2/15/2021

Hey everyone. This week was pretty good but ended up with us getting stuck inside. Winter hit us super late and strong. Were not allowed to go out and drive anywhere because the road conditions are bad. So it's a snow day for us! Our Mission President changed our Preparation day time from 8 to 4 today and on Tuesday he has us to go get groceries from 2 to 4 if the weather and roads aren't bad still. It's so interesting and kind of an adventure haha. I have basically all my snow gear with me so I'ma make myself a snow man haha. 

Yesterday for Sunday, the 4 of us still had to go to the church and get things done but we couldn't drive and our church was 3 miles away. We all decided that we would bundle up and walk there. We did. And it was FREEZING!!!. We were slipping sliding all over the place because it rained and froze over Saturday night and left a blanket of ice over everything. When we finally got back from the church we were all so cold and went and took warm showers. We all got a little sick too haha. Just a cough though. We ended up spending the rest of Sunday inside finding things we could do like calling investigators or members and sharing a message with them. 

We helped out one of the people we are teaching this week move some things around in her house this week. She needed help moving some bed and some boxes from the top floor of her house to her ground floor and the 4 of us came over and helped. She was super grateful and happy we came because we got it done in like 30 minutes. We had a tiny snack and talked to her for a moment about what we do officially as missionaries and she opened up quite a bit. Hopefully we can go over again and start teaching her more.

We planned on making a video about the 10 commandments this week which was super fun. We also did a live event about the restoration using cups. 

That's it for us this week. I hope you all stay super warm and safe and I'll talk to you more next week.

-Elder Portlock