Elder Logan Porter

January 6, 2014

Hey Everyone!

I actually saw a lady break off a piece of her hair like 5 inches long. Her hair was wet when she left to walk to the bus and it froze, she was an adult. Man this week was cold. Well all the people of Winnipeg have been making a big deal about how it is colder here than it was on the surface of Mars this week. Yes the planet Mars. It was also colder than the North Pole here, but that’s a given. The windchill made it -55 f this week and that is not an exaggeration. It is so freakin cold. We were waiting for the bus the other day for like an hour in -50 and we thought we were going to die. President says to stay in at -52 and no proselyting after -40 but I just can’t stand not doing anything. It’s like I’m going to go out and work unless it is blizzarding. We just throw on a couple pairs of thermals, wrap our face up and get out there. There were quite a few deaths on New Years, because all the drunk people just pass out in the gutter and die in the cold. It’s stupid.

I absolutely love the pictures of you guys ice skating. That is so great!

Elder Olguin and I have been working hard this week. We get along so well. I love the guy. I have had really good companions. Oh my gosh, there are so many missionaries here who have beat up their companions. Two assistants have gotten in fights with previous companions. President doesn’t like it but there are some retarded missionaries here, and when your trapped indoors with them for a couple days you want to kill them. So I won’t get sent home if I beat up my companion. I’ll just get an emergency transfer. haha I’m just scaring you mom. I’ll try not to haha!!!!

This week was tough, but tons of fun. It was sooo cold this week and no one goes out in this weather, so we were trying to find things to do this week. we got discouraged one evening and the Stafford Elders and us went to the forest which is right by our apartment and went for a nice little walk. It was fun and lifted our spirits.

Today for p-day we went to Costco, one of the missionaries bought a Costco card here, everything is so expensive at the store, so it kindof helps. Like a gallon of milk is over $5.00. Anyway, we got a huge thing of meat, we are going to use the awesome spices my family sent me in my Christmas package, it’ll be awesome!!

It snowed like 7 inches the other day and it blew huge snow drifts everywhere. We did some shoveling this week. We were supposed to teach this lady and her husband, but they were being really flakey and wouldn’t let us in a couple times, so I got pretty mad and just dropped them as investigators. It’s not worth our time spending over an hour to get there, waiting for half an hour at the bus stop and taking an hour to get back. We’re just wasting our time with them.

I gave a lady a blessing this week. She requested one. Her son got a head trauma in a fight and he would randomly flip out and cut himself and others with a knife in her house so I made sure he was not in the house when I gave her a blessing. ugh people are insane here. I wonder if it’s the cold getting to their brains......

We had the worst fast and testimony meeting ever yesterday. All the psychos got up and bore their testimonies. One lady bore her testimony about how Jesus Christ and Lucifer were brothers. Yeah it’s true, but why would you bear your testimony on that. Seriously. I’m sure glad we had some people at church yesterday. ughhh

We went with the Stake Patriarch to give this man a blessing. Brother Cyril Mcfarlin, an 83 year old man from Trinidad, he’s such a great guy. He’s a very good church member. He’s mad because he can’t go to church very much because of his health. He’s such a good guy.

We are getting public affairs missionaries here. They are about to build a temple here in Winnipeg so that will be really good!

Elder Olguin and I get to go out to a little town called Winkler tomorrow to move a bunch of stuff there. There are going to be missionaries there and a branch out there. It’s gonna be so good. President made the goal of 225 baptisms this year. It’s going to be a good year hastening the work.

I’m loving this work and I’m always working hard. It’s a very tough mission. The people here are content. There is a ton of rejection, but honestly I know I’m going to grow here. I wouldn’t grow if I went to an easy mission. It’s the tough times that really test you and its Gods way of molding me. I’m just a piece of clay. God is the sculptor here.

Love you all, thanks for the prayers

Elder Porter

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