Week 47

Hey everyone! wappen to yuh?

this week has been... painful. our bikes are.... ya. maybe it would be better if you just read :l

Monday 7-14-14

today was a pretty sad day as for lessons. we didnt teach anyone today. elder dean had to fix his bike and it ended up taking from the start of the evening up till 9pm. it really sucked haha. me and elder phippen just sat up on the veranda and talked about life really. it was mostly about the future for the both of us. ive been pretty freaked out by that haha. in one year or so i have to decide what to do with my life. not really the best thing to think of haha. but president brown told me once that a mission is the best place to figure life out. there is so much revelation that comes here that its almost impossible to not have your life figured out by the time you leave. so far i think i have it planned out for when i go home but president brown is planning to interview me here soon, as with other missionaries, and i will be getting a lot of advice from him about everything. oh and one more thing... its my 11 month mark today. ive now been on a mission for 11 months! its so freaking awesome!!!! its flown by so fast! i dont want it to end but at the same time i cant wait to get home!

Tuesday 7-15-14

so we woke up to a really great surprise today. NOT! when we woke up to go to the gym, elder phippen looked at our bikes. there were only 2 bikes there. and there is 3 of us. yupp, someone stole a bike again. and not only that, it was elder phippens bike again. we think that someone is stalking us haha. but that really ticked us off. they even had to move a bike to get to his bike! so we are now walking again. i feel like the utah state aggies crowd when they say "welcome to hell". thats what it is now haha. walking, as i have said before, is of the devil. it was a pretty ok day tho. it rained for once. and it was a hard storm too. we had to go see Mickailia tho so we went and trucked through it haha. we got to her house and started to teach on faith. she understood it very well. we also showed the talk by elder holland "lord i believe". lets just say that the lesson was really good haha. but that was all that we could really do today. we had some lessons in the morning but they werent all that interesting. ill say this tho.... walking sucks haha

Wednesday 7-16-14

so we had district meeting in Junction today. its never fun to travel i will say that. at least we can taxi there tho. walking would just be mad man status haha. it was pretty good. once we got back we had to go out to our investigator Nigel. he lives hecka far out there. it was like a 90 minute walk just to get to him. but he called us yesterday saying that he wanted us to go and see him so we had to go there haha. we had an excellent lesson with him tho. he told us that he knows the book of mormon is true and we committed him to be baptized. we didnt extend a date cause he needs to get married to the girl he is living with first but he did commit to baptism which is awesome! that took the entire day tho. we walked to him, had a lesson, and then walked back home. bikes would be great haha

Thursday 7-17-14

today was a good day. the big things that happened today is that we went to see Mickailia again. this time we taught her repentance. just going through the gospel of jesus christ real slow like president brown said to. she understood it very well again haha. she is progressing really great. thank heavens for fellowship as well too haha. hopefully that can continue after she is baptized. it should for her, but we need it for us too haha. then we went and saw staysha. she is doing pretty well. she is progressing its just very slow. she hasnt recognized her answer yet. she has it, all the signs are there. but she just doesnt realize it. that will happen soon come. she wants to know so thats the good thing.

Friday 7-18-14

so fridays of course we never get to much done cause we are in charge of friday night activity and we have to super plan. the only things we were able to get today were buy snacks for the night and teach mickailia again. this time we taught her about baptism. she told us last time that she was going to be gone on august 2nd, her baptism day, so we rescheduled it to the 16th. its a bit sad but she seemed a lot more comfortable with it. im super stoked for that day tho! friday night activity was super sick too. we watched the Joseph Smith movie to start off with, mostly cause Mickailia wanted to see it, and then went on to charades. it was a way fun night. by far the funnest activity on my mission. even tho this is the only place that activities have happened haha.

Saturday 7-19-14

i have found out that walking really hurts. we almost couldnt get up and down the stairs to our apartment in the morning and night. it sucks haha. but today we saw Mickailia and Staysha again. as normal, Mickailias lesson was really good and she understood well. we taught about the Holy Ghost today. kinda a weird lesson but it went really well. the lessons with her i like a lot tho cause they are very relaxed. there is nothing awkward about the lessons. it feels more like a conversation than a lesson. which is so much nicer. then we went and saw staysha and taught her about faith. she really enjoyed the lesson cause she said that it was what she needed. she wants to exercise faith, but really, she needs too do that soon. she has never come to church and she has been taught for a really long time, like before i got here. hopefully we wont have to drop her soon.

Sunday 7-20-14

well, i did something today that i have not done in forever. i gave in talk in church. to give you an idea of how long ago that it was, i was being trained in Port Antonio when i last gave a talk in church. thats a super long time. its been like 10 or 11 freaking months! but i guess that i did a good job. somehow i took up like 20 minutes in something that was prepared in like an hour, that morning to be exact haha. it was about our saviors love. pretty interesting topic haha. then when sunday school was about to start, i was gonna have to teach it too. but i was saved when Mickailia said that she would teach it haha! saved by the investigator! but of course we made sure that the lesson wasnt going anywhere bad. but she did a good job. we didnt have to make any correction haha. then we went walking for lessons. not really anything exciting there. all that happened is that me and elder phippen almost fell over a lot cause our legs are killing us. santa cruz is killer any way you go. either your legs kill from walking or biking. or the pot holes in the road tear your car away. oh santa cruz. why must you be the gateway that the devil sits at haha.

so thats the week. my legs hurt so bad haha. plus i think im a bit sick. idk tho. i will see what happens in the next week. its nothing thats going to keep me in the house tho. its almost as bad to be in the house than out in the sun. it just gets super hot in the house while its just hot outside haha. but the mission is great. i continue to feel the spirit each day. ive been way more in tune with it since i got here and started a new style of teaching for myself. i honestly cant wait to apply all the things that i have learned out here into the world. my life after the mission is gonna be weird but its also going to be the best life ever because of the "tithe" i have put on my life right now.

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

Ether 12:18