July 23

Hello Everyone,

 

Second week down, one more to go. I love the MTC, but I feel like im sufficating. I need to get out of the gates. The sad thing is the thing I look forward to every Sunday is the temple walk because we get out, but not that far.  But the last two Sundays Sister Andrus and I couldn't find the way out of our little community. It was a little embarrassing. Oh well, what do we do that isn't embarrassing really?  This last week went so fast. I never believed people that said once you get to the first sunday everything gets better and goes faster. That is definately true. Well im sure you all want and update on our Asian investigator, Belinda.  Well we went back and she read the Book of Mormon and knew it was true, but didn't want to get baptized becasue of us. She didn't like our personalities and said we didn't know what we were doing.  It was awful. We left early.  But at the end we asked her if she could pray and she said yes and it was the most powerful prayer we had ever heard.  She is definately a member, because she is there every week to make missionaries grow and cry by realizing their weaknesses.  It was a great experience because we knew exactly what we needed to work on.  Also, this week we had a referal and we thought it was from Belinda becasue that's who they said it was from, but it wasn't. Thank goodness. It was a sweet old couple and the lady was from Ireland and had an awesome accent. We taught them the restoration and ended with a prayer.  They're not supposed to come out of character, but they did.  They told us how they could feel the spirit so strong and that we worked well together and that we were going to be amazing missionaries.  It was just what we needed to hear, because we didn't feel like we were imporving since we taught Belinda.  They just returned from their missions in Washington and he just retired from the MTC.  So hearing from him that we were doing great really boosted our confidence.

 

Well, the all of our Elders in our zone left this morning :( and the sisters in our zone left yesterday :( it's so empty and sad without them and it hasn't even been that long without them. Our zone was really close. well just the other district that came the same time as us.  There was so much love haha i've never felt so much love. It's so great. Tomorrow we get to go to temple square in the morning to start our training. I'm still not sure what we are doing.  We also go again on Saturday night.  And becasue our schedule is chaninging we get two pdays this week!!! sweet! it's on friday.

 

Today has already been rough because the Elders left and it's Sister Newsons anniversary of her brother dying and she's been having a really hard time. She gets to call her family today, so that'll be nice. but since she is getting so much attention Sister Melgaard, the bipolar one, feels like she isn't getting enough so she's being a difficult today too.  Sister Andrus and I don't know how to deal with any of it. It's really hard. Another thing is that the first few nights Sister Newson hasn't been able to sleep becasue she keeps replaying things of her brothers death in her head so we have to sleep with one of our vanity lights on and it lights up the whole room and it's hard to sleep. I can't complain because my issues aren't nearly as big as any of theirs and I don't know how to help them.

 

Well I love you all!

 

Please write through DearElder so I feel like I'm getting letters haha and they come same day

 

~Sister Harris