Well Christmas is almost upon us. This Christmas season has been going by really fast. We have a branch and a ward in our gigantic area, so this week we had two Christmas parties back to back on Saturday. The two of us and Elder Garner and Elder Riter, the two other missionaries in our district performed a Christmas skit as part of the programs at both of the activities. We sang 2 songs from the Childrens songbook and talked about the birth of the Savior. When we were talking about Samuel the Lamanite, I stood up on a chair as Samuel as the other missionaries threw things at me. It was a pretty great program. The food was GREAT. After two activities we felt like we were going to explode. In Arima the turnout was really great. There were probably more less-active members than active members that came, and Larel, her boyfriend, and the kids were able to make it, as well as a few other investigators. So it was a pretty great experience. It's amazing to see the unifying effect of having activities in the church.
The start of the transfer has been pretty good so far. We have been trying out some different areas to find new people in, and we've had some pretty good experiences. Two days ago, we were contacting at like 8:30 after a lesson fell through (which is the worst time to contact unfortunately), We were able to catch this guy and his family right as they got home. They were Muslims, and they were very nice, and open to hear more about the Restoration. We were about to leave, but they wouldn't let us leave without giving us some pizza that they had just ordered. So we each left with two pieces of pizza in hand, which took care of having dinner.
While we were testing out a few different areas that we wanted to contact, we found ourselves in Greenville, one of the areas that got like 6 feet of water in the flood 2 months ago here in Trinidad. That was actually pretty fortunate, because some areas nearby got up to 12 feet of water. There were people in those areas sleeping on their roofs for the night. We actually decided not to contact this area, because most everybody was working on putting in new tiles and fixing their houses otherwise, and so nobody had time for us. However we tried a few houses as we walked the streets. As we walked we felt like we should approach this one house with an open door. We hadn't tried any other houses on this street, and this would be the only one. We called in and met this young couple with a newborn child. We shared a little bit about the Restoration and they were instantly interested. They told us they would love for us to come back, even though there house is a mess and they are trying to install tile. It was pretty much the last street that we were going to go down before we left the area to go try somewhere else. Even though we decided that this was the wrong area, I thought, maybe this was the whole reason that we had been lead here to look around in this area. We should be going back this coming week, so we will see how it goes.
Anyone who will be involved with the Skype call will want to prepare questions beforehand if they have any, because I will have exactly 45 minutes.
Have a jolly week!
Elder Porritt
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