2/8/21

Hi everyone! 

This week was pretty good. We had our zone conferences again so we were in meetings Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We got to have some more interaction with other missionaries on Wednesday which was super fun. 

On Tuesday and Thursday I got to do some exchanges with some Elders in my district which was super fun. Being district leader is really fun. We get to do exchanges, run district council, get everyone pumped and excited for the week and help our district make goals. 

We had some really good lessons this last week as well. We had another lesson with Nosa yesterday and he is super elect. He basically made his own invitation to read the Book of Mormon for himself after we talked and discussed the latter day part of the Restoration. We also found a person named Donald from our area book. He had been taught in the past by missionaries and was interested in meeting with us after we talked to him for a moment. Sadly he doesn't live in our area so we will have to pass him off.  We did Facebook live on Wednesday and that was super fun. We picked numbers at random and used the gospel art book. We taught about the story depicted in the picture. We plan to do more lives in the future. We made a Facebook video that should be coming out today which is basically about personal growth. We used planes in our video for the example and the video turned out pretty good.  

We went street contacting this last Sunday after Church and ran into a grumpy old man who was pretty angry at us for being there. He believed we were soliciting in his community where you're not allowed to solicit and he almost called the cops on us. Even though we explained to him who we were and what we do, but, he still didn't care. We left pretty quickly and then talked to this other person. He was super friendly and really liked our church and beliefs we had. He actually has lots of friends who are in the church. He told us that we were doing a good job and service. He even told us that he believes that our church is more Christian-like than most churches or people haha. He turned down our invitation for a message but said to say hi to him if we were ever nearby so maybe in the future we will for sure.

Funny Story time:

The 4 of us were driving to the church and we were all brainstorming names that we could call our car. None of us could decide on a name that we all liked, then I got the thought suggesting the name "LaFawnduh" from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. Everyone said no to my idea and then they all changed their minds and thought it was perfect. Elder Merrit didn’t like it at all but we all voted it as the name. Now we all like it and joke about the name haha. 

I hope you all have a super good week! 

-Elder Portlock