Week 21

   Well its another P-Day here in Spanish Town and it is, like always, filled with elders playing competitive UNO in between emailing times. There are 7 elders here and it gets way intense! Our Momma's didn't raise no losers! This is also Elder Lewis's last P-Day! Him soon go foreign as a Jamaican would say. He leaves on Thursday. Last P-Day we got invited to go to Mandeville to their Zone P-Day to play soccer. It was way fun and almost my whole MTC district was there, not counting the ones that are in different missions. Sisters Grajek and Jones, Elders Morris, Call, Harris and I. Elder Rasmussen is on the other end of the island so he wasn't there. But it was way fun! I'll have to get the pictures from Sister Grajek.

    Tuesday was district meeting like always and we had lunch as a district as well. Meet some cool potential investigators that we are going to try see this week.

    We had a blessing for walking deep into our area on Wednesday! We went to this area called Sligoville.  We had to taxi up to it because it would have been a good 2 hour bike ride up a mountain! Anyways, we get up to this area and we start tracting through the main square. After talking to some people we decided to go down this road. While walking, this lady called to us from their house which was about a football fields length away from the road. Elder Harris looks at me as I shrug my shoulders and started to walk to them. We get there and man was this family ready to meet us! This man, his wife, and their daughter, probably 16ish, we're very interested in what we thought about religion. So they asked us a few questions then we answer them with a Restoration Lesson. The Spirit was there, they understood the priesthood and why it's important to have it for baptism, they understood why the Book of Mormon is here and excepted to read and pray about it! Ah they were the best on the spot lesson I have ever had! We invited the three of them to be baptised and they all said yes! Now the real test begins. We have to see if they will keep commitments. We are going to try and see if we can get members up to their house with us. I'm so excited for this family!

    Thursday morning we started off the day with teaching a Minister who doesn't belong to a church but he gets called by other churches to minister to them. He knows his bible very well and I'm not going to lie, I was very nervous to share the Restoration with him! I was afraid he was just going to sit there and Bible Bash with us but he sat there and listened. Yeah he asked a few hard questions and voiced his opinion on some topics but he is a very cool guy! He said that he was going to read the Book of Mormon. I hope he reads it with an open mind and not to look for "flaws". Oh and towards the end of the lesson he looked at me and said, "You are very calm and collected." Turns to Elder Harris and says, "You are nervous." Then he spoke "in tongues" which is absolute foolishness. The Spirit does NOT make you speak an unknown language or make you lose control of your body! Jamaicans are very touchy on that subject but it is false doctrine. The Gift of Tongues is the help from God to learn a new language. For example, missionaries that have to learn a new language for their missions are given the Gift of Tongues. To learn the language faster than most people would. Alright I'll get off my soap box now haha! 

    Friday we had weekly planning, cleaned the house for inspections this week, tried getting a hold of all the Less Actives in our area but only one answered the phone out of 20 I called. Then that night we went to Friday Night Activities. 

    Saturday we started off the day with going to the church at 7 to play some soccer with the other Elders. Later that day we went up to see that family in Sligoville again and there were more family members there than last time! Allen the father, Allen's fiancé, Murdel his sister, Allen's (I'm assuming) four daughters and little pikni (kids). We get there and they all start filing out of their house and Murdel was so excited to see us! We sat there and talked for about 20 minutes while we waited for Allen to show up. When he got there they asked us what we had for them today and so we read the first two chapters of 1 Nephi with them. They all participated and read verses with us and asked questions and AAAHHHH it was awesome!! We left 3 more Book of Mormons with them so that makes 6! We also dropped off like 10 Restoration and Plan of Salvation pamphlets and little pass along cards with our phone number on them! Before we left they all started asking us when we were gonna come back and share more with them. We told them that when ever they want us to come by we would stop by and they told us Wednesday and Saturday just like this last week! They set up their own appointments! And that makes 7 new investigators this week! These guys are awesome! I wish you could meet them all!.

    Sunday was fast and testimony meeting and there were lots of people who bore their testimonies. I learn something from all their testimonies. There was a baptism for a child on record after church as well. And then, of course, we went to the Moodie's for dinner and they are amazing cooks. So good. 

    Hope you all have a great week and have a great week coming up! Keep reading and praying about the Book of Mormon ya hear?! Mi na wan fi come lick oonu down and call oonu unto repentance! Eva ting good in Jamaica man! 

One Love ma bredren an sistas!
Elda Wilding