Hey fam,
Holy cow what a week how are you? hope you got home safely. this is crazy I get 30 min to write you an email and it took 10 to get in to the account... anyway. hope all is well. chan is off ok?
This week has been crazy wed I got my companion Elder Buss he is awesome, He is from Wyoming and is so cool. he took Chinese for one full year and then went to Taiwan to sing last summer in Taiwan, way cool he is way good with the language and this is good for me because I need all the help I can get!! you all would like him he is going to France mandarin Chinese speaking crazy. he went to France as an exchange student, way cool kid!
So far this is what has happened. Wednesday we met out districts and were put into companionships, also we were given a Chinese name, mine is huang it means yellow and is short for the yellow river, look it up it is the second tone. Thursday we learned how to pray in Chinese and that is so cool almost all the prayers that I have heard now are in Chinese!!! Friday we learned how to testify in Chinese and new my tongban (comp) and I do it at least twice a day. way cool. It's Hard to believe that it's been only a few days, my tongban said it is best that it feels all like one day because you go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30 both when it is dark so there is no change then we spend all day in the class room, all day, except for meals and one hour that we get to exercise for 40 min.
Saturday we learned how to start a conversation and the basics of that, way cool. Sunday was slower by along way, way cool we sing all the songs in Chinese and most of the talks in church are in Chinese as well, wow right..? This truly is the lords work. Today is p-day (Monday) and the only day that we get to email and write letters, so just some FYI. guess what I'm the district leader, it's cool but busy just like a normal Sunday :) jk
How are things? get home ok? I love you so much. Thanks for your example!!!!
FYI I can read letters during the week I can only read emails for this 30 min.
Love you so much
Thanks for all you do sorry I'm out of time, but look forward to hearing from you.
Elder Harr
Monday, July 26, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Last Text Messages on Elder Harr's Phone
S has been working on transfering Elder Harr's last text messages. For history sake, here they are. His text is in italics. Enjoy:
L.W.
Hey thanks for all the things that you have done for me, thanks.good luck on your mission smile
C.G.
Bro you are the best this is it. About to hand over the phone. Thanks for all you have done. Do your best to get your call and go to the temple! It’s awesome. Every Wednesday morning at the 5:30 with Pres. Anderson! Good luck, you better keep in touch
okay man good luck bro I’ll follow you out sometime soon send me your address.
Okay buddy, I’ll try it’s on my face book. But will do
Okay man! Have a great and awesome two years!
B.T.
Bro thanks for all you have done for me. Your awesome. Do your best to get your call. Thanks buddy.
hey man it goes both ways..lots of good memories many more to come. You’ll do good;)
J.K.
Bro see you in a week or two . When’s your farewell my family wants to come. You’re awesome see you soon
ha-ha love ye kid! Sorry I had it last week
oh man sorry mine was last week too. cool. See you soon
haha yup see ya buddy
K.L.
You are the best. Thanks for all you do. Love ya
I love you forever thanks for being such a great example for my boys. Xoxoxo
Bishop S. from BV
Thanks for everything you are awesome. I’m about to hand over the phone and walk into the MTC. Thank you for all the prep that you helped me with. Thanks.
Best of luck to you Brother Jed. You are the best. Have fun.
L.S.
L thanks for the way fun times. It was way fun getting to know what an awesome person you are. I’m lucky to know you. Thanks.
Jed you are going to be such an outstanding missionary. I’m so glad W. set us up and I was able top get a taste of what a remarkable young man you are! Thanks so much for the good times and I can’t wait to hear about all your incredible adventures! Thank you Jed Harr:)
J.P.
Bro you are the best this is it. About to hand over the phone. Thanks for all you have done. Do best to get your call and go to the temple! It’s awesome. Every Wednesday morning at the 5:30 with Pres. Anderson! Good luck, you better keep in touch
I promise I will get there! thanks for being the best friend I could ever ask for! I will stay in touch and you better to! good lunch man and get lost in the work. you will be an amazing missionary. Good luck bro
D.B.
Hey I’m sorry I haven’t been able to talk to you. Thanks for all you’ve done. I’m taking off for two years to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. And to share the Book of Mormon. Please read it? I can have one delivered if you don’t have one. Thanks. good luck with ball. Thanks buddy.
Thanks for thinking about me I will keep you in my prayers be safe n stay smart.
You bet buddy. Thanks
Granny K.
I love you. Thanks for all you do!
You are 1 in a million. Jesus Christ has chosen you to stand in His Place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do and you are mine sealed together with super glue that will never pull apart. THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING ALL OUR FAMILY. 123 I love you forever and forever.
L.W.
Hey thanks for all the things that you have done for me, thanks.good luck on your mission smile
C.G.
Bro you are the best this is it. About to hand over the phone. Thanks for all you have done. Do your best to get your call and go to the temple! It’s awesome. Every Wednesday morning at the 5:30 with Pres. Anderson! Good luck, you better keep in touch
okay man good luck bro I’ll follow you out sometime soon send me your address.
Okay buddy, I’ll try it’s on my face book. But will do
Okay man! Have a great and awesome two years!
B.T.
Bro thanks for all you have done for me. Your awesome. Do your best to get your call. Thanks buddy.
hey man it goes both ways..lots of good memories many more to come. You’ll do good;)
J.K.
Bro see you in a week or two . When’s your farewell my family wants to come. You’re awesome see you soon
ha-ha love ye kid! Sorry I had it last week
oh man sorry mine was last week too. cool. See you soon
haha yup see ya buddy
K.L.
You are the best. Thanks for all you do. Love ya
I love you forever thanks for being such a great example for my boys. Xoxoxo
Bishop S. from BV
Thanks for everything you are awesome. I’m about to hand over the phone and walk into the MTC. Thank you for all the prep that you helped me with. Thanks.
Best of luck to you Brother Jed. You are the best. Have fun.
L.S.
L thanks for the way fun times. It was way fun getting to know what an awesome person you are. I’m lucky to know you. Thanks.
Jed you are going to be such an outstanding missionary. I’m so glad W. set us up and I was able top get a taste of what a remarkable young man you are! Thanks so much for the good times and I can’t wait to hear about all your incredible adventures! Thank you Jed Harr:)
J.P.
Bro you are the best this is it. About to hand over the phone. Thanks for all you have done. Do best to get your call and go to the temple! It’s awesome. Every Wednesday morning at the 5:30 with Pres. Anderson! Good luck, you better keep in touch
I promise I will get there! thanks for being the best friend I could ever ask for! I will stay in touch and you better to! good lunch man and get lost in the work. you will be an amazing missionary. Good luck bro
D.B.
Hey I’m sorry I haven’t been able to talk to you. Thanks for all you’ve done. I’m taking off for two years to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. And to share the Book of Mormon. Please read it? I can have one delivered if you don’t have one. Thanks. good luck with ball. Thanks buddy.
Thanks for thinking about me I will keep you in my prayers be safe n stay smart.
You bet buddy. Thanks
Granny K.
I love you. Thanks for all you do!
You are 1 in a million. Jesus Christ has chosen you to stand in His Place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do and you are mine sealed together with super glue that will never pull apart. THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING ALL OUR FAMILY. 123 I love you forever and forever.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Reporting for Service
He is off! I wasn't sure we would make it through, or how we would, but we did! Today was a day for our history books! We got up and still had a few lists of things we wanted to gather - new razor, Tylenol, Advil, cover his scriptures, edit and have him sign the Power of Attorney, etc. Not much, but some jobs that needed doing. We didn't get up early, but were all up and going by about 8:30 a.m.. I walked out to the kitchen to hear something in the garage sometime before 8. I found Jed there, on the ground under his jeep, working on the exhaust manifold! Of all things! He is so darling! Sunday after his farewell our dear friend and Stake High Counselor gave me a hug, and complimented Jed for his message. Then he said that the thing about Jed is that he is "the whole package!" I totally agree! Someone else quoted that later, he must have said it to more than just myself, we all agreed! Jed is smart, handsome, clean, pure, worthy, obedient, hard-working, spiritually in tune, strong in the Gospel, etc. etc. I know I am his Mom and I am biased, but that was not my comment, but rather that of Brother L, then quoted later by another!
So this morning, B went to the store and picked up some donuts, we stopped at Shopco and bought the Advil, razor, etc. We also checked on school supplies for our Indian Reservation project the end of November. (We buy the school supplies while they are on sale - usually around the 24th of July - we learned the sale doesn't start until tomorrow!) Then we went up Little Cottonwood Canyon for a donut run. We wanted to go to Lisa falls, but road construction deterred us, and we decided not to mess with the wait, and just stopped by the river at about the red gates. We shared donuts, threw rocks in the river, and I watched my beautiful kids together! Brad took pictures, clicking quickly trying to preserve the memory of this together time! We called everyone together, and linked hands, forming a family circle that I pray can be reunited in just two years! Then we all put our hands in the center and did a "Smile-Adventures" cheer together! Wish I had a picture of those beautiful hands all there! They all had to be in, and we didn't take any out to snap the photo. We returned to the fox hunt house, completed the last few projects and packing, cleaned the house quickly and scooted out the door. Elder Harr was to be at the MTC at 1:00 p.m. We wanted a few minutes to take pictures at the temple and MTC, we didn't save many minutes!
Because Jed wasn't able to fix the problem with the jeep, we decided to pull it back to St. George with us, so Brad had to load the trailer again. Jed was busy with his final items in his suitcases. It was a rush to get out the door. We only had about 15 minutes at the temple to snap pictures. That was plenty! I cried buckets all the way there! When we climbed into the car, Brad started singing:
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The choices, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
The greatest adventure is there if you're bold.
The choices are there for you to take hold,
To learn all their meaning, you must not delay,
To share them with others, for that is our way.
The one who's a dreamer and never believes
Who watches the world, won't roll up his sleeves,
Will never know pleasure, will never know pain.
The joys of success are all yours to gain.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The choices, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to brake.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
This was the song that Jed learned from dear Kendall B. at On-Belay a number of years ago! We loved the message of this song then, and today it was totally appropriate! We sang songs most of the way to the MTC, or at least some did, I mostly cried. Elder Harr sat in the front seat next to me, and sent farewell text messages to his friends. I want to transcribe some of those tomorrow. They brought us all to tears!
Reaching the Provo temple grounds, we pulled (with the jeep and trailer in tow) up to the top, stopped to take pictures, :). Then we jumped in, and drove down to the MTC. Because we had the trailer, they weren't anxious to let us in the parking lot! They had us flip and head straight out the same exit, and said they would send missionaries to come help him. They did. We pulled up to the curb and an Elder Radmall came right over, and before I could get out of the car, he was asking in the window, aren't you from St. George. Elder Harr got out, unloaded his bags, and immediately began introducing himself and reacquainting himself with Elder Radmall. They played on the same basketball team like in 6th grade. He was so busy that I tried to simply give him a fist - rock - to say good-bye because I had already cried and hugged, kissed his soft cheek and cried more. He paused for just a moment with a big grin on his face, and then returned the gesture to both Brad and I, and then said that he had everything, including his copy of passport and immunization record in hand, and off they went. Elder Radmall pulled a suitcase, and another Elder helped with another, and away they went. We climbed back into the car, and sobbing, pulled out. Wow! A few blocks down the road, we found the BYU Creamery, and decided that we should all stop crying, (now several were crying) and go to get ice cream. So we found a way to park this big rig, and went for ice cream. Sorry Elder Harr! I am sure dinner was welcome tonight since I am not sure you even got a donut this morning because Brad was so busy snapping your picture! We finally got on the road, and were just about to Nephi when one of the little girls had turned around to look in the back of the car, to see his scriptures! We covered them with leather this morning, and they look awesome, but because we were still working on them, his bags got loaded, and they didn't get zipped inside. We decided to turn around and go back to deliver his scriptures! It was nearly a two hour detour, but I am sure he is grateful tonight to have them. Of course we didn't see him again, Brad took them to the main entrance, and they promised to find him, and get them in his hands.
We finally arrived home after 7:30 p.m. to be locked out! The power at our home was off, and we couldn't get in. Finally we were able to lift Brinley in the Kitchen window! I had to be the District Representative at an Eagle Court of Honor at 8. I was late, but grateful to make it at all! Brad called the power company, and they came and fixed the power, we are grateful to have an air conditioner tonight! Grateful we came home tonight before the freezers were defrosted, fridges hot, mess! Tender Mercies! So many today!
As we left the MTC the first time, the sky was totally blue, but it rained enough we had to turn on the windshield wipers for a bit. Tears from heaven, confirming that my Heavenly Father knows that today wasn't an easy day for me, but that it was the right thing! I am so grateful for the blue sky and the short little show of emotion that said it was ok, but that I didn't need to wallow in grief! Really not a reason to have grief today! This was a celebration...Not that he is leaving and my nest is getting empty, but rather than he is worthy, willing, and going to Serve the Lord! Thank you Father for 19 years with that amazing young man in my home! Please watch over, protect, direct, and hug our little Elder Harr for both of us! xoxoxo
So this morning, B went to the store and picked up some donuts, we stopped at Shopco and bought the Advil, razor, etc. We also checked on school supplies for our Indian Reservation project the end of November. (We buy the school supplies while they are on sale - usually around the 24th of July - we learned the sale doesn't start until tomorrow!) Then we went up Little Cottonwood Canyon for a donut run. We wanted to go to Lisa falls, but road construction deterred us, and we decided not to mess with the wait, and just stopped by the river at about the red gates. We shared donuts, threw rocks in the river, and I watched my beautiful kids together! Brad took pictures, clicking quickly trying to preserve the memory of this together time! We called everyone together, and linked hands, forming a family circle that I pray can be reunited in just two years! Then we all put our hands in the center and did a "Smile-Adventures" cheer together! Wish I had a picture of those beautiful hands all there! They all had to be in, and we didn't take any out to snap the photo. We returned to the fox hunt house, completed the last few projects and packing, cleaned the house quickly and scooted out the door. Elder Harr was to be at the MTC at 1:00 p.m. We wanted a few minutes to take pictures at the temple and MTC, we didn't save many minutes!
Because Jed wasn't able to fix the problem with the jeep, we decided to pull it back to St. George with us, so Brad had to load the trailer again. Jed was busy with his final items in his suitcases. It was a rush to get out the door. We only had about 15 minutes at the temple to snap pictures. That was plenty! I cried buckets all the way there! When we climbed into the car, Brad started singing:
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The choices, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
The greatest adventure is there if you're bold.
The choices are there for you to take hold,
To learn all their meaning, you must not delay,
To share them with others, for that is our way.
The one who's a dreamer and never believes
Who watches the world, won't roll up his sleeves,
Will never know pleasure, will never know pain.
The joys of success are all yours to gain.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The choices, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to brake.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
This was the song that Jed learned from dear Kendall B. at On-Belay a number of years ago! We loved the message of this song then, and today it was totally appropriate! We sang songs most of the way to the MTC, or at least some did, I mostly cried. Elder Harr sat in the front seat next to me, and sent farewell text messages to his friends. I want to transcribe some of those tomorrow. They brought us all to tears!
Reaching the Provo temple grounds, we pulled (with the jeep and trailer in tow) up to the top, stopped to take pictures, :). Then we jumped in, and drove down to the MTC. Because we had the trailer, they weren't anxious to let us in the parking lot! They had us flip and head straight out the same exit, and said they would send missionaries to come help him. They did. We pulled up to the curb and an Elder Radmall came right over, and before I could get out of the car, he was asking in the window, aren't you from St. George. Elder Harr got out, unloaded his bags, and immediately began introducing himself and reacquainting himself with Elder Radmall. They played on the same basketball team like in 6th grade. He was so busy that I tried to simply give him a fist - rock - to say good-bye because I had already cried and hugged, kissed his soft cheek and cried more. He paused for just a moment with a big grin on his face, and then returned the gesture to both Brad and I, and then said that he had everything, including his copy of passport and immunization record in hand, and off they went. Elder Radmall pulled a suitcase, and another Elder helped with another, and away they went. We climbed back into the car, and sobbing, pulled out. Wow! A few blocks down the road, we found the BYU Creamery, and decided that we should all stop crying, (now several were crying) and go to get ice cream. So we found a way to park this big rig, and went for ice cream. Sorry Elder Harr! I am sure dinner was welcome tonight since I am not sure you even got a donut this morning because Brad was so busy snapping your picture! We finally got on the road, and were just about to Nephi when one of the little girls had turned around to look in the back of the car, to see his scriptures! We covered them with leather this morning, and they look awesome, but because we were still working on them, his bags got loaded, and they didn't get zipped inside. We decided to turn around and go back to deliver his scriptures! It was nearly a two hour detour, but I am sure he is grateful tonight to have them. Of course we didn't see him again, Brad took them to the main entrance, and they promised to find him, and get them in his hands.
We finally arrived home after 7:30 p.m. to be locked out! The power at our home was off, and we couldn't get in. Finally we were able to lift Brinley in the Kitchen window! I had to be the District Representative at an Eagle Court of Honor at 8. I was late, but grateful to make it at all! Brad called the power company, and they came and fixed the power, we are grateful to have an air conditioner tonight! Grateful we came home tonight before the freezers were defrosted, fridges hot, mess! Tender Mercies! So many today!
As we left the MTC the first time, the sky was totally blue, but it rained enough we had to turn on the windshield wipers for a bit. Tears from heaven, confirming that my Heavenly Father knows that today wasn't an easy day for me, but that it was the right thing! I am so grateful for the blue sky and the short little show of emotion that said it was ok, but that I didn't need to wallow in grief! Really not a reason to have grief today! This was a celebration...Not that he is leaving and my nest is getting empty, but rather than he is worthy, willing, and going to Serve the Lord! Thank you Father for 19 years with that amazing young man in my home! Please watch over, protect, direct, and hug our little Elder Harr for both of us! xoxoxo
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