Opening her "Conference" Box

No pictures this week, they were too BUSY! Which is awesome :) But, here is a cute video she sent that she made when they came home from the Saturday morning session of conference. Can't help love, love, loving this cute sister missionary <3

Why does the Super Bowl have to end? 🏈

Hey Friend and Family! It has been a good week here on the Oregon coast, hope you all were able to tune into conference this week, and if you didn't, don't worry you can go repent right now and tune into lds.org! Well we were also able to do a lot of great missionary work this week, the work still goes forward! So here we go....

This week Sister Huang and I have been doing a lot of walking, not because we were out of miles but because it was just too beautiful to drive! It was funny because all of the other missionaries were out of miles... so we all had a lot of car fasts this week. But it is just so funny to me that in middle school I hated running the mile, and had such a hard time running it in 12 minutes! But now, some how, I can walk 4 miles in a matter of an Hour. How is this possible? Because God makes all things possible, haha! 

This week we had the opportunity to go down to Bandon this week for District Meeting and to do New Missionary Training. It has been really cool to see how much these missionaries change over just a short period of time. I mean they have only been here for like 6 weeks and they are already doing it! And I am learning from them every time. This week we had a couple of really good raps that people made up in order to help them memorize some of their things. If you want to see the videos let me know! District Meeting was really good, it was a discussion set up which is always my favorite. I think I learn more when I hear from experiences that other missionaries are having rather then just going over the bullet points. I am also so grateful for the spirit as it guides the different discussions that we have, seriously the spirit is so important!

Sister Huang and I had a cool experience this week, it was Book of Mormon week in our Zone. So basically we invited the whole zone to focus on teaching people about the Book of Mormon and to try and invite everyone to read it. We were walking down the street and I saw this lady across the street, I had a really strong impression that we needed to talk to her, but she was across a very busy road at the time. I said a prayer and kept walking, in the prayer I basically said, okay Heavenly Father, I will talk to her if she gets on this side of the road some how. A little bit further down the road I heard some one literally right behind us. I turned around and it was her! Apparently this girls name is Cheyanne and she is so awesome! She is going through a really hard time right now in her life and she said that she is really trying to rebuild her relationship with Christ. We basically taught her the whole Restoration on the side of the road and invited her to read the Book of Mormon, the spirit was so strong and she even got a little teary eyed! I am grateful that we had the spirit in that moment, because I know Cheyanne needed that message, we are meeting with her again next week!

I think the spirit was in all of our finding experiences this week, one day Sister Huang and I were tracting and it was about 7:30 at night. We talked to a lady and she informed us that most of the street goes to bed pretty early so that we wouldn't have much success. I turn to Sister Huang and was about to say, why don't we come back a different day and she said "lets go down this street!" Oh okay, lets follow my companion I guess. Suddenly I am talking to this guy who was chopping some wood, yes he had an ax in hand, but you know seemed safe enough! He starts telling us about what he believes and says that he is searching for a church to take his girls to. Wow. Thanks for following the spirit companion! We will be teaching him this next week! Again, so grateful.

We had the opportunity to have an investigator watch conference this weekend and it was cool to be able to see the spirit work with her. Even though she isn't baptized and doesn't have the spirit with her always, she received answers to her prayers by watching conference that day. I am so grateful for that, I am grateful that Heavenly Father knows me and my investigators personally. And he also knows you personally, so don't forget that!

The last finding experience was kinda funny. We felt prompted to go and talk to this former investigator. Well, the former investigator had moved and we talked to this other man, but as we talked he was acting a little weird and I thought maybe he was on some type of drug. But he kept talking to us and he was really nice and even accepted a Book of Mormon and told us that he was excited to read it! Well as we got back to the car I looked over to Sister Huang and I said, you know I think he was on drugs. She was like, I don't know if he was on drugs but he was definitely drinking a lot of wine! I didn't even notice that part haha, so next time we go talk to the wine guy, we will have a woman on our side (:

Last Pday we spent all of Pday trying to get all of Sister Huangs pictures off of her tablet, well it took all day and we still didn't finish! We were going to finish it today but then we were talking to a member about it and she told us that she would do it for us, oh how I love members! So now instead of spending all Pday taking pictures off of a tablet, we get to go to Bandon for the day with a member who offered to take us! #sacrificebringsblessings

Well as all of you know it was General Conference weekend! We had a lot of investigators tune in this conference to be able to learn and feel of the spirit. It was a very humbling experience because I was also able to receive a lot of answers to my own questions in my life. The reason I call Conference Super Bowl weekend is because it is probably the weekend I look forward to the most! This year I was pretty sad at the end of the last session of conference that we were not able to hear form our dear prophet. I think this is the first conference in my life that I wasn't about to hear from him. I remember being little and my parents gathering us saying, okay okay sit down for just a few minutes to hear the prophet speak. And I always thought that was so important. As I was thinking about this so many thoughts popped into my head, and as I thought about it we heard a lot from our prophet this weekend, because he was mentioned in almost every single talk! If it was quotes that he had said in the past, one of his favorite scriptures (including Proverbs 3:5-6) or even many of them talked about his challenge issued last conference! HE WAS THERE! I am grateful that we have a living day prophet on the Earth today, I know that even though he wasn't there this weekend that he was there in spirit, and that he still leads and guides this church! I love this church and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of all of this.

Well thanks for tuning into another week from Sister Harrison, sorry there are no pictures from this week. We were lame and realized last night that we had no photos! Maybe I will try to send some pictures of us at Bandon today (: Love you all and I hope that you have a great week!!!!

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison ️