Elder Porter Ellis

Hahahahahaaaaaaaaa im alive! No regular email today, sorrryyyy it was one of my fav missionaries last pday sooo yeah I forgot till last second....whoops Work has been good. We thuggin it out and moving forward. We have transfers this Thursday but I doubt anything crazy will happen...hopefully🙇🙇🙇 I'll do better about emails I've been pretty bad lately. But I'm doing good, and working hard and that's all that really matters.... Love yall! 愛してるよ エリス長老 TheRisingSon

  Aloha 皆さん、 Yo I really needa start writing these emails earlier in the week or something. Lately I'll sit down and my brain is completely and utterly gone. But anyways. A wise old firebender once said: “Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving... you will come to a better place.” Little did I know at the ripe age of like 7 or 8 or whenever I watched Avatar the last Airbender that Iroh would be spitting straight facts.  When I started the transfer mission life definitely felt like a dark tunnel. Bro I had no idea what was going on. I was stumbling trying to navigate in the dark. I had a new missionary whom from Kaku 長老’s wise words “is quite literally a baby and will follow exactly what you do” (he was right, Theurer 長老 is afraid of talking to women, JUST LIKE ME FR). And I was supposed to help guide and motivate the other missionaries in my district. Bro I had no idea what I was doing LOL. I...

  Yooo 皆、 I should've written this earlier cause I have no motivation and Hirotaka came to Hiroshima to chill with us sooo. Yeah no time sorry. Thought I'd write something before my parents kill me for not writing twice in a row.  Wanted to share an experience I had over the past two weeks. We were doing a mogi (practice lessons) with an inactive member who happens to be the branch president's daughter. After the mogi was over she started opening up about why she doesn't really like the church and it had a lot to do with her parents putting a bunch of pressure on her to go on a mission go to church, etc. She shared that because of the pressure it made her despise going to church and reading scriptures. But she also wondered because she had broken away from the church could she really be forgiven. It was a really amazing opportunity to share from Luke 15:3-7 3 ¶ And he spake this parable unto them, saying,  4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of th...