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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