Howdy! (Week 43) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

What's up guys this week I fell asleep 2 nights without brushing my teeth and I know you know that feeling of waking up with a nice 16 hour unbrushed mouth. Such a great way to start the day ahhaah.

This week was a little bit tough I'm not gonna lie. We tried to find new people but we are just not having a ton of luck. It's been a tiny bit of a bummer. But one day we were walking down the street and we walked in the front of this house and I saw this lady talking on her phone and I felt this tiny little feeling tell me to go back and talk to her. We walked back and I just waited until she finished her phone call and then we asked if we could share a message with her. Her name is Yasmin, and we shared a message with her about the Restoration of the Gospel. We finished up and gave her and the group of people there a Book of Mormon to read, and then she stopped us and asked us if we could bring her her own copy because she lives in a different city. We went back the next day and started teaching her more about the Book of Mormon. I told her that this book was incredibly different, and that she'd feel a difference in her life as she read it. She looked up at us and in an effort to talk found herself in tears. She told us, fighting through the tears, that since the moment she saw us walking down the road she felt something different, and she was so happy when we came back and talked to her after we had passed. She told us she knows something is different and will read the book and pray about whether or not she should follow what it teaches. I am super stoked that I had the opportunity encounter someone, at least just one person this week, that felt what I feel about this gospel.

We had an opportunity to do a service project for a lady the other companionship is teaching. We helped her move into a new house, and then we started talking about fishing, and she told us there is a river super close to her new house, so we went down to the river and chilled on the shore for a little bit. All I gotta say is that I love nature and I miss her so freaking much. I wanna invite you guys to appreciate and enjoy the nature this week, because I love her and I promise you guys you will feel God's hand as you observe and spend time in the beautiful, undeveloped nature God has created.

I got an X-ray this week on my lungs because I thought they were jacked, but turns out they're fine and so I'm just confused, but at least I got a rad X-ray out of it. I decided to slice up my X-ray and slap it on the front of a weekly planner, so I'm gonna send you guys a picture of it. It's pretty cool.

Also we got a new pet this week and his name is Heraldo. I'll attach a pic of him at the end of the email.

I hope you guys have an absolutely marvelous week. Don't feel shy to send me an email haha it's always nice to hear somethin new. Email: proskelley@missionary.org

Love,

Elder Porter