Praying for a White Christmas in Parika!

Hello everyone!!! Another quick week here in Parika! I hope everyone is having a White Christmas back home. As a mission we have been praying for a White Christmas, it was one of the mission goals for this transfer. Not obviously for snow (although that would be just amazing) but for some investigators dressed in white. We don't have any with set dates to get baptized this month, but it is still possible. We have like a 5 solid investigators that could get baptized if they would just get married. Nobody here is married basically, so that is one of our challenges. But it is still possible that we could have another baptism this month. 

We had a great turnout at church yesterday. 30 people at Sacrament meeting, 10 of which were investigators, so there are some that are keeping their commitments and preparing to be baptized. 

Not much noteworthy happened this week. We have done A LOT of contacting in our new contacting area, and found and taught some really promising new investigators. We taught some really great lessons, but that's about it for the week. Saturday we went on exchanges with the Teaching Assistants for a few hours. Elder White and I taught three really good lessons, and we came back to the apartment and talked about some things we could work on to improve our teaching.

My spiritual experience this week was during personal study. My favorite talk from last General Conference was Elder Quinton L. Cooks talk about the importance of humility. I was rereading this week and one of the scriptures he shared stuck out to me. He quotes Alma 5: 26-27 where Alma asks us "Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble?" This is a question that all of us can ponder upon and maybe ask God what we can do to improve. Humility is so important to what we do everyday. I also recommend reading over Alma 5 (It is AWESOME)

Have a great week!!!

Elder Porritt

Teaching visit with Elder White + the terrible haircut the barber gave me last week haha

Christmas