"Autopilot Porter": I am out of clever names for the emails. So here is email 21 haha

Watup my young friends.

Ye ye it was a week week that was good good.

This week I saw this dude at 11:30pm riding his horse down the street and I was listening to classical music, and few things have struck my fancy more than 11:30 horse rides with classical music.

This week I did a lot of thinking. Thinking about how each one of us has those people that we are searching for that are elect. Thinking how a big thing on the mish is finding the elect people, right, but I'm starting to think that that ish isn’t just a mission thing. Each one of us has elect people that are waiting for us to find them. Each one of us has something that is WAYYYY too bad A to keep to ourselves, that needs to be shared with others. The Lord doesn't just prepare people for the missionaries to help, but for each one of us who is just puttin in the daily dosage. You, the sham reading this email thing right now, you have somebody waiting for your impact on them. You could sit on the computer and try to find videos of Doodle Bob talking backwards... (ps, thank you to those who searched that for me hahaha I was losing sleep over it), or you could bee bop around town trying to find your elect friend that's waiting for you. I challenge you in the morn when you get out of bed to pray for who you could help. This gospel isn't the gospel of how rad we are on Sunday for 2 hours when we go to church, but the gospel of helping others every day. Don't get so caught up in the nitty gritty jumbo that everyone loves to talk about just to sound cool or something. It's all about lovin. Find that kid who needs a hug or a piece of gum or even a high five. I give people high fives on the street all the time and it always puts a smile on their face. I literally scream "HIGH FIVE” in English and then launch my hand up and it works so well. Like 74%.

On Wednesday we had lunch on the other freakin side of the earth. The bus only passes every 30 mins to go out to the 3 and so we missed the 10:30 bus, so we waited for the 11 o'clock guy but he didn't show either so finally around 11:45 the bus finally shows up, and apparently the buses were having some technical difficulties (beep boop) so when they finally started working there were like 132 people at every bus stop hahah so the bus was so full. The family who we had lunch with has a car but it ran out of gas so we had to walk the 2 hour voyage back, and it was so freaking hot holy moses. Like a different level of hot. I think it was up to like 102 and I forgot to put on sunscreen, but when we were walking we walked passed the jungle and wanted to explore so we did, and then we walked passed the lake and had to skip rocks so it ended up being like a 3.5 hour fiasco ahahha so now I am so freaking sunburned. But it was so worth it. I got a rock to skip 13 times so like yea I'm burnt to a crisp right now, but seriously 13 skips. Not even skin cancer can take that away from me.

The baptism was seriously the most relaxing experience ever. Before Joao Pablo got baptized he was super nervous, and I was sitting by him talking to him and I was like yo tiny man, wanna say a prayer, and he was like yip so I offered a prayer for us and the peace that overcame us was tremendous. The Spirit really is the best comforter. Joao looked at me after the prayer and was like thanks man, I needed that. After everyone got baptized and everyone was changing back into normal clothes, I had a rad experience. I was sitting there alone on a bench in the church and the Spirit just full on pile drove me. I started just spewing tears everywhere haha and I just had the most incredible feeling ever. I knew this work I am doing, with all the difficulties and times that just suck is literally the most important work on this earth. I literally love this gospel so incredibly much. Nothing is more rewarding than feeling these mission feelings. After I had my little watery moment we all met up in the chapel, and I found out that I wasn't the only one who was crying haha. Literally almost all the members, and even the visitors were overcome by the Spirit. Everyone was so touched, and so incredibly friendly and happy and willing to help each other and just everything was beautiful. I really hope that all of you who are thinking about serving the Lord, to search for the right reasons to go, and really commit yourself to get out for a couple months and help people find this happiness. It's not just about baptisms or teaching one billion lessons or fillin your planner with like 4758 names and adresses, but its about helping people find love and happiness through Jesus. I know it sounds so cheesy, but its real. Jesus Christ has the power to make everyone freaking happy. Not just normal happy.

Last thoughts. Pedro, and his dad Balbino have been progressing so well. We had a lesson with them yesterday night and during the lesson the Spirit overtook me. It was like I just put myself on autopilot and let the Spirit talk haha. Autopilot Porter. But for reals I was talking to them and I bore my testimony to them and the Spirit was so lovely. I told them that I know without a doubt that this church is true, that everything we are teaching is true. I bore my testimony about how much this gospel is changing my life, and I promised the same blessings for them. I told them that I would be willing to defend this church, and literally even die for it if it came to that, because my young 18 year old heart somehow knows that this gospel is more important than anything. We challenged them to get baptized on the 2nd of February, and we are really gonna try to help them open their hearts to the Spirit so they can feel of the same happiness for the rest of eternity.

I freaking love this gospel and this mission, and there is nothing I'd rather be doing at this moment in my life than serving my homie Jesus Christ. (actually a canyon drive with a hot babe would be pretty rad right now... but the more I think about it, the more I realize how the Spirit is cooler that any hot babe...) but yea.

I love you guys.