Feb 24, 2014

Hey friends and family,

Man the temple walk sounds like it was sure fun! I’ts great to hear about the members doing there part and using the missionaries to help them bring people to the fold. That would be nice if that would happen here. haha.

Well it was a tough week overall and there was a ton of crap that happened this week. We decided to contact less actives downtown on the intersection of Ellice and Young street which is actually where we are now at this center for Aboriginal people. Anyways, it is literally one of the most ghetto streets in Winnipeg and it was really interesting getting to knock on drunk natives doors... and other peoples doors.... lots of things happened on that street which probably shouldn’t be included in this email. We have just been trying to find people to teach and no one wants to hear from us it seems like. I know we will find someone eventually, but for now we just got to keep working hard and being more obedient.

I cant wait for it to warm up. People will actually be out and about, so it will be great being able to contact them. 

Transfer calls coming up on friday. I’ll stay here I’m sure and I’m pretty sure Olguin is out of here. He’s been here forever. 

Yeah I heard from Dad how he and Carson got to have a good time at Bushnell Tanks. That sure sounds like fun.

Could you send me some simple recipes? Maybe your salsa recipe? That would be greatly appreciated. 

I’ll hit 6 months on march 4. Time is fast and slow at the same time. Days are longggg and weeks are short. sometimes. It all depends on if you are having fun. One thing that’s making time go by faster for me is working out and cooking healthy foods. I’m getting a sushi roller and I’m learning how to make sushi. Things like that make me feel like I’m accomplishing something, even though its something small haha.

We get to go and walk down the Winnipeg River and look at really crazy ice sculptures today. It should be really fun. There are warming huts all the way down the river so maybe we will survive.

We have to go to Sis Mcleans for dinner tonight... I love finding chunks of mold in my food and being sick the next day. So that should be just great. ughh...

I’ll have to send you some pictures later this week. These computers here are really slow at sending pictures. 

Sometimes I get kinda discouraged seeing friends of mine teaching tons of people and baptizing like crazy in different countries around the world, but this mission is just a much different mission. It’s hard and thats why I’m here. I don’t know why President Thomas keeps putting me in trashy areas but I know one day I’ll go to Flin Flon or Saskatoon or Moosejaw where it is much nicer. But for now I’ve just got to make the best of it and work hard here in this area, because there are people out there ready to learn. Out of 156 missionaries there’s not that many people being taught. It’s a tougher mission and I guess thats why I’m here. but I won’t give up, and I’ll just keep working harder. Love you all, and thanks for all the support! Elder Porter

 Some of the ice sculptures, crazy awesome!!!

 Some of the warming huts I was talking about.

There is a path made for people to skate on, man I wish we could ice skate as missionaries!!!