A Boy told me I was PRETTY this week 😏

12/11/2017

So it came to my attention that some of my weekly emails didn’t go all
the way through, so here is try ✌🏼!

Hello Fan Club! Man this week has been a fantastic week, the work is
moving forward and Christmas Cheer is being thrown all around. AND I
LOVE IT!!! ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ I love the Christmas Season because it is the time
of year that everyone is thinking about Christ, although as a
missionary it doesn’t change much, but we love it just the same!!

This week after District Meeting we were able to do a power hour, just
an hour of tracting. BUT we decided to not just tract but we were able
to go caroling! We went with the other sisters and we just sang songs
to people. Not going to lie, there were the same amount of people that
closed to door on us that allowed us to sing them a song, which was
something that we weren’t expecting. But the couple of times that
people allowed us to sing were so spiritual. There was a little boy
who just had the biggest smile on his face and was doing a little
dance because he was so excited! Then there was a man and a woman who
sang with us and got pretty emotional with tears down their face.
After the song they offered us cookies! Seriously so grateful for all
of the people who have a faith in Christ, the spirit comes as we sing
the hymns!

Okay so this week we had a lesson with Ken and we expressed to him
that he needed to start living the Word of Wisdom by Friday, in order
to be baptized on December 30th. Well we talked to him and he wasn’t
very confident about it at all but he said that he was going to try,
that was on Tuesday evening! Wednesday morning we called Ken and he
hadn’t followed the Word of Wisdom that morning and we were super
bummed. Well Wednesday night we were at the church helping with a
mutual activity and we turned around and saw Ken in the door way with
his fellowshipper, his fellowshipper was giving Ken a tour of the
Church! We had literally just talked about having a church tour with
him that day! And we talked to him about what he thought and he loved
it! The next day we called Ken and asked him if he was living the Word
of Wisdom, and he said YES! Literally that church tour changed Ken and
he wants to do everything that he can to be apart of Christs church!
Oh and he was also at the Ward Christmas PARTY! And he loved it!!

So at the Ward Christmas Party they did this cool thing where they had
a Christmas Tree that they made it our Ward Family Tree! We used the
Family Tree app and tried the Relatives around me to find out who we
were related too. I found a lot of people, some 17th cousins and some
7th cousins. BUT the closest was a 3RD COUSIN! The Bishops wife and I
are 3rd cousins, super crazy. But then she started telling me so much
about that side of my family, and guess what. I am related to the
founder of Kneaders, I think we should get a family discount or
something for endless French toast? Can someone second this motion?

This week we were at a dinner and Sister Nielsen and I were sitting
across the table from each other. This 10 year old named Conner was
sitting next to me. Conner has ADHD and he literally doesn’t stop
talking. So he was talking my ear off this week and his parents told
him that he needed to be quiet for 5 minutes, they put a timer on and
everything. Well the timer went off and Conner looks at me, moves my
hair from my shoulder and tells me that I am pretty. I didn’t know how
to respond haha, and I thought that no one heard him, no everyone
hears everything Connor has to say. So a boy told me that I was pretty
this week.

Okay so we had a really cool miracle happen yesterday! We got a call
from the Harvard Elders today saying that they had a young woman in
their ward who had been coming to church for about a month and they
found out that she actually lives in our ward! So they got her contact
information and we called her last night. She started telling us that
she was super busy and she didn’t know when she could meet and then we
introduced Facebook, and she was so excited about it and scheduled a
time for us to chat with her tonight! We added her on Facebook and
sent her screenshots of how to download the Gospel Library App on her
phone and invited her to read Alma 32, within 5 minutes she was
sending us questions about her reading! We are so excited to meet with
her more! When we were on the phone with her she just told us about
how just feels at home when she was at church, and that right now she
really just wants to grow a better relationship with her Heavenly
Father. The spirit is so strong with her!!!

So for the month of December I am reading the entire Book of Mormon,
and there has been something that has been standing out to me the last
couple of days. In 3 Nephi 33:6 we read: “I glory in plainness; I
glory in truth; I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from
hell.” I love in the Book of Mormon when Nephi talks about the
plainness that he loves. As we study the scriptures more we begin o
realize that the gospel is plain and simple. I have been grateful fo
the opportunity to teach and learn the gospel simply on my mission and
to be able to help people understand the plainness of the gospel.

Thanks for all the love and support Fan Club! I hope that you have a
great week and that you Light the World this week to everyone that you
talk to! Remember it starts with just one person!

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


Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison ❤️

 At the Ward Christmas Party instead of having Santa Clause they had Father Christmas❄️

 Us and the North Umpqua Sisters Caroling ♥️

 Us and the North Umpqua Sisters Caroling ♥️

 Sister Rhoton and Sister Datwyler we’re both in Eugene this week and they wanted a picture together, well they wanted to point to Utah, turns out they are pointing to Mexico!

All Members, Missionaries and Investigators: “How long have you been on your mission?” Me: “Awhile”

 12/4/2017

 

Hey FAN CLUB. This week has been very rainy and very cold. But you know, the work has been moving forward at a rapid rate compared to the week of Thanksgiving! I am so grateful to be here in Sutherlin doing the work!

This week we went tracting and I was like “oh we should go tract those apartments!” And Sister Nielsen was like, “Oh my last companion said those have been tracted like a million times.” Me: “okay, lets do it for a million and one times!” We went and tracted those apartments and we have 2 new investigators now! This week we have been trying to use the Light the World video as most of our finding techniques. It is funny how when people see us that they aren’t really interested but when we tell them that we are sharing a quick 2 minute video about Jesus Christ and Christmas that they are suddenly willing to listen. But it has been amazing to see the hearts of people change as they watch people serving others during the Christmas Season. I LOVE CHRISTMAS.

We had a lesson this week with our on date for baptism investigator, Heather. It was my first time meeting with her and the spirit was so strong! So Heather was introduced to the Church because her son attends Boy Scouts. Well they invited her to come to the Halloween Party and while she was there she was introduced to the Bishop. She ended up talking to the Bishop for a long time about things that were going through her life and she really didn’t know why she felt like she could just talk to someone about the things she was talking about, especially because she had just met him. As we were talking about that experience she just wanted to know what made her feel that she could open up. We started talking about the Spirit and the peace that comes through the Spirit and the comfort that we can feel. We were reading in the Book of Mormon a couple of scriptures and the scripture that really stood out to her was Moroni 7 verses 13 & 16. She sat there and really thought about those scriptures and turned to us and said, “so all the good things are from God, I feel like all the things we have talked about are good.” It was such a cool experience! The spirit was strong and I think that she is on the right tract to be baptized on January 27th!

We had a really cool experience this week with Ken! He has a really good fellow shipper. He has been life long friends with these members and so they have come to almost every lesson that missionaries have had with him. So this week Sister Nielsen and I decided that we were going to commit him to Baptism. He has talked about how he really does want to get baptized and so we were going to put him on date. We read 3 Nephi 11 with him, the chapter that the Savior appears to the people in the Americas. As we read through we invited him to picture himself as Nephi in the story. The spirit was so strong and at the end it talks about the doctrine of Christ. It talked a lot about baptism, we could tell Ken was thinking and so we gave him a minute and then asked him what he was thinking. He said, “I want to get baptized!” WHAT. Okay, so we invited him to be baptized on December 30th and he accepted! That means Ken needs to be living the Word of Wisdom and coming to church by THIS WEEK. So please everyone pray for Ken! He is so awesome and really wants this, he needs all the prayers that he can get!

In 3 Nephi chapter 8 verses 20-23 we read:
“And it came to pass that there was thick darkness upon all the face of the land... And there could be no LIGHT, because of the darkness, neither candles, neither torches... And there was not any LIGHT seen, neither fire, nor glimmer, neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars... And it came to pass that it did last for the space of three days...”

6 years before Christ was born Samuel the Lamanite, in the Book of Mormon, told the sign of Christ’s death would be 3 days of darkness over the land. We read how that prophecy was fulfilled and much destructions happened in that period of time.

In 3 Nephi chapter 11 verse 11 Christ says:
“And behold, I am the LIGHT and the life of the world..”

During the 3 days after Christ was killed there was darkness, but when he came again there was LIGHT! This is the time of year to remember Him and to remember the LIGHT that he has brought into our lives. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has made this video to help us show how we can share that LIGHT with the people around us, in 25 ways and in 25 days!

#LIGHTtheWORLD

Thanks for all of your love and support family and friends! I am grateful for you and for the time I have to be a missionary. Don’t forget to go out and Light someone’s World today!! Love you!

Love, Your Favorite Sister Missionary,

Sister Harrison ️

We have a cute little girl who lives next door, she came over the other day and gave us this letter, Day 4, LOVE THY NEIGHBOR ♥️ 

We went to contact a new girl who we found, she has a daughter who is 4 and she kept handing us candles, by the end she asked her mom if we could take them home! She was so cute!

Our apartment is all decked out!

Cute advent calendar!!

You don’t even want to know how long this took to get this cute pic!

We went bowling today as a zone, I didn’t win, but it was still fun