Dec. 29, 2014

Northern lights

Just some icicles, haha

Hey Everyone, 

Sorry my emails haven't been the best lately. I’ve gotten super busy here in Flin Flon and kinda lazy with emailing. It’s not you, its me... haha

I loved seeing you all at christmas. Sorry I don't have too much time to email but things are going great. My brother Wally Dumas gave a talk this Sunday! He was the 1st first nation male convert to ever give a talk in sacrament in Flin Flon! Satan was working really hard on him on Saturday night and he asked us to help get him out of a party late Saturday night, so we went to the rescue and helped him overcome the adversary. It’s been really cold, the norther lights have been decent lately. I realized I haven’t ever sent you guys pics of them.

I love Flin Flon. I’m working hard and having crazy experiences, and I’m loving every minute of it. My mission is going by fast. I’ve had a completely different experience than I thought I would have, but I wouldn’t trade any minute of it. I love being a missionary and everything that comes with it. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a good New Year’s celebration. I have to travel down to Winnipeg on the 1st and go all over my zone till the 5th, giving meetings and such. I love you all

Elder Porter

Hey Mom,

haha I didn’t open my Christmas box... because I didn’t get it.. lol hopefully it didn’t get lost in the mail or something. That would stink. I did have a package to open at the fireside though, I got some socks and treats from the Chapmans. They are awesome, it was really nice of them! 

I’ve been having a pretty good week. Not too much has been happening. Just teaching and helping our people progress. It’s been a stressful week but it’s been really good. The drive to and from Winnipeg was miserable, 6 missionaries squished into a sliverado truck, no fun at all.

I have the skype all figured out and we're going to do it at a members place. I’m excited to see all you guys.

We had our branch Christmas party and that was really great. Santa even came, all the kids loved it.

Well I’m doing well and loving it here. I love this place so much!

Elder Porter

Dec 1, 2014

Hey mom,

Well I’m glad the week went well and the trip to Oklahoma was fun! Sounds like life is hectic as usual haha. We had a super good week this week. We taught a lot of people and had some really 

crazy experiences. Weekends in Flin Flon are usually crazy. It can definitely be frustrating seeing people I love fall into temptation time and time again but I have definitely learned that life is a long 

process where we're continually trying to get better and rely on the atonement every day. I love this gospel. We've found 3 new investigators within the past 2 weeks. One of them is super excited to 

meet with us. She used to meet with missionaries and said she really misses it in her life. We set a baptism date with one of our investigators. She is doing everything except she lives with her 

boyfriend so that will be a good lesson.. but we set the date for the 18th of january and hopefully we will be able to make the date. I’m getting along great with my companion. He likes to work 

hard. its -40 here already and its only getting colder!! There’s only about 6-7 hours of daylight so its dark a lot. hah. Well good luck to the girls this week and all the other kids. Christmas is coming 

soon! I wont be able to write next week probably because we will be traveling down to Winnipeg for the Christmas zone conference. I love you all

Elder Porter

November 24, 2014

Hey Everyone

Sorry I don’t have lots of time to write today, we spent the day ice fishing for like 4 hours so that was my bad. I’ll send you some good pics tonight. I took some good ones. So sorry everyone for not being able to write you all this week.

Things are real busy here. I love serving with Elder Goodwin. Just being able to work hard and have a good time without babysitting! Finally!! It’s really nice. We had some crazy stuff happen to us on the reserve the other day. It was an adventure. I cant explain stuff that well over email so I cant wait to talk on Christmas! It’s comin fast!

One of our investigators walked to a members house pretty far away at midnight on saturday night to stay the night so that she could go to church on sunday. It was crazy! She is going to get baptized. I know it.

Things are going great here. We are famous with the lds famiily services in Alberta because we are getting an addictions recovery program going out here and we have been getting tons of phone calls from the head people in Alberta. We took the training and are going to get this thing going like crazy! I’m super excited.

Tell all the kids I love em, and miss them. oh I took all the Robinson kids sledding the other day. I’ll send pics and videos. love you all.

Elder Porter

November 17, 2014

Hey Everyone,

So I don’t have too much time to email today. We're going ice fishing today in a bit. Its pretty cold up here already. It’s -27 btw! We had a bonfire in the middle of Amisk lake the other day. It was super sweet. We've been seeing miracles like crazy lately. Just people coming out of the blue who we're going to teach this week. Its great. It’s nice finally having a truck because now we can just do so much more than spending the whole day walking. My companion is great and we get along really well. He only has 3 months left on his mission so I’ll probably finish him off and stay here for a while longer. I’m seeing so much success here. We had 60 people at church on sunday! It was super crazy. We get beat up by kids every day. It’s so much fun being here, I love it. I’ll send pics to you later of us ice fishing and having the bonfire. I love you all sorry the email isn’t longer.

Elder Porter