Week 65 - As trés írmas

We're now a trio!

Hello! Hope everyone had a great week! Ours was verrrry exciting. Tuesday morning we got a call that we were getting another companion! So Wednesday night we made the trek over to Syracuse and picked her up. Her name is Sister Lifferth, and she is a reassigned missionary! She is from Michigan, and she had previously served in Riverside, CA (to visa wait) and then in São Paulo, Brazil for a couple months before having to go home. We are so excited to have her here! She is a hoot and makes me laugh a lot. I'm so excited to have her here in Lancaster with us. Also she's teaching us Portuguese as part of her ongoing studies to keep her language skills up! I'm super excited.

We had some miracles this week, we had a self-referral several weeks ago that we could never get a hold of, until we called her another time and she picked up! And she was super excited to hear from us and wanted to meet with us and for her two teenage daughters to join! We were so excited. We had a lesson with them that went really well yesterday too. Also later that day we got a call from a guy who a member had given our number to, he is going through a really rough time and was crying when we first started talking but by the end he was calm. I know that the Savior really can calm our troubled hearts! Also Jane, our friend who had all the family members die, finally let us call again and we had a great lesson. She has such a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon!

One of the highlights of the week was attending an all-day mission-wide zoom training and having the mission office deliver pizza to each of the companionships throughout the mission!

Also the best part of my week was probably that Jillian got baptized! Don't know if you remember that from the beginning of quarantine, around April, but she was a sweet young woman who was a self-referral from when I was in Massena. I wasn't allowed to attend the virtual meeting, but I did see pictures and it made me so happy! 

Love, Sister Potts

 

FUN FACTS: My companion wanted to know more about Porter Rockwell so I looked him up on the church website and found out more haha. 

1.  The Smith family and the Rockwell family were friends/neighbors in Manchester, NY. One of the sons, Orson Porter, heard about Joseph Smith and the 'golden bible' and was intrigued. 

2. The Rockwell family would follow the Smiths to Fayette, and Porter joined the church after it was organized in 1830. 

3. Porter moved with the first saints to Missouri, and became a very well skilled marksman. Because of his fearlessness, he would often protect and defend the Saints, which often brought a lot of persecution against him. 

4. He was imprisoned for 9 months after being falsely accused of shooting Governor Lilburn Boggs, and there was no heating or bedding in the cell. The food he was given to eat the dogs wouldn't even eat. 

5. When he was finally released, he had to walk most of the way to Nauvoo. 

we will continue next week.....