Week 36

hey. everyone...... wappn?

this week has been kinda weird haha. it was a long week but we got a lot done. elder martin and i got 6 new investigators for us to teach. but the sad part is..... elder martin will be going to Savannah La-Mar with Elder Nelson, the current AP, for the next transfer. so i will be getting a new comp.

Monday 4-28-14

today was pretty interesting. our first lesson was with Chris. we taught him about the Plan of Salvation because it fit in well with what we had been teaching him the last week. we have been having some really good lessons with him. he said that he is gonna start to save up his lunch money so that he can come to church. he also told us that right now he is leaning towards serving a mission! he is only 16 so he has a few years to prepare but he is also inactive. before anything can happen we need to get him to come to church on a consistent basis. he is well on his way tho. we will have to work with his mom so that she can get him to church and also so that she will come to church too. then we went over to the McCalla house and talked with Sherefah. we didnt really end up sharing too much doctrine... oops... we just really built more trust with her. then her boyfriend decided to call. we told her to invite him to church but she wouldnt do it. so i took the phone and did 2 things. 1. invited him to church. and 2. did sherefahs PR work with him haha. sometimes you can use these things to your advantage haha. but pday was super relaxing again. its so nice to just have a day to relax haha.

Tuesday 4-29-14

our morning today was super awesome! we had a full morning and we saw everyone that we planned to see! i cant even remember the last time that that happened for us. i think it happened when elder norman was here but i dont remember haha. one of those lessons was a new investigator named chynn. right now she isnt doing anything and we havent been able to see her other than today. we also saw another new investigator. her name is Theana. she is sister baldeos niece. she is way cool! within the first 20 minutes of doing a "how to begin teaching" lesson, we built a really good relationship with her. the lesson ended up going a little long because of how good we were doing in gaining trust haha. then later in the day we played basketball for finding again. we try to do this like once or twice a week cause there is a lot of priesthood that comes to it haha. tonight we played when it was a bit dark but it was still fun. elder martin and i were just raining threes from everywhere in the dark haha. the guys there are really starting to trust us. we are going to be sure to get some appointments to teach some of them real soon.

Wednesday 4-30-14

Today we had zone meeting. it was a super good zone meeting in my eyes. the main topic of it was to teach people and not lessons and to ask inspired questions. the funny part of the day was through all of our appointments. everyone is still checking up on how elder norman is doing! it kinda makes me laugh a bit just cause he has been gone for 2 weeks. but he was very well liked in the branch so i cant blame the people too much. its members and investigators that are asking. they all just loved him haha. we met some more new investigators today. this time it was a family in Innswood, the scheme we live in. their names are Paul and Soshana. they are super cool! when we met them they said that they wanted to start going back to church so we asked them if we could share about what our church believes. they said yes and so we went over tonight and just talked about some expectation and also had a mini part of the restoration. next time we will teach them the whole thing haha. we are going to get brother campbell in on that one. they are way close and about the same age as well so it works out perfectly. we also had a lesson with Christinea. it was a fun time really. it was a bit hard for her cause she had a different missionary there other than elder norman so she was a little uncomfortable. but she will get used to my new comps when they come (look on saturday for who they are).

Thursday 5-1-14

wow its already may?! time sure does fly by. its way hard to believe that i am almost at my 9 month mark. today there were only really 2 big things that happened. first off we went over to Theana and got a dagger in the heart. she told us that she wont ever be coming to church because if she does then her parents are going to kick her out of the house. they dont really like the church, at all! we are going to continue to work on her and to build her faith so that one day she can either move out, or not be scared to go and her parents will let her stay there. its gonna be a little while before it happens but only time will tell and we will be consistent with it. then i got a call from elder norman later in the day. he sounds really good. he said that he is hoping to come back out here soon. it just will depend on the results of some tests. i have high hopes tho. maybe well get to finish out the companionship haha.

Friday 5-2-14

We had to give one of the parts in our area up today. the ZLs dont have a lot of members to teach right now so they took our spot called Whitewater. we dont have a lot of members there but i think that they will do a better job down there. the main thing that happened today was something that really vexed me up. we had an appointment with Raheem to teach him at a cottage meeting we go to each week. well he showed up to it, said hi, and then had to leave for a minute to do something. well we waited for like 30 minutes. then we called him. he suddenly became very busy. that really got me vexed up! we arent really going to set anymore appointments with him. if he comes again then we will tell him that we are willing to teach him but he has to make the time. one more blown appointment like that and im done with it to be honest. then we went over to the campbells and talked to them about humility. man do i love going to the campbells. every time i go there i learn so much myself. they are a great family. and on sunday there is some news for that family ;)

Saturday 5-3-14

so first things first. TRANSFER CALLS! with elder martin leaving to go to sav, i will be getting Elder Farb, from California, AND Elder Carter, from Pleasant Grove! that makes my last 2 transfer call comps from my high school! i guess the Lord just wants me to serve with everyone from my high school haha. well thats two down and only one to go! but as for lessons today, we had one with a teenager named Chayanae (pronounced like the capital of Wyoming). she came to church last week without us expecting it so we went over and had a how to begin teaching lesson with her and set some expectations.  she is way cool. the main concern we have is we just need to get permission from their guardian to baptize them. once we have that i think that we will be in the clear for them to get baptized. then we had another lesson with the campbells today. it was super revelatory for us. not really going to go into detail about it cause it was about a member but they gave us some really good advice about what we can do to help this member. again, such an awesome family!

Sunday 5-4-14

today elder martin and i stayed in cause he had a headache and we have to be cautious with them because of the accident he had before. but the biggest news of the day BROTHER CAMPBELL IS THE NEW 1ST COUNCILOR IN THE BRANCH PRESIDENCY!!!!! i was not expecting that announcement at all! he is only a recent convert of 4 months and he is already in the branch presidency! im so excited for him! he is going to be a future bishop when the stake comes and him and his wife get sealed! its moment like that on the mission when you really see what its all about. there are people out there who need to be in the church with certain callings. its just up to the members and missionaries to find them together.

so thats the week. it was a pretty long week for elder martin and i but it was a good week at the same time. i really do love the mission. seeing brother campbell get called to that position just made my heart swell with joy! this gospel is so true and i cant wait to get home and to share it with even more people!

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought
1 Nephi 8:30