Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Loving the work, Reading the Book of Mormon, Working Out and hurting butt!

I have gotten your letters from dearelder and I love them. Honestly they are a highlight of my day! We aren't able to get them until 9:30 at night which is honestly a blessing in disguise because I really need to keep my mind on the mission. I am trying to figure out how to send you pictures because I am seriously having the hardest time trying to figure out how to do the pictures. So if I figure that out I will send you ALL of the pictures.

My Pday is on Tuesdays, which means this morning I was able to go to the temple. Mom it was awesome. Seriously. I needed that so much. I loved it. It was kinda hard because when I was there I realized that I hadn't been in the temple with any one but family but then I realized that my district is becoming my family. I was able to help my companion which was cool because I have always been the one that needed the help!!

I need to email Scott Happy Fathers Day. I got his letter from DearElder and it was honestly a strength to me!

So the temple is going to be closed for two weeks but guess what.... We get to clean the temple!!! I am honestly so excited to be able to go do service in the temple by helping them clean. Seriously. So excited.

In the MTC one thing that I have seriously loved is Book of Mormon reading time, where we have been able to read as a district and read three verses then take time to find something in those verses that is applicable to us. I seriously would invite you to try reading scriptures this way as a family. It has brought me so much strength in this hard week that I have gone through.

But one Elder said something that I thought was so true. One day forward is still going forward. And I loved this. The MTC is hard. So hard. But I have been able to grow closer to my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ every single day that I have been here. And guess what?!?! One week down, and many more to go (: 

So my butt literally hurts from all the sitting in classes that I have been doing, but I am happy to report that every morning the sisters and I have been getting up at 5:40 to go to a sisters only exercise class! I love it! And we started running around the track during our exercise time just because you really need to use it wisely. I honestly sit so much so by the time I get to exercise I LOVE it!

I was able to watch a cool video by David Bednar that you can only find in the MTC!!! It was call the Character of Christ. It was seriously amazing and I wish that you guys could watch it. It talked a lot about how we spend so much time think as the natural man and how when we finally begin to turn outward towards, just as Christ does we will be able to come closer to him. I love this concept and I hope that I can begin to grow in that way.

We began teaching out first investigators this week, and they went really well. And honestly, ever since I stepped foot into the MTC my nervousness has left me and I have been able to feel the spirit all the time. This is literally God's University. Our investigators right now, all 4 of them, all come from different paths of life but they all have one thing in common. They have the desire to come unto Christ. As we begin to come unto Christ we begin to grow our faith, which leads to repentance, which leads to baptism, which leads to the Holy Ghost, which leads to Enduring to the End. Sister Sorensen said it in a great way the other day, the sacrament is basically a weekly baptism for each of us to have. 

I hope that you get out of the house this week, it is awesome that you have the week to be away from work but make sure you go spend time with Chelsea or something, I know its going to be hard but I know that you are strong and that you can do anything. I love you so much and I am so grateful for and can feel your prayers that are said for me. I miss you! Any questions you have for me? Use DearElder. I seriously love it!! I love you mom. And miss you!!! 

Love,

Sister Harrison

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