Elder Logan Porter

July 14, 2014

Hey Everyone!

So this week was super great! We had quite a few lessons and had 2 members present. It was fun! We've been talking to a lot of people on the bus and just busting it on the streets. We watched a movie with the sisters and their investigator, and a member called the Saratov approach. It was about some missionaries who got kidnapped and held for ransom in Russia and their struggles and hope and how they kept their faith strong. It was such a good movie. I loved it.

We met some really nice less active members this week and got to have some really good conversations. It rained super hard the other day and hailed like crazy. We got caught out in it and hid under a bus shelter with some other people. If it keeps raining like this the whole town is going to be flooded!

We helped a less active that we've been working with (Brad), do some work on his yard. His grass was 2 ft tall and we were originally just going to help him cut the grass but I started cutting down tree branches and before we knew it we had spent nearly 3 hours taming his backyard. It was so funny, he was just giggling like halfway through because you could actually see his yard and it looked completely different. It looked like a whole different yard! It probably would have taken 8 or 9 truckloads to take it to the dump but he just went out late that night and put it all in the canal hahaha.

We did a lot of service this week. We mowed another lady’s lawn and shoveled a ton of weeds and got destroyed by mosquitoes. The mosquitoes are so bad here that they have been doing some fogging to kill them all and have released thousands of big dragonflies to eat them all. It’s pretty neat to look up into the sky and see hundreds of dragonflies above your head. I love canada!

I also shaved my hair too short and look like a criminal, just so everyone knows...

Well things have been great and I love being a missionary. I love you all!

Elder Porter