Our Area is Huge!

Hello everyone!!! Things are going great here in Parika Guyana. We have been working very hard this week to try to get to all our investigators. We have so many investigators its not even funny. But most of them are brand new, and we can't really drop them yet, because we don't know if they are going to follow through on their commitments yet. It is quite difficult to keep track of all our investigators, and most of them we are only able to see once a week. Our area is HUGE. We have investigators as far away as an hour drive, so we do a lot of traveling, but it seems like our most promising investigators live the farthest away, its weird... We have 7 investigators with baptismal dates in the next month, and all of them are very promising investigators, so we'll see what happens. 4 of them are supposed to be baptized on the 11th of November.

We had some really great lessons this week. The best one, however, happened on Saturday with a recent convert named Emtiaz. He is 18 and lives with his grandmother. He was baptized last month, and has been less active, because his girlfriend is a bad influence on him. We kind of hope they break up haha. We met with him and he asked us if the Bible says anything about the Book of Mormon. Someone had told him that the Bible tells us nothing about the Book of Mormon, but boy were they wrong. We shard with him a prophecy from Isaiah about the Book of Mormon being translated by someone who was unlearned. We a great lesson about the Book of Mormon, and bore our testimonies of how wonderful and true the Book of Mormon is. The Spirit was so strong, and I know that he felt it too. And the next day, he and his girlfriend were at church.

Sacrament meeting was great. We had 37 people come, 13 of which were investigators. They had the primary program which was still great, even though there aren't that many kids in primary. We have a sister from the United States who is a Peace Core worker here in Guyana, she teaches school here in Parika. She plays the piano for sacrament meeting, and she is our Sunday School teacher, and she is GREAT I don't know what our group would do without her, our Sunday school is always amazing.

This coming week we will have our Zone Conference with President Egbert and Elder Alonzo. We will be talking about the Book of Mormon. I am so excited!!!

Well thank you everyone for your letters and good luck this week. Keep reading the Book of Mormon everyday!!!

Elder Porritt

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