ya we really did see them a lot this week. but its a good thing haha. we talked to them about the concept of Revelation. it was a super good discussion. we ended with the 10 year old girl asking why women couldnt have the priesthood. we are going to go back on friday and explain the role of womenhood by reading the talk by elder christofferson from last conference.

so thats my week. and speaking of conference, im super stoked for conference next week! i hope that you all will watch it! its always a great thing to hear the prophet and apostles of today speak to us and i have really grown a major love for it! never in my life will i miss another conference!!!!!

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

Helamen 5:12