Last week I shared a story of Penelope, the lady we met on the off ramp and helped her out. Well we called her and got no answer. I guess she was trying to get a hold of us but lost our number. She saw some other missionaries called out to them got our number and got a hold of us. Yesterday we went to her home and talked and taught a lesson. It was amazing, the spirit was so strong and she was so excited to hear about it. She had been reading the Book of Mormon we gave her and we both shared our story on how we came to know it was true, tears filled her eyes as the spirit took over the room. It was such a divinely appointed meeting. It was incredible to be there.
I was able to go back to Laie this week and attend a District meeting. I had the privilege to attend Elder Bringhurst’s district and it was the single most powerful and spiritually district meeting I have been a part of. So cool! It was great to be back there, it just has a different feel than the rest of the island!
Funny story for the week...Elder Willden is like this big tough guy... until you set fish in front of him. We had a dinner drop off and it was all fish. He was disgusted but he found a piece of chicken… or, what he thought was chicken. He took a bite and game over... FISH, it's his kryptonite. Good thing desert was cheesecake. He wanted to smell it, instead of fish, he literally put his face 2 inches away from it. It would have been so wrong of me not to smash his face in it... so I did! Good thing we are friends, especially since his nose started bleeding due to his face hitting the plate. (We had fish another night this week and due to his seat at the table no one even noticed he didn't eat it, lucky guy.)
We had our first lesson with a new investigator, Ian. He came to church with his girlfriend, phobias, who recently returned. We had dinner with them and it was a great experience. The food was amazing and that was like the worst part of the night because our conversations were so cool! Mariah shared her story and testimony of recently reading the Book of Mormon. She shared her Brother’s story of falling and being in an awful part of life, then because of an answer to his prayers about the Book of Mormon he has now completely changed his life around! Ian felt the spirit so strong and shared his story and his desire to learn and join the Church. It was a very real and authentic conversation and it was all centered on Christ.. just amazing! I know that because of Christ we can all change. From little bad habits to terrible ways of life and everything in between, Christ suffered so we can overcome it.. so we can overcome the world. I hope you all have a wonderful week full of experiences to help you grow and know more of Christ. Let us all think of him more this week and as we do joy will fill our days and a smile will appear upon our face! Love you all! Don't forget to smile!
Elder Porter
Honolulu, HI
Cheese cake and blood
Office door
I am now certified and the van driver for the mission...
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