Week 58

Hey everyone!

 

this week was super hard. we didn't get a lot of teaching in this week. it has been raining like crazy! so not cool! so i apologize if this week is just ranting or venting. it should be very interesting....

 

 

Monday 9-22-14

 

so pday was us cleaning the house today. like a 100% deep cleaning. this house i don't think has been cleaner before. we spent like 3 hours cleaning. it was one of the worst things ever haha. i just really hate cleaning, but i do love the feeling after your done. the spirit really is so much stronger. its amazing how much eaiser it is to feel and lose the spirit as a missionary. just the simplest things can make you gain a lot or completely lose the spirit. i guess its like that back home too, i just never paid any attention to it. ive got somre pretty big changes to make haha. i better let the mission humble me before my future wife does haha. now we just need to keep the house clean. the senior couple will come soon to do a check and i really want to pass it. our only lesson today was a FHE with sister Russell and Aaliyah. re read from helaman chapter 12. other than that, nothing else happened today.

 

Tuesday 9-23-14

 

today i am just tired of everything. this is one of those days as a missionary that i just cant wait to forget about. first off, our morning blew out within 30 minutes. that ticked me off a lot. then it rained again so that means that all of our afternoon and evening appointments blew out. then to top it all off, seminary isn't as good as we want it to be. its just really like teenagers. just talking. man i feel way bad for all of my seminary teachers in the past. never again will i do that. things in santa are just really making me mad today. every time we have a great day planned, it just blows out. i really hope that something will change soon.

 

Wednesday 9-24-14

 

so today was zone meeting in Mandeville. it was a really great meeting. all the stuff there really applied to santa cruz so much. ive got a lot of room to work on loving people. i feel like i do a pretty good job at it but today really makes me rethink that. the only lesson we had after, cause of the rain again, was with Keith. it was a really good lesson. we kinda just talked to him. but it was one of the best lessons weve had with him. i cant wait to get into teaching him. he will progress so well!

 

Thursday 9-25-14

 

i feel like a terrible missionary today. reason being is cause everything is blowing out and i cant seem to keep us busy. its very hard to keep faith in this area. but i gotta do it so that things will happen here. i love santa, its just having a rough time with me. i did get to teach seminary tonight tho. it was so good tonight. it was funny, but it was very focused at the same time. tianna and aaliyah even asked some really great questions that made me think a bit. i love teaching seminary. once i move to Hartford one day that's so what i want to do for a calling :)

 

Friday 9-26-14

 

well today we really did nothing. we super planned, sat inside cause it rained till 5pm, then went to the church for Friday night activity. elder kuehn and i did get to have a lesson with Mickailia about tithing tho. it was a pretty good lesson. even with elder kuehn being a new guy, he is a way better missionary than me. he makes such good points and is so sincere. he is more of a person. i so wish i was more like him haha. but Friday night activity was even cancelled cause of all the rain. the power went out too so that didn't really help much. today was one of those Fridays that i just didn't like. i usually look forward to Fridays but today was not as good.

 

Saturday 9-27-14

 

another day in santa cruz that everything fell through. we were able to talk with Barrington and Sister Russell for a bit tho. then it rained for a little while again. stupid rain. after all the rain we had a small lesson with chin. i don't know how far that will go cause she tried to get out of some previous lessons so we'll see what happens. then we went to mickailia and asked her for some referrals cause we have no one to teach but her and keith. we gave her a bit of homework too. then we had our weekly meeting with president durrant. i think i really need to work on just going with the flow more. i still feel like a robot. hopefully soon i can get used to people never being home. well see tho. some things i think i will just always hate.

 

Sunday 9-28-14

 

well today was a pretty boring day again. elder danvers was feeling a bit sick and i didn't want to stay in so i went on a small tradeoff with elder phippen after church. we went up to Mickailia and had a lesson with her. we just reviewed one of the lessons that we had done in the past. not really a good lesson. just so jumbled and unprepared even tho i spent like 2 days on it. oh well. things happen. she did get the point to it so that's good. we had a good time just talking there too. then after that we didn't do anything. everything blew out so we just went home and planned for tomorrow. so interesting haha.

 

 

ya so that's the week. sorry for the uninterestingness haha. hopefully this next week things will really pick up. Santa Cruz is known as the refiners fire down here and its very true. something in santa cruz is teaching me something. i just need to know what it is. things work out in the end tho. i just don't want to leave here until something happens. that's when i will feel comfortable about leaving but not until that happens.

 

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

 

 

Scripture Thought

ok so i had a few this week cause there were a lot of cool ones that i found/were shared with me. here they are:

 

D&C 21:4-6, 9

and

D&C 58:1-4, 26-28