你們好! Hello everyone!

This week has been kind of crazy, but so good! Earlier this week we had a guy tell us to pull over and he bought us fruit because he thought us coming to a foreign land to share what we believe is super cool! So it was an interesting but super cool experience!

A lot has happened this week and I don't remember all of it.

Last Monday we went to a memorial sight that really cool! It's all about the guy who stood up against China. I'll be sending some pictures of that's later.

For our exercise on Tuesday we went a hike up a hill behind our apartment. We had two ways we could go back down, my trainer told me that one way was little more steep and it had rained during the night so it was slippery. But of course I still wanted to go down that way. Haha almost reached the bottom when I slipped. I cut my hand and scraped my forearm pretty good. But no worries I'm good now, its healing slowly but surely.

I taught my first English by myself on Thursday. I'm teaching the kids class which is always so much fun! The only hard part is that they don't know a lot of English, I don't know a lot of Chinese and the moms who were there don't know English either. So there was definitely a language barrier, but this week we are having someone else in there to help me translate the words I don't know. So it should be a lot better!

The really big that happened this week happened on Friday. We hadn't taught anybody all week and we also didn't find anyone new to meet with. We never were out finding and I was starting to get a little annoyed with myself and my comp. That morning I just broke, I cried and told my trainer why I was frustrated. She really didn't know what to say to me at the time and so we just went out to do our comp study. We sat down at a 7-11 where we usually do our studies. We started talking to a guy who knew who missionaries were but wasn't interested in what we had to say. Almost right after lady came up to us asking us about English class. We shared that with her, and we also asked if she would be interested in learning more about our church. She said yes but she isn't in our area so we had to pass her along to our STLs. She did set up though so that was super exciting! Sister Garner then shared with me something called "The Riciardi Letter". A man wrote a letter to I think his son about his trainer on his mission. She shared a part that talked about what a successful missionary is. It talked about how you are a successful missionary that through giving it your absolute all, trying your hardest becoming converted yourself. I was hit so hard with the spirit, I could feel the Savior's love and I knew he was proud of me for trying and being out of my comfort zone. Almost immediately after this lady sat down next to us and started talking us about church. We talked to her for about 40 minutes and we had her set up for a chapel tour for the next day. When we asked her about her religious background she told us it didn't matter because she wanted to join our church. When she came the next day we shared with her the Book of Mormon and the restoration, she really loved it!

Since then we've set up with 5 new friends and 3 of them are families.

The lord is so mindful of us, he knows when we are struggling and when we will be pushed. But I know that is the way he strengthens us! I had my first bump in the road and I'm ready for the rest to come! I'm ready to be pushed out of my comfort zone and try my best.

I love you all so much! I'm keeping you all in my prayers!
我愛你們!

Love, Sister Porter
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