Monday, January 17, 2011

First blog post... I dont even know what a blog is



So this is my first blog post. I was talked into doing a blog by elder montgomer and his family. So i will now start a weekly blog that will consist of the happenings for the week. So to start off i am in montego bay for my second area and it is night day difference from spanish town. Spanish town was legit and im convinced that it is the best area in the mission. But Montego bay is a nice area that the cruise ships and alot of tourists come. The houses here are huge. My companion name is elder colucci and there is also a senior couple that works in the area and they are the sorensen's and they are awesome. Sister Sorense's favorite movie is dumb and dumber so that is a big plus. We quote some of the lines back and forth. So elder Peterson is my zone leader and has been since spanish town. He is a member of the trinity for those who done know the correct trinity is Elder Peterson the father, elder montgomery the son and Elder Randle the Holy ghost. Elder Peterson was elder Montomery's trainer. But anyway this week we had 3 investigators attend church for the first time so that was awesome. Its always nice to have investigators come to church when they say they are going to come. It was about time to start the sacrament and NO investigators were there yet and i started to get a little down but then i saw terrianne walk up with her family and two other investigators came and i got really excited when i saw that, it pretty much made my day. Then we followed up with her after church and she said that she loved it and will be there next week and her kids loved it to. Also this week we walked very very far to an area called norwood. (How far a walk we uh walked)
Norwood is all the way out in the boonies, when we got there we had a pretty interesting experience, a drunk guy started chattin at us and callin us names, so i told him to "take time" which in patwa means like cool down or chill, so then he sprints across the road to the shop we were at talking to the lady who runs it. He comes over smelling like alcohal and and starts talking about all this stuff asking saying that he was a gangster and that he killed 2 people before. So when your approached by someone like this in Jamaica for me i cant help but mess with them a little bit, so i started quoting lines from the song "man it feels good to be a gangsta" so then we are talking about some other stuff and he looks in elder colucci's eyes and told him that he had 3 races in him and the he was and african. Then i was like why cant i be an african and he said No! your ugoslovian and when he said that i started laughing. He didnt like that so he came up to me and said " do you know patwa" i said ya then he said "do you know what a BC is" I said ya and you better not be calling me that, then he started laughing and shook my hand and said "alright man yuh chris" which means you cool. So that was pretty fun, its little things like that, that can get you thru the day. That same day we accidently got into a bilbe bash with some JW's. But man it was a far walk. We walk her because mobay has huge hills that would be very hard to ride a bike up. Sometimes i want to try so i can feel like im lance armstrong. Lets see what else, the house we live in is pretty nice and comes with a micrwave which is heavenly. Our neighbor has a weight bench that i work out with every day so thats nice. So that is a rundown of the week. Blogging is weird...



(Sitting atop my throne overlooking the kingdom)

1 comment:

  1. Kurt - pretty good for your first blog post. If you need me to do anything just let me know. Also, you can look look at our blog, if you want to see the updates with our family.

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