Week 35

whappen?

this week has been very interesting for me. i know i usually give out what happened a bit during the week in this part right here, but this time ill just mention it later

Tuesday 4-22-14

man its weird to be putting Tuesday first and not Monday haha. but today was a really good down. we did a lot of work in Elder Layton and Tuala's area but there was still some really good stuff that happened for us. we went over to Chris today. we talked to him a little about the Book of Mormon. are main thing was to get him to read. it was a super spiritual lesson. at the end of it he told us that he was going to be doing the Book of Mormon challenge. he is just going to mark everything that stands out to him. its the same thing that i am doing right now. almost everything is marked up in mine. its amazing just how much stuff really is in the Book of Mormon. we also went over to the McCalla house and had a lesson with Sherefah. she wanted us to bring fruit to the lesson. it ended up being super weird and pointless to bring it haha. she wanted to know the meaning behind 1 Nephi 8 so we read that with her and explained it all. as for the fruit, we just ate it haha. but pday was super relaxing today. i really just sat on my bed and did nothing. one of the nicest pdays of all time haha.

Wednesday 4-23-14

today was pretty good haha. only 2 super big things happened today. we went back to chris for one. the church was on a show down here called "Religious Hard Talks" and they had something about how our doctrine teaches us that we can become Gods (Romans 8:17 for example). he wanted us to come over and have a lesson on how we can do that. it was super cool. we shared a bunch of scriptures on how we are like God first (Gen 1:26 - dominion; Acts 17:29 some examples) chris said that he wanted to be sure that he was gonna be a God so he wants to start coming to church again. we just need to help him do that now haha. We also went over to Sister Dacosta. she is just a ton of fu to go to. she is always super happy when we go there. we always just share a short thought with her and leave. it makes her day to be honest.

Thursday 4-24-14

So today was a really interesting day for me. i got a call from President Brown in the morning. he told me that Elder Norman was so sick that his condition was forcing him to go home for a bit. that sure did make my heart drop. it seems like the doctors down here couldnt find out what was wrong with him so they shipped him back to the states for some more tests. hopefully he should be back in a few months. he is a great missionary and deserves to be back out here. Pres also told me that i would probably get a new comp tonight. i will get to who it is in a bit. so elder layton, tuala, and i went to terryann. that was a hard lesson. it seemed just to be very distracting. she was doing someones hair so i dont think that she really got much out of it. we then went over to sister blake and, of course, she fed us. she did sit down for us to have a lesson tho, for once haha. she said that she would come to church (she didnt still tho). it seemed like a good lesson haha. then at night i got my new comp. so does anyone remember the missionary down here that got hit by a car? it was just like a week or two into January. well, elder martin, the missionary, is back! and he is my new comp! with elder norman going home, it was really convenient, (or inspired. whatever you wanna say haha) for him to come and serve with me. him and i are super stoked to serve together. we came out of the MTC together and have been wanting to serve together ever since. the plan right now is that he will leave in a few weeks, when transfers come, but we hope that he will be here for at least one more transfer.

Friday 4-25-14

most of our day today was spent fixing up elder martins bike. with it being hit by a car, you can imagine how broken it was. it wasnt too bad tho. just the breaks need to be fixed. but it still took the bike guy like 2 hours to fix. that was not fun. Jamaicans dont seem to know how to fix bikes very well. maybe i shoulda learned when i was home...... oh well haha. but today was one of the best days that i have had on my mission. we saw the people in my area that i like the most. i think the funniest part of the day was when we went to the McCallas to introduce elder martin. Sherefah had a prank planned for it. we walked in and were so freaked out. even i was scared and i knew about it haha. it looked like some weird ritual was being preformed. they were laughing too hard to continue the prank tho. but today was just so much fun. we went back to the campbells as well and continued with knowledge. it was good as always haha.

Saturday 4-26-14

even tho elder martin and i have only been comps for a few days, we are having a ton of fun together. we love being comps so much. we get along great and act like the same two punks we were back in the MTC haha. today we got a lot of finding done. we didnt have any finding scheduled in but we had some free time, so we did some. we found a family in innswood that we want to teach and they said that they wanted to try to get back to going to church! they arent members of the church, well at least not yet haha. we also went back to the campbells and talked about faith. we have taught them so much now that i think we may be going over some topics again haha. we also did some basketball for finding again. that is a lot of fun to do. the guys who play are really starting to trust us. pretty soon here we will be asking them if we can share our beliefs with them. so excited!

Sunday 4-27-14

Church was pretty good today. sadly, i zoned out a few times cause i was just super tired. the mission does wonders to you haha. our main lesson today was with Gary and Nicole. we havent seen them in a few weeks so i was a little worried about what would happen. but we got there and they had read a bit from the Book of Mormon. we taught them a little more about it. it was a very inspired lesson. they didnt know too much but it looks like they will be reading it more. Gary says that he sees the similarities between it and the Bible to that got me pretty stoked up. but elder martin and i are really hoping that we stay together for a long time now! we absolutely love being companions! he is my bro and i love serving with him!

so that was kinda my week. everyone down here is also sending their prayers to elder norman. he was very well liked down here and that doesnt surprise me. members and investigators are always telling me to tell elder norman when i can that they are praying for him like crazy. it just goes to show you how important it is to establish a relationship with people and really become their friend

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought
1 Nephi 5:20-22 (this is something i found in my studies that really told me how important it is to always have our scriptures on us at all times.)