This week Sister Heaton and I had a pretty "stretch yourself" goal of having 30 lessons in one week, then something horrible happened. Every single person in Brookings got sick. Okay so maybe not everyone is sick but we had so many lessons cancel this last week, and at times it was a little discouraging. We ended up having 17 lessons, and we tried our hardest to try to at least get to 20, but not so much. Oh well, so the cookie crumbles sometimes!
Something really weird
happened this week. But it was more like a cool kind of weird. Sister
Heaton and I were in Correlation with our Ward Mission Leader and he
gave us a referral to someone who he knew in town. So the next night we
went and tried to contact her and she told us to come back in a week,
well that's fine, we didn't think much of it. Well that night while we
were syncing our ipads at the church we got an email about a referral
from the church, it had the same exact address of the referral from
Brother Johnson, but a completely different name. So we decided to go
back there first thing the next morning and sure enough the referral
from church headquarters was the other referrals roommate! But the one
from church headquarters referred herself! I had never seen that happen
before. Apparently she is a member of the church and has recently
decided that she wants to come back to church. We are so excited for
her!
This week we were able to meet with some
new investigators who we found last week! It is a cute little family, a
single mom and her 2 girls. And man I love them so much already. They
were so excited to be able to learn about the gospel and so involved in
the first lesson. When we invited them to come to church they were SO
excited. Then on Saturday night we got a text from the mom saying that
her and her girls were sick and they weren't going to be able to come
this week. Sister Heaton and I were so sad. But we are excited for them
to be able to try and come next week. We are going to be talking to them
about baptism this next week and hopefully be putting them on date! We
are stoked!
This week Sister Heaton and I were
able to spend a little bit of time in Gold Beach, which is about an hour
north of us, to do some tracting for the Senior Couple who is living
there. We were able to find a few people who were interested in talking
with us, and honestly it was a beautiful day so Sister Heaton and I just
soaked in the sunlight as we were walking around tracting. Although we
did meet one interesting fellow. I don't even remember his name, but he
had some interesting views on the missionary work aspect of religions.
He told us that it was like we were an NFL team drafting our players
into our religion. Interesting notion that he had there. As you can
tell, he really didn't want to talk to us!
This
next week we are going to be going up to Coos Bay in order to have Zone
Conference with President Russell, which we are super excited for. The
other exciting thing about it is that we have car inspections. But this
isn't a normal car inspections because the mission is getting a bunch of
new cars, and so the cleanest car in every zone is getting a new car.
Soooo you could say that Sister Heaton and I spent a good hour and a
half today really deep cleaning our car. It looks very very nice.
The
other night, Sister Heaton and I were really struggling. We were trying
to contact people and everyone that we could think of we went to and
they were sick. So we stopped and said a prayer at one point and I
decided to try and call a recent convert, who we have been trying to get
ahold of for weeks. She went out of town with her husband, who we are
also teaching. And we had called them every day for 2 weeks, and nothing
had happened. So reluctantly we called, thinking we would get the same
response, but NO! This time she answered and she was SO excited to talk
to us. We were able to talk to her about her trip and then she decided
to invite us over for dinner because we didn't have one that night, and
guess what they were having? CRAB. So we were able to help her finish
making the crab, she taught us how to cook them so that they don't
scream in the pot, and then taught us how to crack the shell open so we
wouldn't have food flying. It was a good night at dinner. I liked the
crab a lot, Sister Heaton didn't really liked it, they kept offering her
more and more and she kept trying to find excuses until she finally
said no, lol. But it was a good night and we were able to teach them a
little lesson. It was perfect!
Yesterday during
my studies I was really struggling, and I wasn't sure why. I was trying
to figure out what to study and just nothing was feeling right. So I
decided to open up to Preach My Gospel and it referenced the scripture
Mosiah 3:19 which reads:
When I
went on to continue to study what a natural man was and who a saint was I
realized that a natural man took on the form of a man who is of the
world, or a sinful man. While a saint is a man who is set apart from the
world and who is trying his hardest to become like God. Obviously we
can't reach that point on earth, but it was an interesting thought. But
then, it is interesting because we aren't all perfect. But it says we
can become a saint as we use the Atonement of Jesus Christ every day.
Then it lists a bunch of Christ like attributes. It is important that we
take upon ourselves the atonement so tha
t we can become the saint that
we know our Heavenly Father wants us to become.
I
was thinking about this a lot yesterday during sacrament meeting, and
then we had an AMAZING sacrament talk by a lady in our ward. She got up
and showed her vulnerability, and told us that she had felt like she
shouldn't prepare anything for the talk she was about to give, but to
trust in her Heavenly Father and that the spirit would direct her. And I
am not kidding, this talk was fantastic. She was able to bear powerful
testimony about how the spirit has directed her in her life. About how
receiving revelation from God is his way of trying to get a personal
relationship with him. About how Heavenly Father truly is her best
friend. About how we can have personal conversations with our Heavenly
Father through prayer. And how prayer is the way that we can call home.
Sometimes on my mission I have had moments that I have really just
wanted to call home, just for 5 minutes, how can that hurt? Obviously I
haven't done that, but I am so grateful for the knowledge that I can
ALWAYS turn to prayer. I can kneel down and pray to my Heavenly Father
in seconds, and he is willing to answer because he wants to have that
PERSONAL relationship with me. I love my Heavenly Father so much, and I
was so grateful for that talk yesterday!
Thank you so much for all of the love and support from my fan club, I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
---Remember who you are and who God EXPECTS you to become.---
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison
I love how HAPPY she is!!
and how BEAUTIFUL, inside and out!
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