Hey everyone,
This week was a pretty
great one, we had some things that went really good for us. But there was one
sad thing that happened. This week Mrs. Gerrie passed away. If you don’t remember
who Mrs. Gerrie was, she was the old lady in Morgan City that loved the
missionaries and would always have us over to eat and would make us laugh all
the time by telling us slightly racist jokes and give odd advice about life. I did
get to go to the funeral because our area is right next to the Morgan City area. It was good to go and say goodbye and see all
of her family members we had met before. It was actually a very happy thing
because she had lost her husband a year and a half ago, and she was pretty
feeble and now she is able to be with him again. It was also great to be at the
funeral because one of her daughters named C had received a few letters from
returned missionaries who had known Mrs. Gerrie; she read some of them to
everyone during her talk and they almost all mentioned our beliefs about the
after-life and plan of salvation. It was awesome because none of that family
are members, but they were able to find comfort in that teaching we have.
Then the awesome
things that happened this week are blessings from us working hard for the past
few weeks. God decided to let us run into a few awesome people. He lead us to a door of a random Hispanic
family that was living in a neighborhood of almost all black and white people;
they were super nice and asked us to come back. God helped delay us after we
started heading home for just long enough that we had a lady named K pull up to
us and have us pray for her and also inviting us to come and teach her at her
home, because she has been having a feeling for a while now that she needs to
change her life, and become more spiritually nourished, and come unto Christ. Then,
as a cherry on top of the whole thing at church yesterday one of the less
actives that we had been assigned to teach, but who lived over an hour and a
half way in a car, came to church and brought three nonmember friends with her
that want to receive the missionary lessons (and all of them are Hispanics from
Peru so it is great!). So this week was the week where God showed us he does
realize how tough it is sometimes, and that he does hear our prayers, and will
bless us because of our service.
Love you all, I hope
you have an awesome Christmas season!
Elder Porter
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