Hey my dear fan club! It has been yet another great week here in the field. I know I talked about being transferred last week but I just wanted to remind everyone that I am now serving in Klamath Falls instead of Brookings and I am actually loving it a lot. Klamath actually reminds me a lot of Utah. We are in a valley here and we have snow, and I don't know what it is I just think that this is the most Utah part of Oregon. They had a lot of snow when I first got here. But now that snow is basically gone, which is very very sad. But we hear that there may or may not be another storm coming in. I had to buy a new coat and some more tights, because they are a necessity here! But other then it being cold here I am really loving it. And also, no one really told me that Sister Gregory and I would be white washing (starting out new) in the area together. So you know that has been fun. We are striving to make our area the model area since as STLs, that is what we are supposed to be doing. So we did a lot of contacting this week. Since I mentioned Sister Gregory I guess I should tell you about her just a little bit. She is about 4' 11", so you know, really short. But she is amazing. She actually is going home in 3 transfers, basically she goes home the beginning of June, and is in denial about that as well. She asked President this week if she could extend for the rest of her life and President responded, "Sister if there was an extension for the rest of your life, Sister Russell would have already done that." So you could say that Sister Gregory is not ready to go home. But one thing that is great about Sister Gregory is that we are just laughing all the time. Doesn't matter if we are our tracting door to door, driving going to a meeting, or sitting down for lunch. Seriously there is always something to laugh about. She is from Preston, Idaho. She likes potatoes. She is pretty great and we are having a fun time here in Klamath. Basically the Klamath Zone is in banishment to the rest of the mission, so we for example haven't gotten supply orders in months. Like we literally have no Restoration Pamphlets, every time we find one it is like finding a pot of gold. But it is really cool because we are so far away from other missionaries we all get super close so we are the K Falls Fam Bam. It is pretty stellar.\
So this week had to do a lot with
getting to know every one in our Area Book because we are both new to
the area. But funny story. The STL area two transfers ago used to be in
our ward, then it was moved, and now it is back. So Sister Gregory
actually has served here before. But it was 7 weeks ago. So there is a
lot more to learn and a lot more to do for us here. We also have Elders
who are white washing the area as well. So together we are trying to
make our area glowing again. You never know, maybe one day there will be
a Klamath Falls 3rd Ward Stake! Just kidding, but you never know!
So
here in Klamath we do service at a Thrift Store 2 times a week, and it
is actually a lot of fun and all of the missionaries serve there. All of
the proceeds from this thrift store go to hospice which is super
awesome. It was pretty cool because I was able to find a coat there for
only $10, so no more worries here in Oregon, I am very warm now.
This
week we did quite a bit of tracting and we were able to find 6 new
investigators. And there was one really cool experience that I wanted to
share. One day I decided that we needed to make a goal of how many
investigators we were going to find that day, we decided on 3. Well that
night we tried to contact a new investigator, and of course he wasn't
home. It was about 4:40 pm
and Sister Gregory and I had almost decided just to take our dinner
early and head home. But then we both really felt prompted to tract down
a street named Perry. Well we went to one house that had a scary fake
Puma outside (I might have jumped okay, and yes Sister G laughed at
me.). Well we knocked on the door and a woman answered and told us to
come inside. We were able to share with her and her family Because of
Him and they are now our New investigators! God is so good. And I know
that as we have faith that we are able to have miracles happen in our
life.
On Friday
we were able to do a power hour after district meeting. Power hours
basically means that everyone in the zone goes to one area and tracts a
street to help out missionaries. Well they did a power hour for our area
for the Elders. Well we were tracting and we met a young girl named
Nevaya. Well she told us that her mom wasn't home so that we could come
back that night. So when we told the Elders that she was a young girl
who we found they told us to keep her, awesome right? Well we went back
that night and her mom invited us in and said we could teach her. So we
started teaching her about her Heavenly Father and about how he can
answers our prayers. We asked her how she thought she would receive
prayers and she said, "Well through the Holy Ghost." So then we asked
her how she can receive the Holy Ghost, "Through Baptism" At this point
we thought she was golden and invited her to baptism. So we did and she
said she had already been baptized in our church.... Awkward. So she is
less active, but her mom and her younger brother is not a member!! So
basically we now have golden contacts. Then later that night we were
looking at our Area Book and we had actually planned on going and seeing
her that night!! God is so good. Miracles are happening her in Klamath.
And when that happened we knew that we were sent there for a reason.
So
once upon a time, Sister Gregory and I didn't really know what was in
the apartment last week before we went shopping, so we went in blindly
and just got the essentials. Well when we got there, there was basically
nothing. So we just decided that we would survive and that we would
just not be eating a lot. But the thing that both of us was craving was
Peanut Butter. So this week we got a text from a member asking if she
could take us to lunch, we said sure. Well we went to lunch and she told
us that she had gotten us some groceries. Um no. She did not get us
some groceries. She got us all the groceries that we needed, and she
even bought peanut butter. You could say I was a happy camper. I love
members.
As a Sister Training Leader, one thing
that we get to do every week is go to New Missionary Training to do
role plays with the new missionaries and the Zone Leaders. Well we have a
new missionary here in the Klamath Zone and her name is Sister Allen
and she actually played soccer for Weber State! So cool. Anyway it was
kind of awkward during the role plays because there was 4 of us and one
of her. But she is already so prepared that she just took it like a
champ. I am excited to be able to work with her more, we actually went
over and did studies with them this week and as we were leaving she said
"You sisters should come over here more, it is fun!" Sister Gregory and
I were excited that she likes us already!
We were also able to go to Stake Conference this last week and that was a lot of fun. President and Sister Russell were able to
A Scripture that I wanted to share with my fan club this week is found in Alma 37:40-41 which reads:
40 And
it did work for them according to their faith in God; therefore, if
they had faith to believe that God could cause that those spindles
should point the way they should go, behold, it was done; therefore they
had this miracle, and also many other miracles wrought by the power of
God, day by day.
41 Nevertheless,
because those miracles were worked by small means it did show unto them
marvelous works. They were slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith
and diligence and then those marvelous works ceased, and they did not
progress in their journey;
I was studying this week
in Preach my Gospel under the Christ like attribute Faith. And one
thing that really stuck out to me was how we need to have trust to be
able to have faith. And it is interesting how growing up one thing that I
learned was that trust is hard to build up but that it is easy to be
torn down. And so this week during my studies I was really able to ask
myself if I trust my Savior as I am doing his work. And I think that is
something that we all should be striving to remember. It is important to
trust our Heavenly Father and our Savior in all aspects of our life,
and that shows our true faith. Then I read this scripture, and how it
talked about when we have faith that we are able to see miracles. So I
think that it goes in this order 1. Trust 2. Faith 3. Miracles. Then it
also talks about how miracles cease when we forget to exercise our
faith, stop being diligent and we become slothful. It is important for
us to continue doing what our Heavenly Father wants so that we can to
see miracles. And it is also important to remember that Heavenly Father
wants to give us miracles, so we just have to put in the work! I love
this gospel.
Well time is now coming to a close
for the week. I am loving it here in Klamath Falls and I am so excited
to see all the miracles that Heavenly Father is going to give to Sister
Gregory and I this week. I hope that you all have an amazing week!
Thanks for all your love and support Fan Club!
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison
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