Well, this week was cold again! Nothing as bad as last week. Texas weather is insane. From real real cold and rainy one day, to hot and sunny the next day, then back to cold haha. Gotta love it.
Do you remember the guy I told you about, Carlos? He's the one we met the day after Christmas who was ashoein (i don't actually know what that phrase is or how to spell it) for baptism. Well, he's not quite as legit as we thought haha. This has happened a lot in my mission where we'll teach someone and he seems way legit and then each following visit they get less and less good until we stop visiting them all together. The more I talk to Carlos the more I'm convinced that he is insane haha. We found out he has a smoking and coffee problem, then we found out he has a chastity problem, then we found out he has a potential gang violence problem....I'm scared to go see him again to find out what other problem he might have haha. For real though, he is a really good guy with the best intentions, it's just gonna take a little bit longer to get he prepared for baptism. That's the news with him.
Fancisco, on the other hand, is still as legit as ever. Even more so than before. I think I told y'all about the Word of Wisdom lesson we had with him and when we asked him if he had any problems with any of it he told us he wants to stop drinking caffeinated soda but that he was already living all the real parts, haha, that was a real good lesson. He came to church yesterday and payed tithing...he's not even a member yet AND he doesn't have a steady job, always looking for work and money, but he still payed. When we were talking about his Baptismal service for this Saturday we asked him if he'd have work and he said if he did he'd just quite. This guy is so cool. He's got a rock solid testimony that if you put God first in your life He will bless you. He's a really good example to me in all honesty. I am excited to be part of teaching him, it's been a real blessing. It's always feels so nice to bring a normal person who really does love God to the church. Usually we just bring really weird people haha. He's already buddy buddy with a lot of the branch, too!!
On Tuesday we had a surprise trio for the day. Look up Van Horn, Texas. It's this little itty baby town in our mission about 2 hours away from El Paso. There are like 2100 people there and the missionaries live in a crappy trailer. Those missionaries were getting a new car, so on Tuesday they spent the day in Odessa, we had Elder Hilton with us. Elder Hilton is way cool. He served 6 months in Paraguay but had to go home because of medical problems, he was at home for like another 6 months and then got sent out here! It's so weird to hear him speak Spanish because its like the complete opposite of Tex-Mex. I like Tex-Mex way better. He just told us way cool stories the whole day about the work they do in Van Horn. It sounds like a different country. I forgot how neat it is to serve in small towns. They only talk to like 2 new people a week and spend most of their time doing service for the community. They do practically every volunteer work there is to do. It sounds like half the town has adopted them as their own kids and they get so pampered by all the old women. No one really takes any time to learn about the Gospel, but they sure do love those Mormon boys. Can you blame them? I mean, just look at us?
We talked to some guy who was part of some Hebrew migration church, or something like that. He just lives the law of Moses basically. As best they can at least. He was a little upset because there was no Temple, Prophet, or Priesthood so they couldn't follow the law perfectly. Huh. Thats weird. I coulda sworn we had all those things...Oh that's right WE do:) He wasn't interested in it. I did ask him if he believe in personal revelation though. He said he sure does...they call it a "heavy reavy" I think that is the funniest term ever. I encourage all y'all to use it oft. HAaha.
I love y'all a whole bunch!! Be safe and I'll talk to you later!
Love
Elder Porter
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