Week 18

Hey guys!

So this week has been something else. Started off playing soccer last Monday for a Zone P-Day. I rolled my ankle, of course, then we went and watched The Best Two Years. It was a fun day! A lot of the Elders ordered pizza as well! Tuesday we had District meeting and Elder Gibbons challenged me to eat a full large pizza and a medium cookshop with had rice, chicken and pasta in it. I almost did it! I ate all of the cookshop and almost the whole pizza! Only two pieces left when I threw in the towel... Needless to say, my stomach hated me and pained me for the rest of the day... Wednesday we went and saw an investigator who is a members daughter. She has been coming to church for over a month now but isn't sure if she wants to be baptized again. She was first baptized at the age of twelve into a church by her own choice. Later on she was pretty much forced to be baptized into a church she was attending that was closer to her home. We saw her three times this last week and every meeting has been really good! She has lots of questions that we answered but still isn't sure about the Priesthood. .. She is still in school so it's pretty tough to see her during the day. So we started riding JUTC buses or also know as charter buses. Thursday we did service for that same family! She had some old wood flooring that was pulled out of a hotel or something. So we rode our bikes up to their place, started putting this floor together for 2-3 hours then left because we had things to do back home. But on the way down the hill from their house Elder Harris thinks he needs to wreck his bicycle! He was turning a soft turn and hit a lot a loose gravel a little too fast. I was behind him and watched as his bicycle went to the right and Elder Harris kept going straight. He slid on his stomach for about 10 yards! Cut up his hands and his chin bounced off the ground! I'll send some pictures of it! Friday we didn't get much done because it rained pretty much all day! Friday night we went to the church for Friday night activities and we were playing chair soccer. You have 3 or more people who put chairs in the corners of the room and you have to kick the ball at the other people's chair to get then out. We had been playing for a while when I accidentally kick the ball up off the ground and hits this little girl that was watching us right in the head! Her head snapped back and then she fell forward and covered her head. I walked over there and apologized for hitting her and so on. We ended up not playing that game any more... Oops... Saturday was transfer calls and Elder Harris and I will be staying together for another transfer! We will spend our 6 month mark together and burn our ties together with Elder Call who is coming to Spanish Town as well! Sunday Elder Harris towed B. Gorgie to church and we gave blessings to church members as well. Later that night while on our way home from a members house that fed us dinner, Elder Harris wanted to try an endo on his bicycle. In other words he wrecked... again...

It has been an interesting week but it's all part of God's plan for us out here in Jamaica!

Loving the work and praying for the best for All who read this. Stay strong in the hard times. If you think things are hard and you want them to past, "just remember that some one much greater has asked that very question."-Elder Holland

-Through the winds and the waves, I hope you're thinking of me...-

Elda Wilding

(I had to ask Austin.....where are the pictures of you working? Elder Harris does all the work?!....haha..Elder Harris has the pictures of Austin working on his camera.  Im gonna have to get with Elder Harris's Mom)