Okay so Tuesday we had an appointment to teach someone. I don't know if I've told you about Jackson, but it was with Jackson. Jackson is friends with a guy in our ward. So they guy in our ward is our member present. Well the last lesson we had was two hours long! Are you kidding me? that's ridiculous and Jackson was falling asleep the whole time and me and sister Carter could never get a word in. Brother Parks, the member present, thinks he knows how to teach and what needs to be taught and it's ridiculous. He tells us right in the middle of the lesson what we're doing wrong and what we need to fix right in front of Jackson. And Brother Parks loves to go into deep doctrine and teach everything he knows. NO, we're supposed to teach simply and the basics. Last time we talked to him after and we got no where with him, because it's his way or no way and the conversations are very uncomfortable because it's kind of arguing but not and I hate it. Oh well. Well anyways, Tuesday he didn't show up. We called Jackson and his phone was disconnected. We called Mike and he thought the appointment was on Thursday. So we met on Thursday. Again, no one showed up. Oh well, that's missionary work I guess. We emailed him and haven't got a response yet. I was feeling kind of down. I haven't taught much and I'm still working on opening my mouth and talking to people at the visitors center and I was helping a family and I put them in the God's Plan movie and it's ten minutes long and then I talk to them after. And it's just a normal slow Friday night. and I'm waiting for the movie and I'm looking out our big glass window and a man comes walking up our stairs. It looks just like Elder Holland. OH MY GOODNESS IT IS ELDER HOLLAND!!!!!! Elder Holland came to the Portland Temple in Lake Oswego and the Visitors Center while I was there. It was unreal. ONce he walked in the door you could feel his strong spirit. You know what it's like when you feel the spirit this was times 100. He just came in for about 10-20 minutes. It was really fast. He shook everyones hand and asked where we were from. And everyone is crying and I have a new way of feeling the spirit and it's i can't stop smiling and im just so happy. so i was just smiling away and Elder Holland shook my hand and with his other hand pinched and patted my cheek hahahah he sure slaps people around haha and he's like "aren't you smiley?" hahah I just stood there like a weirdo really. I mean what do you do when your face to face with an apostle like that and you weren't expecting it? before he left he just talked to us missionaries for a second. It was only me and my companion and another companionship and a senior couple and the Johnstons. He said he prays for us everyday and there isn't a day or minute that goes by that he doesn't think of us. "you and the prophet are the most prayed for people in the church. you and Thomas Monson right here side by side." (he squats a little and puts his hands up in front of him.) he says we're both constants in his prayers. He said you keep testifying, you keep preaching, and the word will proceed you. When I shook his hand he pierced my soul with his bright blue eyes. He also said while shaking my hand, "sister harris, you are blessed and doing a great work; the lords work." He said missionary work is on his mind all the time, but now it's more personal for him because his grand daugthers out and his grandson is in the MTC. He loves the missionaries. "The church is run by revelation and when I say revelation, I mean we are in the Lord's house speaking with him." I don't know whether to take that literally or in prayer. The he said "we stand on Thursdays and every week without fail, we pray for the missionaries and the work of salvation." "The church could not be what it's destined to be or what it is now without you missionaries." It was such an amazing experience and it was what i needed to lift me up a little bit for the next week. I was so excited to tell everyone hopefully it all makes sense. love you all. the church is true. From meeting Holland face to face and feeling his spirit there is no doubt that he has been called of God to help us in these last days. I hope you all have a great week. love you all.
~Sister Harris
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