The weeks are counting down to the time when the Toronto missions will combine! We're all very excited for the new areas to be opened up. The amount of missionaries in our mission will probably dip just below 100 this coming transfer, but then we'll shoot up to 200. Everybody is excited for the merge. It is creating a lot of excitement and motivation amongst the missionaries. With all the good excitement, motivation, anticipation, and added measure of urgency the coming months bring, Satan is always right behind us and the Lord, undoing anything and everything that he can. The adversary is really drilling and nailing lots of missionaries. He works so hard to work into the cracks in companionships, destroy spiritual experiences for investigators, and make members of the Lord's church feel complaisant and indifferent. With all the amazing good and miracles we've seen and been seeing lately, there has got to be some adversity. The past week wasn't bad by any means. We just saw a lot less visible success than is normal. It is a little discouraging sometimes. The baptism of the less-active family's son was delayed one more week. We're doing all we can, but people still have their agency.
The past 7 weeks I've been serving in Brampton have been awesome. So much success, so many miracles, and lots of growth in certain areas for myself, and even my companion. Things are harder some weeks than others, but you just keep pushing forward, focusing on the small and simple things of the gospel, and work in faith. Missionary success is heavily built off the foundation of diligence. It is a hard lesson to learn, but it’s coming. Our area has a lot of good stuff set up to see some serious success in the coming month or so.
Doing missionary work in a TRIpanionship is a little different...lots of splitting up (within sight and sound of course) and talking to people on our own. We're just sorting through 100,000's of people as fast as we can trying to find the prepared and the elect. Faith is what leads us to them.
I'm actually out of time, but this week will be a good one!
E. PORTER
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