It's so hot 85 degrees feels cold! (Week 73)

**Note from Mama Lynda. . . sadly the last part of Porter’s email didn’t get completely uploaded, and it cuts off at the BEST part. . . right at the end as he starts to testify. Darn! Hopefully he can re-send it next week. I decided to add (at the bottom) a really neat story that he shared with me in my weekly “mom letter". Enjoy!

This is Major Roskelley reporting to Ground Control. Can you hear me my Astro brethren. This week was a freakin blast. Freak we're finally gonna move tomorrow if we're lucky. Hopefully we can find an air conditioning unit thing to put in our new house, like we have in our current house, or I'm gonna turn into a hard boiled Elder. It's hot as you know who here...

This week I decided I do not want to return home fat. I'm coming home in about 6 months oddly enough, time flies when you're having fun. It's been 3 days since I've eaten last and I'm feeling great. Nah I'm just bustin your chops I still eat like a horse I just started doing exercises every morning! The good thing is that at 6:30am here it's normally about 157 degrees so I usually sweat some stuff.

Some good news this week, I gotta see good old buddy Nate Oldroyd and it was rad to catch up. The mission really is a special place. I freaking love this gospel so much. We had a nice leadership meeting with some other missionaries and talked about some of the problems in the mission and how we could make changes to better those things. Elder Decker and I went about thinking a lot, and one thing that we noticed is that creativity is really lacking here. Sadly I have noticed how a lot of people think that once you become a member of the Church your life has to be calm and you can't go bananas with your broskies if you want but that's all bogus. Some of the best moments in my life have been with the bros and I always feel like God was helping us have those solid times. God is not a boring God! He's happy and energetic and wants us to be the same way! He doesn't want us to be cookie cutter nerds he wants us to kick brass in whatever it is that we love! I have personally felt his presence in my life and I testify to you guys that He. . . (that’s where it cut off)🤷‍♀️

Mom letter excerpt: “Last week this Venezuelan named Humberto showed up at church! As you know the whole crisis in Venezuela is super bad, so Humberto moved here. He's super super smart, and he was very well off before the whole crisis. He also was receiving the mission discussions when he was still there and although he never visited the church there he recognized the chapel when he saw it here. It was something familiar for him so he decided to come pay a visit. He loved last weeks meeting and this week he came again and absolutely loved it. We went to his house yesterday afternoon and taught him the Restoration and it was insane Mom I understood everything he said in Spanish ahahha it was insane. He had so many questions for us and understood everything and the Spirit was so strong and it was just incredible. He wants to get baptized on the 25th so pray for him please! He is so incredibly humble I was shook at his humility. I have a lot to learn from him for reals. I have such a strong testimony that God hears our prayers and prepares people for us to receive! God doesn't want us to waste our time any more than we don't wanna waste time walking around all day hahaha."