Six Month Mark!!

ATTENTION everyone!! James has reached his 6 month mark. . . WOOHOO!!!

April 26, 2011

"Happy Easter Everyone,  

This week went by way to fast. I can't believe it is already Tuesday. Guess What? YUP you guessed it, we had another baptism this week ! It was so cool! I am so stoked to be a part of this marvelous work that is going forth among the children of men.   The baptism was Winnie and Cassans. Winnie's grandpa is president Lee, and Cassan is a child of record. They are both great. If I can get my computer to work I will send you a picture. 

    

Easter was so awesome namely yesterday. It was Easter Monday, and at the church we had Easter Family fun day. It was so cool to see all the members coming together and truly fellowshipping. They had sack races, bun eating contest, 100 meter dash, dance contests, and tons of other awesome things. I enjoyed it so much and everyone else did as well. It is truly something cool to see all these people come together and do something great. I love serving a mission. I am so thankful I get to do this! 

    

We Had been walking all Day and it was 8:40 and we were starving as we approached the gate to our investigators house. the gate lead up a giant hill and we were determined to get there. As we approached the top we looked back and there in the soccer field behind us was .......    haha ,Giant Rasta fest! We had a good laugh and treked on only to find that they weren't home. I guess sometimes you get your blessings in ways you wouldn't think of. Ours was we got to see Rasta Fest. I was really interesting, and something I will probably never see again. 

   

Our investigators are all doing really well, we are working with a few new ones, and our old ones have moved to America for some reason. We also met a lady that works at the Canyons ski resort. We picked a cherry tree this week as well. 

  

All in all this was a great week! 

Love, 

Elder James Conder"

Elder James Craig Conder

PO Box 2316

Kingston 8

Jamaica

Lessons on the Role of the Family for Jamaican Moms

March 18, 2011
"This week in Jamaica,
                     
Well,  I had another experience of awesome people in my life helping me in my missionary work! This time it was my Aunt Laura, who had the strength to raise some awesome boys.  In church we were on the lesson of  The role of Families, and as you might know, in this soiciety most kids are raised by the mothers. I had the opportunity to tell about my Aunt Laura and how strong and well she had raised her kids pretty much on her own.  I am confident that for just a few things that I shared about her, they all had a renewed hope for raising there children. 

Well sorry that is all I have time for today..............              

I love you all very much.

Love Elder Conder

P.s. Rasta just walked into the shop " I have COME TO TALK TO THE BOSS""

April 11, 2011

"Hello My loves at home or abroad on the land or the sea,                                                  

   I feel that I would like to take a bit of time to say thank you once again for everything that you are doing for me on the other fronts of the field. Namely at this time Elora for keeping up the blog, Big Up your Self( patiwa for good job/ thank you/ what ever you want it to mean) Also Jessica at this time. Let me just let you in on a little secret JESSICA is great at writing letters! I love reading them so much! I know that you are all doing so much, thank you all. Okay Just a few more shout outs Kyle Taylor and friends thank you for visiting my mom. MY Dad, I would like to tell the story of why, so I think I will start a new paragraph.

    Oh here it is a new paragraph, haha, anyway we were out proselyting in this area called West Green Meadows, we walked up to this giant house and started talking to this guy at first we he seemed pretty turned off to see us, but then we got talking about what he does for work and I told him of how I use to work with my dad doing the same stuff. We were able to continue to talk with him and eventually set up a return appointment. Not only has my dad helped me in providing me with this awesome opportunity to relate with this guy in work, but this week has been greatly physically draining. I would not been able to handle it as well without having these experiences with my dad in the past of working till you literally have nothing left!!  He has truly made this mission possible for me in so many ways. I am so greatful for him! I would have to Echo and add on to the words of the prophets about getting married. It is ordained of god. If  had not had my dad and mom I hate to think were I would be now!

I love you all very much,

Elder James C. Conder  

P.S. Have a good week"

March 04, 2011 around 2:30 pm

"Hello everyone from Elder Randle and I, we are just sitting here writing the weekly letter. What a week this week, I had the best thing ever happen, I got to go visit my first area. I threw in some pictures of it, I hope you enjoy them! We also this week,  as I hope everyone of you did, got to watch conference it was soooooo good. We also got to just be missionaries which is one thing I love very much.
I guess we could start with High Gate. I love this place so much, it was so cool to see everyone up there and just experience that whole place again. I saw one family I knew, there name is the Allens and they have been coming to church for 2 weeks now and say they never want to leave. I saw Maria the girl I baptized and she and her mom are still reading there scriptures and coming to church just about every week. I am so thankful for this experience it is close to indescribable the way I felt seeing them again. I would say that Alma 17:2 was a little bit of it. My joy was so great as I saw each person run up to me and shake my hand.  Truly a good time.

General Conference was awesome as a missionary, this was my first one as a missionary and it was outstanding. I love the new energy and drive I recieve each talk! The messages shown through as we went out and taught. We walked up to a lady's house we had been teaching for awhile and she declined our visit, but elder Randle hung in there and taught her a very brief lesson. We set up a return a point as she seemed to have a new confidence in us and herself. I am very excited for the next lesson with her!!!

It seems as though on a mission everyday is a miracle, because it is. Everything that happens is all Around miracles. I LOVE being a missionary. I urge everyone to start preparing now!

Ha ha My mom has requested I explain the pics I sent.  I will do my best, I cant remember all the ones I sent

- me in the jungle with sugar cane

- Dirty drain I fixed with a hanger @ the High gate house

- guys in the truck Brother Allen's work crew he owns a saw mill

- sunset on the way home aka mo bay

- me with my guitar

- Elder Randle man of action all around awesome

- rainy days on the mission

Love,

Elder conder

P.s. I Love you"