Elder Porter Ellis

  Aloha 皆さん、 Lowkey it's long (sorry not sorry). Also I'm not too sure this makes sense either  I guess something that's cool is that since coming to Japan I've never been comfortable. I always find myself seemingly having no idea what I'm doing. And honestly it's been great. I was listening to a BYU Devotional on the way to an exchange searching for some enigma of advice to figure out this whole mission thing. And I came across “The Power Of Not Knowing” by Liz Wiseman. I was looking in the Leadership section under Topics and it caught my eye. Purely because i was like: “Well that's stupid, I'm looking for BYU devotionals to study so I DO know”  Anyways the synopsis had me hooked.  “I think we need to recognize that we tend to do our best work when we are on the outer edges of what we know, when we are doing something hard and new, and when we are growing through challenge.” It was an awesome talk. It talks about the different types of leaders. How we c...

  Aloha 皆さん、 Monsters I've partaken of this week- 1 Monsters I've needed this week- I dunno at least like 10 Kay Das all, happy Easter!❤️ Shoots! Join the photos  https://photos.app.goo.gl/2tYzpjfjReZvcoCs7 愛してるよ！ エリス長老 TheRisingSon

  Aloha 皆さん、 Yo I don't know who let Boss 会長 cook but oh my days. Transfers were something else. I was so nervous, this transfer I had an opportunity to become 愛する Medeiros 長老’s (da cousin) companion or go to kumamoto and reunite with the OG Fukuoka district whom I love soo much. But to no avail neither happened (it's fine, I'm fine).  This transfer the mission announced the transfer differently (since there's so many missionaries) and we are doing a mission wide zoom call  at 9:30pm . So that was fun, felt like a draft night LOL If you've looked at my Facebook you've seen that I have in fact moved to Kitakyushu! Which is super awesome, I'm so stoked to be back in the city! I love talking to all the people we see everyday and meeting everyone! However the concerning part is the fact that Boss 会長 thought it would be a good idea to make me a Zone Leader😓 Haha, I'm also companions with Rasmussen 長老 who from what I've heard and can tell so far is probab...

Aloha 皆さん、 “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”                  -Elder Richard G. Scott We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. WHAT A BAR. By doing things that emulate what we want to become we will become the thing that we want to become. However, the same goes for the opposite. If we continue doing things that emulate the opposite, we will of course become the opposite. Yeah, yeah seems pretty obvious. Obviously if we do good things we become food, and if we do bad things we become bad.  “Duh, thanks Elder Ellis for this profound knowledge. Super helpful.” But if we all know that to be the case, then why don't we do good things, or things that emulate what we want to be?  BECAUSE ITS HARD. I cannot count the number of days on my mission where I've said to myself  “Tomorrow I'm going to get up exactly  at 6:30am  and work o...