1 Transfer Left

The weeks are starting to count down for us. The closer and closer it gets the more scary it gets. I'm glad I have one more transfer left in the field for sure. At the end of this week I will find out where I will go for the last transfer. I am grateful to be able to be in the service of the Lord and to serve some of Heavenly Fathers children. Sometimes I wish I could do it forever.

This week we didn't find much success. In fact we ran into some real opposition with some people we met. This last week we went to teach a man in Port of Spain we met at a shoe shop. They allowed us to tell them all about the Restoration and they seemingly listened really intently, but then at the end they just starting arguing with us and just wanted to bash. It was pretty disappointing.

We met some pretty cool new individuals though. One of the less active members from Port of Spain has started coming back to church, and this week invited us over to start teaching his kids. He has been a member of the church for a while, but most of his kids have not yet been baptized, so this week we invited his daughter to be baptized on the 27th of July. Her name is Samantha.

We had a spiritual experience last week when we went by to see a lady named Kimberly. She is a lady we found searching through old records for people who had been taught in the past. She lives in the same apartment complex as Sister Atkins, one of the locally called missionaries, so we taught her with Sister Atkins. Thankfully she read the chapter we gave her from 3 Nephi, and she told us what stuck out to her was baptism. The Spirit was in the lesson very strongly as we taught her about the Plan of Salvation. She accepted the invitation to be baptized on the 27th of July. She had been previously taught by two missionaries a couple of years back, but never really had the desire to act, but may have now had a change of heart. She has been kind of unsatisfied with the different religious ideas she has been associated with in the past, and has been looking for something new. I'm grateful for the Spirit and its role in conversion. That's always what makes the difference.

We are excited for this week. This week we are going to be doing a lot of finding, just like we did this week.

Have a great week!
Elder Porritt