Hey
Fan Club! It has been another crazy busy week here in the field!
Literally Sister Huang and I keep saying to each other "We have not had a
minute to catch our breathes!" Or so it seems anyway haha. Everyday
this week came with another adventure and more miracles then I could've
imagined. I am grateful that I was able to see Gods hand in our work
this week! Also, to those of you just joining my weekly email, welcome! I
finally put together my weekly email list, let me know if you would
like to stay on or not, I will not be offended if you ask to be taken
off! So if you haven't heard from me in over a year, it is because I
have been very late in the bandwagon getting a list together, I am alive
and doing fantastic in the land of Oregon!
On
Monday we went on a really cool hike here in a near by area. It is
called Gold and Silver Falls, although I think I am going to need to
come back another time and experience it again because most of what I
saw on Monday was smoke and trees haha but the falls were still
beautiful. A family from the Coos Bay ward took us up there then took us
to their cabin that they have up there as well and we had the
opportunity to eat lunch with them. As they were talking they mentioned
their daughter is serving a mission in Argentina, I believe, and they
show us pictures! Low and behold I recognized their daughter, she was in
my YSA ward in Ogden! This is seriously such a small world, especially
in the church! Shout out to the amazing Mathias family for giving us a
fun Pday last week!
This
week Sister Huang and I got a new car, super epic. But we had to drive
all the way to Eugene for this new car, wait and then come home.
Altogether it took 9 hours, it was NUTS! We just hung out in the mission
office while we waited, we were going to go and do work on campus or
something but the air was so bad in Eugene they had it so no
missionaries were even allowed to leave their apartments unless they
were going to a lesson. So we just helped out where we could. We are now
driving a nice Red Toyota Corolla. I thought red was going to be so
awesome, but apparently it shows water spots more then the normal car
haha, oops! It was fun while it lasted. But on the way home we talked
about how we hadn't been able to do any work in our area and how we just
needed to get to work. Right as we were pulling into town we got a call
from a less active in the area who wants to get her kiddos involved in
the youth program and that she wanted to sit and talk to us! WOW!
Blessings upon Blessings!
I
was able to go on 2 exchanges this week with Sisters in the Zone. It
was a lot of fun and we saw many miracles as we went out and talked to
people in our area. One of the sisters has been struggling with
homesickness so it was nice getting to know her more and being able to
find a way that me and my companion can help her as she is striving to
get over this trial. We read the talk The First Great Commandment
together by Elder Holland, I am pretty sure I have written about this
talk in my weekly emails before but I again invite all of you to read
it. So good. When we realize we are serving others because we love the
Savior I know that it helps and that it gives us strength. I am grateful
I have the opportunity to go out with these Sisters, I really think
that I learn more from them then they will ever learn from me!
This
week in our area Sister Huang and I were able to find 8 NEW
INVESTIGATORS! All through tracting efforts. It is really funny to see
the different people behind all the doors that we knocked on, but we
were happy to be able to see the miracles that came from tracting this
week!
We
had an AMAZING lesson with Vanessa this week. For those of you who are
just barely tuning into the weekly updates of Sister Harrison, Vanessa
is one of our investigators right now who is really trying to find help.
Things aren't going right for her in any shape or form at this point
and she is just trying to find something that can give her a good
foundation. One of her friends is a member of the church and introduced
us. Well this week we had our first real lesson with her. We brought our
relief society president and she is amazing might I add. Vanessa has a 3
year old son who is literally all over the place, and Sister Blackwell
was able to contain him long enough for us to teach her the restoration.
The spirit was so strong and when we asked her who Jesus Christ was to
her she told us that he is her Savior, that she knows that he is there
and that he loves her. And that she knew that He sent us to her. Man.
This lady though. We finished teaching her and invited her to read the
Book of Mormon, and then felt prompted to also invite her to be baptized
October 21st!
And she accepted! WOO HOO! She knows this is the foundation she needs
and is even talking about moving up her date, miracles upon miracles
people!
This
week I taught Sister Huang the art of knock knock jokes. I tried to
think of a good one... but the mission veil is a real thing and I could
not think of any jokes, so please send me some! I did the banana 
and orange 
one haha but she didn't really understand! Then she thought she was getting the hang of it so she made her own:
Sister Huang: Knock knock
Sister Harrison: Whose there?
Sister Huang: Sister Huang
Sister Harrison: Sister Huang who?
Sister Huang: Missionary!
Haha, we have some work to do!
We
had a really cool opportunity this week to take part in Make a
Difference Day this week in the Coos Bay Stake. Every year they chose
one ward in the stake and that ward works with the community and plans a
service day for the whole stake to come and take part in. On Saturday
we got to go and help in the City of Coquille. They had a lot of
different projects planned like painting and sewing, but what did the
missionaries get in charge of? Moving branches and trees haha. Of
course. But you know when you want a job done, call the missionaries. We
were able to have all 20 missionaries, including our senior couple, out
helping this community. And let me tell you, all of us were feeling it
the next day! We made probably 8 huge burn piles for the city to burn!
They would come and cut down a tree and cut it into pieces, then we
would come in and move it. By the end I think we all wanted a nap and a
shower! Then we were able to have a lunch that was provided. I love
being able to go and do service for the communities in which we are
serving in, makes you just feel too good!
In
church yesterday a Sister gave a talk on the talk entitled "Trust in
the Lord and Lean Not" by Sister Cordon this last April Conference. It
all goes along with one of my favorite scriptures, Proverbs 3:5-6,
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths.” She then talked about how in the English language when we talk
about leaning it usually means that we physically move towards one side.
So in a way we are off center, but when we are off center in a
spiritual sense that means that we are leaning away from the Savior. In
our lives we need to strive to be centered spiritually, to rely on the
Savior and not lean away from him spiritually. I know that as we trust
in him and lean not in our own understanding that he will direct our
paths. I am so grateful for this scripture and this talk. Go read it for
yourself!
This
next week in the OEM we are going to be having a visiting 70 here, and
we are all pretty excited about that. So I am sure I will have a lot to
talk about next week because Sister Huang and I get to go to 2 meetings
with him, EPIC! But thanks for tuning in to another Sister Harrison
Special! I am grateful for all of you and hope that you have a great and
safe week! Love ya!
---Remember who you are and who God EXPECTS you to become---
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison 
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Sister Huang and I, I think this one is Silver Falls... but I could be wrong!
Our whole zone after the Make a Difference Day!!
A
member gave us "Mormon Pears" literally like 25 of them. So many pears.
Apparently they are from the pear orchard in Medford that the Church
owns, hence Mormon Pears!
A bunch of missionaries got together for lunch the other day after District Meeting!
Oh and I found a rock #happyday!
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