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 Wah gwan yall, how's life been? Anyways life here in Portmore is as fantastic as ever.

Were just out here grinding each and every day. It's really hard to find solid people to teach. Most Jamaicans are super spiritually and know God a lot and are dedicated to their church til they die, or are uneducated and can't understand a thing we say. It's honestly really frustrating and I really just want to yell at people sometimes, but that's not exactly Christlike and the spirit has definitely constraineth my tongue on more than one occasion. For example, our friend Andrea loves having us over. We tried to teach her the Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson. We spent like a solid 15 minutes trying to explain to her what faith is like I'm back at home teaching primary again. Right after we explain it, we ask her "So Andrea, what's faith?"  She gives us a blank stare for like 5 seconds and says, "ya just love Jesus man". At that moment, me and my comp realized that Andrea's time to learn about, and to love the gospel was not now with us. 

Another problem that we have is Jamaicans love agreeing with you then backing out last second. They say they want want learn more, so we set up an appointment with them in a couple days. Everyday we text or call them asking if we're still okay to meet at that time that we previously discussed. They said "yes man I will be free to talk." Even the morning of, we text them and they say the same thing. Then later in the day when it's actually time for their appointment we find out "me can't man I have an appointment I'm not home right now man me cant"  moral of the story is that Jamaicans drive me crazy sometimes. If I get nothing out of the mission in the next 23ish months, I'll at least be more patient. 

Highlights of the week:

A guy we approached this week said he hates our church because he's heard people say we're racist. Somehow we turned that street contact around and were trying to find a time to meet with him if we can get our schedules to actually line up

A funny taxi driver that whenever he sees us he yells and runs at us and says " Yo my *racially motivated word that originated with slavery back in the olden days around the MLK Era I think*"

Another taxi driver that saw me and my comp walking down the street that just starts jumping. When we get next to him he just keeps jumping and says "white man can't jump" of course I had to jump to prove him wrong 

The Mission Pres said he was coming over so we took like 2 hours to clean the house one day just for him to not come over

Lots of board game playing after proslyting hours. The people in the house love playing coup. 

The woman taxi driver that almost killed us 6 more times than a normal taxi driver. Woman are bad at driving all over the world apparently, not just the states. 

We have a mission tour this Saturday with Brent H Nielson I believe. It's all in person so I'll be able to meet all 70 missionaries in the field right now and all the off island missionaries are flying in for the weekend as well so that will be hype. Then hrs coming to Sacrament meeting with us the next day and I'm kinda scared. 

Spiritually thought:

I've been reading in Alma lately and something that has really stood out to me we're the Anti-Nephi-Lehis. If y'all don't know the story behind him, ask a family member or friend and possibly have them get your local missionaries over. Anyways, these people made a covenant with the Lord to never pick up their weapons of war again because of their hatred of spilling blood and hurting others. It got to the point where when the Lamanites came to war with them they started praying and hoped the Lord would spare them. The Lamanites massacred over of a thousand of them just sitting there with no resistance whatsoever. I can guarantee that because of that hatred of sinning and letting themselves be killed, Heavenly Father has a very special place in the Celestial Kingdom for them. They're easily the best example of Christlike love in all the scriptures besides Christ himself. I strive to be able to be like them and love everyone Including their enemies. I Invite yall to love your enemies this week. In fact, go out of your way to show someone you may not like very much that you love them. 

I'm impressed if yall made it this far. I'm convinced that my mom is the only one that loves me enough to read to this point. Hi mom I love you<3. If you actually read all the way down here let me know I'm actually curious. 

 

Big AL