Week 79

Hey everyone!

sorry about no letter last week. idk what happened to it. i cant even remember if i did one or not haha

This week was amazing! we got so much work done! but we did get our transfer calls and it pissed me off a bit. ill get to that later tho.....

Monday 2-16-15

it was one of those relaxing days. we took it way easy for the day. but when we went out teaching we had a good day too. we saw a new person named samantha today. she had come to church yesterday so we set up a time to see her today. she has some really good desires. its a bit weird cause she is one of those girls who works at a bar............ but she has good desires and thats what matters haha. then we saw george like we do every week. it was a really productive pday. something thats pretty rare but sweet when it happens haha!

Tuesday 2-17-15

today was pretty interesting. we had a good lesson with Ileen on the restoration. she seems to have understood ti pretty well. our lesson with Okara was super great too. sheika had a really good lesson plan for her. we taught about repentance. she got the whole thing so thats good. she committed to do it. next up tho is the Law o Chastity. that should be interesting haha. the week so far has been really good. hopefully it keeps up.

Wednesday 2-18-15

we had zone meeting today and the rule that i was dreading came in today. we now cannot teach ANY FEMALE without a male being there. im really scared about what this is going to do with our teaching. we were still able to see samantha in the night tho. she brought a few males over. that lesson was super good! she seems way prepared. hopefully it continues. yallahs has really been having a lot of people get prepared. this branch is gonna grow pretty fast!

Thursday 2-19-15

i went on a split today. the first one that i have ever done on my mission haha. elder newcomb had to do some BP crap so elder stewart went with elder fowkes and i got to take around Pete Meddow today. he is way sick. everyone was super glad to see him too. he really helped to get the effects of this new rule out of the way too. it gave us a male at each of the lessons we saw Ileen and went over the Book of Mormon. turns that she cant read tho. but we committed sis stanley to help her out with that. then we also saw sonya and went over the first part of the FTSOY. kinda a lame lesson. our lesson with sis lee was great too. her and george really hit it off. things are a lot better with her than i expected them to be. yallahs is booming haha.

Friday 2-20-15

today we saw Okara and taught her the law of chastity. it was actually a really good lesson. it was super spiritual and no awkwardness at all. okara continues to impress me every time that we go there. games night was sick too. we had a lot of people come and had a lot of games for the night. the best if dominoes tho haha. cant wait to be passionate about that game back home haha. 

Saturday 2-21-15

well today we had the transfer calls. i found out that i will be going to the Boulevard Ward in Kingston. my new comp is gonna be elder pullan. i think he is from Heber, Utah. im kinda pissed tho cause i really dont wanna leave yallahs. this place is the best place that i have ever been to. i would so take here over home any day of the week. it changed my whole mission around and now i just have to leave. but elder pullan is cool so im excited for that. im sure going to miss this place tho. we went to a baptism for Sis Nicely today. i taught her for 2 weeks when i first came to Yallahs. elder newcomb and fowkes have been teaching her since. she finally got baptized haha. it was way sick. her kids should be baptized here soon too. they just have to pick a day. then we got brother campbell to come with us to sister lee and samantha. both of the lessons were freaking sick!  the new rule has actually been doing some wonders for us. most of our discussions have come after the rule came. so it looks like things are going to be good for that. then FHE was pretty good. it just feels really strange to start having people sign my journal. i wish it was something that i didnt have to do. i wanna stay in yallahs

Sunday 2-22-15

today was super sad. i had to give my farewell testimony in church today. i really do love this place so much. its by far my favorite area. i cant wait to come back here in october and/or chirstmas!  after church i went on another split with alwayne for the day. we went and dropped Orasha cause he hasnt come to church once. then we went up to Sonya so i could prep them both on the lesson. the lesson with okara was on eternal marriage. the lesson was really great. there were a few..... odd..... comments made during it but Okara said that she really wants to be married in the temple and she committed to do it. then after the lesson the 3 of us ended up talking about some other things. someone said that they really wanted to see a super bad movie so i spent the next 30-45 minutes trying to get them to commit to not have anything to do with the movie. they were pretty stubborn about it, almost as much as me haha. they were really sad but they finally and honestly committed to not watching the movie or anything close to it. it took a while but it was time well spent. i think i found the reason why i was here tho. i got here when i did so i could get help from one of the members while i was trying to reactivate them. the steps they took when i first met them are so sick and i hope they stay on the path. finding friends like that in areas is the best thing ever! they are a huge reason why i stayed out on my mission.

so thats the week. it was super good. im way sad to be leaving yallahs of course (if you didnt get my ranting in this email haha). yallahs has really turned into my favorite place in the whole world. areas on your mission are like vapor, they are there, and then its gone (see James4:14). i wish that this vapor was bigger. i wanna stay in yallahs for the rest of my mission so bad. i really have come to love the people here. i felt the love when i got here and that is another reason why i am still out here. i dont know what woulda happened had i not served a mission, but i dont want to find out. serving a mission has given me a great testimony of this gospel and i have made the very best friends ever down here!

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

Acts 5:15 with Matthew 14:36

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Week 76

hey everyone.

sorry about last week. we got back late from kingston so i had no time to email at all but to sum up last week. it was really great. we picked up a former investigator that i taught a few lessons too before and she is progressing really well. her name is Okara and she has a baptism day forthe 21st of february. so here is this week (#76)

Monday 1-26-15

well of course for pday we went into kingston to play basketball. we played with the constant springs elders and the zone leaders. it was way fun, but i still hate going into kingston. the bush is where i am the most comfortable. probably where i will end up living back home haha. out in the middle of no where. teaching was alright. just saw one person. monday nights are so hard when things blow out.

Tuesday 1-27-15

today was kinda a bummer. we went up to a less active member, and found out that he is crazy. he has been baptized for a year now and knows basically none of the doctrine. we went over the baptism interview questions and he failed it hard. things are gonna be really interesting with that for the next while. then for all of the other lessons we had today we went around and showed some short movies on the D&C dvd set. so not really a super exciting day.

Wednesday 1-28-15

zone meeting today wasnt so great. kinda a bit of a rambler. but we had a good day when we came back tho. our lesson with okara was a bit shakey but we did learn that we need to be a lot simpler with her. we have another lesson with her later in the week so it will be great then. then we went over to Sonya and had a super good lesson. we just went over expectations that she has for herself in the gospel and then the ones that God has for her. elder stewart and i have been doing that with a lot of people and it works out super well. she made some really great goals and understood the goals that we/God has for her and she committed to do them. one of the best expectations lessons that i have had in the few weeks ive been doing them.

Thursday 1-29-15

it was a pretty good day. we saw 2 new people as well as sister Lee. the 2 new ones are so new that i still dont know what to think of them. sister lees lesson was good, but it was also a lesson i think that she wanted to get out of cause she was tired. she had just gotten home from work. we tried doing visual aids, getting her involved more, but she seemed way tired. i think she is meant more for elder stewart than me. oh well. as long as she gets baptized haha. 

Friday 1-30-15

well today was a blowout. every single thing that we had planned fell through. so the only thing that we got done was FNA. it was still way fun tho. not as big of a turn out but elder fowkes and i did 2 1/2 hours of french and cutthroat dominoe. cant wait to be playing that more at home haha! :D

Saturday 1-31-15

we did pretty good for the day. we spent 90 minutes rebuking brother mckenson. he is a less active that has not been to church in like 10 years. he would not make a solid commitment, and elder stewart and i were not leaving that house without him saying he would come to church. he finally did tho so thats good. later in the day we finally got Sonya to come and do missionary work with us! she only came for one lesson, but she did a great job! we took her to see Okara and she taught her part of the lesson in like 3 seconds so simply! i so wish i could do that haha. okara even retained it all so much! i need to start doing that haha. for family home evening we taught on family history work. i always get rebuked when i teach that haha. but im gonna do some back home. yes dad, that means you'll have a friend to help you out haha. so today was super good. its gonna be one of those "sleeper days" haha.

Sunday 2-1-15

well church sucked today. we were supposed to have a special conference for the caribbean but the internet here sucked so it never happened for us. we had like 45 people come, and they didnt get much. sister fisher did get something tho haha. she ended up quoting something she heard. it was only like 5 seconds long but she still got at least one thing from it haha. so we had a testimony meeting instead. we'll be doing fast sunday next week. it was way good tho. Okara was gonna do it, but she was shy, and sister lee got up and gave a simple one about how church blessed her week. so sick! this next week we should be doing a lot of work. so far we have had 20 lessons and 22 lessons. we really are trying to get to 30 so we are well on our way.

so thats the week. not like a super good week but we worked hard and thats what counts. we should be having some baptisms soon so pray hard haha

Love,

Elder Kurt Meacham

Scripture Thought

Alma 34:8-10

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