To Me

Feb 19

Dear Family and friends

So this week was pretty good. We taught some lessons and all that missionary stuff. We gave blood and that was fun. I got to box a few elders and that was great. We had a really great dinner appointment at the Gross's and a family from Selkirk was there and we got to talk for a long time. It was great.

We had the most boring meeting ever yesterday from the assistants to the president. It was a 5 hour meeting on how to plan for your week/day. I was sitting between my district leader and zone leader and we were trying to plan ways we could kill ourselves haha. Even President Thomas was snoring. It was the worst meeting of my mission hhahaha.

We've just been trying to find people to teach. I'm getting really fed up with all the natives here. They're all alcholics and drug addicts and I get so mad. Just now we had to go pick up stuff for a member from his wife because he's in a care home and we went in and she was super stoned and we found a crack spoon on the table so that was nice.

We teach a less active downtown and he lives above the worst bar in Winnipeg so twice a week it looks like two missionaries go into a bar every week. haha overall good...

I've got a joke for you. You can take it out of my email to everyone if you want mom. Okay so what's the difference between a native lady and a buffalo?? about 50 pounds..... hahahahahahahah

Oh we got good news. All the missionaries get to go to Regina in April and see some General Authorities speak. So that will be way fun. We can go through the temple with everyone so it will be way fun.

Just an average week basically. Not a ton happened. My 6 months is coming up soon.

Oh and one of the sisters in our ward is going home due to her inability to stop telling ridiculous lies. Some missionaries just start to go nuts out here sometimes and she just couldnt take it. She's leaving against her will though. It's just that all the members could tell she was lying. It was out of control.

Oh dont put this one in my email home but Bishop asked us to go to these "cottage meetings" that a lady in our ward does... this is ridiculous. This lady has all the recent converts come over and she teaches them a bunch of false doctrine and crazy church history and stuff. Poligamy, Kolob, the blood atonement, the Adam god theory. Just all around crazy freakin stuff. It's retarded. Basically Bishop went to one and shut it down and she's starting them back up again and Bishop is making us go to shut things down and keep it all on track with the church's real doctrine. yep. There is some crazy stuff here. I don't know if stuff like this ever happenend in my home ward and I just didnt know about any of it but I'm sure it's just here that things like this happen. But whatever. 

Hopefully all of you are doing good. Thank you all for the support. Love you all have a great week!

Elder Porter

Just an example of an every day contact.......hahahaha