Hey family! This week was great! We had no Pday on Monday
since we spent the whole time in Kingston and coming back. Tuesday was our
really our only real proselyting day of the week. We had our branch presidency
meeting that day and got a bunch of stuff done that we needed to. On Wednesday
we went to Santa Cruz for district meeting. Had a good little meeting there and
then Elder Mathews came back to our area for a trade-off. I am pretty sure that
after he came here for a day he did not want to go back to Santa Cruz! Even
though it is only about 45 minutes away, they are very different! Coming from
Mandeville, to go to Junction you turn towards the ocean, to go to Santa Cruz,
you turn towards the desert. It is super-hot over there! It is always 15
degrees cooler in Junction than Santa Cruz and they are on bikes. I've turned
into a pansy again, I can't stand being outdoors while in Santa Cruz because it
is too hard! So the trade off went well; had good lessons with him there.
Thursday we proselyted in the morning then I drove him back to Santa Cruz and
we picked up Elder Sullivan. Pres. C. was with us and he showed us a back way
to get to Treasure Beach. We were heading over there for a cottage meeting at
Sister G.’s house. We had a good cottage meeting. There we 6 non-members there
and 3 members plus us. We got to know each other and then we had a good
spiritual thought on the importance of prophets. After that she fed us dinner.
Had curry chicken, fish, and you guessed it, rice & peas. Friday was weekly
planning. That is the only thing that I am excited not to do in a month. We
went to a new seminary class in an area called T. Last week only 1 girl showed up to seminary in
that area so her parents said it would be good to have more youth there with
her. Obviously we agreed, but the youth that are members in that area just
aren't coming. They took it up to invite neighbors of theirs. Altogether there
were 12 youth there this time, ranging from 5 to 15. It is a good thing the
seminary teacher didn't show up because the lesson was supposed to be on
D&C 77 I think. A question and answer given to Joseph Smith about the Book
of Revelations, yeah that would have confused all them. We had a fun FHE thing
with them tho and then explained that seminary is for a certain age group, but
at least they invited people. Saturday we woke up early. We had to drive up to
Munroe to pick up Prez C. and then we picked up the Santa Cruz elders and drove
up to Mandeville. We had a few meetings there on Saturday. There was a family
history training for family history consultants and missionaries. Only
missionaries showed up tho. That was good. Then there was a priesthood
leadership meeting as part of District Conference. Then there was the general
Saturday session of District Conference after that. Only about 30- 40 people
were at the Saturday session. Not that good for 5 branches. We took our
mattresses up and we stayed the night in Mandeville on Saturday. We had to go
to MayPen on Sunday for the Sunday session. It was super awesome to go back and
see everyone from MayPen! I loved it!!! This conference this weekend was
presided over by Elder Gammiet, he is an area 70 for the Carribean. It was good
to spend a weekend with him.
I realized that I am down to 1 month left today...woah. Time
keeps creepin’ up fast. I am usually too busy to keep track of time constantly
so every few days when I realize how many days have passed since the last time
I counted it blows my mind. I am enjoying this last little bit of time here.
Thanks for the birthday wishes. For all of you congratulating me and saying now
I am legal to drink, I have to say that I have been legal to drink for the past
two years! The drinking age is 18 in Jamaica so all of that is old news lol.
And now that I am 21, I am old news too. Have a good week. Enjoy the Super Bowl.
Love ya!
Respect.
Elder Colton Harris
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