This week has been
COLD!!!! At this moment it is snowing pretty hard outside! I love warm
libraries!!!
Learned something
really interesting from one of our members this week. So he is a regular
laborer in a factory. He told us that he makes as much as someone who has 2+
college degrees in Mexico. Now it makes so much more sense why Hispanics want
to come up here, because as a person with no education, they can make as much
or more working in a factory than they could if they went to college for YEARS
in Mexico!
We have finally been
able to contact Juan our investigator with a baptismal date. We have a lesson
with him this week. I don’t know if he will be ready on Dec. 13 because we
would have to meet with him 2 or 3 times a week, and he works a lot. But I’m
keeping my hopes high.
We are also going to
try something different to teach Mary Rios because her husband is never home.
So instead of doing like a 30-40 min lesson we are going to just stop by every
day and teach maybe one or two points from a pamphlet on the front porch.
Hopefully we can get her progressing to baptism. She is so solid and would be
an awesome member!
Super cool experience
this week: There is a couple, Jose and Maria (surprise) that the English
sisters ran into down in Lafayette and they live up here in South Bend. We have
been trying to get a lesson with them for almost a whole transfer, and we were
finally able to teach them this week. The night before I felt like they needed
to be told about families. So the next day we figured out a lesson in like 10
min, and it was really cool and spirit led. So we go in and they didn’t seem
super interested. Then the conversation kind of moved over and we were able to
leave a Family Proclamation with them and they totally opened up. Super cool because
that is what they needed. So we have a lesson with them again this week too!
Also same day as Jose
and Maria we went over to Elba’s to teach her son Jose and we were guided by
the spirit to prepare a lesson about temple ordinances for the dead and the
spirit world and stuff. He said that he wants to go to the temple and be baptized
for his dad and stuff! So hopefully we can get him on track. But he will have a
lot of work to do. But then on Thursday we took him to addiction recovery in
the middle of a blizzard and then no one showed up to the class. So he was
pissed and said that he doesn’t want to go back because no one cared enough to
show up for him. I hope we can get him to go again. I don’t want to be transferred
out of this area because I feel like I’ve got a connection to some of these
people and I want to help them, even though this area is really hard at the
same time.
I am very happy to say
this but I feel like my Spanish is improving now! I am getting more and more (not
much by all means yet) but I am definitely understanding more! Super pumped!!!
Sometimes I catch myself thinking a sentence or two to myself in Spanish too :)
Love you!
Love
Elder Porter
In letter to mom:
I love your food! I
have been spoiled by being able to have everything homemade. So....yes I would
like some!! And I am being better about letting snacks and candy last me a long
time too :) haven’t even opened the trail mix yet, because I want to have
snacks for a long time :)
Things are going good.
I’m really glad dad sent me that book because I think that it is what I need to
do, to learn how to handle things better. Thanks for the CD too! Spanish music
is awesome!! Maybe I will send you one of my favorite songs that I have found
out here someday :)
Ya there are challenges
to every mission, no matter where you go. . . . Ours is finding people. Just
work through them the best you can.
I have actually not
done your cooking tips because on p-days we go to the church and hang out with
all the other elders. Have actually slept at other elder’s houses for two
nights now. It’s a party actually!
We have been invited for Thanksgiving
with one of our members. The mission doesn’t do anything for Thanksgiving, but
they do a whole mission conference for Christmas.
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