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1/1/2018

Howdy Fan Club, HAPPY NEW YEAR! The New Year is a great time to be
able to make New Years Resolutions and to think about where you have
come from and the person that you are because of that. Yesterday in
Sacrament Meeting they made the comment about being good with your
goals till February, well even if you are only good with working out
or scripture study for that whole month, it is still a month closer to
that goal! So keep making goals, and keep becoming better. As for
Sister Nielsen and I, we were in bed last night at 10:30 and we
weren’t even upset!!
Alright so amazing things happened this week including KENS BAPTISM!
All week we prepared and we planned then Sunday came around and we
walked in and found out that Ken got to church an hour early because
he was so excited to come to church and to be baptized last night! He
was beaming all day and it was such a tender moment to watch him walk
into the waters of baptism even if he said that it felt like creek
water because it was cold! At the end of the baptism we asked him how
he felt and he said that he felt like a new man! New Year, New Ken!
Another cool thing that happened during Kens baptism was that his non
member daughter came to the baptism! And she said that she wasn’t
going to be able to make it! But we started talking to her and she
said that she was interested in Family History and we already got her
hooked up with an awesome member who is going to help her out! It was
such a great way to start the New Year out right!
This week I had the opportunity to go to the Portland Temple for the
first time! We went with President and Sister Orton and all of the
departing sisters. One of the men in the session with us said that the
session was filled with the spirit! It was such a good day, and I love
the Portland Temple! It is so beautiful so please recognize all of the
cute pictures below.
This week we had a lesson with one of our awesome investigators named
Heather. I love Heather! She has been through so much in life and this
week in her lesson she asked us how she thinks she is progressing. She
then asked us if we have ever met anyone as broken as she is. And it
made me think about all of the people that I have met who are broken,
at some point of another I think we are all broken. But I have been so
grateful for the opportunity to meet those who feel broken and to help
them see the light that they can receive. I am so grateful for the
hope that comes from the gospel.
My whole mission the hardest key indicator to fill has been to get
people to church. Because it all has to do with agency and people get
to make that choice. Well yesterday we had 4 people in Sacrament
Meeting. A Member brought 2 people to church who we had never met
before and they became new investigators, it was a huge miracle and it
was awesome to see that many non members attending church. BLESSED
SABBATH.
The last couple of weeks I have been thinking about how I have been
able to see the Lords hand in my missionary work. And I can testify
that I have been able to see the Lord help me every single day that I
have been a missionary. This truly is the Saviors work here on this
Earth and I feel honored that I have been able to play even a small
part of that work. Heavenly Father loves all of his children and I am
grateful to have been able to feel a little bit of that love as I have
been able to serve and teach them here in Oregon. I am grateful for
the Book of Mormon and for the opportunity that I have been able to
testify of its truthfulness everyday. I will never forget the
countless people that I have been able to invite to come closer to
Christ. He is our Savior and our Redeemer. I love Him. The Mission
that I have been on has pretty great, but I know that I can not take
any credit for it because it has actually been the Lords Mission.
Alma 26:12
Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore
I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his
strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we
have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.
Well Fan Club, See you in ✌🏼 days. Love you all, and don’t forget to
WORK HARD because the work ain’t over yet!
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison ❤️

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS FAN CLUB!!!🎄🎄🎄

 Lunch picture from Zone Conference!!

 I sang the OEM song for the last time on my mission and 

Sister Orton took a picture of us, bless her heart

 For those who know me, you will appreciate this

 Naughty or nice?

 Sister Nielsen got me a nightgown for Christmas, she knows me so well!

 Sister Hawkins and I decided we were presents, too cute

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

12/25/2017

MERRY CHRISTMAS FAN CLUB! Not going to lie it is pretty weird to have
Christmas on our Pday, but it is also pretty nice as well! We are
spending most of our day today with some awesome members who took us
under their wing. We Skyped from their house this morning, had
breakfast with them and we are going to have dinner with them tonight!
We will be going down to Roseburg to watch a movie with the rest of
the Missionaries in the area. I think they picked out LEGO Batman. No
going to lie that wasn’t my first or second choice. But when Elders
rule the zone the Sisters vote doesn’t get much say! But it will be
fun none the less!

This week was full of a lot of miracles! Some highs and some lows but
we are going to focus on the highs of course (:

We had Zone Conference this week in North Bend, and it was so great to
be back on the coast! Although, it was raining and windy the entire
time we were there, I don’t miss that part of the coast. We had a
great meeting, the first part was about online proselyting, feasting
upon the scriptures and finding. All good things, but my favorite was
the end when we were able to have a little Christmas Devotional with
the Ortons. We watched this video that I just loved. We watched it
once and the President had us watch it again and had us try to find a
deeper meaning to it. I will put a link to the video in this email.
But it was so powerful and an amazing devotional. We sang a lot of
Christmas Hymns and it really felt like Christmas. For Christmas the
Ortons got us Temple Recommend Holders with our Mission Theme on it!
Super cool! At the end President said something funny with the up
coming new year in mind and with setting goals, he said, “Make old
year resolutions, we always make and break New Years resolutions, but
there is no reason to break an old year resolution!” I thought it was
so funny! But it is true, look back on this old year and make an old
year resolution! Desire to become an new you this next year through
Christ!

We did a lot of service this week. Like... 10ish hours... which
doesn’t seem like a lot but normally we average like 2 or 3. But we
have been encouraged recently to find more and more service
opportunities especially during the Holiday Season. But it felt so
good to be helping these people! It made our day brighter and we felt
the true reason for the season especially when we were doing things
that we did not want to do. I love service!

We had a lot of lessons with our guy Ken this week. This man is
amazing. I think we saw him everyday except Wednesday, between
lessons, dinners with members and baptisms! We were going over the
Baptismal interview questions with him this week and it was funny, at
the end he was like, that’s it? He was setting such high expectations
for himself to hit before baptism that he thought he wasn’t going to
be ready until March. But as we went over the questions it started to
become real to him and he even said himself this week, “you know what,
I think I am ready!” That was my pay day right there! We drove down to
Roseburg on Saturday and Ken was able to have his Baptismal Interview
and he passed! Then he was able to witness a baptism for 2
investigators in the North Umpqua Ward! He enjoyed every minute of it.
He came to church yesterday and loved the Christmas Service. Next
Sunday is his day!! Pray for Ken!

Last night as missionaries we were able to get together and read Luke
chapter 2, the record of the Birth of the Savior. When missionaries
get together it is pretty crazy because we are usually so excited to
see each other. But as we started with a prayer and a song the spirit
was instantly brought in. As we read the chapter it made me think of
the Saviors birth, then we were able to watch the Nativity Bible video
that the church has put out. I invite you all to watch that video this
Christmas Season, they have done a magnificent job! I then bore my
testimony of the Savior and we sang two more hymns. It was so nice to
be around missionaries during Christmas Eve.

I saw this quote the other day and I wanted to share it with my weekly email:

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!