Transfer Calls are Here...I'm going to San Nicolas Aruba!!

Well ladies and gentlemen the big news this week is that I am being transferred! Elder Correia is being transferred to Georgetown to be the new Teaching Assistant, and I am being transferred to San Nicolàs Aruba. My new companion is Elder Richards. I haven't met him yet, so I don't know really anything about him. I am leaving Parika today, but my flight isn't until Thursday. So this week I will probably be with some Georgetown Elders for a few days. And then on Thursday I will fly to Trinidad, and then from there to Curacao and I will be delayed there and will go do some proselyting with some Elders there, and then I will fly to Aruba to my new area. It's also possible I could get delayed in Trinidad too So this week I will be serving in three or possibly four different areas in three or possibly four different countries haha. The people in Aruba speak Spanish, but mostly Papiamento from what President Egbert told me. This month is going to be somewhat difficult trying to learn two new languages haha. But it will be fine. 

This week was pretty good for the last week of the transfer. We were really busy so we weren't able to proselyte for as long as usual this week. We taught a bunch of good lessons this week, and we put one more investigator on date. We had a really cool experience this week at church. One of our investigators stood up during testimony meeting and bore a strong testimony of the Gospel. We have been teaching her for a while, and she has a granddaughter, Momallie, who has been to some of those lessons here and there. So after she bore her testimony she told us that Momallie had told her she wants to get baptized. We never really considered her an investigator, because she was never at too many of the lessons. But a few days ago we taught them both about the 10 Commandments. After the lesson Momallie and her grandma were talking and she realized how out of sinc her life was with the 10 Commandments, and she felt a strong desire to change, and she decided she wanted to get baptized. It was amazing to see the impact of such a seemingly insignificant lesson about the 10 Commandments had on someone. Even though they are part of the Law of Moses, they were inspired, and are still 100% applicable to us today. So never underestimate the power of the old law haha. After church we went back over to their house and put her on date for March 3rd. It was a great experience.

Not a whole lot else happened this week though. We did have some fun last P-day. After we got all of our stuff done we went over to one of the members and played some cricket. Cricket is the biggest sport here in Guyana. It's actually pretty fun. We let some of them bat first, and they couldn't hit it very far. And when we got up to bat they were all standing like 70 feet away. So we hit it like 250 feet over their heads hahaha it was funny.

Congratulations Morgan and Taylor for the new baby. I'm glad everything went smoothly and there were no problems. I am so excited to be an uncle again, I can't wait to come home and see her. 

Have a great week everyone!

Elder Porritt