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