Monday, April 25, 2011

27 Lessons - 20th Birthday

How is the most awesome family in the world? Thank you so much for your thoughts and your prayers. Today I hope that you all are having a good time and that you all are healthy. I love you all so much.

Thank you for the photos. I loved seeing them. I am glad that you are doing well. Thank you for the packages, I got two last Sunday. I am so lucky. Thank you so much for the eggs. Easter is such a wonderful time to remember the new life that our Lord Jesus Christ has given us each. I love Him and I hope that I can live up to what He expects us to do. He does so much for us. I am grateful that through the Atonement we can have a hope for a better world and for our lives together. I know that my "Savior lives, my Savior loves, my Savior is always there for me. My God he is, my God he was, my God he's always gonna be" That is from a song that I have in my apartment that I love to listen to because it is pure testimony and truth.

This week has been crazy. It has been AWESOME! My new companions are Elders Ah puck, and Herrin. They are awesome! We taught the most lessons this week that I have ever had on my mission, 27! I love running and teaching as much and as fast as I can. Thank you for your example of doing hard things and working hard. Keep doing it. In order to grow we have to do hard things. It reminds me of a saying that I heard: "The successful are not successful because they do something easy, they find a hard thing that no one likes to do and they master it." Our life was meant to be hard and difficult. Thank you for teaching me this lesson, there are a lot of missionaries that have not learned this lesson, and they are having to learn it the hard way.

Thank you so much for your example.

This week I am sending a friend to St George. His name is Thomas. He a my ward mission leader and he can speak almost perfect English. He is coming to Utah for a month. I'm not sure exactly what his plans are, other than go to see Elder Barlow and another Elder from Santa Clara Broadhead. I am not sure where he will be but I know that this Saturday he will be in St George. Know that I love you. Know that I am thinking of you. Know that I love you.

This last week I made cookies, Last Monday for breakfast. They were not the greatest but they where still able to be eaten. Thank you for sending me cookies and helping me remember what they are supposed to taste like :) haha. Love you. Also Thomas took us out to lunch at TJI Fridays this week for my Birthday. He is really cool. He helps us do so much.

After we had dinner he bought a cake and candles, but Thomas was in a hurry and told them that I was turning 20 and so they hurried and threw in the candles. Latter he learned that they had made a mistake and that they had given us 29, no big, their are candles just the same. I am grateful for good friends. Last week we also went to the ZOO and saw a swimming Tiger. His cage was not the biggest thing in the world and so he was using all of it to exercise. Funny Tiger.

Wow time goes so fast I need to start closing. I love you, I can't wait to talk to you in two weeks. My companions are calling home on that Sunday and Monday here in Taiwan. When is the best time to call home to you? Do you want it on your Mothers day or Saturday? What work's best? Let me know what you think. You're awesome. We can talk about this next week.

Thank you so much for working on my Costco card. I went there last week and used it. Thank you.

Have fun. Thank you for the photos and the Space pens, they are awesome I'll use them. Thank you for all you do.

Love you,

Elder Harr