Bendiciones en Contactando

What’s up y’all,

I hope y’all are enjoying the nice cool temps of Utah at this time and are getting ready for an awesome skiing season! 

So sadly this week we haven’t been able to meet with R, the investigator that was praying about baptism, because he has  been working in New Orleans all this week so that was a bummer. 

But we did have some success with our other investigators,  We were able to have a few of them commit to reading the Book of Mormon; and one of them, T, even said he would begin reading right away so we are excited for how things are progressing. 

Another blessing of the week was one day we set aside some time to go and knock on a couple doors, and usually when we go tracting a lot of people aren’t home, or they aren’t interested, so it usually takes you a while to make some progress. But this time when we went we were blessed to have all 4 of the doors we started on answer and we got 1 Potential investigator and 4 new investigators. And one of them was an awesome family from Puerto Rico (and don’t worry their families are ok after the hurricanes). So we were super excited to find that Spanish family. 

I hope y’all have a blessed week!

Heat, Humidity, with a touch of crazy

What is up y’all? 

Haha so you can probably tell from the title the heat is back.  We were blessed for a week with nice, cool, dry weather, but now it is back to the good old heat and humidity of Louisiana. 

So besides the usual crazy we meet in the form of drunk people, this week we had a pretty interesting experience while we were trying to contact media referrals. We were walking up to a house for one of the Bible referrals we had, and we saw a guy out side of the house that we thought might be the one who needed the Bible.  We walk up to give it to him and he yells  from across the yard, "Don’t come here y’all! I got the devil in me right now!" So we said have a nice day and boogied our way out of there. Haha I think that the heat got to him a little bit, just like it does to us. I think I prefer just running into drunk people...

We had a super good experience with our investigator R this week. We were able to see him twice this week and he is doing awesome. He has kept the commitment he made to read the Book of Mormon, and has read all the parts we gave him to read both times we went over. We have taught him the plan of salvation and he liked the idea of being able to live with his family forever. We told him that one thing he has to do to get that is to be baptized; and so he is praying about a date that he feels good about to set as his baptismal date! Pray for roger that he can receive his answer. And something else we were super excited about was the fact that the end of the lesson he said the closing prayer without us asking him to. That was a great experience.

I hope y’all have an awesome week!

Elder Porter

Safe from the storm

Hey y’all what is up?

So yeah, everything here in Louisiana is going well.  My area has been safe from both of the hurricanes so far; we have for sure been blessed for that. Remember to pray for Florida and Texas, they both have/are having some pretty rough times. 

This week has been a fairly normal one, we still have to tract like very day and things are going well with our investigators, we have 4 investigators that seem pretty promising so we hope that they will continue progressing. 

We had a funny moment the other day when we were knocking on doors, we ran into a lady that we had met before while we were printing off pictures at Walgreens. We had had some good conversations while we were sitting there and so when she saw us she was like come on in. We had a good lesson on the restoration with her, her daughter, and her cousin. Haha it would have been a really good one.  They kept getting distracted by different things we talked about and some interesting questions they had about things, like the gift of tongues and stuff, but by the end I felt like it had gone really well.  They invited us to come back and teach them this Tuesday so it was pretty cool. One of the highlights was that the daughter, who is 11, specifically asked us for a restoration pamphlet at the end so we are going to bring her her own copy next time. I love it when kids have that interest, I guess that is why we need to be like unto a child so that we will be receptive and willing to act on what the spirit testifies to us. So moral of the story be receptive to the spirit and remember that you never know what kind of effect your actions will have on people you think you will never see again. I honestly think that if we hadn’t made that first good impression on R she wouldn’t have let us in.

Also today, the reason that I’m emailing a little late and that I don’t have as much time, we went on a tour a little helicopter airport that a member works at. It was super cool and we were able to mess around in one of them and play with the controls, unfortunately we aren’t allowed to fly as missionaries and I don’t have 18000 dollars to pay to get taken up in these plans. but it was super cool.

Tengan una buena semana amigos!