Wow, so we had a crazy week
so many cool things that happened and also lots of disappointments, so I’ll
just start with those first we had so many appointments set up this week
including some church tours which I haven’t really gotten to do much in my
mission, but we had 3 set up this week and all of them fell through such a
bummer cause I was so excited, and (S) baptism did not happen! so here is
the story she wanted her mom to be there or else she wouldn’t do it and her mom
went in for surgery on Wednesday and was hoping to be out before Saturday but
she wasn’t and we found out that she gets out today so that’s good and also we
had called her on friday just to see how she was doing and she said that she
didn’t feel ready, that she had to wait till she was 18 cause she didn’t want
to be affected by peer pressure after her baptism to break the commandments and
she felt like you have to be perfect after baptism, so she just didn’t
understand the concept that baptism is the key that unlocks the door
to the atonement and that she can’t be forgiven or repent without being
baptized and also, that when she receives the gift of the holy ghost after her
baptism, that he can guide her with decision making especially when she is peer
pressured to drink or smoke or get a tattoo or break any commandment. So
we had the young women’s leader sister (R) who is awesome, give her a call
and talk to her. (S) has been going to young women’s every week and is doing
personal progress, haha she is so awesome and is basically already a
member, she will probably be baptized this week and probably earlier than
saturday. So to the good news, we had some way cool lessons this week the first
one is we taught (D) (mom) and (K) (18 year old daughter). They are
native american so that was pretty sweet, and they have really been searching
for the right church cause they have been to others and they have never made
them feel good and they love the restoration and were pretty excited to read
the book of mormon especially (K), when they found out its about
the American Indians. We also had a cool lesson with a girl named (M) who
actually has kind of dropped us but we are trying to work with her and
understand her concerns. She feels like she can’t be a Mormon, but when we taught
her the spirit was sooooo strong and she was just paying close attention to the
whole lesson and when I asked her how she felt, after the first vision she
said "I feel good its weird but good and like someone is touching
me" and we invited her to be baptized and she accepted but she is
having those second thoughts like everyone does cause satan is making her think
that, I will update you when we find out more.
So yes i got your
package you sent and i got the Christmas card and my debit card and drivers
license
We are in a car and we
bike also but we use the car a lot and elder lee has a gps but I will still
need the one you sent, because he will take his when he leaves
Man, I’m excited to hear
where Madison goes!
Oh, also cool story at
church the singles branch also meets at our building and there is this couple
that are getting married in the mesa temple and I was talking to them cause
they are from Arizona and the girls name is cecille taylor and she said she is
from Gilbert and I asked do you know a jackson law and she said "yea! He’s
my second cousin!" haha I was like no way so yea that was way cool.
The other elders in our
apartment are elder Herrera, he’s originally from Mexico and elder Hanson from Layton,
Utah
Well, that’s all I have this
week, hope teagen gets better
Love Elder Harper
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