Elder Porter Ellis

  Aloha 皆さん, Sooooooo basically I'm going home for three months due to personal reasons. I'm not in Japan yet which kinda sucks, but life goes on. I'm sure some of you are curious about what I'm gonna do or what the plan is so yeah I'll talk about that. So I'm going home Tuesday to Hawaii for 3 months. After that I will be heading straight to the Japan Fukuoka Mission from Hawaii which I'm super hyped about. At home I plan to work with service missionaries, go to the temple (yes I still have my temple recommend), and work on my physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. But yeah just going to stay focused on heading back to Japan. So I might be taking a little break from emails maybe not we will see about that, but I'm stoked to go home and eventually get to Japan. It's been a little hard for myself personally but I know that Heavenly Father will help me through my trials.  1 Corinthians 10:13  13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is com...

  Aloha 皆さん、 SORRY I FORGOT TO HIT SEND LAST NIGHT. Was super busy with stuff my bad my bad. Also join this brah https://photos.app.goo.gl/AHMSwiJyAjcEjecb7 Well one thing is for sure, the week was crazy. I guess I'll start off this email with the struggle of this week and what it taught me. So I don't know if I would consider myself an extremely prideful person, well maybe when it comes to competitive sports or games but overall I think I'm not too bad. But I was on Zone Leader exchanges this past week and we talked about how humility is being able to submit yourself to Heavenly Father. In the sense that you are able to trust in the lord and trust in the keys of his servants and their decisions. The opposite of humility is ofcourse pride. I was able to learn from my ZL that a missionary was talking bad about me behind my back and the whole week I was faced with a battle between my own pride and my humility. I really wanted to give into my pride and absolutely go off. But a...