Hey Everybody! things are going really well here in Kingston. This past
week has been a little slow, but we pushed through it and are working hard.
Our investigators are still doing well, hopefully we will have some
baptisms really soon. I still love serving with my Companion Elder Gurr we
get a long well and time is flying by really fast... which i dont know if
that is a good thing haha. But I really do love it here. Glad to hear you
are all doing well in school and such. It feels like school barely started
from last year. But the mission is awesome. One of the greatest blessings
that I have received from my mission is learning to recognize and follow
the promptings of the Spirit. What a great blessing that we as members of
the Church have to have the companionship of the Holy Ghost as long as we
are worthy. One thing that I have been reflecting on this last week is the
importance of standing in Holy Places. It is so important that we only go
places where the Spirit can be. If we go anywhere where the Spirit cannot
be, we are in danger. The Spirit is available to protect and guide us. If
we are doing things or are in places where the Spirit cannot be, we are
placing ourselves in situations where we can be harmed both physically and
spiritually, and we can easily fall. It is essential that we stand in Holy
Places! I love my mission, and I love this gospel. I know it is true. I
know that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ. May we all stand in Holy
Places. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Love you all,
Elder Nugent

Dear everybody back home and abroad, 

I am still doing very well here in Jamaica. We should be getting a couple of baptisms in these next few weeks, so iIam pretty stoked for that. Missionary work is just awesome. I love it so much. It really is crazy how fast the time has been flying though. it has been going by too fast. It is really weird because as missionaries we are literally set apart from the things of the world. I just have a whole new perspective on life. It is pretty awesome. this past week has been really good. We have had some awesome experiences finding people who have been prepared to receive the gospel and we will be having a couple baptisms in the next few weeks. This past week, I have been dwelling on how similar temple work and missionary work are. In reality it is the same work. As missionaries, we have the opportunity of providing people the choice to exercise their agency to choose eternal life or not. They can either accept or reject our message. They can choose eternal life or eternal damnation. As we teach them the gospel by the spirit, they receive the ability to choose whether or not to live the gospel. The choice is placed before them. And if they exercise their agency well they may recieve a fullness of joy and receive all that our Heavenly Father has. And also, they may have greater peace, joy and happiness in this life as well. When we do temple work, we also provide people with a choice. the choice is to accept the ordinances and covenants of the gospel and receive eternal life or not. In either case, we are acting as instruments in the hands of the Lord to help him to bring about his eternal purposes. How great a blessing! We are literally helping others make steps to receive eternal life! and for others to be eternally happy! I love missionary work. I love this gospel. I love my Savior.

Love,

Elder Nugent

Dear everybody back home,

How are you all? I am doing well here in Kingston. This past week has been a pretty normal week. We had transfers, so I am now with my new companion Elder Gurr from Canada. He is an awesome missionary, and we get along really well. Currently we are working with four really solid investigators, who have baptism dates in a couple of weeks. We have been really blessed here in Kingston right now. Currently we are trying to focus teaching those investigators who have been truly prepared by the Lord. It is amazing to see how the Lord prepares people to receive his gospel. We have one investigator who is 16 years old. She had secretly wanted to always attend our church, so she prayed to the Lord to provide a way for her to attend. a few days later, her next door neighbor who is a member walked over and told her that the Lord had told her to invite her to church. This investigator now has a baptismal date, and has a testimony of the gospel, and is progressing in accepting and living the gospel and will be baptized on September 1. In the latest Liahona, Elder Eyring tells us that the Lord will place those people who have been prepared to receive the gospel in the paths of those people who are prepared to share the gospel. What a great blessing! I challenge everyone back home to prepare your minds and your hearts to be receptive to the Spirit and to share the gospel with those whom the Lord puts in our paths. I know the Lord will bless us. I know that the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I know he lives in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 

Love you all,

Elder Nugent

Hello everyone, hows it going? Things are going quite excellently here in Kingston. On Saturday we recieved transfer calls, and I will be staying here in Kingston, but i will be getting a new companion named Elder Gurr. I will be sad to see my current companion leave. He will he going to Hopeton where he will train a new missionary. This past week has been awesome though. It has been amazing to see how the Lord has prepared people to receive our message. On tuesday, we got in a minor car accident when a car ran into us as we were driving through an intersection. We are all ok, and the car wasn't damaged very badly, but it kind of set our week back because we had to use a whole day to do paperwork and such. As a result, we were not able to see as many of our investigators as we would have liked to. Nonetheless, even though we werent able to teach them as much as we would have liked to this week, many of our investigators made more progress this week then they had ever made before. The Lord truly touched their hearts, and they had a great desire to change and repent. It was just awesome to see them make so many changes. This week has yet again been a testimony to me of the truthfulness of the gospel. I know this church is true, and I know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. I know that it is only through him that we can receive a fullness of joy. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Love you all,

Elder Nugent

Whats up everybody?! How is everyone doing? I hope to hear from many of you. Things are going great here in Kingston though. I love serving here. We are working with many awesome investigators, and we have been teaching some awesome lessons. My companion Elder Conder is awesome. Everything is just going really well right now. 

Yesterday, we had probably the most spiritual lesson I have ever experienced on my mission. We were teaching the Husband of a member who was baptized by grandpa a long time ago. We even visited them when we came to Jamaica as a family about 12 years ago. Her husband has been putting off baptism for a long time now. In the lesson, we taught and testified to him. The spirit was so strongly there. It was indescribable. We invited him to be baptized. He almost committed, but wanted to pray about it, so we will be going back to their house tonight to hear the answer to his prayer. My writing cannot describe the lesson. Im sorry my writing is so inadequate at this moment. It is hard for me to express my feelings. I know that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ and that this Church is true. The Holy Spirit has borne this to my soul many times and I cannot deny it. Love you all

Elder Nugent