Week 37

Hey Everyone!

this week was very heck-tic. with transfers going on and us having to move into a new house, there wasnt too much work done. i will do my best to keep the week entertaining for you tho haha.

Monday 5-5-14

So today was a relaxing Pday again. we had to start to get some stuff ready to move, cause for some dumb reason we are moving on tuesday instead of today. oh well i guess. but other than that it was just very relaxing. once we went out and starting teaching, we first went over to the Campbells home. we were prepping Brother Campbell to come teaching with us to Paul and Soshana the very next hour. it was pretty good. brother campbell knew his stuff really well. the bad part, when we went over to paul and soshana, paul had just gotten home from work and was dead asleep when he came to the door. we rescheduled for tomorrow. brother campbell is cool with it as well haha. then elder martin and i went up to the mccalla family so that he could say goodbye to them since he is going to be in sav on wednesday. as always, the mccalla family is awesome. we talked with them for a bit and had a short thought with them.

Tuesday 5-6-14

today we didnt do much cause we were moving to a new house. the one we had was very small and didnt fit us the best. not sure why we didnt move yesterday tho. might have been more effective. we didnt really end up seeing anyone. we did go over and see Chayanae tho. we just stopped by real fast cause we had to get somewhere. we asked her about church and she said that she really loves it and feels good when she comes. she said that she was going to come on sunday too (she didnt). next week we should be having a lesson with her tho.

Wednesday 5-7-14

transfers were today. i didnt go to the meeting so i was with elder layton and elder tuala for a bit. we tried to see people, but it didnt work out too well haha. even everal kicked us out of his house. thats how i knew that it was not going to be the best day haha. but elder martin did leave for sav today so now i am with Elder Carter and Elder Farb. most of what we did once i got them was go around and introduce them to the members. the members we went and saw were Nakeitha, Christinea, and the McCallas. so far each one of them really like those guys so this transfer is going to be quite good i think haha.

Thursday 5-8-14

we finally had our interviews with president brown today. they seemed a bit short tho. he normally goes pretty long from what i have heard but he only went like 30 minutes today. before tho we had to ride in the rain. that was the craziest storm that i have seen down here. no joke, there was one stretch that i couldnt even look at the road because the rain was in my eyes and i couldnt see anything. im not really sure how we got to the church safely haha. we got there and pres brown just kinda laughed at us. we ended up being there for a few hours. the other good news, i was productive on the piano a bit haha. i learned the first line to "if you could hie to kolob" in like 15 minutes. the rest of the song, no sir. first line is all my brain can handle haha. the other thing we did today tho is we went home teaching with brother blake again. i think the branch needs to get him a new companion cause it looks like the branch is going with us so that they dont have to prepare a lesson. im not really too sure tho.

Friday 5-9-14

all of the lessons today were still introducing elders carter and farb to the members. we did have a really good lesson with britteny tho. last time we went to see her we committed her to reading everyday. she hadnt done that too much haha. so we retaught the lesson, with some other points of course, and gave her a sticky note so that she could keep the commitment better. i think she is going to do it now haha. we also went over to the Campbell family, as usual haha. today we talked about grace. it was actually really good. there was so much that everyone wanted to say that we are going to go over it again the next time we go there. we didnt get to stay for long but next time it will be really good haha.

Saturday 5-10-14

the very first thing we did today was go and have a lesson with Nakeitha and give her a blessing. there are some things that she is going through right now and she had been wanting a blessing for a long time. we finally gave her one through all of our forgetting.... oops :-l ..... ill have to do better at remembering that haha. but the lesson was really good as well. we talked about the holy ghost and what/how we feel when he is with us. it was a lesson that i myself learned from. then we went and saw chris and had a super good lesson with him. it looks like he is gonna start to take church a lot more serious now. he needs to as well. i gave him a really good tie haha. later in the night we had a lesson with paul, despite the power being out haha. the campbells were going to join us but having the power out didnt really help our cause haha. we could only teach the first half of the restoration tho. next time we are just going to go back over it. but paul is getting hard to meet with to. he always goes out when we show up. we may have to get soshana more involved in everything. she seems a lot more interested than him, but he is still willing to listen.

Sunday 5-11-14

happy mothers day everyone! haha. so church was pretty good today. we had brother cardoza come to church! it was the first time he had been there since ive been here so that was super cool! the best lesson of the day was when we went over to the campbells home and talked more about grace. we ended up going into the atonement and how it is merciful unto justice (something like that haha. bad grammar i think). sister campbell said something that got my mind (or the spirit to tell me) on Alma 34:15-16. so i had sister campbell read it. she only got through the first verse of it cause she and her husband liked it so much that they went on about it for the next 20-30 minutes haha. i really felt the spirit in that lesson. and it wasnt just a little feeling. it really was the "burning of the bosom" that it talks about in D&C 9:8. i love going over to that house so much. i always learn so much when i go there and i always feel the spirit, no matter how big or small the feeling is.

so thats really the week. it was also raining all week and it flooded one part of our area. we still rode through it haha. there should be some photos at the bottom to show you just how deep that it got haha. i wish i could send the video home but its way to long.

but as always i really do love being out here in jamaica. it truly is the best thing that i have ever done. i cant wait to really put the things i have learned out here into my life after the mission. i know the gospel is true. i know that without a shadow of a doubt.

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought
Alma 34:15-16