Don't even ask me about the title. I couldn't even tell you wah gwan, that's just what some random bro told us
The mission recently has been hitting record high numbers. In December, we found out that we got the most baptisms this mission has seen per month in about 10 years or so. The work is progressing and I'm excited to be apart of it.
However, none of us in the mission are satisfied with these results. Recently we've been discussing on the faults in how we do missionary work and how we can improve. Something that we decided that we needed to do better at was finding more quality people that are willing and have the means to progress (such as have a car, welll off, future branch presidents, etc). We probably focused a little too hard this week on finding, and less on teaching, but we've recognized our mistakes and we're going to move onwards and progress.
Highlights:
- We were in Spanish Town for a district council, and on our way out, some guy spat on my companions name tag, and told him to "suck yuh mudda". I love Jamaica
- Some likkle pikneys (no older than like 8 or so years old) ran a considerable distance to come and beg us a bill, which is like the equivalent of like .66 cents USD. When we told them we didn't have any, they told us that they had a gun in their backpack. He then proceeded to take his bag off his back and drop it on the ground and unzip it. Elder Patterson and I were kinda like debating in our heads the chances that this little kid actually had a gun in his bag. We decided our odds were good enough that he didn't have one, and even if he did that we could take him down or do something before he had the chance to like load it and pull the trigger or something. When he pulled his hand, pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun and started laughing. We had to leave before we did something we were going to regret.
- I had an exchange with the AP's. I went to Kingston with Elder Vandermyde. He's an Elder that I've served decently close to for most of my mission, but just never went on an exchange with him. Even though our exchange wasn't very long, I learned a lot from him. He's a pretty Christlike example and I hope to be able to be an example to my stewardship like that someday soon.
- Interview with President Odonkor were pretty good. Like usual, he kinda just went off on random things for like 2 hours and I'm kinda confused on what do to with the information I have now, but we'll be able to figure it out.
- We got assigned to deal with all the referrals that our zone receives. In the last couple days or so, we've had to spend at least an hour each day replying to, and teaching referrals, on top of our own friends. It's an interesting thing that I hope our stewardship will apppreciate.
It's kinda interesting that the weeks that I don't feel like I did a very good job in, are the weeks that we had a decent amount of interesting things happen. Hopefully I'll be able to write good emails and feel more accomplished in weeeks to come
Spritual thought:
I was studying the topic of repentence earlier this week, and a scripture about the Atonement came up that I haven't ever really heard of before. It's Mosiah 16:2-5. A lot of times in the scriptures, we learn a lot about how the Atonement can help us and the power it has, but this scripture shows us what happens when we don't apply it. It talks about how the Atonement and sacrifice that Jesus Christ performed for us basically goes to waste when we don't repent and become better from it. All the blood, sweat and tears that he spared for each one of us, does absolutely nothing if we don't try to overcome the devil. Give them a read, theyre fire.
Manners and respect,
Elder Turnbow
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