Elder Logan Porter

Feb 10, 2014

Hey Everyone!

So this week was full of ups and downs, but all in all it was a great week. We volunteered at the hospital twice and had a good time doing that. I watched this old lady in a wheelchair wheeling herself down the hall and she pooped and it was dripping all the way down the hall... it was so gross and I am definitely glad that its not my job to clean it up hahaha.

So yesterday we had an appointment set up with this lady named Allei. She's a black lady from Sedan and her husband went there a year ago and went missing so she’s on her own with 5 kids. So anyways we went up to her door after church and it sounded like a ton of people were there, super rowdy and what not, so we knocked and she answered and there were tons of people in there. Lots of people with dreadlocks. I felt like I was in Jamaica haha so I asked her if we should come back another time and one of the guys was like "no brother! come and grub wit us mon! Deres food for all of everybody!" haha so I was like alright man! So we ate a bunch of food from Sedan and talked with them about Jesus Christ and got their names and numbers because I told them about basketball and they got super excited and wanted to come, so were gonna try to turn them into investigators. It’s going to be great. hopefully. We prayed with them and they were saying how good they felt with us there, and one of the lady’s there, Rachal, said she belongs to the Gateway Ward and wanted to talk to missionaries again, so we got her info and gave it to the Gateway Sisters and have another appointment set up for next week. It was good.

That was a great experience and I’ve been noticing the spirit a lot this week as I’ve talked to people on the street, and on the bus and what not. We were even talking to one of the bus drivers about religion, and what we do as missionaries. I’ve seen the blessings of talking to everyone everywhere we go.

We were contacting less actives downtown so we were looking around for all the freaks of the universe that we needed to avoid and we spotted the other elders, I ran up and shoved Elder Barton in the snow. haha I scared him so bad. Anyways, we walked with them back to their car, so we could get a ride and Elder Barton kept complaining about how his hand was so cold and I looked down and he had one of his gloves off and was laughing. He only had it off for 5 or 6 minutes and when we got in the car and it started to warm up he had to pull over and let Elder Olguin drive because he got pretty bad frostbite. in 5 min... it was -42 and that is really scary. I felt his hand and the skin was frozen really bad so we had to run it under warm water to get it back to normal temp. (thats the procedure for frostbite) yeah it was a stupid thing to do and we are still making fun of him for it. what a retard hahaha. But just an example to show you how cold it is here...

On my mission I have learned a lot about good. But I have learned even more about evil. Things that I have seen and experienced this week has made me know just how real Satan is and how terrifying he can be... I have seen Satan’s influence in peoples lives and how he has them bound by things that is impossible for them to conquer on their own. I have learned how Jesus Christ can make us new again. How he can make us pure again. I have seen how the gospel changes us and how when people know it to be true for the first time, that light comes into their countenance.

I know this church to be true and that through Jesus Christ and his Atonement we are able to be clean and can be forgiven. I know that is an ongoing process and that we are constantly having to try harder and be better. I know this life to be hard, but possible.

Have a great week everyone. Stay warm. oh wait...