8/31/20

Hi family and friends! I hope your week was super good. This week actually went super fast and it's crazy that its Monday again. It's weird to think that school has started up again and everyone is going back to school and college. For exercise in the mornings we go to a school track and go running as well as play tennis. We have to go a little early so we aren’t in the way of the school’s gym classes haha. 

 

On Tuesday we had our zone conference on Zoom and an area seventy came. Elder Pieper and his wife spoke to us and they are so awesome. They gave us some really good information and tips on how we can better teach and ask questions and what we can do to be more in tune to the spirit when we daily plan. One of my favorite things he said was “We are here to find the elect". The elect are those who are out there ready to hear the message. He shared a really good scripture that it talks about the elect in D&C 29:7. On Wednesday we got to go to zone conference in person for a couple hours which was super awesome. We were able to see other missionaries and I got to see my old Companion Elder Corry which was super awesome. We did a lot of role playing and practice teaching in different situations that could happen when we are teaching and it was super helpful and good to learn. On Friday we had our last session of zone conference on Zoom again. We reviewed what we had learned and done and Elder Pieper was there. 

 

On Thursday we were at the church doing some planning and we started hearing tons of car horns honking. We decided to go outside and look and we saw a super big Trump Train. Basically tons of cars with Trump flags honking their horns in a line all around the neighborhood. It was super funny and we took a couple pictures. I guess that Texas really likes Trump haha. 

 

On Sunday we didn’t have church but next week we are starting church again in Seguin TX. We are so excited and can’t wait to invite all the people we’re teaching to come. On Sunday night we decided to go to Landa Park to go street contacting with the De Zavala Elders. While we were walking around, there were some people who were playing volleyball and they yelled to us to come play with them. So we decided to play volleyball for a second and it was super fun. We were in our proseliting clothes so we got a tiny dirty. Actually Elder Lymke got totally dirty cause he kept on diving for the ball and crashing into the sand. It was hilarious. We met a guy named Alan and he teaches Bible classes to super young kids. We gave him a couple tips about teaching the 10 commandments. We got his number and he invited us to come again next week so maybe we might haha. 

 

That was about it for me this week. The work is moving and pressing on. I hope that you all have a super great week and I'll talk to y’all again next week!

 

-Elder Portlock.

 1. The first picture is a message from one of the members in our branch who gave us breakfast tacos.

 2. The second picture is just me and Elder Lymke with a picture of Jesus.