Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl

WOW! My first transfer is already over! It ended yesterday and my father Elder Vance will be leaving me to go to Trinidad, and later today I will be meeting my mother Elder Correia. I think that Elder Correia has been out for like a year and half now or something. I had the opportunity to talk to him a little bit at the Turkey Bowl this week. He seems like a really cool guy.

Well I think the highlight of this week had to be Thanksgiving, even though we didn't really do any missionary work... But Thanksgiving was a BLAST. We left in the morning and it was pretty sunshiny, but by the time we got to the park it was pouring rain and it had been for some time. It lightened up and the field was flooded, but that didn't stop us one bit. We went ahead and had the turkey bowl anyways even though the field was just a huge puddle. There were 4 teams and two fields. We won't likely be having the turkey bowl next year because we had some injuries... About 15 minutes into the first game an Elder on the other field broke his arm when he went down and tried to catch himself. We made him a makeshift splint and loaded him up in the senior couples car. We still continued to play though. My team took the crown, mainly because everyone on our team was HUGE haha. After that we went to the chapel and had Thanksgiving dinner. The senior couples made a DELICIOUS dinner and we had pumpkin pie and it was just wonderful.

Otherwise this week has been very average. The Smith family didn't get baptized yet. Sister Smith has felt really sick and stressed out about her husband and kids in the bush at the gold mine. She is still waiting for him to call to talk to him about getting baptized, I guess she hasn't talked to him about it yet and she's not sure what he is going to think about it. But hopefully he will call this week, then they can have their interviews and such, and maybe get baptized this Saturday or the next. We didn't have hardly any investigators at church yesterday which was a little frustrating, because we have like 7 investigators with baptismal dates and none of them came to church...

But otherwise everything is going great here. I am really enjoying the work. This church is the only true church on the earth, and the only one with the proper Priesthood authority. Keep reading the Book of Mormon everyday. There is such an amazing power in the Book of Mormon.

Everyone have a good week!

Elder Porritt

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