The missionaries cannot have success without the members, and the members cannot have success without the missionaries

Well holy cow this week has gone by really fast! This transfer is already half over, and it feels like we just started a few days ago. Things here have been a little slow... Yesterday at church only 1 investigator showed up at church and only 17 members. We have a bunch of investigators who are so close to being baptized its not even funny. Some of them need to just get married, but most of them just will not come to church. It has been a little bit frustrating, but we are going to focus more on the importance of Sacrament meeting this week, and find some more investigators who are elect. 

On the bright side, we had an awesome Zone Conference on Friday. Our topic of discussion this week was on working with ward and stake leaders. There was a really cool scripture that we looked at. It was Nehemiah 4:6. It talks about the Jews building the wall and that everyone was involved in helping build the two halves together. And in missionary work and building the Kingdom of God there are two halves, the missionaries and the members. Both groups have half of the responsibility of doing missionary work. The missionaries cannot have success without the members, and the members cannot have success without the missionaries. This week we have been working harder on setting up things like home teaching here in the Parika group. I know that it isn't just the missionaries duty to teach the gospel, it is all of us that need to do it. We all have that responsibility to bring souls to Him, and it isn't just a responsibility, it is a blessing. It tells us in D&C that "If we bring save it be one soul unto him, how great shall be our joy in the Kingdom of Heaven." There is no better time than the Christmas season to share the gospel with others, and help them experience the joy and the blessings that we have from the gospel.

Well everyone have a good week and have a very Merry Christmas!

Elder Porritt

A white Santa playing a flute, not something you see every day here in Guyana