Mon, Jan 31, 2011
Sounds like y'all are having fun. Things are going good here. We had another good but crazy week. Last tuesday for p-day we went with the elders from Port Antonio and Ocho Rios to 9-Miles, the birth place and burial place of Bob Marley. Don't ever go there. It is way out in the middle of nowhere and the tour is pretty lame and the rumors that you get to see his mummified body are not true. Not to mention there's a guy named Weedy outside the gate that scams you into buying weed. Don't worry, we didn't smoke it! It made for an exciting day.
The rest of the week went good though. On Wednesday I went to Ocho Rios to do a baptismal interview. We have a lot of good investigators right now and we've been having some good success with less actives. We found and been working with two inactive brothers that are elders. one came to church and agreed to teach young men's. We are really excited for them because they will really be a strength to the branch.
It has been fun the last couple days to teach. because of a sore throat I lost my voice for Friday, Saturday, and sunday, and it's still not all the way back. It makes it interesting to teach and lead the music in church, and teach gospel principles class, and everything else when you can't talk. For 5th sunday disscussion we talked with the members on things we could do to strengthen the branch. As of right now when church is supposed to start, there's usually only 2 or 3 people there. Even the branch president is late most of the time. Also we talked about organizing and serving in the church because no one in the branch has callings and there's no visiting or home teaching. There's a lot of work to be done, but that's what I'm here for. Our discussion was really good and hopefully effective. since our branch president is a recent convert and is so new he doesn't really know how it's all supposed to work, so we're trying to help him to get things going.
Anyway, Things are going very well for the most part. Thanks for the emails and everything.
Love you lots,
Elder Kartchner
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