Hello everyone. Transfers have come again. I will be staying in Trinidad for another 6 weeks, but I will be going back to Arima again to be companions with Elder Raymond. Elder Raymond has been out about 10 months and is from South Carolina. Should be a really exciting transfer, and I will get to see some familiar people again.
We had some great experiences this week. There were a few members that introduced us to some of their friends this week, which have a lot of potential and have greatly added to our teaching pool. Also there is this guy that we are teaching named Derek for the last 4 or 5 weeks. This week we talked a little bit about our life on earth and what we need to do in this life to prepare to meet God. We were talking about baptism, which he has already done in another church. When we told him that somethings have been taken out of the Bible about baptism like covenants for instance he was really struck. We read Mosiah 18 with him and explained that when we are baptized by priesthood authority we make certain covenants with God to serve Him until the end of our lives. I could see that he felt something the Spirit. Thats one of my favorite things about missionary work is to see people feel the Spirit. He could clearly see now that there is a difference with this church and the other churches, and sees that he needs to ask God of these things are true from the Book of Mormon. He keeps telling us, "There is something out there that I'm looking for," and we assured him that this is it.
On the other hand we also ran into a lot of opposition this last week. There were a lot of people we found with anti church feelings that wanted to tear it down and things like that. This situation happened on several different occasions this week. I kept thinking upon what we learn from the Book of Mormon in the Book of Jacob about looking beyond the mark. There are many who will reject the simple truths of the Gospel and will be given things that they don't understand. But what is most important is to understand the simple truths first, so that we can look at all things with a background of faith. Yesterday we met a guy who know a lot about the church, and said he had a Book of Mormon. Of course we asked him "Have you read it" and of course he said "I have gone through parts of it" (Which when you have been a missionary for 18 months you know that means that they haven't read diddly squat)... We told him that all of his questions can be answered if he can answer the question of whether the Book of Mormon is true through PRAYER rather than science. Its kind of like what President Oaks said a few general conferences ago about where we gather our information, and what many don't understand is the first place we should go is to the Fountain of all knowledge which is God. I don't really care what science, or anti-church writers, or whoever says, because they are wrong, because I know without doubt that the Book of Mormon is true through the whisperings of the Holy Ghost and its teachings have expanded my whole soul and grown within me.
Today and tomorrow is the infamous Carnival in Trinidad. Needless to say we aren't allowed to go outside for the next two days to wait for everything to end. Looks like we are going to get to do a lot of cleaning. haha
Have a great week!!!
Elder Porritt
Driver's Licenses! Looking Like the FBI haha
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