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

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