Life in Linstead

Mon, Oct 10, 2011
We've had another good week here in Linstead. We've kept very busy working with a lot of really good investigators. Our work with the members is starting to pay off. We've been working with this 25 yr-old guy named Vaughn. He is a referral from the branch president's wife. He is a super solid guy - very educated. He works at a bank and is going to law school. Elder Taylor had just started to meet with him before we got here. We've met with him a few times now and had a really good lesson with him last week. We invited him to be baptized on Oct 30, but he wasn't too sure. We asked him to pray about it and and come to general conference and see how he felt about it. He came on Saturday and Sunday. We talked to him yesterday and it was so awesome to hear him describe his experience at conference. There's no better time for investigators to recieve personal revelation. Anyway, he's planning to get baptized on the 30th and I'm super excited for him. Jamaica needs a ton more priesthood like him. We have three other good men that we are working with - John, Palmer, and Brother Grant. They are all member referrals and pretty solid. John has been coming to church for a while and was set to be baptized this next weekend, but we're not sure if it's going to happen. We'll see how it goes. Palmer came to the priesthood session of conference and liked it. He is a solid guy, but we're working on the marriage thing. Brother Grant is married to a member and has been coming to church for 4 years. He knows more than most of the members and is a super cool guy with a young family. We started to work with him this last week. We had a good talk with him on Saturday and he said that he wants to get baptized by the end of the year. We're also working with this 11 yr-old girl, Leoni. She's wanted to get baptized for a long time but her dad wouldn't allow it. we finally got to talk to her dad and he agreed to let her be baptized in November. Things are doing very well. There's only been 3 baptisms here in the past year and we already have a couple on the way. It's amazing to see the difference it makes when you get the members behind you. Missionary life is awesome when you have good people to teach you see things start to happen.

I'm still enjoying life with Elder Worley and Elder Taylor. Linstead is nice. It cools down at night to about 78. It's pretty rural in the surrounding areas, so it makes for good scenery. They have a ton of Orange tree orchards. Life's good. couldn't be better - except for the fact that our fridge is too small for the 3 of us and there's tons of giant cockroaches, but it's all part of the game.

Oh, for kids books, I honestly don't remember. I haven't seen any kids books in over a year.

Love y'all lots. Thanks again for the camera. I'll try and send a few pictures.
Elder Kartchner