Jan 27th

Hey Everyone!

Well this week has been cold. Suprise! Probably the coldest on my mission. With the windchill the other day it was -52. Like are you serious?!! I hate staying inside. I feel so lazy when I don’t go out.

Well we had a good week over all, very slow because no one is outside, but whatever. Yesterday on the way home from church, we missed the bus by 2 min and had to wait for the next bus for 55 min. It sucked. There was a lady in the bus stop though and we taught her for 45 min! It was great. Then a guy from the mennonite university walked in and I was talking to him and he was like "man I’m freezing! This sucks! I’m not from here!" and I told him I wasn’t either and he asked me where I was from and I said Mesa AZ. He was like... me too..... what the heck are you doing here? hahahha we talked for a while. It was funny. We were both miserable!

  I went on exchanges with Elder Muirhead who is waiting on a visa to go to Zimbabwe Africa. It was great because I don’t know all the bus routes and we got so lost for a bit hahaha!! We went to teach a less active who lives in a tiny room above a bar and after the lesson some weird stuff happened... all i will say is that it involved 2 extremely drunk people and me....... 

Anyways we had church yesterday, and this african guy came in and was talking to me and he needed a place to stay. great. why is this my problem right? He talked to Bishop and he is getting things figured out. He’s actually a really good guy and he has an interview at the university for being a professor. He is a member who was baptized about a year and a half ago. 

Every Tuesday and Friday we go and play basketball with a bunch of phillipinos and holy cow I’m getting good! Not to brag but I’m pretty much the most valuable player. 

It was just very cold this week and not very many people were out. some roads got shut down because of bad road conditions.

Oh one more funny thing happened. So Sis Denton from England who came out with me is now comps with Sis Wise, the one who is a pathological liar. She hates it haha, but anyways President said that Sis. Wise needs serious help with her lying and told me and the other elders that when she lies, to just call her out on it every time. haha I said that won’t be a problem for me. I’ll help her with her lying...

anyways yeah this week has been slower but pretty good. love you guys!

Elder Porter