11/20/2014 Temple Trip

We also got to go to the temple today. Theres a new rule in the mission that we cant take our cameras outside of the house unless we have baptisms or go to the temple soo... Yeah. Gotta take advantage of all the camera time we get.

 

 

11/20/2014 My first BOSS Baptism! (Baptise On Sixth Saturday)

Soooo This week we had a Baptism! His name is Adrian and he is AWESOME!! He showed up to the chapel 5 weeks ago trying to find the answer to why he couldnt find happiness in his life. Now he has found the answer and is so much happier than when we met him. He loves the gospel! He told us that he´s going to Pachuca in a week and he´s going to take all him family that lives there to church with him. He actually asked us for help with a plan on how to get them interested. My companion and I were trying to figure out what to do when we decided to say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father. Before the prayer ended, ´´family history´´ popped into my mind and I knew that would be the In for Adrians family. So we studied family history and hes going to share that with his parents when he goes to Pachuca. Im super stoked to see what happens with that!

Anywho, enjoy the pics of the baptism

11/10/14 This Week

So this week was a bit uneventful. It rained alot. until like saturday. Then it got like really hot haha. Weather here is nutz.

SO I got to go on splits on friday with the zone leaders. ONe of them is younger than me haha. andis super awesome. We had a few good lessons and had a great time. He showed me the importance of umbrelas haha. Also he told me that BYUHawaii gives free tuition to RMs on their first semester, which means that im totally gonna hit that up... but just for one semester haha. Ill go try to sell tacos there on the beach or something haha.

We taught a less active family, nd my companion got awesome revelation and knew that they hadnt been sealed yet, and so we talked about eternal families and they siad they want to get sealed and are going to talk to the bishop to start getting all that ready. SO that was awesome!! The family was super excited about it.

Adrian passed his baptismal interview so he´ll be baptized this saturday!! Im super stoked about that! He´s so ready.

More than that.. Not much really happened this week. Not much work because of the rain and we just kinda walked around looking for stuff to do. BUt it was still a good week!

Love you all! sorry this letter is so short!

Elder Harrison

11/03/14 This Week

So this week was good! We did alot of walking and exploring of areas that we didnt know in our area! We walked like soooo much looking for the new neighborhoods in our area! Theyre like hidden in the woods and connected to back roads, and we found them all by accident haha.

My spanish continues to improve. I now forget lots of words in English and when I talk in english I try to use spanish words. one of the prominents being ´´ya´´ which means like now or already. I think Ya should be made an english word as well haha.

I totally cut my finger on a broken mirror this morning, looks like my 7 years of bad luck already started haha.

My comp and I went to buy tacos this morning and couple showed up after we ordered and when we tried to pay when we left the couple said that they were going to pay for us! I have no idea who they were but it made me feel nice inside. Thanks random taco buying couple!! 

Its interesting because I decided to give a bit more in my fast offering this week, and I the couple payed for our food the very next day, which happened to be more or less what I gave extra in the fast offerings. Heavenly Father is awesome like that :)

So my comp and I worked really hard and were able to meet and teach 12 new investigators this week! It was awesome! some of them were duds but some of them were really great and already accepted baptismal dates and everything. We´ll see how that goes in the coming weeks!

Im coming up on 11 months this month. Almost to the peak of the mission and then im on the downhill. The time goes by way too fast in the mission.

Anyways, nothing more happened this week! Just lots of walking!

Love you all so much!

Elder Harrison

10/27/14 My second week as senior comp

Last monday I bought monopoly, so now we play monopoly on Pdays. and Today is the birthday of one of the other elders in my district so I think we´re gonna buy him a cake haha. MOM dont worry if like 15 bucks disappear from my account.

So the highlights from this week!

A little boy from a less active family that we just reactivated chose me to baptize him! That was awesome! It was a super spiritual experience, and it felt really good to be able to get my feet a little wet after about 5 months without being in the font! His name is Emilio Gael Rivera Mora. Hes 8 so it wasnt a mission baptism, but it was still awesome!

Later his mom made us a bunch of rice and chicken. Mexican style. Sooo good.

Also Wednesday night we got a surprise call from one of our investigators named Adrian... at 1:30 AM. He told us that he needed to talk and was outside of our neighborhood. So we went out to meet him in our sweatpants and soccer jerseys and talked out there under the street light for a bit. 

He was sooooo wasted. He started rambling about him and his mother in law drinking together and later the were washing dogs together and then a little girl showed up and told them that her dad hit her, but then later it wasnt her dad it was someone else, so like all good people they invited her in to eat cereal with them, and he was jsut really really drunk haha. I guess his wife saw that he was drunk and got ticked and then he got mad because she was mad and he like ran out of the house with his guitar and a bag filled with his most precious items. One of them was his Book of Mormon (booyah)

So we invited him into our house and we all sat and talked for about 3 hours. Finally he calmed down and sobered up a bit an dwent home. The next day we taught him the word of wisdom and he said that he was never going to drink again. He was super embarrased ha. He came to church again this sunday and should be baptized within the next three weeks! As well as another investigator that we have, so we should be having two more baptismz this transfer! Im soooo stoked! Things are finally all falling together here in Juarez!

We also got to meet some really great new investigators, two of which accepted to be baptized and committed to coming to church and everything. Im really stoked for that too.

I really focused on being more confident this week and trying to let the Lord and Spirit guide me. I know its been helping me, and while im definitely not perfect, Im getting better every day.

I love you all so much!

Have a good week!

Elder Harrison

10/27/14 Baptisms and alot of weeds

So this week we were teaching a less active family that we just reactivated, and they told me that their son was to be baptized this past weekend, and when we asked who was going to baptize him, he looked at me and pointed and said ´´you!´´

It was awesome! and made me feel pretty happy that he wanted me to baptize him. So last saturday night, we had the service and I got to baptize him!

Hes eight and was so ready and excited to be baptized. He said that water was really cold and was shivering a ton, but we got the job done.

I didnt know that we could take pictures after the ordinance of baptism while we were still in the font, but the bishop of our ward was there and said we can sooo... Yeah. We took font pictures.

Also we had a ton of weeds behind our house.. So this morning we took out all the weeds here are the results of that
 

speaking of watching grass grow.. My comp and I went to town on the grass we had growing in the back yard of our house.

Now we´re gonna grab some broken blocks from a nearby construction site and build a firepit to cook weenies at night haha.

 

 

10/20/14 Senior Comp at last

Soooo We had transfers! Im finally Senior Companion! My new comp is named Elder Luna. Hes from Puebla and has 7 months in the mission. We were actually friends in my old area. He was in the other ward that shared the chapel we were in. Hes super awesome to work with and really clean! Which is great because my old comp was a slob haha.

So we were able to teach a new investigator named Adrian this week. Hes golden. His wife is a member and Elder Luna was actually the missionary that first met him and gave us the reference. Hes come to the chapel two tiems now and hes progressing super fast. He was telling us about this dream he had about like darkness and light and stuff and I totally tried interpretting it like Joseph and the coat of many colors! But I think Joseph did a better job than I because we all just got kind of confused haha. I should never be a psycologist after the mission.

One of our old investigators, Brandon, moved back into our area and we can teach him again! Super excited for that. Also his girlfriend (future wife) had a baby last night so thats awesome. Theyre totally parents now.

We were knocking a door one day, when this guy on the roof of the house next door starts talking to us. He was totally stoned and when we were leaving he was like ´´I love you´´ and I was like, ´´ok.´´ and then he said it again and asked me what that meant. I said that ´´I love you´´ means ´´Te amo´´ and he looked all startled and told me that he thought it meant ´´adios´´ which is goodbye haha. He got all embarrased and said sorry. Super funny.

We have cats! Haha two cats decided to have their children behind our house, and so we just let them live there behind the house. There are 4 kittens I think from what ive seen. I was taking my clothes off the clothes line when I heard all their meowing ha. So we totally have pets now. We´re also going to try to build a firepit in the back yard and roast weenies once we pull all the weeds out. So stoked haha. I havent had a hot dog in so long. 

Anyways Im really enjoying being senior comp. My teaching has improved drastically since ive had to take control of everything and use my own head for the hard questions instead of just leaving it my senior comp! I love it! I love the challenge!

Our new DL is from Guatemala. Hes way cool, and obedient. I can already feel the difference in the district.

thaaaats about all....

I Love you all so much!

Elder Harrison