Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Gospel is for Families

Wu2an1 huo4shi4 wan3an1? wo3 bu4 zhi1

Wow what a week sounds like you all are having fun and staying very busy. Sounds like you all are doing several great things. I love you all!

Cool hat Jakob wow you have changed, you have grown up so much. Sophia, your so cute, you have changed a lot. Wow sounds like you all are biking a lot. I bought a bike computer so I would know how far my companion and I were running in the morning. As far as I have seen so far we are not biking a ton, about 10 miles a day, not quite 40. That's awesome. Sounds like your getting ready. I forgot how long is it? I remember thinking that I would love to do it some time but I forgot some of those details.

So my companion and I have decided that we want to run, and so we have found a route that we want to run that starts at my house and is about 1.5 to 2 miles to the base of a hill then there is a hill/ mountain that starts by an exercise park in Tianmu it is called the Tianmu baseball Stadium and then fun to the College up on the hill called Wen Hua College, the biggest park that I have seen so far, then runs up an hill for about three miles. It is going to be fun. We have decided that we want to take the bikes up and drop then off at the top then use a bus to come down and then run back up. It will be sweet. We need to take some time doing it though and so it is going to be a Monday thing to do because unless we wake up really really early we can't do it in the morning before studies. So I'm trying to stay in shape somewhat, trying to follow your example. Dad did you get your bike fixed? ha ha we have broken so many things on bikes. I have decided that Specialized should have our family be a tester family if it can make is through us it is good to go.

So talk to me Liesl and Chandler are going to high school and college? Last I heard Liesl was looking at BYU Idaho. I'm guessing that that didn't go through? Are you staying at Dixie state Liesl? Ok. Sounds like you all are getting going, school starts this week?

This week we had a great week! We have been teaching a lot, we are going to try to keep that up. This week we have found a few family's that we have met with already once and they are going to keep meeting with us. This week we also found other family's that we will get to meet with this week. I'm excited about that. This message really is about families and helping our families be happy and develop greater relationships than we currently have. These families are cool. We will see how interested they all are later on in the week but it seems like they are all willing to meet and learn.

This week I got to do one of my first real exchanges. Last transfer I got to do them, but it was with the Zone leaders. This transfer I have Shipai in my district, so I get to get exchanges with them. This week was fun and we had a good exchange and I think that we both learned a lot. Something that we both talked about was the power of prayer, and of specific prayer. This week we have been praying to find a family with a 10 year old son. The Shipai Elders have been praying for a person that lives in their area that is humble and that is willing to meet and pray to the Father. They think they found him this week. We found several family's with 10 year old sons this week. I believe that the Lord loves us and that we can do all with His help.

WOW you all are doing so may great things. I'm sorry to hear about a funeral this week, that is not fun, thank you everyone for helping out. Sounds like you all are making memories, having fun. Thank you for all that you do.

I'm sorry that I have no photos today. I'll have some next week though. Today we want to go up to yang Ming shan,Yang Ming mountain, and see what is up there. So I should have some photos from up there. Wow I love the photos. You all are so awesome, so active and having fun. Thank you for your prayers and for helping so many people.

Love you all so much. Talk to you next week.

Elder Harr