3/8/2021

Hi everyone! I hope your week was super good. We had our transfer day on Thursday this week so now I'm with Elder Sherman. Me and Elder Sherman get along super good. He's from Provo Utah so that's super cool. We joke around a lot and like to tell each other riddles and jokes. We have been working super hard these last couple of days and it's been super successful and exhausting which is super good. 

On Tuesday and Wednesday we did a lot of calling and setting up lessons with members for the next week. On Wednesday night we went to our church building to help out with the youth activity days. It was super fun and me and Elder Merritt got to help teach the younger kids about how they can share the Book of Mormon. We also had them glue their testimony or favorite scripture into the it as well so they can give it to a friend. It was super fun. 

On Thursday me and Elder Sherman went street contacting and visited some members. We talked to a person named Brent who was working in his garage. He had a giant boat that took up basically his whole garage and we used that as a way to relate to him as he likes to fish and boat. We had dinner at the Whattcot family. When we got dropped off by the other missionaries we actually got lost and couldn't find their home because the roads are new up there and so maps weren’t super updated. But when we eventually got there they were super nice. They actually got on their golf cart and drove around until they found us and then we got a ride back on their golf cart. It was pretty funny.  They gave us these huge Texas shaped Stakes. They were so good! They had just moved in from Arizona used to be the mission leader for their ward so they were super missionary minded. It was awesome and they gave us a ride to a neighborhood we needed to go to after. 

We also had a really good lesson with a recent convert of a couple years who the missionaries haven't been able to meet with for a while it was super fun and her boyfriend who isn't a member was there. The person we talked to had a super strong testimony of the gospel and especially the plan of salvation. She asked if we could give her a temple tour with her boyfriend sometime in the future and we said yes. We plan to do that sometime. 

On Friday we did some more finding. We had the opportunity to have Elder Soares of the 12 apostles meet with our mission and speak to all the missionaries. It was super cool and we learned a whole lot. He also spoke to all the stakes in San Antonio on Sunday. It was super fun and like a tiny General Conference. We learned allot from the meetings. Elder Soares made a big emphasis on some of President Nelson's invitations to receive personal revelation and have the Holy Ghost in our lives. 

Well that's about it for my week. I hope y'all are okay and have an amazing week!

-Elder Portlock  

Pictures for the week:

1. The Texas Shaped stake we got!

2. Elder Sherman bought a coconut from the store today. It was super funny and we all got to eat some of it.