Week 61

Hey everyone!

Monday 10-13-14

so today for pday we went into kingston and had a big basketball tournament type thing with the entire kingston and spanish town zones. basically everywhere that the stake is and then us haha man did it feel good to play again. its been so long since i played some real stuff. like 14 months haha. the basketball in spanish town was good but never american way. i so hope that we can do that more. i guess that we go out to Morant Bay each week for shopping and there is even a hoop there so that should be really fun. yallahs is so great haha :)

Tuesday 10-14-14

we went out to bull bay to see Shackeyra to start off the day. man is she prepared! she asks great questions and she understands very well. the only concern really is the distance to church. its a 15-30 min coaster ride and public transportation is hard on sundays in bush places. but she said that she really wants to come so thats a good sign. then we also saw alwayne today. he is way chill. the only thing that is holding him back from being baptized is him not coming to church on time. hopefully this week he will. it was a good lesson today tho. not really much else to report on today.

Wednesday 10-15-14

it was a bit rough today. we had quite a few RCLA lessons but nothing super interesting or exciting happened. we have been having to work on some branch president crap thing. with elder beckford being the branch president right now, we have a lot of stuff that we have to work on with him. its a bit frustrating but it has to be done i guess.

Thursday 10-16-14

kinda a rough day. we didnt really get a lot of lessons in today again. we had to do more Branch President stuff in the morning and we had to go to town for it. the only lessons we had today were with alwayne and anneika. both of the lessons were a bit rough tho. the lesson with anneika didnt quite go how we planned, and then with alwayne we ended up bring a member that is a little interesting. next time we will have to coordinate with the member. he should be leaving on his mission in like a month so that would be a good thing to teach him too. yallahs is really growing on me tho. i absolutely love it here!

Friday 10-17-14

fridays are still the days that i really look forward to. we had a really good lesson with Alwayne about missionary work. he seems super excited to serve. his baptism  should be in a few weeks so one year from then he will be able to serve. then of course we had friday night activity. thats always super fun! always great to be able to take a small break.

Saturday 10-18-14

so transfer calls were today. even tho i knew what my call was, i still got something unexpected. of course i will be staying in yallahs and being with elder hall (south ogden utah). but i will also be the district leader. that was super unexpected. in light of current circumstances, i never thought i would get that call haha. the lord is taking a huge risk right now lol. im a bit behind to cause i didnt go to a training like a month ago for it. it wasnt known that i would be one until i got to yallahs. but our day was super awesome. we saw sister nicely first, where she basically told us that she loves the church and knows that its true. she still has a lot of questions but she is so accepting. so sad i wont be teaching her come wednesday. she is super prepared and i cant wait to do her baptism interview! then we went out to bull bay to see shackeyra. she is so prepared! she had an entire summary of what she read in the book of mormon! then we started teaching the plan of salvation and she loved it. somehow we even got into baptisms for the dead. dont think i have ever dont that before haha. but she is way accepting. she said that she just feels that its right. such a good sign there! she said that she is coming to church so im super excited!

Sunday 10-19-14

wow church was packed today! we had like 50 people show up. thats like 30 more than normal i think. plus, like 10 of them were non members. like 7 or 8 are investigators too so church was super sick today! its the most people there for a long time. we even had 6 come to church. Shackeyra, alwayne, and sister nicely and her family came. all but shackeyra were late tho so that was a bit of a bummer. i guess that shackeyra was like bearing testimony in sunday school as well. its so sick! yallahs is starting to explode with missionary work! its a great time to be here. the more that i think about it, i have to be here. it is where the lord wants me right now.

Monday 10-20-14

pday wasnt today because of a holiday. but we went to shackeyra to start the day off. it was a super good lesson on the gospel of jesus christ and her cousin even seems really interested. she recognized that she came into the house at the time we were there as a sign from God. she lives near shackeyra but i will be teaching her. that is our area so it should be fun going out there. we also saw alwayne during the day. it was a really good lesson. when we all take it serious, his lessons really have the spirit in them. he just needs to show up to church 2 times in a row on time and then he will be baptized. better happen soon haha!

so this week was good. i super excited for yallahs. its starting to boom with missionary work so its gonna be such a great place to be for the next 4-6 months. 

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

1 Corinthians 10:13