FLASH BLIZZARD ❄️❄️❄️

Man, what a wonderful week that we were able to have here in Kfalls, missions are not easy but they are so worth it! When I was able to see all the miracles that happened this week I was just able to really recognize that being on a mission is where I need to be at this time in my life. I know that I am touching people lives and when I see these things happen it just brings so much happiness into my life. In missionary work it could be really easy to be let down by so much that happens but in the end I am here to share the happiness of the gospel with others. And if I am not happy, how are they going to be able to see that the gospel and bring themselves happiness! Yesterday during Relief Society they were talking about the talk entitled, "Joy and Spiritual Survival," by President Russell M Nelson. In the talk he says:

That’s it! Saints can be happy under every circumstance. We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

We are capable of being happy in any time of our life, but what should be the focus? What is your focus? Our focus should be on the SAVIOR. Always and forever. Every time that I am having a bad day here on the mission, I just go and testify about Christ, and that is what changes my whole day around, President Nelson then continues and says:

We can feel joy regardless of what is happening--or not happening--in our lives. Joy comes from and because of Him. He is the source of all joy.

I know that as we begin to make our focus on the Savior that we will be able to feel that everlasting joy that we are promised. "Men are, that they might have joy!" 2 Nephi 2:25, so my dear fan club, I want to invite you this week to find the happiness that our Heavenly Father desires you to have, and that can only be obtained through our Savior, bJesus Christ.

Alright so now I know you are all dying to hear about the many many miracles we had this week, so let's get started.

This week we were really trying to hit our transfer goal of hitting 30 lessons in a week, we didn't hit it unfortunately we only hit like 20. I feel like we have been so focused on trying to find people and teaching them that we have been more worried about the number and not so worried about the people. The Zone Leaders gave us a call the other day, because they are also trying to hit a # goal for lessons, and they gave us an idea from Preach my Gospel. We learn that we are supposed to teach people and not lessons, so they gave us the idea of making a listen of 30 people that we are going to try and teach, and focus on them, and pray for them and the lessons will come. And since we have been doing that we have found so much more success. I can feel this week will be the week where we will be hitting 30 lessons. I know it!

This week I was able to go on exchanges with a sister in our area for 24 hours. Her name is Sister Allen and she has only been out on her mission for a couple of weeks, but man she has the fire of Missionary Work about her, I seriously love her so much. She actually played for the soccer team at Weber State which is pretty awesome, the church makes the world so so so small. Anyway, we were able to start out exchange by setting goals and Sister Allen suggested that we make the goal to find 4 new investigators that day, at first I thought that was a little too high, but we decided to go with it. When we went tracting we literally found 2 investigators at the first 2 doors we knocked on. When you tell Heavenly Father your righteous goals, and you put in the work, he will provide. Then we went tracting again later that night and we found this one investigator. She is seriously the most amazing person. It was probably the best tracting experience I have had on my whole mission. We knock on the door and she lets us in immediately. She tells us about how she is going through a lot of hard times in her life right now, and just a week ago she was praying asking God for help. Since then 3 religious groups knocked on her door, the Jehovahs Witnesses, the Baptist church and the Mormons, meaning us. She asked so many questions that just lead perfectly into us teaching the Restoration, like, "what makes your church different," "I want truth in my hands," "why are there so many different churches," and so many other different questions that I was just in awe. We were able to recite to her the first vision and testify about the Book of Mormon that we were showing her. Once we were done explaining what the Book of Mormon contained she said, "can I have that book, and the Pamphlet too?" The spirit was so strong. When I was testifying about The Book of Mormon being another testament of Jesus Christ I felt like her eyes were staring at my soul. I feel like we could have put her on date for baptism right then and there! We have a lesson with her tomorrow, so don't be surprised if I write a novel about it next week! It was such a BLESS-ED exchange!

To end this week I wanted to share with my fan club about the Flash Blizzard that we experienced yesterday. Being the end of the month we are trying to stay good on miles for the rest of the month, so we parked at one end of the street and decided to walk to our investigators house. Well we were walking and the snow started picking up when suddenly it started to Blizzard right in front of our eyes. The snow was pelting us in the throats if we talked and we were as white as snow men. Literally 10 minutes before hand I had made a comment about the few flakes in the air that if it was going to snow it should just dump on us. Well it did. We were only in our investigators house for 10 minutes when suddenly we walked back out and there was an inch on the ground. AN INCH! Sister Gregory and I couldn't stop laughing and by the time we defrosted in the car we needed to wipe off the water on our face with the tissues we had. I thought spring was on it's way but now I'm questioning it from that Blizzard we jus had!

Well fan club, thanks for all the emails this week. I am so grateful for all of you and hope you have the most spectacular week! Love you lots!

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison 

 

Treasure Hunt for PDay

This week for Pday Sister Gregory and I put a lot of effort into a
scavenger hunt for the Zone, we made up a bunch of clues and we made
cookies for the losers, because you know, we don't want them to feel
bad for themselves. The winner got a small Blizzard from Dairy Queen.
It was so good! There were a lot of confusions but it ended up being
slot of fun, we spent the last couple of 9-10 hours working on it,
maybe we can do it again for Easter!

We went on a walk and I was literally covered in snow.

I went on exchanges with Sister Allen from Klamath Falls 1st Ward! Everyone should go try the Cookie Jar Blizzard with extra cookie dough, it will change your life!

 

 

 

 

 

Gotta love the Flash Blizzard