Most Awesome Family,
I want to start by saying that I love you all! You all are such great examples to me and I am so grateful to know you and have so many great friends that have all helped me so much! Thank you for your prayers! The Lord is with us all and I am so grateful to know this. I pray that you all are doing well! Thank you.
Sounds like big things are happening and I am grateful for this, it is how we grow and learn. I am staying busy, or better be, and it is good to hear that you all are as well. The Building is a HUGE thing, NICE JOB! One thing that I have found interesting is how much while on a mission Goals are like the center of what you do. Every week you find ways and make plans to fulfill your purpose as a missionary! I'm grateful for so many examples that have taught me about goals and how to set them while working and becoming more effective!
Ok, so I am adding some photos that remind me of you guys. This little boy is a member that we went to see last night and well it explains it's self. Then I added some photos around my area with my comp in them.
OK so here we go, for next week I will not be able to email in on Monday. We have a temple day on Wednesday. I am so excited to go! It will be my first time to go on the island. They do temple days 4 times a year, and this is my first one. I miss going to the temple every week. So ya, I will be emailing you on my Wednesday, your Tuesday. FYI:)
These bike photos where taken last week on P-day in the church parking lot. I LOVE YOU:)
Today I am about to go to a western stake house! and Eat a 72 ounce stake! If I can eat it in 1 hour it is free and if not well.... I'll... be ... eating peanut butter sandwiches for the rest of the transfer:). I'll let you know how that goes next week:). ha ha! Just know I'm thinking about you, haha and about Cliff, as I take on the challenge!!
Ok no more photos in this one, My companion wants to use my card reader.
This week has been a blast! I am going to see my first baptism in two weeks! I'm so excited, it is a little girl, her Dad is a member but her Mom is not. Elder Barlow started meeting with her last October and she is ready. We still need to talk to her Mom and get her permission but it is looking good:).
I'm glad that you all are doing well. Samuel, your doing well it sounds like and I'm glad for that:)! How is hockey? Chan your playing as well, right?
You all are awesome. This church is true. This last week we met a guy named Qiao3. We contacted him at a family Mart. He said that he could sit down and talk, so we did. Half way through the lesson it all started to click and he started to cry. This guy is 25 ish and all we had shared was that God lives, He knows you, and He wants to give you his love and his truth, so he called Joseph Smith. When Joseph was saying a prayer to give him guidance to find the truth... He was crying, he didn't say a word, but it finally clicked for him, GOD LOVES YOU, and he wants us to feel his love. He just called to make sure we could meet tomorrow and wanted to move times. Wow he is Awesome, but it helps me see that I need to be here. More than my own knowledge, but to see this man crying because he realized that GOD loves him, that someone loves him.... in Taiwan the people hardly ever, almost never express their love. They express it but they never say I love you or he loves you. So this is huge. Kids almost never get a hug from their parents, they need to learn how to love.
So I LOVE YOU! You all are awesome.
Elder Harr
Talk you you on your Tuesday, my Wednesday.
P.S I got kicked off before I could send this last email so here it is, the BEAST!! I was the only one out of the 7 guys that did it. haha I will get to eat good food for the rest of the transfer:) YEA.. haha. Anyway love you all.
So I have some time before the photos are loaded up, so I'll tell you some more...
This next week is going to go fast! Tomorrow is district meeting. Wednesday is English class(happens every week). Thursday is weekly planning, and Friday is President Interviews. So it is a very busy week. We need to find 4 new people on top of this. It's going to be hard because I live away from the church, where that all happens, but I have faith that we can do it with the help of the Lord. This is his work!!
Also, I need to ask you, what day do you want me to call you? We can do it on our Christmas, your Christmas Eve, Or our day after, your day of Christmas? I can do either. We call from, home and there is only one phone, so we need to get this worked out.
Love you!