BASHERS, BAPTISM & BUGS

April 24, 2017

This week has been a week FULL of Miracles! Seriously I think that last transfer was the preparatory time that we needed to plant all of the seeds and now is the time to harvest! 

First I will explain why my Subject line is the way it is. First, BASHERS, this week Sister Roach and I went on splits to be able to contact some less actives in the ward. When we got to the church we had heard of a group of guys talking to one of the adults there for mutual. Well we left on splits and came back and the group of young men was still there! Apparently these guys are from a different church and they were going around giving a "Spiritual Survey". Well basically the main leader of this group has a reputation of bashing. When he was talking to us I was reminded that he met with the Zone Leaders two transfers ago and I felt very uneasy. We talked to them and it was a good conversation although I could tell there could be a bashing experience in the future. Well we called the Zone Leaders and we called some other Elders and apparently this guy is CRAZY! He some how got information about Recent Converts and goes to their houses to try and tell them that their testimony is wrong, he has even been to the Stake Presidents house! And the other day he had a conference for people to come and learn how to convert LDS members. He is nuts. And we have a return appointment with him and his friends next week! Don't worry, we already informed the Bishop and he wants to meet with him and he doesn't want us to be there, but there are crazy people out there non the less!

The second part of my subject line includes, BAPTISM, WE PUT SOMEONE ON DATE THIS WEEK!!!! So we have been meeting with John and Tyanne for awhile now. And on Saturday we went to go help Tyanne with some service, we were painting so I can honestly say that this was my first time inviting someone to be baptized in my service clothes. After we finished painting we were able to sit down with her, and earlier that week we had invited her to baptism but she said that she had already been baptized. But this day was different. The Spirit was so strong and we started to talk about the Plan of Salvation. I asked Tyanne if she wanted to live with her family forever and literally we were all crying, and she said YES! We put her on date for baptism right then for June 3rd! I am so excited for her!!!! 

The third part of my subject line has to do with BUGS. This week the sun has been out and I actually got a gnarly tan line on my arms and on my feet. Well because the sun has started to come out so have the BUGS. Ew. I literally have 6 bug bites and I started to say that I had Zeeka Virus.... it was a joke but seriously the bug bites keep appearing! I think it is time to now pull out the bug spray. YAY for the sunny weather.

So on Tuesday this week I got a text from one of the counselors in the Bishopric asking me to speak in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday. Literally last Ward Council I had convinced him to ask Sister Roach to speak. But then he asked me. Karma I guess! So I was able to speak in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday on the First Vision, it was easy because that is something that I talk about every single day!

We had an awkward moment yesterday at church. This lady from another ward came up to us and said "Is that your car outside? You should probably go and get it changed." So our license plate has 666 on it, she told us that because our license plate has that, that we are losing investigators. I honestly don't think anyone is really looking at our license plate. But she told me that I need to call the church and get it changed. But the actual thing is 666 GWY, so I look at it as GO AWAY. So I think that it cancels it out. Let me know what you think!

Another amazing thing that happened this week is that we received so many referrals from the members here! You know, not many of the people were interested but it is so great to know that some of the people in the ward are beginning to be interested in the work that we are doing. The work is going strong and I am so excited to see the success!!!

This week has been one of the busiest week of my mission! On Saturday Sister Roach and I didn't even have time to eat lunch. We were running around like our heads were chopped off but in the end we were able to find 10 new investigators and put one person on date! So many miracles are going to be coming to the Klamath Falls 3rd Ward and I believe that it is because of the obedience and the diligence that we as a companionship will be giving. I can't wait to tell you about all of the other miracles that will be coming in the weeks to follow!!!

For my spiritual thought today I decided that I wanted to share a scripture that is probably very familiar to everyone, that I was able to use in my talk on the First Vision. Joseph Smith had been searching for the truth and he knew not where to find it, during this time he recorded these thoughts in Joseph Smith History, "In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?" I think a lot of us, even in the church, have to ask ourselves some of these kinds of questions, how can I know the Book of Mormon is true? How do I know if this church is true? Etc. But the way Joseph Smith finds the answer to his prayer is the way that we should all strive to find our answers, he was reading in the Bible in James 1:5-6----->

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally (meaning in large and generous amounts) , and upbraideth (Meaning judge or condemn)  not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

I know that our Heavenly Father is always trying to give us answers to our prayers. And as we Read our Scriptures and say our prayers that the answers will come. There have been so many times on my mission that I have received answers to my prayers, and I know that as we do it with real intent that our prayers will be answered!

Thank you so much for all of your love and support back home. I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve my mission and to see all of the miracles that Heavenly Father pours out on those who are serving Him ️ I love you all and I hope that you all have such a great week  

---Remember who you are and who God EXPECTS you to BECOME---

This is the Altamont District here in the Klamath Falls Zone. Me, obviously, Elder Falatea, Elder Miller, Elder Broshears, Elder Rawlings and the Sister Roach, WE ARE THE BOMB.COM

We got to take a Thug Life picture, don't worry Sister Roach just looks like she is going to kill someone. She won't actually!

LOVE YOU ALL ️ 
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

We look crazy, but thats okay, we had been in the car a lot that day!

 

 

We got DQ Blizzards in order to celebrate our on DATE!

A member gave us left overs with alphabet soup in it! Soooo here is my name ❤️ 

Spoke in Sacrament ❤️ Love ya!!!

So much SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR

Well hey there Fan Club! For those who don't know, I am here in Klamath Falls for another 7 weeks! It is weird to think that I haven't been in an area for this long since Roseburg, by the end of the transfer I will be here for 4 and a half months. The time has gone by so fast though so I think that it has been that long, so I know that the next 7 weeks will just fly by, so it is time to get to work. President Russell sent me an email this week telling me that this next transfer is going to be my baptizing mission, and I believe him! It will be a great transfer here in Klamath, I am excited! We had Elders in our Ward last transfer but they have been taken out. So now we just have sisters here! It is weird because I have always served in a ward with Elders so it will be different to have a ward all to ourselves, but I am excited!

Man, can I just tell you how much fun it is to have a your Birthday while you are on your mission? So much fun! I had such a good Birthday and I think that I ate so much sugar that I think I am going to go diabetic. No jokes. But I felt really spoiled! The morning started out with an alarm going off at midnight. I freaked out because the alarm that was going off was President Russell's Ringtone. I literally jumped out of bed so fast and I was SO mad. I got back into bed after I turned off the alarm was going off and I literally couldn't fall back asleep for another 2 hours. In the morning I went to go look at what alarm was going off and there was a little note from Sister Gregory telling me Happy Birthday! She just wanted to be the first one to wish me a Happy Birthday, made me feel special. I was able to have pancakes for Breakfast and able to go to church. I was so happy to have my Birthday sharing the same day as Easter Sunday. It was really a great experience. Sacrament Meeting was so special to hear everyone's thoughts about the Savior. We were able to sing with the Choir for Easter Sunday and it was really a great time. I loved every moment from church! After church we were able to go eat lunch and Sister Roach and I did Easter Egg hunts for ourselves through out the house. Lots of fun. Then we went out and went contacting people. It was kind of hard because it was Easter and not a lot of people wanted to talk to us, but you know at least we were showing Heavenly Father that we were willing to go out and do the work even though it was Easter Sunday. We had a great dinner planned with one of my favorite families here in Klamath Falls, the Clements. The fed us and the Elders and even got me a cake and ice cream for my Birthday, so much fun. And because it was my 21st Birthday they got me Sparkling Cider and Root Beer, lol. I thought it was great and I had a really good time. At the end of the night Sister Roach was kind of acting weird, but I was just shaking that off and we went to the church to go sync for the week. Well when we got there I thought that it was weird because there were so many cars there in the church parking lot. When we went into the Relief Society Room it was quiet and dark and then all of a sudden a bunch of missionaries popped out of no where! They then started spraying me with silly string and singing Happy Birthday. It was so much fun. Really truly such a great birthday experience! I loved every minute of it!

This week had so many miracles, lets start with this lady named Patty. Patty is a less active in the ward who we tried to meet with for a couple of weeks now when we do splits on Wednesdays. We stopped by and her daughter was home and she said my mom REALLY needs to talk to you, so call her. So we called her over and over again and things kept cancelling, but finally we met with her this week! Seriously right when we got to her house she didn't even let us ask her how her day was, she just asked us to say a prayer. After the prayer she began to talk about her whole life story and all of her medical problems. She told us that the medical problems that she was having ended up giving her mental problems, and when she went in and had surgery to fix her medical problems she woke up and realized that her complete mental health changed. And that for the last 6 years she didn't want to go to church at all. But now she has the desire and she is going to be back at church in 2 weeks! It was so awesome because literally two days before I knocked on her door during splits she said a prayer asking Heavenly Father what she needed to do. So then I knocked on her door and she knew that it was time for her to come back to church. It was really awesome to know that I was in the right place at the right time and I was able to help someone come closer to Christ.

For the last couple of weeks I have been trying to make contact with a former in our area book named Christa. And literally every time I tried to go and share a message with her and she tells us that her kids are sick, or that she was busy. But man. I kept feeling that I needed to go and visit her. So finally this week we went and she told us that her kids were sick, again. But I asked her if I could show her a video. And she said YES! So finally I was able to show her with Prince of Peace. And during the whole video she had a smile on her face and she just loved it. And we were able to step a return visit with her for this week. I am so excited. I love how the spirit can tell us to go do things, and as we obey the spirit that we will be able to feel all of the blessings.

This week we were able to go to Zone Conference over in Medford and we were able to receive guidance from our Mission President. It was so awesome! We were able to learn a lot about our purpose as missionaries. At one point we had to do a role play and had to talk about 9 different bullet points. And guess who I got to do the role play with, President Russell. It was a learning experience. I literally did the Role Play in 28 seconds. Lol. But he said that I did really well and I think I learned a lot from it. At Zone Conferences we were able to do car inspections and guess who won the car inspections!!! Sister Roach and I! And guess what we won, a bottle full of Wax for our car... yay!

Its been a great week full of miracles, I am sure there is more to talk about but there is so much going on because it is transfer day, so I cant think of anything else to write....

Because my spiritual message was so long from last week I decided to just share one of my favorite scriptures that I have been studying lately. The scripture is found in Doctrine and Covenants 80:

3 Wherefore, go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to the east or to the west, it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss.

4 Therefore, declare the things which ye have heard, and verily believe, and know to be true.

5 Behold, this is the will of him who hath called you, your Redeemer, even Jesus Christ. Amen.

I know that as I have been a missionary that when ever we are doing what we are supposed to be doing that we will fully be doing the work that our Lord wants us to do. And that I have truly been called to do the work her in Oregon from our Savior. And I will continue trying to do the hardest and being the most obedient here in Oregon. This is my Baptizing Transfer!!!

Thanks for all that everyone does back at home. I love you all and miss you!!!

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

 More frozen yogurt!

 The Eggs turned out to be really cute (:

 We were able to go and dye eggs with the 1st Ward Sisters, Sister Pfau and Sister Allen! 

So much fun!

You Start to Really Appreciate P Day when you miss a P Day

April 3, 2017

Hello my fellow fan club! Long time no talk, well you know what I mean! I feel like there is so much to write about then at the same time I can think about absolutely nothing, so we will just start from the beginning I guess!

This week, March 27th, I realized that it had been a year since I opened my mission call! Crazy how time flies! It feels just like yesterday that I was opening that and now I am serving the Lord in Oregon! I am so grateful for the days that I get to share the gospel. I am so grateful for that mission call!

This transfer is quickly coming to an end. For those who don't know the next transfer is April 17th. I think that I will be staying in Klamath Falls, but you never know. So if anyone is planning on sending anything please keep that in mind (:

The other day we had such a cool experience. We were planning on having a lesson with someone at 8, but then they cancelled. So sad. So then we were trying to figure out what to do for the 8 o'clock hour. Well I opened up to Area Book and decided to call this guy that we literally had not been able to get in contact with. Well we called him and he answered! And he literally said, man lets meet at the church at 8! I thought this was amazing so we tried calling a member to come with us. Well we found a member and called him back... and he cancelled. I was so bummed. But he rescheduled for the next day. And we actually didn't know where he lived because when we first met him he wasn't at his house. Guess what. He literally is on the corner of our area. Basically if he lived even across the street he would be out of our area. God is so good. So Sister Roach and I literally went out there and stood on his porch and talked to him for an hour and a half. He is the happiest guy I have ever met and he has gone through so many trials. Literally his girlfriend died in 9/11, his mom left him when he was young and he has been unemployed for years. But he is so happy. And when we asked him why he was so happy he told us that it was because of Jesus Christ. I am so excited to see how much he progresses. And his girlfriend is moving in with him this week, so we will have another lady to teach as well! MIRACLE!

This last week we had interviews with President Russell. I love that man. Interviews was so great and we were able to discuss a lot. The main question that I asked him was how I can be a better STL for the sisters in my zone. He talked about how as I work that the sisters in my zone will see my love for the work. He talked about as we love the Savior more then anything else that we will be able to work to the best of our abilities. Why wouldn't we love the Savior more then anything as we are doing his work? I love my Savior and I want to work my hardest. I realized that day interviewing with President Russell was the kick start of something that I needed. I hope that I can continue to help the sister in my zone to the best of my abilities.

This last week I was able to go on exchanges with lovely Sister Pfau. She is so so great. I love her a lot. She came out with me so we bond over that, but also she is just a calm soul who really loves doing the work. We went straight to work and did a lot of tracting. We were able to make the goal of finding 3 new investigator, passing out 5 Books of Mormons and talking to at least 30 people. Man we exceeded those goals by a lot! We did a lot of tracting, it felt so good. By the end of the night our feet hurt so bad and we were exhausted. One thing that Sister Gregory who always say was "you need to earn your pillow every night" and that night I really felt like I earned my pillow!

There were so many other miracles happening in Klamath Falls. I am so grateful to be serving here!!!!

I hope that you were all able to watch, well you know what I call it, The Super Bowl, but really General Conference. I loved literally every second of it, I laughed and I cried and of course I felt the spirit which is the most important thing. We were able to watch of course the woman's session the Saturday before, and then we were able to watch all of the other sessions at the church. We did go for the last session to a members house who was kind enough to feed us lunch as well as watch conference with us. One scripture that kept coming to my mind through out the entire conference is found in Doctrine & Covenants section 1 verse 38 and that reads:

38 What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same.

I know that as we watched conference this last weekend that it was our Heavenly Father sending us the information that we need in our lives right now to be able to accomplish all of the trials and duties that we have in this life. One of the talks that I absolutely loved and I want all of my investigators to read was Joaquin E Coasta, who talked about his conversation story to the gospel. I loved the 4 steps that he talked about that all investigators need to do. 

1. Meet with the Missionaries *cough* *cough* meaning ME! 

2. Go to Church, confusion is okay, just remember what you are feeling. 

3. Read the Book of Mormon. 

4. Repent and Change to be able to come to know Jesus Christ more.

I hope that I will be able to use this talk in my future to be able to help my investigators realize the importance of meeting with the missionaries. I am so grateful for the time that I have to be a missionary and to be able to hear from the apostles of God to be able to receive guidance in our lives. I hope that you all were able to watch an appreciate it, and if you didn't, go onto lds.org right now and get started!!

Thanks for everything that you all do for me. I am so grateful that I was able to email today and to be able to hear from everyone! I hope this next week is just so great for everyone! Don't forget about the things that we learned about in Conference and I hope that you can apply those things into your life. Love you all and miss you so much! Have a great week!

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

PS. Check out the Prince of Peace Video and let me know how you have been able to obtain peace through our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Prince of Peace

#PrinceofPeace

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

 Awkward part zone pictures at the bowling alley!

I WON AT BOWLING TODAY! I AM THE CHAMPION MY FRIENDS!

 The weather has been beautiful the last couple of days.

 Springtime is in the AIR!! The daffodils outside our apartment are blooming! It was so lovely.

 This magical thing happened, Klamath Falls has a Wingers! I about died.   I needed a sticky finger salad.  Members here are great!

 We took a Sisters picture after a session of General Conference! Sister Allen, Sister Roach, me, Sister Pfau, Sister Santa Maria and Sister Cortez. So Cute, I love these sisters!

 Exchanges call for a trip to Dairy Queen!

Went on exchanges with Sister Pfau and we found a bunch of goats while tracting. Literally I thought one of them was fake because it was just sitting on the rock and not moving, don't worry it was real.

2 exchanges in one week??? I GOT this ✔️

March 25, 2017

Hey fan club! This week is a weird week because I have the opportunity to email two times in one week, which seems weird but don't worry, its legal. We are going to the temple today so I hope that as I am typing that my words will be able to make a little bit of sense so I can tell you about the great week that we had here in Klamath Falls!

On Monday we were able to teach a lesson to a family in our ward here in Klamath. Their daughter is turning 8 this year and they want her to be able to receive the missionary discussions before she gets baptized so that she fully understands what it means to be baptized. I had never heard of that before but it has been really great to be able to teach them, it has helped Sister Roach and I practice our teaching skills with young children. Most of the time as a missionary we have been teaching adults, but I know that I need to be able to teach children, so it has been fun to be able to do that. The lesson went very well, we were able to talk about the Plan of Salvation. The kids really already know a lot obviously because they are members but there were still a couple of things that they were a little confused on so it was fun to try and teach them these things in a simple way that will help them understand what the Plan of Salvation means to them. Then we got to the kingdoms of glory and on my cut outs the celestial kingdom is obviously on a sun. So then they thought that we were all going to burn up on the sun... oops. So we then had to explain that we use the sun as a symbol showing that the celestial kingdom is better then the other kingdoms. So then it made me think about how many people I have taught think that we Mormons believe that we are going to live on the sun someday. Lol, you learn something new everyday, I will change the way that I teach that starting... now!

Then on Tuesday I was able to go on exchange with one of the Spanish sisters in our zone. Her name is Hermana Cortez and she is from El Salvador, she is the only member of the church in her family and she hadn't spoke any English until she came into the mission. Seriously crazy! She was able to talk to me about her conversion story and she talked about how her friends were members of the church and thats how she was interested in joining the church. Her parents have never been interested and actually are not supportive of her on a mission at this time. My heart ached for her as she told me her story. It made me really grateful for the family that I have and the support that everyone gives me. But even though she has all this going on her life, she is still out serving the Lord and she is doing the work that she should be doing. Anyway, the exchange was so good, she has been having a really hard time learning English, so I was able to pull out some Spanish to be able to communicate with her. We had a good time. Every time we went to walk up to a house she would ask if the people inside spoke Spanish and I would say, probably not. She told me that she just wanted to find a Spanish investigator and guess what, the first door we knocked on was a lady who spoke Spanish and guess what, she became a new investigator. What the what? MIRACLE! So we were able to then have a competition with each other to see who could find the most new investigators, well it ended up being 2 english and 1 Spanish! I won, no worries (:

We had an awesome lesson with this little boy this week. His mom is a less active and he has been coming to church every week. We have been trying to decide what we are going to do to help him progress, but anyway. We had a lesson about missionary work, and he was asking a bunch of questions on what we do as missionaries and what we do everyday. Anyway it was a great lesson and when we asked him if he wanted to serve a mission someday and he got up and started to do a happy dance! It was so so so cute! He talked about how his mom is going to let him get baptized when he turns 12, and he was just so excited! I hope that as we keep teaching him that we will be able to help him be baptized earlier then that, but we will see! Also we told us what his favorite song was, What does the Fox Say, and I got him to sing us a little bit, it was hilarious!

To end the week we were able to have a lesson with some of my favorite people ever. There is a couple that we have been teaching for a little bit but we haven't been able to get them to keep commitments lately. In district meeting this week we talked a lot about How to Begin Teaching and how we need to state our purpose when we begin to teach people. My purpose, "is to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end." A lot of the times as we teach people if we don't state our purpose enough as missionaries, the people who we were once teaching are now just becoming our friends. And that is something that I was worried about these investigators. I was scared that they weren't going to be able to progress because they were keeping the commitments/invitations that we were leaving them. Well they invited us over for dinner the other night, and they are from Mexico so they make fabulous Mexican Food. We were able to have such a fabulous conversation with them that we were able to talk about what we as missionaries are doing to help the world that is continually making wrong choices. In the end they told us that they want us to continue to come to be able to help them to come closer to Christ! Thank goodness, I wasn't ready to drop them yet! 

This year for the Easter Initiative the Church will be releasing a video entitled the Prince of Peace. During the week of Easter the church will be focusing on 8 principles of peace that we can use in our own lives that we can use in order to find the peace through the Savior that we desire. I have decided that leading up to Easter that I want to study each one of the principles that they are focusing on and be able to for myself find peace through these principles. This week I decided that I wanted to focus on gratitude. A couple of months into my mission I was facing some hard trials, I found myself needing some positive light and needing to focus especially on my Savior. I decided as I was writing down in my journal to write a list of the things that I was grateful for in this life. As I did that I was able to recognize many things that maybe I hadn't thought of before. And I truly felt the love that my Heavenly Father had for me in those moments. In April 2014 President Uchtdorf gave a talk entitled Gratitude in every circumstance, I invite you ALL to read it. He says, "True, it is important to frequently “count our blessings”--and anyone who has tried this knows there are many--but I don’t believe the Lord expects us to be less thankful in times of trial than in times of abundance and ease. In fact, most of the scriptural references do not speak of gratitude for things but rather suggest an overall spirit or attitude of gratitude." I know that as we have an overall attitude of gratitude that we will be able to completely have a sense of peace in our life that will bring us more happiness. I invite all of you this week to be able to show your attitude of gratitude to the people around you and I know that as you do that you will be able to have the peace that only Christ can give into your life.

So this week was a short one but, you know that it was a good one! I am so grateful that I was able to go to the temple today to be able to feel at home! The spirit is so strong at the temple and I know that was we continue to go there that we will be able to understand more who we are and why we are here. Our Heavenly Father loves us so much and just wants us to return to him, so go to the temple so you can know how!

I love you all, seriously, so much love! I hope that you have a fabulous week, and just remember I will not be writing an email on Monday, so sorry for the inconvenience. But if you email me on Monday, April 3rd, I will answer! And while your at it don't forget to watch conference this weekend, #soexcited!

Talk to you later!

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

 I wanted to get a zone picture... but we were the last ones out of the temple and people already left, so we go a part of a zone picture :)

 The sun came out for some beautiful pictures!

 There is springtime in my soul today!

 Sister Clements drove us to the Temple, she is basically the best. We <3 <3 <3 her

Because we were in Medford, we had to stopby and get some InNOut  #whoneedsadietanyway #NOregrets

ER Visits & Leprechauns 🍀

March 20, 2017

Hey Fan Club! I hope all of your weeks have just been fabulous, I always have so much fun reading all of your emails and I am so grateful for all of the loved and support that you show to me each week.

This week has been interesting for the least amount of words to use, but don't worry, I will give you the highlights!

I got a new companion this week! Her name is Sister Kristin Roach. She is from Danville, Virginia! She is the youngest in her family, she went to BYU Idaho before she came out on his mission. She is very Sassy. She is always making jokes about something. She is taller than Sister Gregory but she is still short. She goes home in August! I am excited to be able to see what things we can accomplish this transfer together (:

This week has been a lot of introducing Sister Roach to the area. It has been pretty productive. We did a lot of walking because some how our miles for this month are a little low, but walking is better for us anyway. It has been raining a lot here in Klamath Falls, but how could you expect anything else in Oregon! But I have learned that I love going out tracting in the rain. I think when it is raining outside that people suddenly start feeling bad for you and invite you in to talk a little more, mainly just so you can dry off, but usually that means that we can share a short message about the gospel as well. So you know, it works in our favor.

This week we had a cool experience at a less active members house. But at first it was weird. We called her to set up a time where we could come over and share a message, and she was like, sure why don't we meet at Dairy Queen and I will buy you dinner! Sister Roach andI got excited because we didn't have a dinner for the next day. So we set up a time and hung up a phone and then realized that the next day was Sunday... oops. We like signed up our less active to break the Sabbath Day. So then we called her back and decided to just go to her house and share a message instead of having dinner with her. So we went over there and it was actually a great time. We found out that she has been a member for like 20 years, and her roommate has been for 2 years, but her other roommate isn't a member. The conversation kind of turned into talking about General Conference. And the non member didn't know that we believed that there was a prophet on the earth today, so we started talking about what prophets do and how they can help up on the earth today. And eventually we were able to share a message with him, and we shared Thomas S Monson's testimony of Jesus Christ. We asked him if we could come back and share more and he agreed! We are super excited to start teaching him, and it all came from almost have a dinner at Dairy Queen on Sunday.

Alright, so I did go to the ER this week, I am not even sure that my parents know that.... so sorry. Anyway, we were doing some service on Friday and I was helping to push some table out of the way, and the table ended up calapsing. My thumb went backwards and it started to swell up. Well we called the mission nurse once we were out of service and she told us to go to the ER. After a hour and a half in the ER, an X-RAY and 4 different nurses. They decided that I hyper extended my thumb and that it sprained. So they gave me a brace and sent me on my way. I have been doing fine, it just hurts if I pick things up with that hand, so my right arm is getting a big work out for now. But it is getting better and they said that if it isn't better by Friday that I should go to another doctor, but I think that I will be fine. We got a call from President the other day and I said "Hey President, how is your day going?" And he said, "Well a lot better then Sister Harrison's thumb, haha" President Russell, funny man always making jokes! But all in all I am doing great 🏼 

This week I just wanted to share a thought that I had this week while I was studying. I was thinking about the repentance process a lot this week, and I think sometimes when we are thinking about repentance, we think about changing all of the big and bad things that we are doing. But one thing that I was thinking about is that with repentance we also change the things that we are doing good to things that we are doing better. It reminded me of the talk entitled Good, Better, Best, by Dallin H Oaks. And I just wanted to share one quote from this talk, and it says, "We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families." I am so grateful for the repentance process that we can take into our lives. I am grateful for the opportunity that we have to change the maybe good things that we are doing to be better and best. Sometimes when we look at these things we need to remember to start with the little things first, in Alma 37:6, we read, "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass". And I know that as we change things small and simple things that in the end we will grow our faith in Jesus Christ and be able to return back to our Heavenly Father again some day. I invite you all to change those little things in your life!

Well you have made it to the end of my weekly accountings Fan Club, just so everyone knows my next Pday will be this Saturday because I will be on the way to the temple this week. I am so so so excited, I need the temple in my life. So if you want to hear from me, email me on Friday and Saturday!

Love you all, have a fabulous week (:

PS Don't forget to watch the Women's Broadcast this Saturday!! #themissionarysuperbowlbegins

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

 Monday was FREE CONE day at Dairy Queen!

 Exchanges = Ice Cream

 Sister Cortez and I on exchanges.

I curled Sister Roach's hair the other day #Imarealgoodcompanion

 Me in my brace, don't worry, I'm FINE!

 We decided to celebrate St Patties Day by drinking Shamrock Shakes from McDonalds!

 Sister Roach and I

I spent some time in the ER this week