Sara you are awesome, Wow Eight years old, that is awesome. Happy birthday! Know that I love you. Baptism is very important. Just like Jesus we also need to be baptized, so we can be clean. That is what I do all that time is share that with everyone. Know that I love you and how I wish I could be there, smile big ok?
Awesome Family! Wow sounds like you all are having a great time and loving the things that your doing. Sounds like Grandpa's camp-out was a hit! I remember when you did it last year and that sounded fun, wow that's crazy that was last year... Right? Well, sounds like you all are staying fully in engaged and having a great time. Know that I love you and that you all are awesome. I love you all. I hope that Katie and Jeff will be ok. Let me know what happens there. Praying for the best.
This week was great. We didn't get to have a baptism because as we were getting ready for it last week we learned that he will need a second interview which couldn't happen last week, so we are trying. I am so glad to help him be baptized. He has quit smoking and has gone without smoking for two and a half weeks. I have faith that it can be soon but no promises. I am so grateful for the Atonement, because of the atonement we can change and get closer to our Father in Heaven and be happy. As he has quit it has been great to see the help that the Lord has given him, the promises in the Word of Wisdom are real. If I didn't have a testimony of that before I for certainly do have one now.
Yesterday was fun I got to do a baptismal interview for one of the sister's investigators. She will be baptized this weekend and so that will be fun to get people to. Also yesterday I need to thank you; we had an activity and invited a few people to come to have home made hamburgers and watch the Testaments. It was great. We had one of the families that we are teaching, more like a couple, come and watch. He has been learning about the church and studying it for along time now and he is so close to baptism. We also had a single guy who is a baker here that we are teaching come. He is also really close. We are hoping that next month that we will be able to help him be baptized. We also had two members come. I love this work! We watched the film and by the end there where several that where in tears. I am very grateful. Right after we had a short testimony sharing, where they all could say what they felt and what they liked and why. Almost everyone shared their feelings. I am so grateful for things like that to have some investigators that are so close to being baptized and be able to have a testimony meeting that was able to help them personally. It was great! Thank you for teaching me. My companion Elder Reynolds and I talked about it at the end and they all asked us who was paying for the meal and they all where very grateful for the meal. We came to the conclusion that if we had done it any other way the spirit at the start of the movie might have been different than it was because they all were very grateful and that made to easier for the Holy ghost to come and teach.
Wow, it is a small world after all. Gatchel is in England? I thought that he was in Rome? Anyway that is awesome. Wow it is crazy to think that he is out there but he is coming home somewhat soon. I mean it is still next year, wow crazy. I hope that he is doing well. That is awesome that your friend is doing well.
I love this work. I am so grateful for this chance to come and share this message with our Father in Heaven's children. I am so grateful for all that I have learned. and I have so much more to learn. I know that Jesus is the Christ and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I love them so much I am so grateful for them. I know that we are known and that no matter where we go or what we do, the they will always be there it help us.
Well, General Conference is here again and I as always I am excited to go and learn and hear the Prophets and Apostles that the Lord has called. It was interesting. This last week I met a kid who believes in Joseph Smith and in the Book of Mormon. Because he believes that our Heavenly Father will always guide us. But he believes that in 1998 a man here in Taiwan was called as a Prophet of God and he believes this man is the leader of the Lords church. It was interesting talking to him because he didn't know that our church has a prophet today. When we told him that he was shocked, because he was like there are probably not two different prophets on the earth today. It was interesting to see that the person that he said was his prophet taught them that they needed to meditate and when they meditate they think of words in their mind and that is their form of prayer. But when I used the word prayer and asked him if he had prayed before he said "Never." Interesting. I know our prophet President Thomas S. Monsen is Called of God to lead and guide us, and I can't wait to hear and learn more from him.
Well I need to go I love you all so much. Have a great week
Love you, Elder Harr
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Success!
Success: by this point there are several of you that are really tired I'm sure how did it go? I hope that you all had a blast! I am doing great and I've got a lot to tell this week. We will start with that fact that I am not moving this transfer! Yes, the end of another transfer has come and I am staying. But I have some stories to tell.
Wednesday night, the Assistants called me and asked if I could take a new missionary out on Thursday night for two hours for his first night in the mission field. They told me that we had to have them back by about 8:30 or early enough that we could still be home by 9:00. So we made some changes to our schedule and went. We had a seven o-clock lesson and we where to be at the mission home at six. Our plan was to go back to our area and go to the lesson and try to do work, then go back and we would have to have him dropped off by 8:00 to we could be home by 9:00. We live in Tianmu which is about a 20 min subway ride away from the mission home; but the Subway is about 20 min from the mission home and about 5 to 10 min from our apartment. So it takes about an hour to get to the mission home. Well, we raced we ran the entire night! This is why: To be at the mission home by 5:45 like they told us to be, we had to leave our area by about 4:45. So that is no problem we can do it. 4:00 however we had a lesson planned with an investigator that usually comes late.... So we bought a thing we call bao1zi3 it is stuff wrapped in bread and then steamed for dinner. Tastes good. So we get out of the lesson on time we had a bike that we where going to use to help get this Elder to the appointment. We needed to stop at the house to get that and then go the the subway, but the helmet for the bike was at the church. We forgot to grab the helmet from the church and so we had to go back. It was about 4:50 at this point, and we had all the way to go to the mission home. Well we get to the mission home they tell us who we get to go out with that night and as soon as we know we take off running. We got to go with an Elder Hall and ya cool Elder. We get back and...
to be continued.
So we get back and we have enough time to do some contacting. I'm not sure how, but we did, and we had a great lesson with a yan2 and we taught him about reading the Book of Mormon. He is cool. Anyway long story short, we where able to to that and then be back by 9:10. At 9:00 however I get another phone call from the assistants. They asked me to be back to the mission office by 9:00 the next morning to pick up my new companion. Yup I am training again!! Fun stuff. OK, I need to back up for a sec.
I sent some photos of me making fun of the dress fashion here in Taiwan. They wear fake glasses all the time, you see them all the time and well, they look weird! My companion, Elder Miller, and I found some and bought them for 19 qual, like 30 cents and so I sent some of those photos.
I also sent some photos of the most recent baptism here in the Tianmu ward. It was a young man named zhong1 shi2 yong4. He is 14 and he is the first to be baptized in his family. Some of his best friends are members and the parents like the church. This is the first step that that family is taking to bring that family, their friends, into the church. He is cool and it has been fun to get to know him.
This last week I have had the opportunity to be offered a job at a bike store as a tour guide, office man and a sells rep! Cool thing. We are good friends with the local Giant bike shop and they apparently are looking for a person that can speak English and Chinese to take white people out on rides in the mornings and stuff. I told them that when I come back to Taiwan I will be there in a heart beat but this is more important right now. That is cool! I told them that and they said of you get in touch with us and you have a job when you come back. Fun stuff.
OK so now I've told you about Thursday, about fake glasses, about the job offer, about the fact that I'm training, oh, the Taiwanese Hobbs...
In my ward there is this brother that I think he and Hobbs must be like brothers or something because this brothers English name is Guava. He acts the same, speaks somewhat the same, except he is from Taiwan. If he was white I'd say they have to be brothers, funny. I met him and started to think who he seemed like and well it is Brother Hobbs.
So what else; My new companion is Elder Reynolds. He is from the Utah valley and he went to SVU. He is 19 years old and he is cool. He did some study abroad trips through SVU to China, and so he has been around. He is about 6"1', quite tall, but not that tall. So it will be a fun transfer. I put some photos of him in the emails earlier, so you can get a feel for him.
This last few days while we have been waiting for a bike to come for my companion we have been walking and man after walking for two days I'm going to be glad for a bike to ride again. I have mine, but my comapnions don't have theirs because one is coming and one just moved to a place called Ba1da2.
I am so grateful for this gospel. I am not sure how much more time I have today. I heard about that Elder you talked about and I heard that he is from ST George. He went to Pine view. I am not going to let that happen to me. I'll be careful, know that I love you all.
Thank you for the update on the family and the world. It is crazy that Virgina had that big of an earth quake. That's crazy. I hope that no one got hurt.
I know that this church is true. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that our Savior Jesus Christ lives and that through him we have a hope. I thank my Father in Heaven that I have this chance to be here.
Thank you for all that you do. I love you. Be safe, have fun and know that I love you
Elder Harr
Wednesday night, the Assistants called me and asked if I could take a new missionary out on Thursday night for two hours for his first night in the mission field. They told me that we had to have them back by about 8:30 or early enough that we could still be home by 9:00. So we made some changes to our schedule and went. We had a seven o-clock lesson and we where to be at the mission home at six. Our plan was to go back to our area and go to the lesson and try to do work, then go back and we would have to have him dropped off by 8:00 to we could be home by 9:00. We live in Tianmu which is about a 20 min subway ride away from the mission home; but the Subway is about 20 min from the mission home and about 5 to 10 min from our apartment. So it takes about an hour to get to the mission home. Well, we raced we ran the entire night! This is why: To be at the mission home by 5:45 like they told us to be, we had to leave our area by about 4:45. So that is no problem we can do it. 4:00 however we had a lesson planned with an investigator that usually comes late.... So we bought a thing we call bao1zi3 it is stuff wrapped in bread and then steamed for dinner. Tastes good. So we get out of the lesson on time we had a bike that we where going to use to help get this Elder to the appointment. We needed to stop at the house to get that and then go the the subway, but the helmet for the bike was at the church. We forgot to grab the helmet from the church and so we had to go back. It was about 4:50 at this point, and we had all the way to go to the mission home. Well we get to the mission home they tell us who we get to go out with that night and as soon as we know we take off running. We got to go with an Elder Hall and ya cool Elder. We get back and...
to be continued.
So we get back and we have enough time to do some contacting. I'm not sure how, but we did, and we had a great lesson with a yan2 and we taught him about reading the Book of Mormon. He is cool. Anyway long story short, we where able to to that and then be back by 9:10. At 9:00 however I get another phone call from the assistants. They asked me to be back to the mission office by 9:00 the next morning to pick up my new companion. Yup I am training again!! Fun stuff. OK, I need to back up for a sec.
I sent some photos of me making fun of the dress fashion here in Taiwan. They wear fake glasses all the time, you see them all the time and well, they look weird! My companion, Elder Miller, and I found some and bought them for 19 qual, like 30 cents and so I sent some of those photos.
I also sent some photos of the most recent baptism here in the Tianmu ward. It was a young man named zhong1 shi2 yong4. He is 14 and he is the first to be baptized in his family. Some of his best friends are members and the parents like the church. This is the first step that that family is taking to bring that family, their friends, into the church. He is cool and it has been fun to get to know him.
This last week I have had the opportunity to be offered a job at a bike store as a tour guide, office man and a sells rep! Cool thing. We are good friends with the local Giant bike shop and they apparently are looking for a person that can speak English and Chinese to take white people out on rides in the mornings and stuff. I told them that when I come back to Taiwan I will be there in a heart beat but this is more important right now. That is cool! I told them that and they said of you get in touch with us and you have a job when you come back. Fun stuff.
OK so now I've told you about Thursday, about fake glasses, about the job offer, about the fact that I'm training, oh, the Taiwanese Hobbs...
In my ward there is this brother that I think he and Hobbs must be like brothers or something because this brothers English name is Guava. He acts the same, speaks somewhat the same, except he is from Taiwan. If he was white I'd say they have to be brothers, funny. I met him and started to think who he seemed like and well it is Brother Hobbs.
So what else; My new companion is Elder Reynolds. He is from the Utah valley and he went to SVU. He is 19 years old and he is cool. He did some study abroad trips through SVU to China, and so he has been around. He is about 6"1', quite tall, but not that tall. So it will be a fun transfer. I put some photos of him in the emails earlier, so you can get a feel for him.
This last few days while we have been waiting for a bike to come for my companion we have been walking and man after walking for two days I'm going to be glad for a bike to ride again. I have mine, but my comapnions don't have theirs because one is coming and one just moved to a place called Ba1da2.
I am so grateful for this gospel. I am not sure how much more time I have today. I heard about that Elder you talked about and I heard that he is from ST George. He went to Pine view. I am not going to let that happen to me. I'll be careful, know that I love you all.
Thank you for the update on the family and the world. It is crazy that Virgina had that big of an earth quake. That's crazy. I hope that no one got hurt.
I know that this church is true. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that our Savior Jesus Christ lives and that through him we have a hope. I thank my Father in Heaven that I have this chance to be here.
Thank you for all that you do. I love you. Be safe, have fun and know that I love you
Elder Harr
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