On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Logan Porter <loganp@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hey mom!! I meant to ask how the hike went!! That's great! You're awesome!! The sports night starts this coming Thursday and the bible study starts on Tuesday!! We're so excited! My retainer's fine but my teeth are still a little loose. I'm not gonna worry about it though. It rained a lot this week and it has been averaging at about 55 degrees f. I got my coat! When I went to try it out they had a chamber that you can see how it does in the cold haha. The chamber was -15!! My face was freezing!! haha yeah carsons letter was so funny. Me and Elder Johnson were laughing about that for a while haha. My companion is the greatest! We get along so well! Like its only been a week and a half and were already really good friends! Yeah Marja has written me a few times. Also Kayle. It's nice to hear from everyone. We just got back from Winnipeg just now. We got permission to go out there and play games with the other elders and sisters. It was so nice to see other missionaries. haha so I found out that the one less active member that weve been teaching, Lauren, is a total schizophrenic haha. He has been getting so much better. His countenance has changed and we have the Spirit in our lessons now. He still throws out stupid questions though. Like on Saturday he asked me if it was possible if Jesus could have gotten his powers from a metorite in a cave... no Lauren. It's God's power called the Priesthood. come on. He thinks he can time travel... haha the other day we went over and he had just got done shaving his eyebrows off... haha this is SELCRACK!!! haha he's a great guy and he's getting so much better. and no. I haven't been working out. It is so hard to get out of bed in the morning. I am so tired at night! I'm gonna start again tomorrow. The mission president and his wife are so great. We won't see them a lot because of the size of the mission. It's the biggest mission in the church and all. So we're trying to get permission to go and teach at the jail haha. We get to go fishing with and investigator on Friday so we're super excited about that.  And hand written letters take a while to get here. I'll give you my address. 23-215 Reid Ave. Selkirk, MB R1A 0L5.  But yeah if I'm near the end of my transfer which is 6 weeks just mail them to the mission home, and for overweight packages I have to pay I guess. I don't know all the restrictions so just don't send things too heavy haha. but yeah elder Johnson is the greatest companion I think that I'll have. haha we have a hard time going to sleep because we just keep laughing till we fall asleep. Our branch mission leader Gordy Holmes is very great. He rides motorcycles and boxes, and hes 68 years old haha. We've been eating with some members lately which is nice because all we eat at our apt is Ichuban, which is basically ramen. I only eat like twice a day because I'm so sick of it haha. We go shopping today. We have been eating with the Kiskan family. They have a set of triplet boys. They're so funny. That whole dinner conversation consisted of them asking our favorite super heroes and who would win out of all the Avengers. were really getting close to all the members and it's great because a lot of the missionaries in the past had like nothing to do with the members at all. We got permission from our mission pres to watch the movie "Courageous" at an elders quorum party. It was really nice. It was funny because there were only 4 elders there.. small branch. tomorrow I'm gonna go get a toque and gloves and boots. I'll keep you updated on everything. Love you guys! Miss you all!

Elder Porter

oh and I buzzed my head. It's a thing here with all the elders. Almost all the Elders in Winnipeg buzz there head. Saves money on haircuts haha, but really when you wear beanies all the time, it just works better.