Hey everyone! Greetings from Kingston Jamaica yet again. I know I have said this many times before, but it is crazy how fast the time is slipping away from me. This week I begin my last transfer... Well, this past week has been excellent. My companion Elder Faumui and I have been a part of some really powerful lessons, our investigators are progressing wonderfully, and we are still being led to more and more elect people. It is amazing to see how fast the church will be growing here in Kingston very shortly. This past Sunday, 7 of our investigators came to church again, and they all loved it. We also had the privilege of teaching two lessons with Elder Gamiette of the Area Seventy. Today, we met a man that was led to the mission office, because he wants to start following God completely in his life. We taught him about the restoration, and he agreed to be baptized on the 21 of September. I am learning more and more everyday that this is the Lord's work. I know that the people we are teaching were led to us by God, and that we didn't just find them on our own. It is amazing to see how aware of us our Heavenly Father truly is. It is difficult for me to write about all of the miracles we are experiencing, because we have been experiencing so many. I know that this work is true. Well, this upcoming week is transfer week, so we are getting ready for 13 additional missionaries, so we are excited about that. I love you all,

Elder Nugent  

Hey Everyone! hope you are all doing well. Sorry I wasn't able to email yesterday. We had to take a fridge to a new house across the island so we never took a preparation day. I'm just sending a quick email today though. Everything is going really well over here. We had 7 investigators come to church on Sunday, and many of them are very prepared for the gospel. Currently we have 2 really special investigators who will be getting baptized on the 14th. They are doing awesome. It is so cool to see the changes that they have been making, and how happy they are now. One thing I noticed on my mission, is that when people are truly striving to repent and come unto Christ, many times they will start changing and start living commandments that you haven't even taught them yet. It is so cool. And that is definitely the case with these two investigators. We are also teaching another awesome investigator who spent his whole life in another church, but who is very meek and lowly in heart. At first when we started teaching him, he was trying to prove us wrong all the time. He was very surprised though, when we didn't argue or try to prove our point, but we just taught him what we know to be true and invited him to pray about it. As he has been sincerely praying, he has been receiving answers, and he is making changes and it is just awesome. Well, as I said, I don't have much time, but I just want you all to know that this work is true. I love being a missionary. The work is going awesome over here. Love you all and have a nice week,

Elder Nugent

Hey everyone! wow can you believe how fast the time has flown? I cant believe summer is almost over. It has gone much to fast. Even though it is always summer in Jamaica I guess haha. This has been a great last couple of weeks. We have been able to see the hand of the Lord in great abundance, and we have experienced many, many miracles lately. The Lord is hastening His work here in many evident ways. Currently over the past several weeks, we have been led to very prepared people who have the means and capacities to become leaders in the Church in Jamaica. We are teaching many investigators with families and jobs and cars and they all are referrals from members and have great fellowship with members of the church. The Lord is just throwing these people at us. I recently learned that Jamaica is getting a stake a lot sooner than we even anticipated a few weeks ago. I cant say much about the details but it is coming! and it is coming fast! Start saving money for a trip to Jamaica. We are working with more prepared people who will be leaders in the Church now than I have ever worked with at one time on my mission. We are witnessing people's hearts get softened by the Spirit over night. For one example, we were teaching the friend of a member about the restoration at the members home. During the entire lesson, the investigator was very hardened and very closed off. She tried to argue everything that we taught her. Near the end of the lesson, the investigators member friend bore a powerful testimony to her about the truthfulness of the restored gospel. The investigators heart seemed to soften a little bit because she stopped arguing, and we gave her a restoration pamphlet to read and pray about and we set up a return appointment. When we went to the investigators home a few days later, we were expecting to be received with the same hardheartedness that we experienced in the first lesson. As we began to teach the lesson however, to our astonishment, the investigator had a complete change of heart. She was very accepting of the things we taught, she had read the pamphlet twice, and she told us that she is going to read the Book of Mormon, and she said she is going to pray and pray until she receives an answer because she really wants to know that it is true. The lesson was awesome! i was amazed to see how the Spirit was able to cause such a mighty change of heart in her so quickly. The member who is the investigators friend was so excited and she had a huge smile on her face because we are now able to teach her friend about the gospel. It was awesome. We have had several other experiences similar to this one. We also had a really cool experience that happened yesterday that i should write about real quick. we had a referral lesson with some strong members who felt very impressed to share the gospel with a family who they are friends with who are gas station owners. The members have tried several times in the past to share the gospel with this particular family, but the family was pretty hardened against the church at the time. just recently, the mom of the family had a brother who passed away, and she asked her member friends if they could do the temple work for the brother because he was never baptized!!! obviously the Spirit has been working in this nonmember family, their hearts are being softened, and we will be teaching them soon! This is an exciting time in missionary work! especially in Jamaica. This was just a few of the many miracles we have been experiencing. We are teaching more families that the Lord is leading us to. Tonight we have a lesson with a 5 person family! who have come to church twice and LOVE the church. we will be giving them a baptism date of September 14. they were already good friends with 2 very solid families in the branch. The mom of the family said she wants to become a member. It is just awesome! This is the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love you all,

Elder Nugent

Dear friends, family, readers, etc.

 

This has been another very eventful/crazy week, but it has been a good week though. Sorry i won't have much time to email again today though. I will be flying to nassau bahamas in a couple of hours to do a zone conference so we will need to go to the airport soon. I don't know where to even start with how this week went. Let me just put down a couple of thoughts. well, this week we had 2 emergency transfers that we had to conduct, we had 2 sessions of zone conference, our water ran out twice, we had transfer meetings, and we are house hunting. Next transfer we will be gaining 14 missionaries and only losing 2, so we need to prepare to open a lot of new areas. Despite all of the craziness of the week, and trust me it was probably the craziest week of my mission, it was awesome to see how mercifull the Lord has been to us. I haven't been in my area much at all. In fact we have only had maybe 1 full proselyting day, yet the Lord has been leading some very prepared people to us, and us to them. Not only are the people the Lord is leading to us prepared, but they are also the kinds of investigators who will contribute to a Stake. I can definitely see how the Lord is preparing Jamaica for a Stake. Miracles are already occuring. The work is hastening here. One thing I have noticed is when the Lord requires much of us, we are always able to see his hand in great abundance as we rely on Him. It is just awesome. Well time is winding down. It is weird that this is my last round of zone conferences of my mission. I love being a missionary for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Love you all,

Elder Nugent