Nov. 18, 2013
Hola mi familia!!! Thank you so much for the letters, I am so happy to know
that you are all safe and sound, and are doing so well!! It is amazing to see
the blessings you are receiving! I am so grateful to read about the miracles you
are experiencing. I am grateful for these miracles from our Heavenly Father, and
for the opportunity to serve as His missionary. I am grateful for everything in
my life, and especially for the gospel that I have to share with others.
Yesterday we experienced a miracle as we taught a man who is really prepared to
receive the gospel and has a ton of questions! He wants to come to know his
Heavenly Father better. The Spirit really guided us to teach him, and to know
what to say. As we were leaving I was so grateful for the experience and was
thinking to myself how blessed we are to have the gospel and how blessed I am to
have learned about our Heavenly Father my whole life, and to know that He is our
Father, and Jesus Christ is our Savior! I am so grateful to be able to help
others learn the same!
Guess what? Thanksgiving doesn't exist here!!!! It only exists in the United
States :( but I will be celebrating it in my heart this year and thinking of all
of the things for which I am grateful. It is probably best that I will miss out
on the food, so that I can lose a little weight. The lunches are so large here--it's like eating Thanksgiving dinner every day.
This week has been great! We worked really hard, trying to talk with
everyone about the gospel. And we are trying really hard to work with the
members. They are inviting friends to Family Home Evening, or Noche de Hogar! We
are really excited for this week.
Ramón and María didn´t come to church this week :( They are working on keeping the commandments and need more time to prepare, but we are
going to help them! Marcela wasn´t able to come either, but she has been going
to church every week for a while, and so she is still preparing to be baptized
this Saturday!! She is working to stop smoking. She needed to stop smoking by
last Sat. but we don´t know if she did yet, because we couldnt get ahold of her
by phone for a little, but we will find out tonight if she will be baptized this
week! We are so excited for her and the change of heart we have witnessed that
Heavenly Father has given her. We were also able to visit Camila this week.
Great news!!! She is still so golden. She was going to go to church with us
about 4 weeks ago, and for some reason wasn´t there. We knew that she got really
sick later, but she told us that she had to drop her sister off on that Sunday,
and then she was going to come to church, but she had had a cold and then her
ear started bleeding, and they had to rush to the hospital. She was transferred
to another hospital because her illness could turn into Meningitis. and she was in that hospital for 3 weeks and had barely returned when we
visited her. While in the hospital we sent elders to give her a blessing. She
was able to go home shortly after. But she lost the hearing in one ear
completely, and her other ear works, but not very well. Because it affected her
ears, which also control balance and coordination, she is really weak and can´t
leave her house, can´t read or watch tv, cant stand for very long, cant study.
BUT HER FAITH IS AMAZING!!!!!!! she told us that she knows this is just a trial
and that she will become better through it, and she prays that Heavenly Father
will heal her. We know that He will in His time. She still wants to be baptized,
and loves learning but it is hard for her to hear. I know that the Spirit helps
her to be able to understand. She is amazing! Please pray for here. It is a
priviledge to teach her the gospel, and I hope I get to witness her healing and
her baptism.
This week we visited Valeska, who I know really wants to take the
lessons but she doesn´t want to be confused between two religions, and her
husband doesn´t like that we are teaching, so she asked that we not come back,
but we invited her to pray. Someday she will be prepared to receive the gospel.
The same thing happened with another woman, Rosa, whose husband doesnt like
religion and was upset, so she won't listen to us. In both situations we just
testified and I know that they felt the Spirit, because the Spirit guided us in
what to say. We were unable to meet with Carlina, Carolina, and Aura. Aura is
nowhere to be found. I think she returned to Satioago and we hope that she finds
the missionaries and the church there. We taught Patricia this week about the
Restauration! She understood everything and just needs to pray to know the
truth! She is so amazing! We will teach her again this week! This past week we
found some new investigators, and we are excited to teach Jose and Juan who are
super prepared! Please pray for them, I will let you know next week what
happens.
This week has been wonderful and I am so grateful for everyday in the
mission! This is the true church of Jesus Christ!!! I learned this week that as
missionaries, we can talk with everyone about the gospel, and we can find people
to teach, but we are going to find so many more when we work with the members.
And these people will be baptized and remain active because they have their
friends who are faithful and active members! I invite each of you to follow the
invitation of an Apostle of the Lord. Elder Ballard invited each member to share
the gospel with one friend before Christmas. Time is running out!!!! This is an
invitation directly from the Lord. He will bless you to be able to follow His
invitation and know who is ready to receive the gospel. This mighty work of the
Lord must go forth! We need to make missionary work an important part of our
lives! Everyone needs the opportunity to hear the truth! I love you all! Thank
you for your testimonies and your prayers! I hope you have an amazing week! Love
you all!!!! Hasta Luego!
Con todo mi amor,
Hermana Harris
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