Week 51

Wa Gwaan everyone?!

so i realized that i messed up on my weeks. my year mark is next week so i changed it so its right haha. this week kind made me a bit mad. and it didnt even happen until the last day of the week haha.

Monday 7-28-14

so today was pretty fun haha. after emails we went and played some basketball with the branch presidents kids who are visiting from Florida. they are super chill and pretty good at ball haha. it was just so hot tho. my head was killing me afterwards! that explains how hot it is here haha. hopefully winter come here soon. its still hot but not as hot. weather here is so confusing haha. i also had elder phippen give me a haircut. i really hate getting my hair chopped haha. its not a bad cut tho. its a lot more professional then what i did have before. lessons today we just went over the things that president brown taught in district conference with sister russell. it was a pretty good lesson. so kinda just a normal monday. 

Tuesday 7-29-14

today was pretty alright. we saw amoy in the morning and went over what we did with sister russell yesterday. pretty good lesson. she is just shy so we did more talking. she has her mission papers in tho and is getting an interview from president brown sometime this week so everyone is super stoked for that! after lunch we walked over to Nigel (ya we are still walking for now) and had a pretty alright lesson with him. we went a little farther than we wanted to because of his understanding level but he understood it pretty well. we taught him about our purpose here on earth and the atonement. afterwards tho we had to walk clear down to staysha. we had a really great lesson with her. we decided that morning that we were gonna read the story of Enos with her. man did she love that story! she was telling us all about the verses she liked and why she liked them! she finally got an answer she recognized that the Book of Mormon is true! it was so fantastic!

Wednesday 7-30-14

transfers were supposed to be today but all the people coming in were having some problems with their visas so transfers were moved to friday. but we had a trade off with the zone leaders today. elder barber came down here. but before that we had a pretty good district meeting. it was a last minute thing and there were only 5 of us there but it was still good. afterwards.... lets just say that the windows of heaven were opened up unto us haha. it rained cats and dogs for so long! we were all in KFC and the rain was coming down real hard and the power in KFC kept going out! things got serious in there man haha! then the ZLs came and we walked up to Lisa. we had a pretty good lesson with her. she was nice for once thats a fact. going up there is never my favorite thing to do but when you represent Jesus Christ, sometimes you have to do things that you dont like. oh well. all in the good name i guess haha. but the rest of the day was us doing some finding cause we have no other investigators. should be fun for this transfer haha

Thursday 7-31-14

today was freaking crazy! elder phippen didnt join us today cause he was dropped off at the house and then had to be picked up again so that he could go to spanish town for the trainers meeting. so elder dean and i went on our own today. but we didnt really do much cause we had to get elder deans bike fixed and then it started raining like crazy again. idk whats up with santa now haha. i hope it rains but the way it has the past likkle bit is not good. no one wants to see us when it is that bad. and thats what happened today. because it rained so much we couldnt do much at all. not really any lessons.

Friday 8-1-14

Merry August!!!!!! one year is almost here! today we met with a guy named Raymond. he is a maroon. its basically a run away slave that live by santa but govern themselves. youll have to look more up about them haha. it was a pretty good lesson. we taught our purpose and a little bit of the restoration. next time we go back will determine if he is an investigator or not. but today it rained hard again!  elder dean and i ended up just sitting in KFC to wait the rain out. but by the time it stopped elder phippen came back with his trainee. we went and met them at the house so they could get in. the new guys name is Elder Kuehn (pronounced like Keen). he is way sick. he is from Layton, Utah. he just got out of high school. now im not the youngest one in the house haha! i think its been since the MTC since i was older. im still not quite the oldest but im close haha. because of the rain friday night activity was blown out so that was all we did for the day.

Saturday 8-2-14

So i had an interesting time right when we were going out to teach. we had to get elder deans bike fixed again (santa hates us im telling yuh) and when we got out. something was wrong with my bike. it had no seat. somebody came into our yard and teifed my bike seat. and it was only the bike seat. elder dean and i got a big laugh from that one. we really think that someone in santa is watching us now. its not good haha. but i got a new seat for my bike. it was about time that i did tho. the thing was a bit broke and was torn up. it was pretty comfy to say the least tho. the new seat is better in my mind however. but we spend the morning fixing the bikes again. we are now full time bike fixers and part time missionaries haha. after that we saw brother samuels. he is still nuts. he had his debt go down tho. he was in 32,000 jamaica debt but its like down to 8000 now. its not bad but i dont think he will ever have his other debts payed off. then we went up to amoys house and talked about faith. it was one of the best faith lessons i have ever had on my mission. we talked about a lot of stuff to do with faith. but the bad thing, on the way up there elder dean had the chain to his bike snap. we couldnt fix it either. we had to coast all the way to amoy, teach the lesson, and then ride all the way back to the bike shop and leave it there for the weekend. just saying...........I HATE BIKES......... haha.

Sunday 8-3-14

so this was the hard day for me. but it did start off really good! testimony meeting today had the theme of conversion stories. i really loved it. it wasnt like one of those crazy ones that i have mentioned before, it was a somewhat normal one. there was still a crazy one or two that happened but the spirit was really felt in church today. it was so cool! then we had to teach young womens again. luckily elder Kuehn took that one. he seems very willing to just take on challenges and do it. such a stud haha. then elder dean and i were fed by a member after church. man was that food good! i think it was some of the best homemade food that i have ever had on my mission! after that we started walking up to teach Mickailia, she got back from camp yesterday, but we had to walk by the church. well i had parked my bike there for the time being. when i looked in there....... my bike was gone....... i was super ticked off! i just got the thing fixed and someone came and teifed the thing from right outta the church! now i have no bike. luckily the office is gonna see what its gonna take to get me a new bike. i might have to pay for it but it might be less than if i go to a shop down here and get one. well see what happens. hopefully i can get a pretty decent one. i dont care if its good, as long as it is ride-able haha. the lesson with Mickailia tho was a hard one. i was heartbroken during it. she wont accept a day for baptism. i think what i am going to do is do what happened to my converts in Port Antonio. Elder Davis was a genius and just kept teaching them even tho they would not accept a day. after some time, they just asked to be baptized. im gonna try and implement that for Mickailia. we'll just keep teaching her and when she feels that she is ready for baptism then she will just ask us for it. it may take some time but waiting is never a bad thing. i hope she will be baptized when i am here in santa tho. that would be so sick!

so ya thats the week. we will be walking for a bit till i get a new bike. ill find out today or tomorrow if i have to get a bike from a store or if the mission will help me out with it. hopefully i can get a cheap one from the mission. the store sells them for like $13,000 JMD. not really what i want to be spending right now. we'll see tho. the church is still true haha. nothing is ever going to change that!

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

2 Nephi 31:17-18