Showing posts with label Elder Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elder Anderson. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2016

Week #50 - Winning the Rat Race

Hey Family!

This week FLEW by extra fast. There was plenty of stuff to keep us busy.

I went on a trade off with Elder Anderson on Tuesday, and then with Elder Riding on Thursday.

On Wednesday we went to Montego Bay to watch a worldwide missionary broadcast entitled: "Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts." It was way good and I learned a ton from it.

Friday morning we found a rat in our house. I should probably be more sensitive because there might be younger people who read this... but we killed it and threw it outside (yeah us old people are fine with it). Elder Sandmaier and I spent quite a bit of time exploring parts of our area that we had never been to, and we found a couple streets with big houses on them and met a woman who is a flight attendant. She told us about a trip to Salt Lake City and she said that our Mormon temple looked really pretty. Hopefully we can go back and see her and talk more about it.

Saturday was transfer calls - Elder Sandmaier and I will be staying together. Not too many changes happening. We helped some members do some construction work on a house for a couple hours in the morning. We mainly just shoveled rocks into a bucket and carried them upstairs to the top of the house and dumped them out on some dirt - real manly stuff. I was so sore after.

Today our zone met in Negril and just chilled for a couple hours. We played some ball, said some goodbyes to people who are leaving the zone, and had milkshakes and a ton of food at Burger King so we all got a little sick, but rock and roll.

Hope you are doing great.

Love and miss you as always!


Elder Graham
We found a burnt down cane field in our area

Monday, January 11, 2016

Week #48 - Maybe It's a Vacation After All... Nahhhhh

Hey Family!

Sorry about last week, the internet was being weird. But anywho, this week was awesome. We are teaching a SWEET family - mom, dad, and 11 year old son. All very interested. I'm going to focus on them because this is literally the only exciting thing that happened this week.

So Craig, Shada, their son, CJ AND even Shada's mother and her boyfriend ALL came to church on Sunday - it was great. They participated like they had been coming for years. This is especially great because they were hesitant to come due to negative experiences with previous churches.

To give you a clue of some of the struggles of the church and the mission here in Jamaica, I’ll tell you that this is one of the first experiences I've had teaching a structured family (married with both parents in the home) on my mission, so this is kind of a big deal.

Anyway, right after church, Shada told us she was headed to New York for a few months to do some sort of nursing/nanny work. Kind of a bummer but she will soon be back.

Today we’re going to Negril to eat at some fancy restaurant on a cliff overlooking the ocean - maybe it is a vacation after all.. PSYCH.

Love,


Elder Graham

I'd like you to meet Elder Riding…

The crew: Elder Anderson, Davis, Riding, Sandmaier, and Fowkes on the white beach of Negril