Sister Bailey Anne Harrison: This is HAZELS NUTS!!! 🥜

August 28, 2017

Hey Fan Club! Just another email from your favorite Sister Missionary here on the Oregon Coast! Today was transfer day, but I stayed in North Bend for another 6 weeks and I couldn't be more excited about that. I know the Lord has a lot prepared for my companion and I here in Oregon and as we go forward with Faith and Trust I know that we will be able to accomplish many many things!

Speaking of my new companion, her name is Sister Huang! She is from China and has been out on her mission for about a year now. She actually came out in the same group as Sister Heaton but Sister Huang had to go to the MTC for 2 months to learn English so she has been out for a little bit longer then normal. She is a convert to the church, I haven't heard the full story yet but I am excited to get to know her more. Her English is really good compared to what I thought it was going to be like. There have been a few words I had to teach but honestly nothing major! The first thing she asked was if we could go to the beach today, haha. Also we gave her a treat today, we gave her a first washing a car by hand experience. In China they don't have cars, so it was a big deal to even just wash a car by hand today. She is so cute and I cant wait to be able to experience so many new things with her this transfer! This week the departing missionaries were able to give their end testimonies, and it was a really powerful experience. But something really stood out to me and Sister Lunt said something about how her only regret was that she never loved her companions that she hated. I am grateful that I have loved all of my mission companions and I feel like I have a special connection with all of them. So love your companions. ALWAYS.

So it has been a good week here in Oregon. Today we are suffering from a lot of smoke in the air. I am not really sure where the closest fire is but I know that the one in Brookings is the biggest one in the nation right now, so pray for Brookings!

So some craziness happening in the zone this transfer, literally there are going to be 7 brand new missionaries in our zone. Even the Zone Leader is training a BRAND NEW missionary. The mission this transfer has 30 missionaries coming in and we are getting 7 of them in the Coos Bay Zone. It is going to be so much fun working with all of these brand new greenies! And it will be a little crazy during roles plays and New Missionary Training BUT so the adventure goes on. After this transfer 1/3 of our Mission here in the OEM is going to be new missionaries, CRAZY! Basically it is Hazels Nuts! So many miracles in the making here on the coast!

This week Sister Lunt (my companion who just this week went home) was able to go on a departing temple trip with my Mission President and his wife and all the missionaries going home. They went to the Portland temple. So on Tuesday we got to drive up to Eugene and stay the night with some sisters up there and then Sister Lunt and a sister from the other companionship went to the temple the next morning. While Sister Banner and I got to spend the day doing missionary work in her area. It was so much fun. She is a brand new missionary out for 6 weeks and I feel like she was teaching me the entire time. I decided to adopt her as my own and we did some great work. We were able to do a lot of tracting and quite a bit of teaching. Altogether we passed out 5 copies of the Book of Mormon and found 3 new investigators. IT WAS EPIC. This one man at the end, I can not for the life of me remember his name, but his mom is a active member of the church in Idaho and has always tried to share the gospel with him. But he said that he was never in the right place to accept it. Well recently his girlfriend left him with 2 young kids and he is really trying to raise them in a stable home and so he has been trying to come closer to God, and then we knocked on his door. God is preparing so many people everywhere, we just have to be brave enough and work hard enough to go and find them!

A random miracle from this week. Sister Lunt and I were talking about how we should ask in a family in the ward could invite one of our investigators over to dinner sometime so they could help fellowship them. Well on Saturday this family fed us and guess who else was at dinner... out investigator! How does that even happen? Grateful for awesome members!

This week in sacrament meeting the speakers had the opportunity to speak on Charity. Charity is something that I have studied a lot on my mission but the phrase "Perfect love case the out fear" struck a different cord to me then normal. Charity is the pure love of Christ, and Christ is the only perfect person that ever walked this earth. So Charity is that perfect love that we are all striving to have. But when we have that perfect love we will not have fear. I will not be fearful to knock another door, or you may not be fearful to share the gospel with your neighbor who just moved in down the street. We are told to Love One Another as Jesus Loved You. Christ loved everyone and as we strive to gain his perfect love I know that the fears that are in our lives will disappear and that we will be able to grow a stronger and closer connection to many of those people around us!

1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Alright, well you all made it through another weekly email of yours truly. I hope that you all have a great week this coming week and that you WORK HARD! LOVE YOU!

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison

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