Transfers!!

Hello everyone!!! This week coming up is the last week of this transfer. Our last day will be this coming Sunday, and transfers will happen in the following few days. These five weeks have been really great,  we have had some pretty good success, people here are really receptive to the Gospel, they just don't like following up on commitments or coming to church much... but thats ok, everywhere has its challenges as far as investigators. On Saturday we received our transfer calls from the APs...... And I am staying in Parika this coming transfer, but I will be getting a new companion. My father Elder Vance will be transferred back to Trinidad for his last transfer before he goes home. I kind of wanted to be his companion for his last transfer, but that's ok. My new companion (My Mother) will be Elder Correa. I have only heard good things about him, so I think he will be a great Elder. He is from Canada and has been out for a little over a year I think. But I think that we will get along just great. He has an insanely deep voice, probably the deepest voice I've ever heard. (Other than Dennis Burt of course).

The highlight of this week was Shenia and Crystel Smith's baptism this Saturday. Shenia is 14 and Crystel is 11. We had to take about an hour bus ride to the La Grange chapel where the baptismal font is. The service was AWESOME. We had two great talks by some of the members of our Parika unit, and the baptisms were just great. Brother Mohammed one of our Melchizedek Priesthood holders baptized the two of them. We had to keep helping him say the words right like 5 times in a row haha, but he finally got it. For some reason they didn't bear their testimonies during the service, so on Sunday they had the opportunity to bear their testimonies during sacrament meeting. These two girls have GREAT testimonies and I felt the Spirit very strongly while they bore them. They are very excited to go to the temple and to be baptized for their grandmother one day.

We also have another Smith family that we have been teaching forever, and they have been very iffy about getting baptized but finally this week they committed to do it. We have been teaching the mother and her three daughters, and their interviews will be this Tuesday, and their baptisms on Saturday. Her husband and two of her three sons work in the bush, so maybe we will have the opportunity to teach them one day.

This Thursday we will be having THE TURKEY BOWL for Thanksgiving!!! I don't know how the Teaching Assistants convinced President Egbert to let us play flag football, but nonetheless they did. I think we are also going to eat Thanksgiving Dinner with the Frys or the O'Dairs, I'm not sure.

Everyone have a great week

Elder Porritt

Left to right Shenia, Crystal, Brother Mohammed

People in Guyana don't smile in pictures... It's really weird.