This week has been
really good! We started doing those little lessons on the porch with Mary, and
she now has a baptismal date for January 2. She is such a solid member and we
have had some super spiritual and awesome lessons with her! She is the reason
that I want to stay in South Bend, because I want to watch her progress even
more! She told us this week that she is torn between JW and us because she
likes both of them. She has been a JW for 5 years and hasn’t been baptized. We
asked her why she hasn’t, and she said its because she feels like there is
something more. So.... I decided to be super bold and tell her that this is the
"more" that she is looking for. We showed her how the Bible and the
Book of Mormon work together and she got super excited! She is one of those
golden investigators who believes everything right when you tell her.
So our member Elba's
son moved into her house because he has some things he needs to work out, and
he has a Burmese python that is less than 2 years old and is already 9 feet
long and almost 100 pounds. And I got to hold it!! So sick!!!
While we were at Elba's,
a close family friend came over named Benny (his English name) and we have
talked with him before. He talks super fast and with a super thick Puerto Rican
accent (Puerto Ricans are super hard to understand) but he told me that my Spanish
has improved since last time he saw us, which was nice to hear :)
We also ran into this
white man named Mark. We helped him move some things out of his basement, then
he asked us about our beliefs. He is a weird dude who is only interested in
religion because he thinks people are dumb for believing it, so he pretty much
likes to study peoples stupidity. We were able to help correct some of the
false doctrine that he had, so even though he wasn’t interested in the
slightest, we were still able to do good.
Had a lesson with Jose
and Maria, and it wasn’t super good. They don’t have a ton of interest, and we
were afraid that they were going to drop us during the lesson. So hopefully we
can turn things around with them, but they are pretty strong Catholics.
We were able to teach Juan
twice this week, and he still hasn’t prayed, so super disappointing. But we
took our super awesome members the Diaz's yesterday, and boy I love members. I said
one sentence, and Elder Thurston shared a scripture, other than that Hno. Diaz
taught the whole lesson. I feel like it was what Juan needed, to hear from
people who have had similar life experiences as him. So I don’t think he will
be baptized in December, but I think he will get there eventually.
Not a ton happened this
week, but what did happen was awesome!!
Love
Elder Porter
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| playing with my food . . . oh well |
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| Me and the Burmese Python |
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