Hola!
Este semana fue bien loco pero Dios bendico nos con mucho tambien! So
to start out our investigator Miguel who we were going to have baptized this
last Saturday had to change the date of his baptism since his dad decided to go
crazy controlling and not let any of their family out of the house to go and do
anything! It was crazy, but Miguel thinks this next week we can do the baptism;
so keep him in your prayers that everything will work out for him! Also pray
that his father’s heart will be softened because he is currently the only thing
in the way of Miguel getting what he wants and getting the blessings that come
with baptism.
The second crazy thing that happened this week is that my companion
had to leave me to fend for myself with another greenie. The story is that my
comp and Elder Clifford’s (the other greenie) comp are the zone leaders for my
zone; but they had to be split up so they could both train which usually doesn’t
happen. So they both had to go to a meeting with the Mission president before zone
conference. So me and Elder Clifford had to go on splits. It was super hard
since neither of us know Spanish super well yet. And to make things worse all
our appointments fell through, so we had to just go tracting with our limited Spanish.
We actually had some success though because one of the doors we knocked on
opened and the Hispanic family let us in to teach a lesson. They though it was
pretty cool and a little funny that these two white boys were trying to learn
and speak Spanish so they listened to what we had to say. It was super rough
since Elder Clifford had stage fright and forgot all his Spanish; so it was me
trying to carry this lesson about the restoration by myself in Spanish. I managed
to stumble through it which was a blessing and the family invited us to come
back and teach another lesson.
One super huge blessing this week is that we were teaching an
investigator named Sylviano for the third time and we decided to teach about
the plan of salvation this time. It was an amazing lesson and he was drinking
it up and loved what we said. Then at the end we asked him to commit to being
baptized on November 5th and he said yes. And to make it even better I was
prompted to ask his daughter Cielo, who had sat in on two of the three lessons
but would never talk to us or say anything at all really, if she would like to
commit to the same thing and she agreed as well. So now we have three
investigators committed to a date which is awesome! It goes to show that the
spirit does prepare people to receive the gospel and that when you teach with
the spirit amazing things can happen!
The last story for the week is actually about the two pictures I put
on this email. I had been needing a haircut for a long time but we had never
found a member to do it or time to go and get it done, so last Monday I decided
to take matters into my own hands and try to do it myself. At that point it was
almost time for bed so the first picture is how I looked after the first little
bit of cutting it. I looked like someone had taken a machete to my hair and I was
thinking, "I hope that I can get this looking presentable in the morning
cuz as of now I may need to shave my head." And miracles happened, with my
comps help on the back of my head we got the hair looking at least somewhat
presentable. The lesson from this is don’t try to cut your own hair after ten o’clock
at night after a hard day of work.
I love you all and love hearing how y’alls lives are going. Some of
you have some pretty crazy stories that happened the last two months that are
super entertaining.
Love,
Elder Porter
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| Hair cut - machete style :) |
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| Fixed hair cut :) |
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