It’s FINALLY the time of the year that I won’t get in trouble for listening to my FAVORITE music 🎄🎄🎄

11/27/2017

Hello Fan Club! It has been a wonderful week here in Sutherlin and I
am loving it, I am happy to be back here in the Burg!

So a little bit about my new companion, she is awesome by the way. Her
name is Sister Nielsen, she is from Las Vegas, Nevada and her favorite
thing to tell people is yes there are Mormons in Las Vegas, they even
have a temple, haha. She has been out on her mission for 6 full weeks
so I am here to help her finish her training. She is a HUGE Harry
Potter fan, loves Astronomy and has Latina in her blood so we both
love Mexican Food, win win! She is super fantastic and I know there
are going to be some fun adventures from this transfer.

So a little bit more about my area, I am serving in Sutherlin, Oregon!
It is about 13 miles north of Roseburg but it is still in the Roseburg
Stake. It is a small town, probably about 8,000 people. It is really
cute and the members that I have met so far are super great and I love
them already. The funny thing that Sister Nielsen always laughs about
is that the biggest news that ever happened in Sutherlin was the
opening of a Dollar General and a Dollar Store, and people to this day
still talk about it. But I love small towns so I am pretty sure that
we will get long very nicely (:

This week has been a lot of getting to know the area and seeing where
we are at with out teaching pool. It was a little bit hard with trying
to have lessons and such because of Thanksgiving a lot of people were
out of town so hopefully this next week we will be able to find more
success!

Speaking of Thanksgiving, we were treated very well, more like spoiled
in the food department, but we aren’t about to complain. We were able
to serve a Thanksgiving dinner at the Soup Kitchen here in town the
night before and that was a pretty neat experience. It was cool to see
all of the people that came out to serve the dinner but then it was
also good to know that you were helping so many people and they were
so grateful for the service. This one older gentleman even pulled out
his harmonica and played a couple of songs for us, it was awesome!
Then on actual Thanksgiving Day we were able to serve dinner to people
at our church! The Ward got a dinner together for the people that
wouldn’t normally have anyone to eat with so they were able to eat
with their ward family. it was super nice and so fun to see the love
that is here in this ward. So we ate there and then we had another
dinner that night with the Wolfe family! It was so good, and by the
end of the night Sister Nielsen and I had to be rolled out of that
house to come home for the night, haha! So we had a lot of things to
be grateful for that day! Grateful for a ward that takes good care of
their missionaries ♥️

We did get in contact with one of our investigators named Ken. He is a
pretty cool guy, he was actually a referral from someone in the good
old Melrose ward when it was still around! We tried all week to try
and find a member for Kens lesson since he is a male and we need a
female to teach him, and everyone we tried to ask was busy or out of
town (it was kinda hard since it was my first week, I was not much
help). So we ended up just stopping by and following up with him, last
lesson they invited him to live the Word of Wisdom! Well he has been
doing a great job, is certainly progressing and has been making
improvements but still could do better. We read with him Mosiah 2:41,
one of my favorite scriptures, and talked about how if he follows the
commandments of God that way day he can experience never-ending
happiness. He got a huge smile on his face and said that since he has
been meeting with the sisters that he has felt a lot of happiness, we
testified that he would be able to feel even more when he is living
the commandments fully and is face was in a sort of shock and said,
“well I better get to it!” What a funny man haha! I am excited to meet
with him again!

The other day we were trying to go and contact one of our
investigators but they weren’t home and Sister Nielsen had a feeling
to go and contact a Less Active, well we got there and found out that
the person had moved away but sine we were there we decided that we
should tract the street. We were then able to find this lady named
Heather who has never had religion in her life and she is expecting a
baby in a couple of months! she was is so prepared and instantly
accepted a Book of Mormon and said that we could come back tomorrow!
We are grateful for the inspiration that the spirit gives us every
day!

This week for training Sister Nielsen had to memorize the last 2
paragraphs in the Introduction to the Book of Mormon. One of my
favorite things that I have memorized, it says:
“We invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in
their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal
Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue
this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and
divinity by the power of the Holy Ghost. (See Moroni 10:3–5.)
Those who gain this divine witness from the Holy Spirit will also come
to know by the same power that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the
world, that Joseph Smith is His revelator and prophet in these last
days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the
Lord’s kingdom once again established on the earth, preparatory to the
Second Coming of the Messiah.”
The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. As we come to know
that the Book of Mormon is true we gain a testimony of so many
different things, and all that we need to do is have faith and pray to
our loving Heavenly Father. He loves us and he is willing to give us
answers to our prayers, all we have to do is ask! The Book of Mormon
is my favorite thing to share with people as we are out talking. The
other night we had a really cool experience during a dinner message,
we were sharing the Book of Mormon and invited the members to share a
copy with their friend, instantly they both knew exactly who needed
it. I love the Book of Mormon and I am so grateful for the spirit that
comes when we are sharing it with those that we love!

As you all know the Light the World video came out!! Woohoo! I am so
excited to be able to for another year to be able to Light the World!
#LighttheBurg

Thanks for all the love and support Friends and Family! Hope you all
have a wonderful week! WORK HARD

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

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison ❤️

 Us at the Church Thanksgiving Dinner 🦃🦃🦃

 Thinking of Grandma Hurst 💕

 I ♥️ The Book of Mormon

 I ♥️ The Book of Mormon

 Have a great week!!!

The Lost Raincoat 🌧

11/13/2017

You know it is going to be a great week when on Monday your companion loses her rain coat and this is the forecast for the whole week:

 

2 days had gone by and luckily we had a lot of lessons and then finally we were going to be going out in the rain for awhile and we had to find her raincoat, and it was NO WHERE to be found. Well we then realized we hadn’t prayed about it (I know, one of those cliche stories). So we prayed and still nothing. We were convinced that someone else who probably needed more had taken it. Then on Saturday night during the ward party we walked passed the Library in the Church only to find her coat, I have never heard so much happiness in a scream, prayers were answered this week people!

This week Sister Orr and I had an investigator message us about Salvation, and if we considered ourselves to be saved, on Facebook. Well after reading a talk from Elder Oaks in the April 1998 conference we found out there are 6 different definitions for salvation. So if any of you are interested you should check it out! But mine and Sister Orrs question was answered while we were at Zone Conference when President Cropper in the Mission Presidency got up and said, “Are you saved? Have you ever been asked that before?” Thank goodness for yet another answer to our prayer!

This week we were serving a lot of the missionaries in our zone because a lot of them were going through some stressful things. When we finally started getting to work we got a call from a Less Active that we visited the first week that Sister Orr was here! Well she was telling us that her grandson asked his mom if he could be baptized and she said that he could! Wow, blessings on blessings. This boys name is Evin and he has decided for his date to be December 31st! He is a young boy so we are excited to be able to teach him and get him involved in scouting. Seriously, so many blessings this week!

We had Zone Conference this week in Roseburg, I LOVE ROSEBURG. It was so good to be back in my stomping grounds, and when I thought about it I realized that it was a year ago to the day that I was there that I left! Time goes by so quickly! The meeting was spectacular! They taught us about the Online Proselyting changes that are happening in our mission, we talked about the Book of Mormon, increasing our service this holiday season and we even talked about keys to conversion. It was a wonderful meeting and I got to see some familiar faces during lunch and we stopped by and saw Sister Harker after the meeting, it was a wonderful day to be in Roseburg (:

I went on exchanges this week with Sister McArthur who is currently serving in Brookings! We had such a good time and we taught an amazing lesson to this lady Barbara. We found Barbara the week before so it was a first lesson with her. As we were getting to know her and her background a little bit we found out that her husband has been baptized in our church and that he hasn’t been to church in a long time. So then when he came in the room we were able to get his information as well! Super cool. Well we taught Barbara the Restoration and she had already read a big part of the Book of Mormon. We were able to have a good talk and at the end we were asking her how she has received answers to her prayers before and she started to get emotional. She then told us the feelings that she had. We asked her if she felt that now and she said yes! Wow it was awesome, we are supposed to meet with her again this week and hopefully we can get her husband involved as well.

We had a ward party this week, and it was entitled the Chili Chocolate Cook-off, I really thought it was going to be Chili and Chocolate together. I was really happy to get there and find they were separate, EXCEPT some people put them together. So next time you want to be adventurous try to combine Chili and Chocolate!

This week in my studies I found this sentence that really stood out to me, “Humility comes through realizing our dependence upon the Lord.” After I read that statement I was reading in Mosiah 4:19-20, it says:

For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have....

he has poured out his Spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled with joy...”

Humility is one thing that I have realized that I really struggle with, I am a pretty prideful person. But reading this makes we realize how much I have to rely on my Savior. I am so grateful for all that He has done for me and that I have the opportunity to lean on him to receive help and strength. So when you feel as if you are having a hard time being humble, remember that without God you are nothing. Because really, you are.

Thanks for the love and support from everyone this week! I am grateful for all of you and I seriously, I know I say this every week, but I love being a missionary! I hope you all have a great week this week! WORK HARD!

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

PS Next week is transfers soooo if you do email me please email me the night before!! LOVE YOU!

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison ️

The lovely Sister Harker ️

Sister McArthur and I on exchanges this week!

We went to Shore Acres this morning for Pday, it was BEAUTIFUL! 

This is my new favorite picture!

Our Zone with President and Sister Orton at Zone Conference!