Whats up everyone?! How is it going over in the motherland? Things are still going good here. This is the last week of the transfer. I will be staying in May Pen and i am getting a new companion (Elder Montgomery from vermont) he was my old zone leader and he is a great missionary so I am excited to start working with him in May Pen. 

This week was both good and bad. Good because we got back in touch with a family who we had been trying reach for forever to start teaching again. And good because we are still hard at work here in May Pen and some of our investigators are progressing and getting ready for baptism. And good because it is windy season now so the weather is very delightful. But bad because another family we had been teaching for the past two months just decided out of the blue to stop meeting with us and they dont even talk to us anymore. So this week has definitely had its ups and downs. But thats just mission life i guess. 

One thing I have realized this week is really the need to recognize the spirit in our everyday lives and especially in those who are becoming converted to the gospel. It is through the spirit that we are able to recognize truth and communicate with our heavenly father. In Ephesians we learn the fruits of the spirit which is peace long suffering, temperance and there are some more but i dont have time to look up the scripture at the moment. it is important that we recognize these feelings as the spirit. 

An interesting thing happened a few weeks ago. We were teaching an investigator and we asked if she ever recieved an answer to her prayers. she said no. we then taught her what the spirit feels like and she said that she had felt those feelings in the past. She said she just thought that it was her "heart working". we then asked her when she had felt those feelings. she replied that she felt them in the past during certain lessons with missionaries, when she read the book of mormon in a quiet place, and when she knelt down with some other missionaries and prayed with them. 

It is interesting that at times we confuse the spirit with just our natural feelings. One thing that i know is that the promptings of the spirit are definitely a different feeling than those natural feelings that come in our everyday lives. It always comes to bear testimony of the truth, to comfort us, at guide us at critical times in our lives. It is important that we recognize the spirit in our every day lives. Things to help us recognize the spirit and have it with us are prayer, scripture study, church, fulfilling our callings, loving and serving others, etc. I challenge each of you to truly strive to live by and recognize the spirit more frequently in your every day lives. I know that this gospel is true. I am privleged to be serving here in Jamaica, I have truly learned to love and serve others. I know that Jesus Christ is our savior and redeemer. I love being here and i love this work. 

Love,

Elder Nugent