Sister Bailey Anne Harrison: Just another week in the Falls! 💦

May 15, 2017

Hey lovely fan club! It has been a great week here in the Klamath Falls area of Oregon! We are continuing to work hard and to find more people to teach. I feel like I don't have a lot to write about since I just Skyped home yesterday... and had Pday on Wednesday. But we will write and see what comes to mind!

Skyping home was a lot of fun. It was good to see everyone on Mothers Day. After a lot of technical difficulties we finally were able to both see and hear each other, lol. I thought at first that about 20 minutes with each part of my family was NOT going to be enough time. But then it just seemed like the perfect amount. Especially after we had dinner with a family last night and she told us that when her son was on his mission that they only got 3 minutes per family member, she said that only gave him 18 minutes to talk! So suddenly I am very grateful for the time that we were able to talk, even if it seemed short!

Last Wednesday as a Zone for Pday we were able to play some ultimate Frisbee. It was a lot of fun, Sister Roach and I went even though we didn't really want to. But it ended up being a blast. Although, no one really thought about putting sunscreen on. So for the rest of the week the zone resembled Lobsters. And no one really drank a lot of water, so we also we were all exhausted and had headaches. Mistakes were made and we are all going to learn from those mistakes next week when we go to the Lava Beds.

When we were at correlation this week with Brother Teeples he was telling us about how much the ward appreciated the work that we are doing. Every week we have been going out with members to try and contact Less Active members. And every time we make contact with these people they have been counting it as Visiting or Home Teaching. Well our ward on a good month usually gets like 30% of their home teaching done. The month of April they were able to read a little above 50%! I thought that was great, I am not sure why we are the ones that have to help them reach that point, but I am glad that we are making a difference and helping to strengthen the ward in which we serve.

The other day while Sister Roach and I were tracting we accidentally tracted into a Less Actives house. She opened the door then walked away, which we thought was weird, apparently she was spraying her dogs so they wouldn't attack us. But eventually she let us in, and us coming by was an answer to her prayer. Her son has some disabilities so it makes it very difficult for them to come to church. But she had been having a rough day and when we knocked on the door she knew it was an answer. We told her a short message and left. But it just showed me that God truly knows us personally and it willing to answer any questions or concerns that we may have. We just have to have Faith.

In Oregon, there are a lot of dogs and cats. So much to a point where it makes me think that I never want to own a dog ever in my life. It is kind of sad, but you know after you have been chased by 4 dogs in one day, you are kind of done. But the other day we had something cool happen! We were walking up to a house and suddenly 2 little kittens popped out of NO where! It was amazing. Usually we just see full grown dogs and cats, but you know, if puppies and kittens start chasing us, I wouldn't be mad.

We were able to do quite a bit of tracting this week to be able to find new investigators. And there was only one interesting experience that we had really. Luckily most people are kind and just say they aren't interested. Well the other day this guy told us that our views and our beliefs were different then his. And whenever people say that I just ask them what they believe. Well he started to explain to me Darwinism and how things were created. It was interesting, until he got to the point where we started to talk about how Jesus was just a normal guy with good morals. Then Sister Roach and I just looked at each other and thought "man this guy needs the gospel." But alias he was not interested, maybe one day his seed will grow.

We had a return appointment with this awesome person that we met this last week. She grew up in a foster family who was LDS and actually went to church quite a bit with them when she was growing up, then when she was living in Portland she lived next door to some Elders and she would always talk to them. Basically she is GOLDEN. I was sorta nervous to go back because I was pretty sure she was YSA age, and that we would have to give her to the YSA missionaries. But we went and she started to talk about how she forgot about the appointment, that her pregnant brain gets the best of her sometimes. BECAUSE SHE IS PREGNANT SHE IS NOT YSA. Miracle. We rescheduled for this week and she is excited to meet with us!

We are struggling a little bit with our people on date, so if you could all pray for John and Tyanne, that would be FABULOUS!

Something so amazing happened last night, so after we called home and went to dinner, we only had about an hour to do some tracting/contacting. We didn't find much success and so I was a little disappointed. BUT then as we were pulling into our we got a call from some Elders in our Zone who had a referral for us! They have a person on date, a little girl, and currently they are teaching the whole family and the family is going to be moving into our Ward! Epic! So the little girl is on date, and we will be working with the mom and dad. It will be awesome. THEN as we were about to get into bed we got a call from the Spanish Elders in the zone and they had a referral for us! It is a girl and her fiancé who is trying to find a church in the area to go to! Again, EPIC! We will be meeting with them tonight.

Well fan club, the only other news for the week is that Sister Roach and I will be on foot all week. So please pray for us, lol. Some sisters in the zone, who live like 2 hours east from us, hit a deer about a month ago. So they currently have our car, and we took their car to the shop this morning. I am telling you one thing, if my calves do not look good after this week, I think that there will be no hope for them!

This morning we had a conference call with President Russell, and he brought up an interesting question that I want all of you to think about for yourself. He asked the missionaries of our mission to write down on a piece of paper approximately how much time during a weeks period of time that we spend thinking about the Savior. Not how long you go out and talk about the Savior, not how long you read about him, but honestly how much time you sit and just think about him. I thought this was an interesting question because I think a lot of us, even us as missionaries, can find that our number is lower then we expect, if we are being honest with ourselves. While I was taking into consideration I thought of the scripture 2 Nephi 25:26 which reads, "26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."

I want you to invite you this week to think more about your Savior, he has done so much for us and he continues to do so much for us. We believe in the living Christ, the one who can help us through all of our trials and heartache. I know that as we strive to remember the Savior more through out our daily lives that we will be able to find more happiness and joy!

Well fan club, thanks for reading yet another update in the life of Sister Harrison. I hope that you all have a great week and that you WORK HARD! And don't forget next week that my Pday will be on Tuesday, but I won't have hardly any time to respond. But I would love to hear from you. HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison