Volleyball Pro

-


October 10, 2022

Dang I'm failing in the pictures department but not a whole lot has happened the past 2 weeks. I'm just rocking and rolling around. We had zone conference but we just got a big talk about staying clean and orderly so today we scrubbed the apartment down.

We've been teaching quite a few people but sadly most of them canceled on us, so I've done a lot of study this week. I've finally made it to the story of Aaron and King Lamoni which is my favorite story in the Book of Mormon, it's just about how we can help others come unto Christ through our example. So I'm working on my patience as I learn how to do this mission thing and grind out Spanish. All in the Lord's time, but that doesn't mean I can't work for it.

We've started a weekly volleyball event and so far we've drawn in 2 non members so that's progress haha. But I'm getting better at the game, turns out I can jump and my ability to return the ball with "mi cabeza" (my head). About 60% of the time it makes it over and we get the point. But hey that's better than the 50% chance of returning it normally.

Learning a lot, hopefully this week is more eventful. Hopefully we can get a few people on date with our lessons we have planned! Love ya guys (promise some more pictures for next time)

elder porter 


Volleyball ad with a Spanish member


Posterity Pic, Elder sparks (left) trained Johnson (2nd left) who trained me (the handsome one) and Sappington (2nd right), who is being trained now, and Mortensen who I'm training


Trying to find some good music with the Elders


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Farewell Talk

-
Hello, I’m Merik and I'm a recent graduate from independence high school. I will be set apart as a full time missionary tonight and have been called to serve in Eugene, Oregon speaking Spanish. As I’m sure the other departing missionaries can attest, the last few months have been filled with paperwork and endless interviews with President Kats and my dad, the bishop. There was a set of interviews for sending off my missionary papers, then another set of interviews for preparing to receive the Melchizedek priesthood, and a final set of interviews to enter the temple to receive my endowment. By the end of all these interviews, I felt like I was prepared to start interviews myself. *****Initially as I went through these interviews, it felt a little bit like we were having the same conversation over and over again.  But as I reflect back, I realize that many of the commitments and promises I was preparing for had a lot of overlap and were purposely trying to help me grow a little bi...
Read more

I'm Here For a Good Time Not a Long Time

-
Image
 January 30, 2023 This week was a little rough, but we're we're able to have a lot of success. A good friend had to go home early but luckily he has the opportunity to come back in a few months so that's super exciting. Also our good friend Edwin will be having his baptism pushed back but he just wants to make sure he knows enough before he commits, so not a bad thing. But we also put a friend named Jarrón on date and the other guys he lives with are soon to follow they just want to learn more. It is so exciting to see their desire to learn. Lest week we found a Magic store so that's a ton of fun and sadly will become a money drain... Very dangerous for me haha Our new missionaries in the zone will definitely mix things up but in general our focus will just be to support our District leaders and help everyone increase there want to serve. Spiritual thought A lot of the time the sacrament is our next ordinance that we will do as members. And we often look back on our fee...
Read more

Transfer News and Super Fun Stuff

-
Image
 December 12, 2022 This week was awesome! For starters, we put Yoanni, one of our investigators from Venezuela, on date! The original day was for the 14th. He's awesome, for our last lesson on the plan of salvation he was teaching half of it, and it was super great, he is definitely ready. On top of that we had a baptism on Sunday. Went well I got to baptize, sadly I dropped her haha. Yesterday I was also able to give the Holy Ghost to her, felt funny being told the words by the Branch President though like a kid in primary saying prayers. Also, Yesterday I got the news that I will be moving to Santa Clara, and I will be a Zone leader! Staying Spanish which is awesome and even better I'm getting back with my trainer so it's going to be wild. So excited, a little stressed with the new responsibilities, and very excited to see how this area does while I'm gone and hearing from my companions how the people are progressing. Lot happened this week busy day today packing and ...
Read more