Week 34

Hey everyone!

so i bet your wondering whats with the subject of the letter. well i will get to that later. but dont worry. im ok. but onto my week.....

Monday 4-14-14

Today was a pretty relaxing pday again. its so nice to have a day to just relax. its always like the highlight of everything haha. the main things that we did today were help brother blake with his home teaching. the church down here is trying to get home teaching up but sometimes its like back home, its looked at as a bother. people dont really have the motivation to do it and sometimes dont have the fare to do it. but brother blake has a bike and really wants to start doing it haha. we went over to sister baldeos house and had a lesson with her so that he could do his visits. then we went over to Kayann. that was a really hard lesson. she musta been having a bad day or something cause she was not doing anything. we would ask her a question and she just would not respond. it was super annoying. sometimes she will do that on a normal basis so i dont know what to think. sometimes pdays are really good teaching days but most of the time its not a good day to go out and teach. we also found out that pday is on tuesday next week cause of the easter holiday. thats why this letter is late. next week we should be good on a monday pday again. it was pretty bad knowing we had to have it a day later.

Tuesday 4-15-14

it was super tough to do things today. we had no motivation to do anything. elder norman and i were just super tired. we saw a couple of less active people, but i think that we both just zoned out during the lessons. i dont really even remember what happened. its also tough with lessons right now. all of the investigators we have can only see us on certain days. and those days are later on in the week. so really today we didnt have a lot of people to see at all. we did have a lesson with this one guy named Anthony. im not really sure if we can teach the guy. he grew up in new york but was kicked out of the USA for something. i think that he is still on parole, meaning that he cant even be baptized. he just had a lot of interesting questions for us. that guy has got some really interesting views as well. we will determine if we can really teach him or not, or if it is worth our time to teach him. during the evening i went on a tradeoff with Elder Tualatamalelagi. He is from Las Vegas. He normally just goes by Elder Tuala tho so dont worry about pronouncing the name correct haha. we had a good lesson with an investigator they have. we went over and started to talk about repentance. it was the first time we had talked about it. it was way cool tho cause the things that they were talking about just led right into it too.

Wednesday 4-16-14

today was another good district meeting as usual haha. we continued with the tradeoff too. we didnt trade back until the night so elder tuala and i still made some rounds in his area. well we saw a member and talked to her about missionary work. she is pretty excited to do it. the members in the branch here are really starting to get into missionary work. there are still some things that need to happen but its really starting to progress quite nicely. then our weekly cook shop saved the day again. we had a while before an appointment and were pretty hungry too. we went down there and had one of the best meals ever haha. nothing compared to cooking at home, but still some pretty dang good food. after that we didnt really have a lot of appointments. we went and saw a member tho. a friend of hers was going to come over so we could teach her but she flaked out. we decided to just talk with the member and get to know her. the good thing is that she was wanting to do her visiting teaching, but her comp didnt really do anything. i suggested that she take Nakeitha. she doesnt have a companion or assignment to do her VT so i thought that it would be perfect. plus it gives nakeitha some more stuff to do during the weeks of the month. they are about the same age as well so they should end up being really good friends.

Thursday 4-17-14

so im back with elder norman now. we realized today that we are starting to run out of people to see. one thing that we are going to try to do is get a referral from some members. we havent had a lot of those since ive been here so we are putting more of an emphasis on it. we went over to sister blake as well. and as usual, she fed us, and then kicked us out right after haha. she is one of those less actives that has caught on that we share a thought when we are done eating. she has started to kick us out in a very kind way now. one day we will get her to have some time to see us haha.

Friday 4-18-14

today was a pretty interesting day. we were going to have some interviews with president brown today. we also got pretty stoked for them cause we heard that Elder Holland from the Quorum of the 12 was on the island. we thought that he might be in our interviews as well. talk about scared excitement haha. but when we got to the church, in a taxi nonetheless, we found out that president had cancelled the interviews again. -_- that really didnt go to well haha. so we went back to the house to get our bikes and start the day. we met a less active named brother collins. he has been less active since i got on the island. he seems way cool and like he wants to come back to church. ive heard that there are some things that he needs to work out with the gospel so it should be fun helping him get through those trials. then we kinda didnt have too much to do for a bit. we found some guys playing some basketball in the streets by where we live so guess what we did. yupp. we tucked in the ties, pulled out the shirts, and got to playing! we are trying to use it as a finding idea. hopefully someone from there will want to hear what we have to say soon. then we went over to the campbells to talk about knowledge. brother campbell sure does have some knowledge about history. he went off for such a long time about it. its funny when he sees that he has gone off the topic a lot too. he will point out that weve gone off topic, and then continue on with what he was saying. its so funny haha! i always laugh whenever i go over there cause that family is just one of the best families i know of (behind my own of course ;) )

Saturday 4-19-14

today we did not do that much. first off in the morning we went and saw daniel and israel, some less active priesthood holders. they are way cool. we talked to them about agency and enduring to the end. they loved the lesson so much that they asked us real fast when we were going to come back. after that was when the day got to doing nothing. Elder Norman has been having some pain in his stomach since friday so we stayed in after that. well, resting up didnt help him. it got worse. we called sister brown and she said that we needed to go over to the doctors office. well we got there, and the doctor told us it was either his appendix or inflamed kidneys. he sent him over to the hospital in kingston. dont worry tho. from the updates i have had, it is neither of those. the doctors think that it is just a virus. he should be back here soon.

Sunday 4-20-14

well, light em up guys... haha just kidding. so with elder norman gone to kingston for a while, i am working with elder layton and elder tuala until further notice. probably only the next few days tho. our area are also going to be combined a bit. the numbers will be different still, but we will have to work in both of them till elder norman comes back.but today was really good with church. of course a lot of the members were asking where elder norman was. he seems to be really good friends with a lot of the members in the branch. we just told them that he was sick and had to stay in today. they all understood that enough haha. in my area we didnt have any appointments. elders layton and tuala had some things planned out already so we just went with their plans. it was mostly just having some family home evenings with member families. they shared a faith story. the story was way cool, even tho it was fake haha.

Monday 4-21-14

so for this pday we....... oh wait...........right......... haha today was a good day dont worry. to start off the day we went and chopped some yard for someone that elder layton and tuala are trying to teach. then after that we went to lunch with the ZLs to a members house. man was that a lot of food. i thought that i was going to be full for the next few days. i had a very hard time eating everything. ive normally been able to pack food since i got to jamaica but that was a struggle for me haha. the only lesson that we had in my area was with sister baldeo. we went over there and talked a little bit about missionary work. she is always giving us referrals when she has them, it was more of a keep going thing we were doing with her. we may have a new investigator from that as well. its her niece that lives just behind her. when i asked her if she wanted to learn more, she seemed pretty excited to meet with us. and there is great fellowship with sister baldeo right there as well as the McCalla girls who are right around her age and live way close. so this week shoudl be a pretty good one. im trying to get a lot of stuff scheduled so that we have a lot to do when elder norman comes back. hopefully it all works haha.

So this week was really interesting haha. elder norman should be ok. the doctors just think that he has a virus. they are saying that if they dont find anything wrong with him in some tests today, then we should be out by wednesday and back to work soon after. we will have to see how much he can do of course. but it should be good. its hard to think that after this saturday, transfer calls are the next saturday. i feel like ive been here for such a short time. i should be staying then tho. it would be nice to stay here for a super long time haha.

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought
Introduction to the Book of Mormon, especially the last 2 paragraphs