This
last transfer literally came and went in a blink of an eye, I swear!
But it was transfer day today here in the OEM. BUT I didn’t leave! I am
still here in North Bend doing the work and loving it. Although Sister
Huang is leaving me here, sad to see her go! But she is going back to
the Corvallis YSA ward to do Chinese work so she is pretty excited about
that! I am going to be getting Sister Orr as my new companion! She has
been out for about a year I believe and is from Hawaii! So that is going
to be a lot of fun. She will be here later today so I can’t wait to be
able to get to know her better!
This week Sister Huang and I had the opportunity to go to Eugene for a Leadership Meeting and it was SO GOOD. There were so many good things about it but I just want to share one experience with the Fan Club. Alright so President Crooper, a member of the Mission Presidency, got up and began talking about the Book of Mormon and how we as missionaries don’t really utilize the Book of Mormon as much as we should. It was really good and I was taking a lot of notes when suddenly he was standing right in front of me handing me a box of Books of Mormons. Well does anyone know how many Books are in one Box? 40. And how much does one box weigh? 30 pounds. Alright so I take the box and he makes me stand up and hold the box in front of all the leadership of the mission. Well then he goes and gets ANOTHER box. But this time he hands it to Sister Huang, oh good I thought, I thought he was going to give that to me! Well not two seconds later he decided that he changed his mind and gave me the other box of Books. So now I have 80 copies of the Book of Mormon in my arms, weighing about 60 pounds. Then he starts talking and asks me questions, expecting me to answer these questions! At this point I am visibly shaking holding all of these Books, missionaries were laughing and I literally thought that I was going to drop all of them in front of everyone. Then he asked me, “Sister Harrison, are you supposed to be carrying the load of missionary work alone for your ward?” I said no and then he opened the box and told Sister Huang to start handing out the Books to the “members” as he was motioning to the missionaries. So 1 by 1 she took the books out and then finally another Sister jumped up and started taking like 6 out at a time, man she helped a sister out on that one because I thought I was done for haha. So I learned from this object lesson that 1. I need to be better about utilizing the members in the work and 2. That I maybe need to lift some weights! Haha. So for all of you out there, don’t let the missionaries carry the work of missionary work by themselves, because they cant do it alone! I now know that from experience (:
There was one point this week that Sister Huang and I were walking up a pretty large hill to get to the church building and it was so funny a man pulled over, rolled down his window and said, “Chins up girls! Smile! It’s a beautiful day!” It is so good to know that there are still good people in the world today! Really we were just dying from the hill, our spirits were still high, but that man made our day!
This week we were teaching our on date Lindsey and guess what, she brought a friend to her lesson! Man, she is already doing missionary work! We taught them the full restoration and it was so funny because the entire time Lindseys friend, Madison, kept asking a lot of questions that she kept saying were “dumb questions”. But my goodness, no questions are dumb questions and her questions were literally spot on. She asked about the Godhead, Joseph Smith and she even asked why our church is called the Church of Jesus Christ. It was seriously just a spirit lead discussion and at the end she said that what we talked about was refreshing and that she was excited to read the Book of Mormon this week! I am excited for these girls, it is fun to work with the YSA members here in North Bend to try and get these girls involved in the church here!
This week for district meeting we got to go up to Reedsport to meet with all of the missionaries and then we got to go out and do some tracting in their area. It was so much fun because I was able to go for an hour with Sister Wilson to do some tracting! Sister Wilson and I came out in the mission together and we have served in a lot of the same areas, so it was fun to talk about investigators and such. While we were tracting we didn’t find any new investigators but we did get attacked by multiple spiders, we found an active member that we thought was inactive, apparently he is the the bishopric, and talked to a lot of different not very interested people. We did have someone pray for us that we will find success in what we are doing, so that was nice! We met a nice lady too, Sister Wilson asked her if she was religious and the lady responded by saying “I don’t like the word religious”. We then started to ask why and she explained that she thinks when you talk about religious people that they are just people who go to church on Sunday and then do their own thing every other day. But then when you are spiritual that you have Christ in your heart always and that you are able to really come closer to him. I liked that!
We had the opportunity to be part of a baptism this week. Brother Roberts in the North Bend Ward got baptized, for those of you who remember he is the one who took us crabbing last transfer. Baptisms are seriously the greatest! The spirit is so strong because they have made that decision to come closer to our Savior. So Brother Roberts was part of a part member family, so his wife and his kids have been members, it was an amazing experience to see the family come together and feel unified in their believes. So cool. One of our investigators was able to come to the baptism and she turned to us at the end and said “I can’t wait for MY baptism.” Wow, what an awesome experience.
This week we were asked to study Christ like attributes in preparation for District Meeting and I took the opportunity to study Humility. A couple of weeks ago I was trying to figure out how I can more apply the attributes and I felt like I should study the Saviors life when he is exemplifying that attribute. So with Humility I studied the story of the Savior washing the disciples feet. The Savior knew that he was going to be going through his hardest trial, but he also knew that his disciples would also being going through a hard trial of their own. In humility the Savior was able to go and serve his disciples by washing their feet and caring for them. As we begin to become more Christlike in our lives we will be able to show the humility that our Savior showed in our service towards others. I am so grateful for my Saviors example and I know that as we try to follow that example, especially in sharing the gospel with friends that they will be able to see the light of Christ in our lives!
Well Fan Club, it has been a great week here in North Bend! Thank you so much for your love and support, I am excited to see all of the miracles that come with this next transfer! Love you and hope you have a great week!!! WORK HARD
— 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 at the beach last Pday!!
Part of our Zone on Friday!
Our District last night, we are all getting split up!! So sad!
We had to let Sister Huang say goodbye to the beach!
This week Sister Huang and I had the opportunity to go to Eugene for a Leadership Meeting and it was SO GOOD. There were so many good things about it but I just want to share one experience with the Fan Club. Alright so President Crooper, a member of the Mission Presidency, got up and began talking about the Book of Mormon and how we as missionaries don’t really utilize the Book of Mormon as much as we should. It was really good and I was taking a lot of notes when suddenly he was standing right in front of me handing me a box of Books of Mormons. Well does anyone know how many Books are in one Box? 40. And how much does one box weigh? 30 pounds. Alright so I take the box and he makes me stand up and hold the box in front of all the leadership of the mission. Well then he goes and gets ANOTHER box. But this time he hands it to Sister Huang, oh good I thought, I thought he was going to give that to me! Well not two seconds later he decided that he changed his mind and gave me the other box of Books. So now I have 80 copies of the Book of Mormon in my arms, weighing about 60 pounds. Then he starts talking and asks me questions, expecting me to answer these questions! At this point I am visibly shaking holding all of these Books, missionaries were laughing and I literally thought that I was going to drop all of them in front of everyone. Then he asked me, “Sister Harrison, are you supposed to be carrying the load of missionary work alone for your ward?” I said no and then he opened the box and told Sister Huang to start handing out the Books to the “members” as he was motioning to the missionaries. So 1 by 1 she took the books out and then finally another Sister jumped up and started taking like 6 out at a time, man she helped a sister out on that one because I thought I was done for haha. So I learned from this object lesson that 1. I need to be better about utilizing the members in the work and 2. That I maybe need to lift some weights! Haha. So for all of you out there, don’t let the missionaries carry the work of missionary work by themselves, because they cant do it alone! I now know that from experience (:
There was one point this week that Sister Huang and I were walking up a pretty large hill to get to the church building and it was so funny a man pulled over, rolled down his window and said, “Chins up girls! Smile! It’s a beautiful day!” It is so good to know that there are still good people in the world today! Really we were just dying from the hill, our spirits were still high, but that man made our day!
This week we were teaching our on date Lindsey and guess what, she brought a friend to her lesson! Man, she is already doing missionary work! We taught them the full restoration and it was so funny because the entire time Lindseys friend, Madison, kept asking a lot of questions that she kept saying were “dumb questions”. But my goodness, no questions are dumb questions and her questions were literally spot on. She asked about the Godhead, Joseph Smith and she even asked why our church is called the Church of Jesus Christ. It was seriously just a spirit lead discussion and at the end she said that what we talked about was refreshing and that she was excited to read the Book of Mormon this week! I am excited for these girls, it is fun to work with the YSA members here in North Bend to try and get these girls involved in the church here!
This week for district meeting we got to go up to Reedsport to meet with all of the missionaries and then we got to go out and do some tracting in their area. It was so much fun because I was able to go for an hour with Sister Wilson to do some tracting! Sister Wilson and I came out in the mission together and we have served in a lot of the same areas, so it was fun to talk about investigators and such. While we were tracting we didn’t find any new investigators but we did get attacked by multiple spiders, we found an active member that we thought was inactive, apparently he is the the bishopric, and talked to a lot of different not very interested people. We did have someone pray for us that we will find success in what we are doing, so that was nice! We met a nice lady too, Sister Wilson asked her if she was religious and the lady responded by saying “I don’t like the word religious”. We then started to ask why and she explained that she thinks when you talk about religious people that they are just people who go to church on Sunday and then do their own thing every other day. But then when you are spiritual that you have Christ in your heart always and that you are able to really come closer to him. I liked that!
We had the opportunity to be part of a baptism this week. Brother Roberts in the North Bend Ward got baptized, for those of you who remember he is the one who took us crabbing last transfer. Baptisms are seriously the greatest! The spirit is so strong because they have made that decision to come closer to our Savior. So Brother Roberts was part of a part member family, so his wife and his kids have been members, it was an amazing experience to see the family come together and feel unified in their believes. So cool. One of our investigators was able to come to the baptism and she turned to us at the end and said “I can’t wait for MY baptism.” Wow, what an awesome experience.
This week we were asked to study Christ like attributes in preparation for District Meeting and I took the opportunity to study Humility. A couple of weeks ago I was trying to figure out how I can more apply the attributes and I felt like I should study the Saviors life when he is exemplifying that attribute. So with Humility I studied the story of the Savior washing the disciples feet. The Savior knew that he was going to be going through his hardest trial, but he also knew that his disciples would also being going through a hard trial of their own. In humility the Savior was able to go and serve his disciples by washing their feet and caring for them. As we begin to become more Christlike in our lives we will be able to show the humility that our Savior showed in our service towards others. I am so grateful for my Saviors example and I know that as we try to follow that example, especially in sharing the gospel with friends that they will be able to see the light of Christ in our lives!
Well Fan Club, it has been a great week here in North Bend! Thank you so much for your love and support, I am excited to see all of the miracles that come with this next transfer! Love you and hope you have a great week!!! WORK HARD
— Remember who you are and who God EXPECTS you to become —
Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,
Sister Harrison
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