This week has been
awesome!! After Wednesday we were on fire! We taught 11 lessons this week and
we found 6 new investigators! This is up a ton from the 4 lessons and 0 new
investigators we had last week. I love it!!
On Monday it was one of
our members less active sons birthday. We went there to give him a little cake to say
happy birthday. When we were there he pointed right at me and said, "I
will go to addiction recovery at the church if you go with me, because I like
you. We are friends." He has a hard life, he is disabled because he
muscular dystrophy. This and other things have made his life difficult so he
has turned to drinking and smoking to escape. But he wants to change and I was
so excited when he told me this!
The same day we stopped
by Mary’s again because we haven’t been able to teach her because of her
husbands work schedule. We talked for a little on the front porch for a while.
We were talking and she said that she has been explaining the stuff she has
learned, from reading the stuff we give her, to her husband, Juan. We asked if
he was interested at all because he doesn’t seem like he is to us. She said
that he actually is and likes to hear the stuff she tells him about what we
teach, unlike the stuff she tries to share about the stuff at her church (she
is a Jehovah’s Witness). It is super
cool that she told us this because we were thinking of giving her to the
English elders, but he is more interested because he knows we understand
Spanish. Super cool!
On Tuesday we went
tracting. The first door that opened was a lady named Cythia from Mexico. She
had talked to the missionaries before and remembered the things they had
taught. So Elder Thurston asked if she was baptized and she said yes. She moved
here and couldn’t find the church for a while and then it was too far away when
she did find it. So we found an inactive member! Gonna try to hook her up with
our member Elba to get to church. And we are going to try and teach her
husband. Super cool!
Same day, Tuesday we
were still tracting and knocked this door. The guy’s name who answered is Juan.
We were talking and he said he had Mormon friends and stuff and we set a return
appt. Then we were talking and he said that he doesn’t know if we remember but
we talked to him in Target. Story behind that is like 2 weeks since I had been
in Indiana Elder Thurston had to exchange something at Target that his sister
sent. While he was in the dressing room I saw a man and his son sitting by the
dressing rooms. Started talking to them in my broken Spanish and they said that
they knew that missionaries were cool and if we were ever by their house to let
them know and they would talk to us. Totally forgot his address and everything,
but then we tracted into him again! Taught him a lesson on Saturday and it was
a super solid lesson! Then he gave us a ride home too because we have to share
the car now and it was like an hour and a half walk away. Super sick!!
Wednesday we went on
exchanges and my district leader came to my area with me. We taught 7 lessons
in one day! Blew our record out of the water for lessons in one week, in one
day!! Found two new investigators too!
Halloween was very lame
here. Had to be in by six. And I didn’t even see one trick-or-treater! But on
Friday we taught a former investigator and he seems super solid too! AND IT
SNOWED!! Here comes a super nasty winter everyone says.
Saturday we went
tracting before the lesson with Juan, and we found two new awesome people!! One
of them is named Elizabeth and we couldn’t teach her but she seems super solid!
But her next-door neighbor named Maragrito is super solid! He let us in and we
taught the restoration up to Joseph Smith. He said what we say makes sense and
he believes it, unlike the stuff his JW neighbor tries to tell him that doesn’t
make any sense. SUPER SOLID!!!
I don’t like daylight
savings. We can’t go tracting if it is dark outside, so if we don’t have any
lessons we have to go home. LAME! Oh well whatever.
Love you all!
Love
Elder Porter
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