Week 74

well...... im out of patois phrases for the week haha

this week was transfers. i got my new comp. his name is elder stewart, from houston, TX.

sorry if this letter is short. i forgot my journal at the house again haha.

Monday 1-12-15

well for pday today we went to port royal. we went and played capture the flag at one of the abandoned forts there. it was pretty sick. but i did realize how much i dont like capture the flag haha. there really is no point to it. plus, it really sucks when you get put in jail haha. teaching was just us going around to sister alvarenga and george so we could get some pictures for elder hall before he leaves. not a whole lot of actual teaching haha. the days that we end up going to town i hate. going into town is the very worst thing ever! i so want to limit it to once a month for only zone meetings.

Tuesday 1-13-15

we went around and got elder halls journal signed. all finished up for transfers tomorrow. i kinda forgot a lot of stuff that happened today. i do know that we went out to Whitehorse and got fed by sister stokes. that food was pretty dang good.

Wednesday 1-14-15

well i had to teach one final district meeting today. i found out like the morning of haha. i spent about half the day with an elder from constant springs. we had a good day. we were able to get in a few lessons and a good thought with sheika. then elder stewart came and i spent the rest of the day with him. we went up to sonya and had a lesson with her. she didnt read again. so we read with her and gave her an assignment to read a little more. man, people who are like me back home really make me sad, cause it reminds me of how retarded that i was then haha.

Thursday 1-15-15

well we had a really busy day. it was another day where i think every hour was filled up, we had a lesson in each hour, and our numbers today looked awesome! we went into sister hudsons yard like 3 times today for different people haha. i think the best lesson we had today would be with sister hudson tho. sheika and sister alvarenga started to rebuke her so hard for not coming to church. i just sat there and was thinking "this is awesome" the whole time haha. she really needs to hear it from some members instead of some missionaries. now given, i have never told her that bluntly, but it was still super awesome to see haha. she still made up some dumb excuse for not coming to church, so things are not going to be good for her if she doesnt change soon.

Friday 1-16-15

the best part of today was FNA. before that tho we went over to george and taught a little bit about the temple. hopefully he can start to make harder plans to go there. butfriday night activity had a good turn out again. we just need to start getting more investigators to show up now haha. but my former companion elder danvers showed up (the one in santa who got sent home). so i talked to him for the last part of it. it was good to talk to him again. still kinda the same guy, but he's sick haha.

Saturday 1-17-15

well today we went and saw angela, ritzans mom. it was.... interesting. we ended up talking all about some super deep doctrine. i didnt say much tho. elder stewart kinda taught the whole thing.... not too much i remember other than that haha.

Sunday 1-18-15

church was really good today but kinda bad too. we had like 50 people there by the end of it and like 40 were there for the sacrament. the numbers are now starting to make a good jump. but youth class today was way bad. one investigator said that she wanted to go to a different class because people in youth class dont talk. only like 4 or 5 people really talk in the class. alwayne even rebuked them at the end of it. we might split the class tho so that will hopefully help. but we finally got to see akeemo today. not really the best lesson. hopefully next time we can have the spirit in it more.

so i think thats the week haha. hopefully i remembered enough stuff. the mission is awesome tho. its stress, but its some of the best stress that a person can ever have. infact, its THE BEST stress ever haha.

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

Hebrews 11

Week 73

ya wa gwan mi generals?

this week was pretty good. elder hall and i had a super sick lesson. and we got transfer calls.

Monday 1-5-15

today was just exhausting. we went out to morant bay and played basketball for a few hours. it was fun but super hot. the rest of the day we were just so beat. the day was spread pretty even tho. we went up to sheika and gave her a blessing. she just felt a little bit dark for some reason. we also went down to george as usual and shared a short thought. pretty normal monday i guess haha.

Tuesday 1-6-15

well today sure was.... interesting. first thing we did was go to see jessica. it was actually the best lesson we have ever had with her. i was way shocked. we ended up going over baptisms for the dead. we might have to drop her again but we will see. then we saw sister fisher, a member who just moved to yallahs from montego bay. since she'll be here for a while we decided to get to know her a bit. well she answered every question that we could possibly have. she ended up telling us her life story. our lesson with sister hudson later in the night really had the spirit in it as well. she just did the same old thing tho. played it off and made up excuses.

Wednesday 1-7-15

well we had district meeting in kingston today. it was pretty good. i taught about having the spirit with us more. things are really gonna get going here in yallahs. but we ended up spending the whole day in kingston. elder hall went and got cleared to come back to yallahs so i got him back today as well. thank heavens for that haha. he is just gonna be changing the bandages on his arm now. i just dont wanna see the arm. last time i saw it i just about passed out haha. we didnt do anything in yallahs cause we got back like right at 9.

Thursday 1-8-15

man were we busy today. we had 7 lessons that were numbers. thats the most i have had since i was in spanish town! all but one of them was a recent convert or less active lesson tho. but the one lesson we had with an investigator was sick! we went over to Akeemo and taught him the restoration. he was making awesome connections, understanding everything we taught, felt the spirit so strongly, and committed softly to a baptism day ofFebruary 28th! it really was the most powerful lesson that i have ever had on my mission. akeemo said that he would be the first one at church every week if he knew that the church was true! he is a big seeker of truth and is so interested in the gospel! he loves spending time with us and hates when we have to leave haha! teaching him is one of the greatest things ever!

Friday 1-9-15

teaching today was a bit lame. we did get to see sister fisher and teach the restoration tho. that lesson was actually super good. her daughter is super smart! even tho they are less active, the 8, almost 9, year old told us the entire joseph smith story. in great detail as well. it was so cool!!!!! then FNA was way cool. we had a really big turn our. i just really hope that that can continue. we need more people to be showing up. it just goes to show you.... FOOD IS DOCTRINE haha!!!!!

Saturday 1-10-15

today was interesting. our lesson with alwayne today was super lame. we joke around too much with him. we are gonna start taking those lessons more serious. he needs to be keeping his covenants. oh ya we also got our transfer calls today. i will be getting a new comp. elder hall is going to old harbour, and i will be getting elder stewart. he's from houston texas. he was my ZL when i was out in santa so im way excited to serve with him. sad that elder hall is leaving of course. we were doing some really good work here. then for FHE tonight at sister alvarengas we watched 17 miracles. it was super good. everyone really loved it. something about that movie always brings the spirit haha.

Sunday 1-11-15

i find it funny how people in jamaica come in right after the sacrament. we had a lot of people at church. but they all came in after the sacrament was over. gets me every time haha. we didnt do much else today tho. since elder hall is leaving we are going around having people sign his journal. always a great part of transfers haha. its not till people leave tho that it really kicks in that they are in fact gone. should be good in a few weeks or so haha.

so thats the week. its kinda weird cause i think that i am on my last 6 weeks in yallahs. i really hope not tho. i have really come to love this area so much. when you really put your heart in the work, the lord does wonders for you. can only imagine what life woulda been like back home if i had my heart in the gospel before. but its a new chapter, so make it good haha.

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

D&C 84:85

Week 72

wa gwan people mi daya pon the gully side ya na.

HAPPY 2015! well i spent my new years in the hospital. so i dont know
how good of a start that is to the week haha.

Monday 12-29-14

well we went into kingston for my birthday today. its so weird being
20 now. it feels like a big jump haha. we went to a place called south
avenue grill. man that place is good! and expensive haha. i spent like
$4000 just on myself. the steak i got was 2100 all on its own. it was
the best steak ever tho! i guess it was the good part of the cow.
like, the very best part that everyone loves. but i wont be going
there on my mission again unless i serve in kingston. the trip today
made me realize how much i hate going into kingston. it causes so much
stress and screws up our pday so bad. and since it was my birthday,
the other elders floured me haha. but no pics. they did it while i was
in the shower. dont think you wanna see that haha. i felt like i was
stepping in a dumpling haha. but its all in the spirit. as for
teaching today, we saw sister stanley and went over diligence. then we
went and saw leonard and sister williams. the kids there wanted to
play a game so we played black magic with them. it was funny haha.

Tuesday 12-30-14

well i did a tradeoff today. but i got to stay in my own area for once
haha. the day was pretty good tho. we had a really good lesson with
sonya tho. she needs to be reading from the book of mormon more tho.
she reads from the church magazines, which is good, but not from the
book of mormon. then we had something at the church called reach out
night. it was basically home and visiting teaching. it was a day that
we had a lot of numbers today, but we need to put those into baptisms
and reactivations soon.

Wednesday 12-31-14

well elder hall has been having a weird thing on his arm the past week
and a half or so, and he woke up with his arm all swollen. so the APs
had to come and get us and take us to the hospital to get it looked
at. it ended up taking all day long. the doctors said that he needed
to get surgery to drain it (it was an absyst or something like that)
so i ended up sleeping the night in a hospital room in a chair while
my comp was passed out from anistedic haha. so no teaching done, no
district meeting done, just me talking with the APs the whole day
haha.

Thursday 1-1-15

well elder hall and i were in the hospital until like 5pm today. it
was so boring. i did get a lot of reading done tho. thank heavens for
that haha. but we still got no teaching done at all. by the time we
got out of kingston, it was like 7pmand its an hour or so drive to
yallahs. but right now i am serving with elder newcomb. elder hall was
kept in downtown kingston so he could be close to the doctor. he needs
to get the gauz changed each day so they took elder fowkes from there
and brought him with me. his cousin is the one in yallahs so they are
serving together now (special promise from pres haha) and i am with
elder newcomb. we should be back to normal by next wednesday tho.

Friday 1-2-15

i super planned by myself today haha. elder fowkes came and helped a
bit tho. i let elder newcomb go and super plan in his area. it was
interesting haha. but then almost every appointment we had fell
through. we tried to see a lot of people but no one was home. we did
have a good turnout at friday nightactivity tho. we played uno with
like 9 of us. most fun that we have had it in a long time. next week
should be way good tho.

Saturday 1-3-14

today was super good for us. we went out to 14 mile and saw a less
active member. he is a bit of a beggar tho. its annoying. bu then we
saw a guy by the name of Javaunnie. he is real cool. we just need him
to come to church. he accepts the message of the restoration, but
doesnt wanna leave his church too bad. then we also saw ritzans
family. their ok right now. hopefully soon come they will improve with
the message. our lesson with Akeemo was good too. he even invited 2 of
his friends up to hear us too. he has some faith issues, but him and
his friends seem way prepared. we did end up running into a funeral
tho. our former investigator, jessica, i guess had her mom die a few
weeks ago and they did the funeral today. i felt very bad for her. and
as weird as this sounds, i hope that it prepares her to hear the
gospel.

Sunday 1-4-14

church was great today! we had like 44 people there! akeemo even came
with a new friend. he came late but he said that he loved church. and
he is even reminding us about our next appointment. he so needs to get
baptized! youth class was super big too. we had like 15 people in the
class. so good to see haha. then the rest of the day we saw a few less
actives. the funnest part was when we went over to Sonya and floured
her. we just had to since it was her birthday today haha. we had elder
newcomb get on the roof and give her a big surprise haha. i forgot my
camera at that point so i didnt get any photos. but it was super funny
haha!


so thats the week. hopefully the subject didnt scare you all haha.
having 2 days off really made me member how much i love being a
missionary. there is a special joy in watching the change that people
make. something that you can never replace

Love,
Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought
D&C 93:24

Week 71

well.... hey everyone.....

sorry if this note is short. i dont have my journal again today. we just got back from kingston.

haha dont worry, this week was pretty good. not the best week ever but defiantly not the worst.

Monday 12-22-14

well today we relaxed for pday. elder newcomb and fowkes went out to kingston for something so elder hall and i were stuck bored in yallahs. funniest part of the day is when i had a random bum from Morant Bay start to cuss me out. he was begging us and i told him we had nothing to give, so he kept asking. i then told him to "gu we" (go away). he didnt really like that haha. he started calling us BCs, BBCs, white bast---, some f bombs, and so on so forth. you could say that he was just a bit pissed off haha. later in the day we went and saw george. he was feeling quite down with what happened on sunday. cant blame him really. so we just went and tried to cheer him up.

Tuesday 12-23-14

today was another day of a lot of biking. we saw sister stanley in the morning, which was a really good lesson. we talked about the importance of reading and praying every day. sister stanley is such a good member. all she really needs to be doing is coming to church more. shouldnt really be too hard for that one. the spirit seems to be working on her quite well. then we biked out to easington to see shantel. not too sure whats going to happen there yet. our lesson was really awful. no spirit, and no organization. we cant see her till next week so it will be interesting to see what happens with that. then we went to sonya and had a pretty good lesson with her. she seems really down with the church and all that so we just told her that we are only here to invite. we then told her our own conversion stories. it was a pretty spiritual lesson. hopefully it has some effect on her.

Wednesday 12-24-14

today was a pretty interesting day. we didnt really have a lot of lessons cause it seems like no one really wanted to see us. but we were able to find some people today. the biggest part of the day was when we went to sister alvarengas home and did family home evening. we were lacking some more fun so tonight we just read some christmas stories with them and then played some games. elder hall taught some people how to play rook while others did dominoes, and then 1 or 2 people sat around and watched. honestly, it was a fun time. next week on "watch night" should be way fun.

Thursday 12-25-14

haha today was interesting. to start off we went and delivered a lot of christmas messages to people in the morning. then we all talked to our families. fun time there haha. we ended up going to alwayne for a quick visit, and he fed us a bit of food haha. unplanned meal appointments are so awesome! then we went over to george and had a small thought. he then fed us in a planned meal appointment. being fed more than once is so hard for me haha. i need to learn how to pack even more food still haha. but the last christmas on the mission was pretty fun. looking forward to next years tho.

Friday 12-26-14

well the only lesson that we ended up having today was with sister stanley. we talked a lot about charity. its not really something that she has a problem with, but elder hall and i decided to go over the christlike attributes with her. its always good to have a little bit of a self evaluation on that haha. should be way fun to do. friday night activity was us playing dominoes again. it was interesting cause a crazy member of the branch came, and was the only other one there, and just about beat us all haha. and for everyone out there, dominoes is all skill, not luck. haha

Saturday 12-27-14

today we did a lot of service. we went over to georges house and chopped some yard next door to him. i guess that his sister owns that property so they are gonna finish a house on it and then move in there when they can. we are gonna be sure to go and help them out with that as much as possible. then we had to go like 3-4 miles away and do some more service. i was dead tired haha. but after all that, we went to a kid named Akeemo that we found on christmas eve. he is way sick! he is planning on running for the university of maryland in 2016. we had a great first lesson with him. we started talking about the atonement and then it somehow got into him asking some pretty deep questions about where God came from. we didnt answer it yet but told him we would get back to it in a different lesson. one of the best first lessons that i have ever had. he even told us that he normally doesnt like to talk religion but with us its way cool. he goes to church right up from us so getting him to come shouldnt be too hard.

Sunday 12-28-14

today was a sad day. we went up to joyce and had to pre drop her. she isnt really doing that much work. an interesting situation came up too. i dont think i can say it but its super unexpected. hopefully it all gets sorted out. but that really was all that happened today. we had a missionary come back i guess. formerly elder staurt came back to the branch. he was the ranch president from like feuary to may. so we had quite a bit of people at church haha. especially a lot of white people. here a quote to put on the quote board tho. im scared of white people haha. they just look so weird!

well thats the week i guess. not really too eventful haha

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

Luke 17:32