09.19.11

Me telling McCready to walk us all the way home

Nursery before...

Nursery after!

This week we were really wanting to have a good week. Especially after last week. So we were getting ready to knock a lot of doors and to do whatever we had to do. Monday was pretty cool we went to the turtle farm here and played with some turtles. They have little pools that you can pick up the turtles, we didn't know that we were at the wrong pool. We were picking up all the big turtles and then I look at the map and see that the turtle touching tank is across the park....oh well. It was fun got some good pictures. The first one that i picked up i held it for a little bit then put it in the tank and it totally splashed me, I got the last laugh tho because we found out while we were there on the tour that all the turtles in those tanks are ones that are sold the the restaurants on island to make turtle soup. what now turtle!!! But yea all the turtles there are used to sell to restaurants. Tuesday morning we went to follow up with an investigator who was at church and she wasn't there so we decided to knock some doors. We knocked a few then I saw an open on the second story, so I'm going up the stairs when I totally biff it and fall down a couple of the stairs. I recover pretty good, then we go knock the door and the lady saw me which was good because she invited us in. She was from south America, we had a really good lesson with her and committed her to a baptismal date. That same night we went to Jacks for dinner, while we were waiting elder Mccready got stung by a bee on the neck. It was pretty funny. We really had a good week this week and we have 6 people with baptismal dates. So our hard work has really paid off. Thursday it was the middle of the day and nobody was home so we decided to go to the local hardware store and look for some potential priesthood.....we ended up talking to one woman. It was a good idea on paper. Friday night we had another good lesson with lesbi and allison every time that we teach them the spirit is super strong. After we saw them we went and taught a new investigator for the first time we taught her and her family. It was a really good lesson and they came to church yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. Everything just is so much better when you have people to teach and when you get to see them start to make changes in their lives that makes a huge difference in how happy they become. Sometimes we meet crazy people, like the lady that we met Saturday, don't worry I have that lesson voice recorded but its all worth it when we find someone who is willing to make there life better. This week was really what we needed and we hope to make the next one just as good. Sunday we had dinner at Chris and Aubrey's with the Airharts and a new guy that moved in to the branch. It was a lot of fun. We were walking to their apartment and passed some coconut trees and Jordan loves coconut so we had to think of a way to get them from a tall tree. By far the best solution submitted was me getting on the shoulders of Elder Mccready, we scored 2 coconuts a very awkward stare from the guy that walked by. It was a good week and if all goes according to plan we should be having a baptism on Friday. I really learned a lot this week and I think studying is one of my favorite times of the day. This morning Elder Mccready asked my why i keep empty plastic water bottles in the fridge, at first I didn't have an answer then I realized that it was because my pops does that back home and has done it since i can remember....psycho. I forgot to say that Saturday we helped Angie, our recent convert, paint the nursery, it looks really good.

09.12.11

Had some things happen this week some good, some not so good. Tuesday we had an awesome day we did some knocking at a new place during the day and people were actually there, we talked to a lady named eilsandria, Elder Montgomery met her a long time ago she offered her company to clean the church. Well she was cleaning an apartment here and we talked to her and set up a time to meet her again, she seemed to be really interested. Then we did some more knocking and met some people that were not really interested. We drove to Prospect to do some finding there. We are doing a lot of finding right now because the ones we were working with stopped progressing. We went to prospect and were driving down the main road and then I said there are some cars in that duplex lets knock there, so we turned around and we talked to what would normally be 2 star investigators but there jobs are a big problem. They are flight attendants, so they are really never home. We had an awesome lesson with both of them, the spirit was super strong but there jobs are a huge monkey wrench. Tuesday night Jordan came teaching with us to what were our star investigators. We had another super powerful super good lesson with them Jordan did an awesome job, then at the end the mother say that she really doesn't see herself leaving her church we know that she and her daughter felt the spirit, so this was like a major face palm moment. I was like you got to be kidding me. But it was still a good lesson and they said they would read and pray. but they haven't been returning our calls. I feel like Jim Carey when he is calling Steven and keeps getting the machine, look up the clip. Wednesday we started off with good momentum, we had a good district meeting. We went and knocked lakeside again, and met a girl named Olivia who just moved here. had a good lesson with her and never heard from her again, Her boyfriend is Punjabi whatever that is. We also went and saw the member that we helped move the heaviest TVs in the world, and she came in and said i have good news and bad news, the news.....I forgot to cook for you and I have to move apartments again. Reader, you tell me where the good news is in there. So we set up a time Saturday to move her down 3 flights of stairs over one building and up 3 flights of stairs, man I love heavy TVs. We had lunch with an investigator and a friend of his and a member, the friend was a really old lady, she has a condo on the beach, we got some cool pics. In the evening we went knocking in prospect again and found what we thought at the time were star investigators, I think people have just been telling us what we want to here, until we leave. So this is what it feels like to be treated like an object. Thursday was pretty much the same story, we tried to see the people that we found a second time and it didn't work. So when that happens we do a lot of less active work which really paid dividends, we had 8 come back to church yesterday. So that was really cool this week. Friday we knocked on the door of a big radio dj here, her name is Morgan and she does the morning show here. She was really cool and had really good questions, and it was a good first lesson. But after we left there I felt like we just got bamboozled because she probably is really good at acting interested and asking questions because she interviews people all the time on her show. She probably is what the Cheshire cat off of Alice in Wonderland would be, very crafty with things called words. We had a lesson with Elisandria at the church, remember the girl that seemed really interested, well after having a really spiritual lesson she called us the next day and said she didn't want to switch churches. me "did you pray? her "no." me "will you" her "no" me " long exhale ehhhhhhh............

Then we met Angie at the church and had a lesson on fasting with her. Chris and Aubrey came and they did awesome, it was a really good lesson. It was really cool to have them there. Teaching with members is really good, especially a lesson on fasting. so we were glad they could be there. After the lesson, our dinner appointment cancelled, so they invited us over because they are awesome. We went to see some people, then headed over there, Chris was trying to get his Internet up and working so it was funny to here him talking on the phone with customer support. Lets just say there was a lot of yes mams and no mams and eventually a hang up and call back. Dinner was awesome tho. It was taquitos, nachos,buffalo wings watermelon which was the best watermelon in the world and Mountain Dew. It hit the spot. Chirs and Aubrey are awesome, so grateful that they are here. Saturday was a really bad day, our appointments canceled then our back ups canceled then our back up back ups canceled. So we did a lot of knocking and mosquito's were dive bombing us like the red barron.

Sunday was my moms Birthday. Happy Birthday Mom!!!! Church was good really good lessons. Brother Palmer had another awesome lesson. Then we went and saw the Rhones and then taught a new lady Charmaine. After that we went and picked up a new member Ian Kolbaba, his last name is awesome. I call him Kolbaba. He served his mission in Nicaragua. He cam and taught Eddy with us. Then we went to dinner at the Chris and Aubrey's and it was really good stir fry. So as you can see this week was really kinda tuff but next week will be a lot better. At the end of Saturday I felt like dumb and dumber "We got no food, we got no jobs.....Our pets heads are fallin offf!!!!!!!!!! When are we going to catch a break?"
But i know God knows what he is doing and I know this week will be for my good.

I got a little artsy with my pictures.

Walk Off

09.05.11

So this week was really awesome. We went to the hospitals here and put our names on the chaplain's list, so we are going to be able to go and see some people there. The main purpose of it is that it may lead us to more people. We also went to the old folks home here on the island to See if we could do some service, no its not called del boca vista, its called the pines. It seriously is the saddest place in the world. I asked this old guy John what he liked to do there and this was his response "uhh, go mad". It was pretty funny and sad at the same time. I had to feed an old lady and all she wanted to do was eat her cake. It was really pretty depressing. Im really glad that grams can take care of herself and that she no matter what will never go into a place like that, i wont let it happen. The nurses there are like the nurses in happy gilmore. We did a lot of service this week. We helped Jackie ebanks move into another apartment in the heat of the day and there were 5 of us there and 2 of us working, guess which 2 haha. We moved what i think were the heaviest TVs in the world they were huge and super heavy and of course she was moving to the 3rd floor. I biffed it pretty bad on one of our trips up with the behemoth TV. We also moved some furniture for sis Robinson, and she also lived on the top floor. We moved her furniture up and put it together. This whole week we have been trying to build up our teaching pool. So we have been knocking a lot of doors in the heat and we really didn't have too much success this week. But we are planing on a super star week this week. There was on really cool experience that we had, A lady named Lesbia and her family kinda came up out of the blue, Elder Montgomery and I knocked their door way back in June and she didn't seem to interested but we went and saw them this week and they have been wanting to learn more about Joseph Smith, she said they read the pamphlet and haven't been able to get it out of their minds, but they lost our number. So its really cool that we got to see them again, I hope everything keeps going well with it. We had a branch talent show Friday night and Elder Mccready and I did a zoolander walk off. It was a lot of fun. http://airhart.tumblr.com/post/9818406770/the-walk-off you can check it out here. We had a really good Sunday, had some good investigators come to church and some good lessons. Then we went to dinner at Jordan and Margarets and it was a potato bar and it was really good, I love potatoes. Just so everybody knows the box was full.

08.29.11

Hello everyone. This blog is going to be for the last 2 weeks since I missed a week. Well last week Elder McCready and I both got really sick so for about 3 and a half days we could not leave our tiny one room apartment. so really last week there was no exciting news ............EXCEPT that Angie was baptized on August 20th at approximately 7Pm. So yeah it was a really good end to a really bummer weak. Angie is a stud, she is doing so well its crazy, she loves church and really has taken it all on. She told us the other day that she has never been happier in her life. It has been awesome. She always thanks me for not giving up on her. I don't know if I talked about this lesson on the blog but We almost lost Angie. It was a couple days before Elder Monty left and it was almost our last lesson with her, she said that she had chosen a church and that she didn't like the Book of Mormon. I remember just saying a short prayer to myself asking for help for what to say and do and out of nowhere I was getting things to say and she says herself that it was that lesson that kept her from closing the door. It was probably one of the best lessons on my mission and it resulted in her getting baptized and now she is an awesome member who wants to plan to go to the Salt lake Temple. It is so awesome to go over there and see how happy she is and for her to tell us how happy she is and how good she feels.

The next Monday, the 22nd, we flew to Jamaica to listen to Elder Vinnas of the 70 speak. He was touring our mission. It was really cool, he shared a lot of cool things on the Atonement, he answered a lot of questions about the Atonement that I have spent a couple of days trying to find the answer to. It was a really cool experience. Wednesday we got back to Cayman and went teaching. Yaimy, the Cuban investigator we have been teaching, has a testimony which is awesome, now we just need to work on getting her to church more consistently. But she is cool, she is actually a pro singer and she played a song for us and it was really good, she is planning on singing at the talent show this Friday for the branch. We have something really good planned for the talent show too, there is also going to be a karaoke machine there so yes I will be flexing the golden pipes to some celine and probably some Beyonce. Its times like these I wish I was part of the Von Trapt family. Our investigator Chris, the one we found because of the boat, made it to church yesterday. That was really cool he is an awesome guy and just needs some positive influences in his life. We set up a time to see a member's wife who is not a member so that is really exciting, this guy actually founded the Canadian football league and owned a team. He and his wife are really nice and have a lot of really cool experiences that they have had in there lives. So I'm really excited to meet with them more. Hopefully we can help is wife into the church. I'm also waiting on letters from 2 mysterious somebodies, hopefully they arrive.