This week has been completely awesome!! Just for starters we had
6 investigators at church yesterday!
So funny and traumatizing story. There was this door we knocked
on and the man (Jose) let us right in. He was super happy to see us. We walked in and there wasn’t very much
furniture. Just a lawn chair and a tiny T.V., with some magazine cutouts of celebrities
like Katie Perry and Marylyn Monroe. Right when I saw these I thought, "this
guy is a porn addict," don’t’ know why I thought that but I did. He
then told us he admired Jehovah’s Witnesses. Then he told us to ask him any
question about Mormons and he could give us the best answer. He started talking
about the Mormon bible and then Elder Wolverton asked him to give us the real
name of it. He couldn’t remember!!! Then he said he tricked us. Then he went
off about just a bunch of random stuff. Then I happened to glance to the left
into the "dining room" but there wasn’t like a table or anything for
dining. But right on the wall was a big picture of a naked lady. MIND BLOWN!!
So the whole time we are talking to this guy I’m not glancing over to the left.
Then he proceeds to tell us that he was Catholic until he was 13 then he got
baptized 7th day Adventist, but that he knew one day one of his descendants
would be baptized for him into our church and he would be saved. So we were
like, "ummmmm" then we started talking about the commandments and
keeping them and stuff. Then Elder Wolverton asked about not committing adultery.
Then he pointed right at the poster and said what about that!? Jose said ,"Oh
that’s my cousin." And then Elder Wolverton (who could see into the
bathroom, I couldn’t) said "and the one in the bathroom is your cousin
too?" the man then went off about how the Sistine chapel has naked people
all over the walls and the pope looks at them every day. I was like, "You
aren’t even Catholic anymore!!!!" Then I brought up Adam and Eve and how
when they ate the fruit they saw that they were naked and had to cover
themselves up. His response, "We have a Judeo-Christian tradition of women
having to be clothed." Needless to say it went downhill and we pretty much
just told him he didn’t understand anything and walked right out. Told other
missionaries and they had run into him too. WACKOOO!
Went on exchanges with elder Wright this week. Had some fun
watching 5+ fire trucks fight a fire in an apartment! Super cool but no one got
hurt :) Talked to some people and ate tamales :)
So on Saturday we had a lesson with this lady named Estela and
she wasn’t there when we went, so we called her and she said she was at her
friend’s house who was having some sudden health problems. We asked if she
needed a blessing and turns out the friend was a less active member named Rosa.
So we went over and she said she had been praying for help but never thought of
us, and then we called Estela. So that was cool. She said that she wants to
come back to the church and this might be a sign that she needs to, Estela said,
"Um ya it is" so that was cool!
Yesterday after church we had a super good lesson with a
referral named Patricia and David. Brought a member and had a super cool
restoration lesson :)
Overall a super good week! :)
Love
Elder
Porter
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