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

Hello everybody! hows it going? long time no talk haha. Everything is going awesome here in Kingston. Currently we are working with some really cool investigators, so I am pretty excited to continue to watch them progress in the gospel. I love serving with Elder Conder as well. He is a great companion. He finishes his mission at the end of October so I will be sad to see him go. Things have been going well though. This past week has been pretty crazy we were in Portmore to train some Elders there for the day and then we had district conference on Saturday and Sunday, so we have been super busy. All of this busyness has been making time fly by way too fast. One thing that I have been reflecting on as of late is how the Lord always prepares a way for us to keep his commandments. Even when we see no possible way, there will always be a way prepared if we exercise our faith just like Nephi did when he recieved the Brass plates. Many times, we try to excuse ourselves and we lie to ourselves saying that the Lord will understand if we dont keep all of his commandments. Sometimes we say well im going through difficult times, or im struggling with difficult temptations,  the Lord will understand if I dont go to church or dont pay my tithing, or dont do some other thing which he has commanded. But the fact of the matter is that the Lord cannot look on sin with the least degree of allowance, and that a way has been prepared for all of us to keep all of his commandments. All it requires is faith and action. I have definitely been learning a lot on my mission. It has truly been the best experience of my life. I love the Lord I know he lives. I love my mission. and I love all of you. Till next week

Elder Nugent

Hey! hows it going everyone?! everything is going really well here. this past week has been awesome. to kind of switch things up this week, I am going to post something that we did each day of the week last week:

Monday: Preparation day. we purchased about 100 bananas for about 5 dollars. 

Tuesday: taught the gospel we had some awesome lessons. We also had an excellent zone conference

Wednesday: we went to Yallas to help the missionaries in that area to get more dedicated to the work. 

Thursday: We returned from Yallas and had an awesome day proselyting. We met many cool people, we are increasing our teaching pool

Friday: We had super planning for about 3 hours. We had brownies for lunch. We flooded the kitchen floor with the washing machine. We returned to Yallas, and had a very spiritual lesson with the missionaries there. 

Saturday: We had another awesome day teaching the gospel. I am loving life

Sunday: We had chruch, and taught even more excellent lessons. 

We are working with a way cool investigator named nicole. Hopefully she will be able to be baptized. She has a baptism date of Aug. 18. She is doing awesome. 

This week has been great. I love serving out here in Kingston. Elder Conder and I get along very well. We are doing work in the area, and we are teaching many, many prepared people, about ready to receive the gospel.

I love my mission, I love my Savior Jesus Christ. I know that he lives. I love and miss all of you back home.

Love,

Elder Nugent

Hello Everybody! How is everyone doing? I am doing quite excellent at the moment in Kingston. I love serving here. This past week has gone by really well and really fast. Currently I am serving with Elder Conder, we get along really well, so I hope we are able to be companions for a long time. The branch here is AWESOME there are probably about 70 people that come to church each week, and we get fed just about every day, so I can't ask for much better than that haha. Currently we are working with some really cool investigators that we recently met. A lot of them seem very interested and are really nice people, so I am excited to help them learn about the restored gospel. We are constantly on the lookout to find more people to teach though. Being a zone leader has been good. It gets really busy though because we have to carry a full proselyting load while also helping the other areas in our zone. I have definitely learned a lot from it already. I love how in life, if we make the correct choices we can constantly progress and become better and better. To be damned would be miserable. We need to ensure that we are always progressing each and every day. Always taking steps forward, and never taking any steps back. As Elder Conder says progression is perfection. Just looking back at my life, there have been so many times where I wasted time, when I could have been using that time to better myself in some way or another. We need to constantly look back and evaluate our lives, our dreams, our goals, and our expectations, to find what really matters most, and to ensure that we are always working to move forward. I love my mission. It is a period of time where super-growth occurs. I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who makes eternal progression possible. I love all of you back home. I know that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 

Love you all, 

p.s. hope you enjoy the pictures. there are more, but just not enough time to upload all of them. they are of me with investigators, and members, and such. oh and you can buy a bag of mangoes like I'm holding up in the picture for about 50 cents here hahaha. livin in Jamaica.... 

Elder Nugent

Hey everyone! hows it going? everything is going well here. this week has been quite crazy and enjoyable indeed. As most of you know,  I was transferred on Wednesday to kingston as a zone leader. When we got to the spanish town branch for transfers, to my surprise they told me that I was going to drive the missionaries in my zone to their areas which consisted of the areas of Yallas and Portmore. The thing that was crazy was that the car that i drove was a stick shift, which i haven't really driven before. But the Lord always provides a way so I was blessed and was able to drive the missionaries through kingston to their areas in safety. Another thing about Jamaica, is that they drive very crazily and they drive on the opposite side of the road. So that was quite an adventure indeed. I love this area though. The members are awesome, and the branch that i am serving in is very large compared to my other areas. My companion's name is Elder Conder, and we get along very well so i am excited to be serving with him. This week, I was really focused on serving the Lord with all of my Heart and mind. As we truly submit our wills to the Lords will, miracles occur. Well I love my mission, I love the Lord and I love serving here. I know this Church is true and I know that Jesus is the Christ and that God lives. Love you all.

Elder Nugent

Peace and Blessings

Pictures will come next week

What is up Everybody? How is everyone doing? I am doing quite excellent here in my last week in Mandeville. I just found out two days ago that I am being transferred to Kingston on Wednesday where I will be a zone leader... and i will be driving. haha. I will definitely be sad to miss Mandeville. I have grown close to a lot of the members here and i will be sad to leave some of our investigators. This past week has been pretty good. on Friday we hosted a branch movie night, and there were several people in attendance, so it turned out pretty well. Our investigator didn't end up getting baptised yesterday because he is 16, and he needs his parents permission for baptism. At first, his mom was completely fine with him being baptised, but then his father, who lives in Germany found out and pretty much turned our investigators entire family against him. So for the past week we have been hoping and praying that he would be able to still get permission from his mom. And, on Saturday, his mother finally decided to give him permission, so he should be getting baptised this coming sunday. I will most likely have to miss the baptism because i will be in kingston, but i am so happy that everything will be able to work out for him. It was definitely a miracle from the Lord. I have definitely enjoyed serving here in cool cool mandeville as people call it. I have learned a lot from being here and from training Elder Olson. I am looking forward to being in Kingston it should be a whole other adventure haha. I definitely know that this Church is true and that the Book of Mormon truly is scripture from God, and the keystone to our religion. I know that Jesus Christ lives, and that we are all children of God, and that he loves and cares for us. I love serving my mission. I wouldn't rather be anywhere else than right here. I love and miss you all still as always haha

Love,

Elder Nugent