Short this week...
Back in jamaica. Feels good to be home, I had someone try to feed me blended up goat brain and intestine in a soup but I told them of my condition of being allergic to goat so it all worked out... haha. But ya its good to be back, the people are awesome and Elder Mackey is awesome to serve with. We have really good zone. Driving in Jamaica is crazy but its a lot of fun. The brach here is kinda struggling but we are going to do our best to help it.
Monday, November 14, 2011
11.07.11
Well its my last Monday in Grand Cayman, and my last week. What a week it has been. A lot of good stuff happened. We had an awesome lesson with an investigator who was from the Phillipines. We had Aaron, a member, translate for us, it was awesome and the spirit was really strong. One highlight was that we go up to this house to knock and elder mccready is about to knock, his hand is like an inch away from the door, then the door opens and 2 huge snarling German Shepherds are leaping at us barking and trying to jump and charge us, their owner didn't know we were out there and had them on leashes to take them for a walk. He was just and old Englishman and he barely had the dogs, I took off down the driveway and elder mccready was frozen in shock. As soon as I saw they were on leashes I went back but it really got the ole heart pumpin, it was really funny. One of the biggest highlights of this week was the visit from Elder Vinas of the 70. We got to drive him around and go to his meetings with him and have lunch with him and his wife. It was really cool. The spirit is really strong with him, just being around both of them is really incredible. It was such a great blessing, how many people get to be around a member of the 70? It was really cool. He gave us some good counsel and some cool info on the 12 apostles and the Prophet. I'm never going to forget having this opportunity. I'm flying back to Jamaica tomorrow but am going through Miami first so I'm pretty sure I'm going to be on the same flight with them. It seriously was really cool. One thing he told us is that the scriptures are full of patterns and that the more patterns that we find the more we understand the scriptures. He also said that we should study the scriptures for the calling that we have, every time that we get a new calling our study of the scriptures starts over again in relation to our calling. The Atonement allows us to suffer with joy, we don't get to choose if we suffer but we do get to choose if we suffer with joy or not. The gospel it self is really centered around the Atonement and progression is centered around the Atonement and the Temple. The Atonement is the central process of every cycle and procedure in the gospel. I have loved my time here in grand cayman it has been such a blessing. I love it. I feel like I'm leaving the branch stronger than when I found it and I am so lucky to have been able to serve here. The people here are great and I have had some great examples. I am thankful to all of them. I have had some great memories here, and I will never forget them. I'm going to miss all the people here.
10.31.11
Calton and Jack
Pre-Baptism
Me and Vinny, a vet student, he dressed up as Elder Randle
Jordan was a tiger
Chris and Aubrey dressed up as 49er fans
Sunday after the baptism
This week we had a baptism. His name is Calton Brown. He is awesome. He probably is the most prepared person that I have taught on my mission. It was crazy how perfect everything was. I am really grateful to Heavenly Father to have been able to be here for his baptism before I go back to Jamaica. We had about 30 people at his service to support him including Jack, one of the recent converts and friend of Calton, got to baptize him, and that was really special. The weather this whole past week has been really really wet, it rained everyday and it was a heavy rain. When it rains like that its hard to be on the street working because nobody here wants to talk to you when your wet and everyone does not like the rain here. So we tried to see a lot of members this week and didn't get a chance to find too many new people. The branch had a Halloween party here and that was a lot of fun. There were a lot of good costumes and a lot of fun activities. I lost the donut eating contest. We found out yesterday that Elder Vinas of the 70 and President Hendricks are coming out here this weekend so hopefully I am here for that, because that would be really cool. Umm that is all I can think of.
Jordan was a tiger Chris and Aubrey dressed up as 49er fans Sunday after the baptism This week we had a baptism. His name is Calton Brown. He is awesome. He probably is the most prepared person that I have taught on my mission. It was crazy how perfect everything was. I am really grateful to Heavenly Father to have been able to be here for his baptism before I go back to Jamaica. We had about 30 people at his service to support him including Jack, one of the recent converts and friend of Calton, got to baptize him, and that was really special. The weather this whole past week has been really really wet, it rained everyday and it was a heavy rain. When it rains like that its hard to be on the street working because nobody here wants to talk to you when your wet and everyone does not like the rain here. So we tried to see a lot of members this week and didn't get a chance to find too many new people. The branch had a Halloween party here and that was a lot of fun. There were a lot of good costumes and a lot of fun activities. I lost the donut eating contest. We found out yesterday that Elder Vinas of the 70 and President Hendricks are coming out here this weekend so hopefully I am here for that, because that would be really cool. Umm that is all I can think of.
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