Hey Fan Club! It’s been a great week here on the Oregon Coast! Today we spent the day today having a Halloween Zone Pday! 
Sister Orr and I have been preparing for a bunch of fun games and
activities and then we had a bunch of members want to donate pumpkins to
carve, it was such a success! Check out the pictures below!
After the Temple Trip on Thursday Sister Orr and I decided that we had been sitting for just too long, so we decided to go out walking and contacting. Well little did we know about 5 minutes into our walk it started pouring rain and then about 30 minutes we heard some very impressive clashing of thunder and lightening... but at this point we were about 20 minutes away from our car so we just walked. But we met a lot of great people and got a little wet, nothing new for serving in Oregon! We have been getting just a small taste of the Oregon Winter Weather, more to come!
This weekend we decided Saturday was going to be our finding day, we prayed to be lead and guided to those Heavenly Father is preparing for and guess what, we found Jordan! He is a young adult who has recently decided that it is time for himself to come closer to God. He talked about how he went to church a lot growing up and the happiness that he felt when he did, and that it might be time to go again. Well we introduced the Book of Mormon to him and he said the only time he had heard about it was when he was watching South Park... we told him it was a little different then that probably. Well after introducing it to him he was really excited to read it. So yesterday morning we took a member with us and taught him the Restoration! He soaked it all up and asked some great questions, then we invited him to be baptized and he didn’t say yes but he also didn’t say no. He said basically ask me again after I read the Book of Mormon, he said once he knows that it is true that he will be baptized! So we are excited to meet with him more!
We also had a lesson this week with this lady Monica. She was found over a month ago while some Elders from another area were doing some tracting in our area. Well when we knocked on her door to schedule something with her she said “oh I have been waiting for you!” Okay literally in the 16 months on my mission no one has ever said that to me after meeting me for the first time, so she is pretty special. Our first lesson with her we taught her the Restoration, and she is super into history and so she loved every second of it! As we talked to her about what she knew about her church, she actually knew a lot! Apparently she did a research paper a couple of years ago and she compared our church to the church that she was going to at the time and she really liked the things that she read! So we continued teaching her and read her the promise in Moroni 10 and asked her if she can to know that these things are true, if she would be baptized. And she said she wouldn’t give us an answer yet, but that she is really interested! So! We are REALLY excited!
We had interviews with President Orton yesterday, and my favorite part of the whole interview was, with a big smile on his face he said, “So Sister Harrison, what are you planning to accomplish during the next 6 months of your mission?” I love my mission president and his wife, literally everything that he said was an answer to a prayer for me! Such an inspired man!
We had an awesome lesson with this lady named Vanessa, and we taught her all from the Book of Mormon, seriously it was such an amazing lesson. We asked her what she thought our purpose was as missionaries and she explained that it was to help her grow closer to Christ, um that was perfect. Then Sister Orr and I both testified of the relationship that we have been able to grow with Christ because of the Book of Mormon and she realized that she wanted to gain that relationship as well. We invited her to read the Book of Mormon everyday and she accepted! As of yesterday she was doing well and we have a lesson with her this week! Woohoo!
After the Temple Trip on Thursday Sister Orr and I decided that we had been sitting for just too long, so we decided to go out walking and contacting. Well little did we know about 5 minutes into our walk it started pouring rain and then about 30 minutes we heard some very impressive clashing of thunder and lightening... but at this point we were about 20 minutes away from our car so we just walked. But we met a lot of great people and got a little wet, nothing new for serving in Oregon! We have been getting just a small taste of the Oregon Winter Weather, more to come!
This weekend we decided Saturday was going to be our finding day, we prayed to be lead and guided to those Heavenly Father is preparing for and guess what, we found Jordan! He is a young adult who has recently decided that it is time for himself to come closer to God. He talked about how he went to church a lot growing up and the happiness that he felt when he did, and that it might be time to go again. Well we introduced the Book of Mormon to him and he said the only time he had heard about it was when he was watching South Park... we told him it was a little different then that probably. Well after introducing it to him he was really excited to read it. So yesterday morning we took a member with us and taught him the Restoration! He soaked it all up and asked some great questions, then we invited him to be baptized and he didn’t say yes but he also didn’t say no. He said basically ask me again after I read the Book of Mormon, he said once he knows that it is true that he will be baptized! So we are excited to meet with him more!
We also had a lesson this week with this lady Monica. She was found over a month ago while some Elders from another area were doing some tracting in our area. Well when we knocked on her door to schedule something with her she said “oh I have been waiting for you!” Okay literally in the 16 months on my mission no one has ever said that to me after meeting me for the first time, so she is pretty special. Our first lesson with her we taught her the Restoration, and she is super into history and so she loved every second of it! As we talked to her about what she knew about her church, she actually knew a lot! Apparently she did a research paper a couple of years ago and she compared our church to the church that she was going to at the time and she really liked the things that she read! So we continued teaching her and read her the promise in Moroni 10 and asked her if she can to know that these things are true, if she would be baptized. And she said she wouldn’t give us an answer yet, but that she is really interested! So! We are REALLY excited!
We had interviews with President Orton yesterday, and my favorite part of the whole interview was, with a big smile on his face he said, “So Sister Harrison, what are you planning to accomplish during the next 6 months of your mission?” I love my mission president and his wife, literally everything that he said was an answer to a prayer for me! Such an inspired man!
We had an awesome lesson with this lady named Vanessa, and we taught her all from the Book of Mormon, seriously it was such an amazing lesson. We asked her what she thought our purpose was as missionaries and she explained that it was to help her grow closer to Christ, um that was perfect. Then Sister Orr and I both testified of the relationship that we have been able to grow with Christ because of the Book of Mormon and she realized that she wanted to gain that relationship as well. We invited her to read the Book of Mormon everyday and she accepted! As of yesterday she was doing well and we have a lesson with her this week! Woohoo!
This
week in the Coos Bay Zone we are having an Invite week! We are inviting
everyone in our Area Book right now to enter into the waters of
Baptism! We may have received a lot of 1/2 answers this week, but next
week we will have some people on date! Booyah!
This week I was reading a conference talk from April of this year by Jeffery R Holland. It is entitled Songs Sung and Unsung. There was a quote that I want to share, it says, “In those moments when the melody of joy falters below our power of expression, we may have to stand silent for a time and simply listen to others, drawing strength from the splendor of the music around us. Many of us who are “musically challenged” have had our confidence bolstered and our singing markedly improved by positioning ourselves next to someone with a stronger, more certain voice. Surely it follows that in singing the anthems of eternity, we should stand as close as humanly possible to the Savior and Redeemer of the world--who has absolutely perfect pitch. We then take courage from His ability to hear our silence and take hope from His melodious messianic intercession in our behalf. Truly it is “when the Lord is near” that “the dove of peace sings in my heart [and] the flow’rs of grace appear.””
I am so grateful for the hard times in our life that we have the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with the man who has the greatest pitch, that isn’t a member of the MoTAB, it is our Savior, Jesus Christ. He knows you and he knows me. He knows that man walking down the street. And if we are going through hard times in life we are promised that if we stand with him, that we will not need to fear! I’m so grateful for the message that I was able to read in that talk, I invite all of you to go and read it!!!
Alright Fan Club, thanks for the emails this week! I’m forever grateful for all of your love and support that you show me. I hope that you all have a great week, stay strong & stay believing! Love you all, WORK HARD!
—Remember who you are and who God EXPECTS YOU to become—
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison
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This week I was reading a conference talk from April of this year by Jeffery R Holland. It is entitled Songs Sung and Unsung. There was a quote that I want to share, it says, “In those moments when the melody of joy falters below our power of expression, we may have to stand silent for a time and simply listen to others, drawing strength from the splendor of the music around us. Many of us who are “musically challenged” have had our confidence bolstered and our singing markedly improved by positioning ourselves next to someone with a stronger, more certain voice. Surely it follows that in singing the anthems of eternity, we should stand as close as humanly possible to the Savior and Redeemer of the world--who has absolutely perfect pitch. We then take courage from His ability to hear our silence and take hope from His melodious messianic intercession in our behalf. Truly it is “when the Lord is near” that “the dove of peace sings in my heart [and] the flow’rs of grace appear.””
I am so grateful for the hard times in our life that we have the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with the man who has the greatest pitch, that isn’t a member of the MoTAB, it is our Savior, Jesus Christ. He knows you and he knows me. He knows that man walking down the street. And if we are going through hard times in life we are promised that if we stand with him, that we will not need to fear! I’m so grateful for the message that I was able to read in that talk, I invite all of you to go and read it!!!
Alright Fan Club, thanks for the emails this week! I’m forever grateful for all of your love and support that you show me. I hope that you all have a great week, stay strong & stay believing! Love you all, WORK HARD!
—Remember who you are and who God EXPECTS YOU to become—
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison
This is the Coos Bay Zone!!
This was in Coquille the other day, we found a library that didn’t have a Book of Mormon!
Sister Orr really did this pumpkin, I was mortal support and collected the pumpkin seeds to cook haha
This is actually my pumpkin, he plugs into a wall and has no mess! His name is also Pete, I like Pete!
It is now Fall on the Coast everyone!!
Love you all!
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