Elder Porter Ellis

  Aloha 皆さん、 As Ice Cube put it “just waking up in the morning gotta thank god.” Because honestly this week was chock full of awesome miracles. So much has happened that I'm super grateful for and so much has happened that I just had to sit back and just allow myself to see the miracles and blessings God has sent. For one Hirotaka, the friend I was talking about in my previous emails who seemed like he had no interest in the Gospel created a new baptismal goal for  December 4th ! And we had a really good lesson with our friend Grace where we all were really able to feel the spirit. But I'll talk more about them soon!  Alma 26:12 says 12 Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever. Recently I've been amazed at how much God can do. I've honestly b...

  Wasssuppp 皆さん、 How's everyone doing? This week has been better! Had some fun times, an awesome exchange and we getting back on the grind. This week I've been focusing on bettering myself as a missionary and as a person as well. As soon as I focus on this aspect of my life the area presidency decided to drop a ton of new rules on our mission BAHAHA. Anyways they just told us we are going back to the  6:30-10:30  schedule no longer using the 7-11 schedule which sucks a little but there is nothing we can do about it. They also made our District reports only 1 hour now and unless your entire district is in the same building (luckily mine is) you can only have it in person twice a month. It was a shock especially since everyone felt that 2 hours was barely enough time to get everything done and it got cut in half. Our district has been focusing on making this more effective especially concerning our time so at least we got a bit of a head start. There were some other minor r...

Aloha 皆さん、 Sorry I didn't send an email last week but no worries my parents gave me a little bit of an earful bahahaha. These past two weeks have been a bit up and down not gonna lie but we got through it and are pushing to better days. Recently we've been going through and talking to all of our friends and meeting with them and really talking to them about what they believe about God. Why they really meet with us and if they have a slight desire to hear about why we are here and what we have to share. It was really rough talking to a lot of friends I truly cared about and built a real connection with and hearing them say they really didn't have an interest in what we share. Some of them hung out with us for various reasons like Eikaiwa, or activities or just because they thought we were cool. Especially talking with Hirotaka felt like a knife stabbing my heart.  Lowlight: So we had a lesson with Hirotaka basically just a big heart to heart about what he wants in life and w...