Monday, September 26, 2011

Happy Birthday Sara!

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