Hey everyone! Hope everything is going well! I am doing well here in Jamaica. This week has been a pretty sweet week. First off, early in the week, my companion and I had a chance to give a blessing to an investigator because she was not feeling well. Sometimes, when we would go over to the investigators house, her niece and nephew would be over there. They are 2 and 5 years old and their names are Boombai and Dudus. and, to put a long story short, whenever Boombai and Dudus were at the house, we would always have to stop the lesson early because they are wild children haha. When we went to give the investigator the blessing, Boombai and Dudus were crazy as usual, but as we proceeded to give the blessing, silence began to envelope the home as we all began to feel the Spirit of the Lord, and at the close of the blessing, there was complete silence and peace. The most peaceful I have ever seen at that investigators home. The Spirit was present. There was a stark contrast from before we gave the blessing to after we gave it. Probably the biggest contrast that I have yet to see so far. It was an awesome experience. 

Second off, we have begun teaching a cool new investigator. On our second visit to her home, she told us she didn't know if we would believe her but that she had seen us in a dream the night before we first met her. She said that she saw our same truck pull up to her house in her dream and that she saw us. She described us as two white men (many people in Jamaica still think i am white haha). She said that in her dream we had come to her and taught her. She then told us that in her dream after we had left her, another similar truck pulled up to her house, and there were two different men that tried to take her away and force her into their church. the investigator then told us that she felt that satan would try to attack her after she began meeting with us so we all needed to watch out. What a neat experience indeed!  It was amazing to see how she understood from her dream that satan would oppose her after she began to meet with us. 

Third off, on Saturday, I got a transfer call. I am being transferred back to Constant Spring branch in Kingston where I will be the new Assistant to the President. I am excited that I will be able to serve in that branch again. I feel kind of inadequate to be an AP, but I know the call came from the Lord, so I know that as I rely on Him, His grace will be sufficient for me. I am excited though because I will be able to travel to the other parts of the mission like to the Bahamas, and to Cayman, and to Turks and Cacaos. So that will be pretty cool. I am also excited to be able to learn from my mission President as I work closely with him. So, I will be leaving Santa Cruz on Tuesday evening. I will definitely miss the people here. I have developed many friendships and I love this area. I know this is the Lord's work, and I am grateful to be a part of it. 

Love you all,

Elder Nugent

Hey everyone! hope things are going well back home! I am doing well out here in Jamaica as usual. This past week has been pretty good. We had a zone meeting in Sav on Wednesday which went really well. We have also had some really good lessons, and we have met some awesome investigators this past week. Yesterday we experienced a miracle. At the end of Saturday, our gas was running low and we forgot to fill it up. There was enough gas to barely get through our scheduled appointments for Sunday. After church on Sunday, we were asked to give a blessing to a member's son who was in the Hospital in Black river due to an asthma attack. Black river is a pretty good distance from Santa Cruz (over 30 km away), and we were unsure if we would be able to make it all that way and back on the limited gas that we had. We also had an appointment that was about 25 km away in the other direction later that evening. The car that we drive is a Ford Ranger and it is not very good on gas mileage at all. We decided to go and give the blessing. As soon as our car pulled into the Black River hospital, the gas light turned on indicating that our fuel was exhausting. We proceeded to give the blessing, which was a Spiritual experience. I love participating in blessings. After the blessing, we started the long journey back to Santa Cruz. The gas needle was halfway on the empty line by the time we reached Santa Cruz, but we decided to drive to our next appointment 25 km away. The whole time we were very nervous that we would run out of gas. In fact, we were sure that we would run out of gas. But we didn't. By the time we arrived at our appointment, the needle was below the empty line. After the appointment, we began the long journey back to Santa Cruz. Miraculously we made it without running out of gas. We drove over 80 km after the gas light came on and we still had enough gas to go to the gas station this morning. Yes, i know that we were unwise in not filling the car on Saturday, but I know that the Lord blessed us to travel all those distances yesterday so we could give the blessing. It was an awesome experience. Well I love being out here. We are working with some really solid investigators who have a lot of potential. Time is flying by too fast. I love teaching, and inviting others to come unto Christ. Love you all back home,

Elder Nugent

Hey everyone! hope everything is going well! I hope you all enjoyed and learned a lot from General Conference. I know I sure did. General conference is one of my most favorite times of the year now. I love watching and learning and feeling the Holy Spirit. This past week has been full of meetings, so we have not had much time to proselyte. On monday was perparation day, tuesday was zone conference in Sav, thursday was Zone Leader Council in Kingston, saturday was general conference, and sunday was general conference. Needless to say, it has been a busy week. But, it has been a good week full of learning. One thing that I have been pondering about a lot lately is something that I was reminded of at zone leader council. My mission President said that when we learn things at meetings and we feel the Spirit, we need to bind ourselves to act and to change and apply the things that we learn. Otherwise, meetings become nothing more than just spiritual entertainment. As we bind ourselves, and act and repent, we become sanctified- cleansed and set apart. What a great blessing! As we choose to humble oureselves and follow the guidance of the Spirit and bind ourselves to action, we become sanctified, and are filled with joy and peace. I know this to be true, because I have applied this principle in my life. All of us who have watched general confernece have been spritually fed. What better time to bind ourselves to act on the things that we have learned at confernece than now? I know as we do so, we will enjoy a greater portion of the Holy Spirit, we will find more peace and direction in life, our testimonies will strengthen, and we will feel a greater sense of God's love in our daily lives. May we all choose to act and not be acted upon. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

 Love you all,

Elder Nugent

Hello everyone! Happy Easter yesterday! and happy April Fools Day today. This past week has been pretty good. We went to Port Royal for preparation day last week, and we had splits with the Elders in Montego bay the next day. We have been working with some pretty cool investigators here in Santa Cruz as well. Yesterday we walked for 2 hours with some investigators to church. it was a pretty awesome experience. We have been teaching them for a while and they have been coming to church (usually by taxi because they live pretty far), but this week they were out of taxi fare. When we taught them on saturday, they were unsure if they would come to church because they didnt have any money. We then taught them about the importance of attending Church, and invited them to walk to the church with us. They gladly accepted. The following morning we comenced on our 2 hour journey to the church. we started walking with them at 7 and arrived at 9, one hour before church started. It was great to see them put their faith to action. I have offered many times to walk with people to church, but rarely will people exercise the faith to do it. This experience also made me reflect more heavily on the great importance of attending church and partaking of the Sacrament and on my own commitment to attending church every Sunday. Our sabbath-day behavior is an outward expression of our commitment to honor and worship God. May we all truly keep the Sabbath-day holy for our entire lives. Also, I am very excited for General conference. I know that there will be a message delivered to each of us for our individual lives by the Spirit, if we will listen with the Spirit. Love you all,

Elder Nugent