January 12 2015

Hey Everyone!

This week was crazy... so after getting back from Winnipeg, we were out of our area for 8 days, the assistants came up and expected us to have stuff to do with both of them. So I took one of them around and we went and painted with Wally. haha Wally was just being a straight up jerk to the assistants. He made me proud. So me and one of the assistants went to a lesson and some of the kids were being kids and were a bit rowdy and he was getting all ticked and when we went out to the car he freaked out on me saying how I need to control them better so I was just like seriously?? then we went to Nans house (we call her nan cause she is like our grandma here) and she always calls us by our first names. She’s old and set in her ways but she’s the best and she treats us with so much love. and the assistant started getting all cheesed off at me for letting her call us by our first names. I freaked out on him and told him that she has her own agency and that if he told me what to do one more time I was going to lose it. We didn’t talk much after that. I am just sick of kids my own age trying to tell me what to do. It is retarded. People think that they come on a mission and that automatically makes them a great leader who can demand respect and tell people what to do. It’s like, if you want respect you gotta earn it. 

Other than that this week was great! We taught some great lessons and had some great things happen. It was really cold, I got some frostbite because I forgot my scarf when we were walking across the lake but its all good. I sure hope I get to stay here for a lot longer. I love this place so much. I am going to pass out the ctr rings today. I love those! thanks! 

Our branch president is finally back now. We had a meeting with him about what to do to fix the branch. None of the branch members want this place to grow. They refuse to pick people up and because of it we went from having 65 people at sacrament a week to 23. Then to top it all off some of the members made a big deal to president that we would pick people up and they just try and get us in trouble. It’s definitely some cowboy versus indian stuff going on right now and I’m sure as heck not on the cowboy side. So I gain some enemies but whatever. There will always be opposition I guess. 

Well I hope you all are doing well. I love you all!

Elder Porter

p.s. don’t send this to the people in Winnipeg. I don’t want them hearing about the racism up here. It will just make some upse

Jan 5, 2015

Hey Everyone,

So this week has been a good one. I drove for 12 hours straight on Thursday. I kept rolling down the windows to keep my self awake. It made Elder Goodwin mad every time I did it, but whatever haha. We went to Winnipeg, got to visit some great friends with the short amount of time that we had, then on Friday we had a 6 hour meeting setting the new baptism goal for 2015. I say meeting, but I should really say bloodbath. It turned into such an argument just because of 3 people. In the end we had about 25 people on our side for the new goal, and President Thomas just made the executive decision and chose our goal. sheesh we made some enemies that day haha. 

Then we drove to Daughin and went to church the next day. I went on an exchange and had to go and teach a lady I had never met the law of chastity. It is so awkward teaching a couple the law of chastity, especially when you just walk in and haven’t ever met them. It turned out really well though.

We drove to Neepawa and stayed the night with an old companion of mine. We didn’t sleep much. Then we drove to Brandon and goofed around all day cause it’s p day and we have to give a big training tomorrow. So we’ve been pretty busy lately.

On New Years, we went and played dice games and cards with some investigators and had a good time. After that, we stayed the night with the other Flin Flon elders and we had to find something to put some weight in the back of our truck because on the highways it just slides around all day. So we filled up garbage bags with water and tied a bunch of old ties together and lowered them out the 3rd story window and let them freeze overnight in the back of the truck. It worked great! We put a couple hundred pounds of ice in the back of our truck haha.

Well I’m still loving it here. Its really cold -55 farenheight the other day. You guys don’t even know what that means back home is Arizona!!. But you know it’s cold when you walk outside and get a brain freeze cause of the air! But I’m loving it! Cold won’t stop me from doing the Lords work. Love you all!

Elder Porter