Mon, Oct 31, 2011
Thanks family for all the emails and birthday wishes. I feel really old - practically a fossil - at least I assume I will tomorrow.
Yesterday I had the best birthday present. We had Vaughn's baptism after church and it was so good. It was one of the coolest baptisms I've had on my mission. We had good support from the branch. about 40 people stayed after church for the baptism. Our branch president did the actual baptism since he and his wife were involved in fellowshipping. His girlfriend, who is a returned missionary, also came up from Portmore. It was all super cool. We are so excited for Vaughn. He is an all-star and will make an awesome member. He should be confirmed and ordained a priest this next sunday. There's nothing like a baptism to get people excited about missionary work. after the baptism the branch president pulled us aside and gave us a list of referrals.
We're making progress with some of our other investigators. We've been meeting with them and have had some really good lessons. We had a few of them at church - not near as many as we were hoping for - but it was still good. Things are going well. we have a bunch of good investigators and a bunch of good potentials. We are also pretty excited because we found out yesterday that one of the guys we started teaching while Elder Worley and I were in Spanish Town for those two weeks, should be getting baptized soon.
Well, I haven't got any birthday envelope yet. I'll keep my eyes peeled. It should be a good birthday anyway. Elder Worley and I are thinking of going out to a place called Natural Bridge which is just outside of Linstead.
Love y'all lots. Have a great week.
Elder Kartchner
Monday, October 31, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Happy Monday
Mon, Oct 24, 2011
Hello Family,
That's cool to hear about Josh and Dallin and Larry and all. Sounds like a pretty good service project. I wish we could organize something like that here.
We had another good week here in Linstead. The work is going well. Vaughn is doing awesome. he is an all-star investigator. We hardly have to teach him anything. He's read half the book of mormon already and loves it. he should be baptized this Sunday, Oct 30. We also have 2 more baptisms planned for November. We had 4 of our investigators at church yesterday. It was good but we were expecting twice that. a couple of them got sick, I guess. Elder Taylor left to Spanish Town on Saturday. Elder Worley is doing awesome. We're still working to get to know the branch. Yesterday Elder Worley and I got to speak in Sacrament meeting. We spoke on missionary work - imagine that. Life is good though. I really am enjoying the work here. Have a great week. Love y'all lots.
Elder Kartchner
Hello Family,
That's cool to hear about Josh and Dallin and Larry and all. Sounds like a pretty good service project. I wish we could organize something like that here.
We had another good week here in Linstead. The work is going well. Vaughn is doing awesome. he is an all-star investigator. We hardly have to teach him anything. He's read half the book of mormon already and loves it. he should be baptized this Sunday, Oct 30. We also have 2 more baptisms planned for November. We had 4 of our investigators at church yesterday. It was good but we were expecting twice that. a couple of them got sick, I guess. Elder Taylor left to Spanish Town on Saturday. Elder Worley is doing awesome. We're still working to get to know the branch. Yesterday Elder Worley and I got to speak in Sacrament meeting. We spoke on missionary work - imagine that. Life is good though. I really am enjoying the work here. Have a great week. Love y'all lots.
Elder Kartchner
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Hello!
Tue, Oct 18, 2011
Well, It's been another good week. Yesterday was Hero's Day, a national holiday for Jamaica's national heroes. all the stores were closed so that's why you get the email today. This past week we had zone conference in Kingston. It was really good to hear from President Hendricks. On Sunday we had District Conference in Spanish Town, which was also really good. They changed the District Presidency and they shared some great messages about all the members here stepping up a little and working a little harder to help us prepare to become a stake. So this week has been a lot of travel as well as a lot of rain. we got soaked a few times. Always fun. Things are still doing good with all our investigators. We had 4 of them bus to Spanish Town to be at District Conference. Vaughn is doing very well. He is still planning to be baptized on Oct 30. Things are going very well besides that. We found out that Elder Taylor will be leaving us this week. He'll be serving in Spanish Town. It will just be Elder Worley and I here in Linstead. I don't have much time to email, so have a good week.
Elder Kartchner
Well, It's been another good week. Yesterday was Hero's Day, a national holiday for Jamaica's national heroes. all the stores were closed so that's why you get the email today. This past week we had zone conference in Kingston. It was really good to hear from President Hendricks. On Sunday we had District Conference in Spanish Town, which was also really good. They changed the District Presidency and they shared some great messages about all the members here stepping up a little and working a little harder to help us prepare to become a stake. So this week has been a lot of travel as well as a lot of rain. we got soaked a few times. Always fun. Things are still doing good with all our investigators. We had 4 of them bus to Spanish Town to be at District Conference. Vaughn is doing very well. He is still planning to be baptized on Oct 30. Things are going very well besides that. We found out that Elder Taylor will be leaving us this week. He'll be serving in Spanish Town. It will just be Elder Worley and I here in Linstead. I don't have much time to email, so have a good week.
Elder Kartchner
Monday, October 10, 2011
New Pictures
This is at the edge of our area. One of our investigators lives on the top of the Hill overlooking a place called Bog Walk, which is in our area.
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
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
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Hello Hello
Mon, Oct 3, 2011
Well, this email should be short. we had our zone p-day playing basketball in Portmore so we're a bit short in the time department. Its been a good week. Conference was great. We had 5 of our investigators show up during various sessions. It was awesome. We have some good people we are working with. we should have a few baptisms planned pretty soon. Things are good. I love Linstead. My companions are great. couldn't ask for anything more. While we were in Spanish Town today I bought myself a camera. It was $17,000 Jamaican which is roughly $200 US. Thanks a bunch. Yes, you can count that as my birthday present and maybe christmas too. as far as a package, I think I'm pretty good, except for maybe another memory card or two. Well, you have a great week. Love you all lots.
Elder Kartchner
Well, this email should be short. we had our zone p-day playing basketball in Portmore so we're a bit short in the time department. Its been a good week. Conference was great. We had 5 of our investigators show up during various sessions. It was awesome. We have some good people we are working with. we should have a few baptisms planned pretty soon. Things are good. I love Linstead. My companions are great. couldn't ask for anything more. While we were in Spanish Town today I bought myself a camera. It was $17,000 Jamaican which is roughly $200 US. Thanks a bunch. Yes, you can count that as my birthday present and maybe christmas too. as far as a package, I think I'm pretty good, except for maybe another memory card or two. Well, you have a great week. Love you all lots.
Elder Kartchner
Monday, September 26, 2011
Hello Fam
Mon, Sep 26, 2011
Hello Fam,
It's been another good week. we had a few surprises so it didn't turn out quite like expected. The first half of the week went very well. we started to get some good member involvement and a bunch of referrals and such. Tuesday night, though we got a call saying that Elder Worley and I needed to pack our bags because we were moving to Linstead the next day. Kind of a big surprise. Anyway it had to do with a missionary getting sent home so Elder Worley and I had to take his spot. We are now in a trio - Elder Worley, Elder Taylor, and me. It's kind of weird to work in a trio but it's a lot of fun. We've been working the last few days on getting the work moving for real here in Linstead. They haven't had much happen here in the last year in terms of baptisms and such, but we'll soon get things going. The branch here in Linstead is pretty good. They have a good amount of priesthood holders for a jamaican branch. I'm excited. Church yesterday was interesting. There was no water at the church so they decided to only have sacrament meeting. Well, at the end of the usual sacrament meeting they were about to close off but the district speaker (equivelent of a high counselor) felt like he had to give his two bits. Well, he ended up rambling on for another 40 minutes. It was the longest sacrament meeting of my life. Oh well. We have a few good investigators we're working with and We're working on getting a lot more referrals and such from members so we should start seeing some things happen.
I excited for conference this weekend. I should be able to watch it here in Linstead, so it should be good.
Sounds like things are going good back home. Logan James isn't too bad of a name, I guess. Oh, one other thing. Kelsey emailed me and mentioned that Shirley's expecting. Thanks for telling me. When is she due? And what's this whole thing with Karina being engaged. I don't believe it one bit.
Love yall lots
Elder Kartchner
Hello Fam,
It's been another good week. we had a few surprises so it didn't turn out quite like expected. The first half of the week went very well. we started to get some good member involvement and a bunch of referrals and such. Tuesday night, though we got a call saying that Elder Worley and I needed to pack our bags because we were moving to Linstead the next day. Kind of a big surprise. Anyway it had to do with a missionary getting sent home so Elder Worley and I had to take his spot. We are now in a trio - Elder Worley, Elder Taylor, and me. It's kind of weird to work in a trio but it's a lot of fun. We've been working the last few days on getting the work moving for real here in Linstead. They haven't had much happen here in the last year in terms of baptisms and such, but we'll soon get things going. The branch here in Linstead is pretty good. They have a good amount of priesthood holders for a jamaican branch. I'm excited. Church yesterday was interesting. There was no water at the church so they decided to only have sacrament meeting. Well, at the end of the usual sacrament meeting they were about to close off but the district speaker (equivelent of a high counselor) felt like he had to give his two bits. Well, he ended up rambling on for another 40 minutes. It was the longest sacrament meeting of my life. Oh well. We have a few good investigators we're working with and We're working on getting a lot more referrals and such from members so we should start seeing some things happen.
I excited for conference this weekend. I should be able to watch it here in Linstead, so it should be good.
Sounds like things are going good back home. Logan James isn't too bad of a name, I guess. Oh, one other thing. Kelsey emailed me and mentioned that Shirley's expecting. Thanks for telling me. When is she due? And what's this whole thing with Karina being engaged. I don't believe it one bit.
Love yall lots
Elder Kartchner
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