11/16/2020

Hey everyone! 

 

This week was really good! We are still waiting for our car to get fixed completely so this week me and Elder Lemke did a lot of street contacting. We get rides with the other De Zavala Elders a lot as well. 

We had a lesson with Maria Mancinas this last Wednesday and we invited her to be baptized. It was a really amazing lesson. We had a member there and we taught the restoration again and talked about what our purpose on earth was. Her testimony is building and it's so amazing. She is on date for the 12 of December and it's even cooler because she picked that day and it's her birthday that day as well. We had a lesson on Sunday with her and showed her the baptismal font and it was really cool. She is super excited. 

Funny story time: Me and Elder Lemke were street contacting and saw two people talking in Spanish and we were like "perfect, let's go talk to them" when we got up to the person's yard they saw us and the women said something in Spanish like "oh it's the Mormons"  and didn't look to excited to see us as well as the other person was in a hurry. We weren't too sure that they were interested so we decided to keep going. Than after a couple houses we heard someone yelling from behind us. The lady was yelling for us to come back so we ran back to her house and talked to her. She was actually interested but a little busy so she gave us her number and we gave her a Book of Mormon. Now we are trying to get something set up with her.

We had zone conference this week and that was really fun. We did zoom on Tuesday and went in person on Wednesday and on Friday finished on zoom again. It was super fun getting to see lots of missionaries again and see old Elders and sisters that I'd served with. Sister Fuentes, the mission nurse was there as well and she gave all the District leaders a jar of salsa that she made over the summer for us. 

Me and Elder Lemke switched up our room in our apartment. We got bored a little of our room and decided to switch it up. Basically all we did was we did put the bed where the desks where and the desks where the bed was. Haha what a switch up! 

The weather in Texas has been super nice with mostly clear skies and it always being hot haha. It’s usually only cold in the morning and at night but not like super cold. 

I hope you all have a really great week! Keep being amazing and God loves you! 

-Elder Portlock