"i just gotta keep on keepin' on!"

Well another week gone! 

Things are going alright here in Old Harbour. We had a Zone conference this week so that was cool getting together with all the missionaries. Elder Randle being the Assistant now he teaches at those i wish i woulda had some hillbilly teeth so i could pull all sorts of faces at him. The meeting was really good we talked about Growth and Real growth.. and the differences between them. We want real growth and so that was the focus of the meeting on how we can get some real growth going here in Jamaica we have had to much growth and not enough real growth.. So we just need people that are going to live the gospel in other words. It made me remember when i was serving with Trenten Dale formerly Elder Dale but he said you know from now on i only want to baptize those that are going to stay around not just hang around for a month of so but that are truly converted and in it for the long haul. And that has stuck with me ever since he said that. And while we were together we had 2 that are defiantly in it for the long haul. And ever since then i have felt good about all the ones i have helped to come into the church. But man the ones we are working with here in Old Harbour are tough. dang it has been some of the toughest weeks of my mission. And this past week was one of the toughest it just seems like nothing can go right. Our teaching pool has shrunk and we are trying to build it up but its just not seeming to work. must be one of those testing times! Just have to push through it and the good things will come out of it! Actually i was sittin there Saturday night right before bed looking at some scriptures and just trying to find something that i was looking for but i looked in the bible at some but i just wasn't finding anything and then Boom right in my lap!  Alma 17:11

And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the Lamanites, thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, 

that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of 

thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls.

AMEN was all i could say to that haha

 I got to thinking ya know thats exactly what i have to do. I just have to be patient through it all! And then i always think of Elder Hollands Mormon Message "Good things to come" Where he says in it you keep going, You keep walking... i dont really remember all that he says but you can look it up and watch it! And also that quote kept coming back to me about how on a smooth trail you may get there faster but a rough path teaches you more... So i know there is something i gotta learn from this. So anyhow though it was a tough week i know that i just gotta keep on keepin' on! Well its crazy to think that my time is drawing to an end soon but im just gonna keep on keepin' on! Well i love you all have a wonderful week! 

Love Stetson