Teaching About the Word of Wisdom

Wow this week was another really fast one. Honestly this was a pretty uneventful week unfortunately. Not a whole lot of interesting things happened.

More news with Kevin. He was supposed to be baptized this coming Saturday, but we met with him Friday night and now he doesn't have a date. So this week he was supposed to give up coffee which he amazingly just stopped all at once the day we taught him the Word of Wisdom, so he has been adjusting physically without having coffee every day, but he is going to be fine. He also talked to his mom about his decision to be baptized. She is a hardcore evangelist and raised him in the evangelist church, but he just never really liked going to that church he said because it didn't feel right. So she didn't respond very good. He told us she was mad because he would never come to her church, so why is he all the sudden going to go to the Mormon church. So Kevin told us he wanted a little bit more time to think things over and see how he's going to move forward from this point. He doesn't need his moms permission to get baptized, because he's like 20 or 21, but he just doesn't want her to hate him, and he still lives in her house. So he's not going to get baptized this week, but I don't think it should be longer than maybe two or three weeks more before it will happen.

On Wednesday we had a dinner appointment with the Branch President, President Elliot. It was my companion and I and Elder and Sister Lindley and President Elliot's wife and 2 kids. He is the Branch President and she is the Relief Society President if that tells you anything about how small our branch is. President Elliot is such a cool guy, he is from JAMAICA, and he is a chef at some big restaurants in Oranjestad, so to say that the food that he made us was good would be an understatement. He cooked us Parmesan chicken pasta with some garlic bread, and it was about like eating at Olive Garden, maybe better. We had a short lesson about faith and repentance as well, but they already pretty much know everything, they are awesome.

Well I hope everyone is having a great week. Continue to work hard a never miss an opportunity to share the gospel with anyone you can. That is how we have success in a missionary work, is with the help of members finding and fellowshipping.

Elder Porritt