Aug 3, 2010
So, yesterday was Jamaican Emancipation Day so all the stores were closed so that's why I'm emailing today. Anyway, things are going well. Yesterday for P-day Elder Ronhaar and I biked a couple miles down to Old Harbour Bay. The ride down was pretty riding down through the sugar cane fields. The "beach" turned out to be not much to look at but it was pretty cool anyway. There is an old, ghetto fishing village there. It was neat to see the all the small fishing boats coming in and out and watch the people making crab traps out of sticks and chicken wire. We talked to an old Rastafarian fisherman who was pretty cool.
Church was awesome on Sunday. We had really good meetings. We had over 40 people there. Unfortunately, all our investigators flaked out on us, but there were a couple of less active members that came that we had been working with. The branch is pretty good. We have a core group of 30 or so solid, consistent members. There are at least twice that many on the branch list that are inactive or hit and miss. We've been working quite a bit with the recent converts and less active members to try to reactivate them and get referrals from them. The whole branch, besides a few of the primary kids, are all converts to the church which makes things interesting sometimes.
Sounds like things are going real well back home with the rain and all. I still think we've had more though. We are in the middle of the rainy\hurricane season now so it rains pretty much every day. Alaska sounds like a lot of fun but not quite as much fun as Jamaica.
Well, Take care. I'm going to try to send a few pictures.
Love you lots,
Elder Kartchner
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