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