Sister Bailey Anne Harrison: We are in the Splash Zone 🌊

Hey fan club! This week has seemed like such a long week. But it has gone by really fast so that is always nice! Last Monday Sister Gregory and I drove over to Medford to sleep at the STLs apartment over there for the night to then head up to Eugene the next morning for MLC. It was fun to go on a little road trip as a missionary, but at the same time I was really excited to head back to K Falls on Tuesday night. When we got to Medford we were able to go tracting for the sisters over there for an hour, and guess where we tracted?!?! Bailey Ave!! Super exciting. I was pretty happy about it, although there was no one there who was interested in hearing about the gospel. But it was good to go out and do the work. Then we had a sleepover at the sisters house in Medford, which is always fun although sleepovers in missionary time is the same as real time in the fact that no one gets sleep because we are usually up talking all night. But don't worry we were in bed at a semi descent hour because we had to leave at 6 in order to get to Eugene at the right time.

It was fun to be able to drive up with a bunch of sisters, because I was in Brookings and was around no missionaries for awhile, I don't know many missionaries. So it is fun to get to know more people for awhile. So in Eugene we went to a meeting called MLC which stands for Missionary Leadership Council. Basically we go to a meeting with all the Sister Training Leaders, Zone Leaders, Assistants to the President and the Mission Presidency, then they are able to teach us concepts and principles from the gospel. At MLC this week we were able to talk about How to Begin Teaching for the majority of the meeting. President Russell has made a goal for baptisms up until the time he leaves the mission, and so as we are talking about how to start teaching it will be able to help us get our investigators to the Baptismal font. We also talked a lot about prayer and how we are given the commandment to pray to our Heavenly Father. But really, why would we turn down an opportunity to pray to our Heavenly Father? He knows each and every one of us personally and is ready to help us with anything that we may be struggling with, all we have to do is pray. President told us, "you will not baptize without praying!" Sounds pretty simple but I think some missionaries haven't understood that yet, so just remember to pray everyone!

Also at MLC I had the amazing opportunity to see Sister Nowell, she literally hug attacked me as I walked into the cultural hall. And I don't think she ever stopped hugging me. But I love her and it was awesome. Also she had a sticky note of things to talk to me about, I'm glad that I get to see her at ever MLC from now on. Mother and daughter reunion!

After MLC we ended up not getting back to Klamath Falls until 10:15 pm so we were exhausted. But on the way back we stopped by in n out and got a shake so don't worry it helped us stay awake.

This week I have been thinking a lot about obedience and how Heavenly Father wants us to be as obedient as possible. But Satan doesn't want that. Satan is literally not on our team. He is waiting for us to fail. But our Heavenly Father and our Savior are cheering for us, so it is so important for us to be able to continue on the right path!

So on Friday I was able to teach in my first Zone Training Meeting. It was terrifying but I think it went very well. We were able to stay on topic and the Zone was able to keep up a discussion, so that of course made it better. I think I also learned a lot that will help me for the next time that I have to teach. But it was pretty successful!

The other exciting news from the week was that on Saturday Sister Gregory and I just went to work really hard and we were able to find 4 new investigators, we didn't really actually hit our goal because we weren't in K Falls for part of the week. But it felt good to be out in the world sharing the gospel. This next week we will go on our first exchange with the Lakeview sisters, and I am scared but excited. We also have interviews this week!

Oh and then guess what happened on Sunday. Well we got a call 2 weeks ago asking if we could bear our testimonies in sacrament meeting. Of course we said yes. Well glee got to sacrament meeting on Sunday and we found this:

So we might have freaked out and spoke in the spot in sacrament meeting. We quickly scrambled something together and Sister Gregory went first. Well she shared the same story from the Bible that I was going to share. And she quoted the SAME TALK. We were doing very well on companionship unity. And suddenly I had nothing to say, I honestly can't remember anything that I said, so the spirit for sure took over. But a lot of people thanked me for my testimony so it must have been good!

Well the scripture that I was going to share in sacrament meeting is found in John 21 when after the Savior has been resurrected he appears to the apostles, who were back fishing in the sea. When they came to dine with the Savior, he asked to Peter 3 times, "lovest thou me more than these?" It is an interesting question to get from the Savior, for him to ask us if we love him. Peter was probably taken back by this, but of course he said yea lord, I love thee. But then the Savior responded, then feed my sheep. There is a talk for Jeffery R Holland called The First and Great Commandment, in this talk he talks about this story. And this is a quote from his talk that I wanted to share:

What I need, Peter, are disciples--and I need them forever. I need someone to feed my sheep and save my lambs. I need someone to preach my gospel and defend my faith. I need someone who loves me, truly, truly loves me, and loves what our Father in Heaven has commissioned me to do.

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ need disciple to be able to go forth and share his gospel. To be a disciple means to be a personal follower of Christ, we need to strive to be that.

I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve in Klamath Falls, and to be a missionary at this time. Thank you so much for all of your love and support, I hope you all have an amazing week!

---Remember who you are and who God expects you to become---

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

As STLs we are basically the mothers of the Zone, so we made ❤️ cookies for Valentine's Day tomorrow, Happy Valentine's Day!!!

This was when we Skype in for new STL training last week. President was sitting in the top left but we were having a break for a few minutes.

We were tracting in Medford on Monday night and we tracted on Bailey Ave, so our know we have to take a picture.

These are the pictures from Brookings, so they are old but a member emailed them to me just this week. In Brookings they take a picture of the missionaries serving there then they have you sign the back of the picture with your testimony when you leave. So this is Sister Datwyler and I!

I got to see Sister Nowell on Tuesday at MLC! So we took a picture (:

Then she decided to squeeze my face... 😐

A car full of STLs heading to Missionary Leadership Council, or as we call it MLC! From the left to the right: sister Harrison, Viiga, Figueroa, Lunt, Hansen & Gregory