Jan 13 at 10:45 AM

Oh man this week was sooo warm. It jumped in the 30s this week and the snow started to melt. It was really muddy and nasty but really fun. This week has been great. Elder Olguins birthday is today. He’s 19 now! haha so it’s great. Elder Barton is the one with the Costco card. They have this deal where you can buy a hotdog and a drink for 1.50! Best deal in the city. It is great. So to answer you question about the huge pork loin, we pan fry the meat and season it and it’s sooo good. It’s still lasting us. I hope I don't get transferred, because I spent all my money on food and stuff haha.

So on Tuesday, we got to go to a little town called Winkler with Elder and Sister Langston, some of the office workers, they are a senior couple, and we got to go and set up a new missionary house. It’s a 6 bedroom house for two elders because they will be having church there. It’s going to be really neat! It’s a very nice place. It was an all day thing. We set up desks and appliances and all sorts of things. It was great.

Today we’re going laser tagging with all the other missionaries in Winnipeg. North zone vs. South zone. Elder Berger, Barton, Olguin and I all bought matching training hoodies and we have some face paint, so were going to destroy them. I’m excited. It’s going to be a blast!

This is my tribal face paint before we go laser tagging, I'm not actually going to do it like this when we go, just in our apartment, haha











Nice and foggy day

We’ve been working with a less active guy named Scott lately. He’s such a good guy, a little crazy, but that’s the way things are here it seems. He’s the guy who has had 2 brain aneurisms and he’s soaking the gospel up. He loves it. He’s super poor, and finding him a ride to church has been a little tricky, but he’s always wanting to come and he came this week again. He wants to  work towards the priesthood. He’s obeying the word of wisdom. He is gaining a testimony and is already reading in 2nd Nephi, love the guy.

We volunteered at Siloam mission at the soup kitchen. I was the milk man. I poured over ten gallons of chocolate milk for like 200 people. Them bums like there chocolate milk, and the milk was like a week and a half expired haha. It was gross.

Transfers are coming up on the 23rd, and we find out our transfer calls on Friday. I’m prayin I stay here with Elder Olguin. He’s such a good guy. 

We’ve just been teaching members and less actives this week. Sis. Merasty is a native lady and we were teaching her sons. She’s is such a great member. She calls herself a Lamanite. I thought it sounded odd, but it was true. She calls all the natives Lamanites. I thought it was a little funny. She is teaching us how to sing the hymn "How Great Thou Art" in the cree language. It sounds amazing! There are tons of natives here. Right now I’m surrounded by Lamanites haha! We’re at this place we call the “native place” for natives to use computers but were immigrants, kind of, so they like us here haha. 

Well I’m working hard and loving it. Pray for me that I don’t get a really crappy comp next transfer. Love you all.

Elder Porter                    They finally plowed the sidewalks....