Distributor Meeting

OK first, J, Happy Birthday!!!!! Happy Birthday Bro. I hope that it was good, that you had fun. Then Happy Thanksgiving. How was it? I hope that you all had a great year. I thought about you as that day went on. I hope that you all know that I'm grateful for you and that I hope that you all know that I love you. I am also grateful for this time to be out here on the mission. I am grateful for the help that the Lord has given me and will continue to give me as I continue to help Him.

Well lets see I have a few photos, that go along with some sweet stories. OK so one of them is a photo of a bunch of people sitting down with candles, I'll start with that one. Last Sunday we had a member bring some co-workers with him to church. My companion went and talked to them and got to know them for a sec, he said that they didn't really have any interest and that they said that they did not want to meet but that they where cool. Well the next day that member calls us up and is like hey remember that friend that I brought to church, they want to invite you to share why you are here in Taiwan, and what you are doing here. Sweet member referral! So he asks us if we could do it on Wednesday night. We had English class and we told him that but we told him that we had like ten min that we could do it. He said "Sweet I'll set it up." OK so Wednesday comes and we get a ride over and start walking up the stairs, and I notice that there are a bunch of candles on the stairs, one per stair. OK, so what, no big. We get father up and there start to be balloons as well so I tell my companion that it could be that someone's getting married and that it is like a member. Well we get up to the top where we are going to meet this guy, his girlfriend, and this member. Well we walk in and there is like 15 people in the room. Ok this is weird what is going on here? They are watching a movie and the member comes out and says "Hey sweet they just want you to share why you are here and what you are doing here and what you are doing here." OK whatever, I notice that on the tables that are glass that there is two bottles of what looks like wine on each table, with wine glasses next to them. OK weird. Well like 3 min after we walk in they say we would like to welcome Bao zhang lao (Elder Bogel). Interesting. So we get up there in the center and they all are just looking at us and so we start talking about the Gospel. We got into Heavenly Father a bit, but they only wanted us to take about ten min. The actual thing took about 5 min then the head guy who came to church kinda took over. Turns out this was a big berry juice thing that they where selling and they where having a distributors meeting, and they wanted us to give like a motivational speech. Well we needed to leave shortly after that.

Well that was fun. Then the next photo was on Thanksgiving thinking about you all. Love you all.

Lets see this week was fun we had zone conferance and we also did a bunch of companion exchanges, it has gone by quick.

You all are so awesome. thank you for the photos, and the note J, S, B, L, C, S, Mom, Dad.. You are so awesome. I'm thankful for you. Thank you for them. I love you all so much. I hope that you know that. You all are so awesome. Know that I love you. Thank you for all that you do. I'll talk to you next week

Love you

Elder J Harr

Happy Thanksgiving & Agency

Hey awesome family how has this week been? Jakob Happy Birthday big boy. Smile for me.

Happy Thanksgiving, wow it's here again. I love this time of year. This week has been great. Know that I am grateful for you all. You have been on my thoughts. So you changed times last week. Taiwan does not do that and so we are emailing at the sametime here but it will get there at a diffrent time. It is 6:00am right now. Sounds like you all had a blast yesterday. Wow 28 people that's a lot of people there 14 couples (to dinner for the Sr. Dinner/Date)? You all are awesome thank you for your example of doing good.

So last week I told you all that we where going to have a party for Thanksgiving. It was great. We had chicken, white mashed potatos, sweet potatos, pie, costco rolls, and stuffing. It was a fun party. Not quite the real thing, but close. Everyone that came loved it. It was good to get a taste of home.

This week was good, we worked hard, and we met a lot of people. There was a day Thursday I think, that it was raining hard. We where soaked and everyone was rejecting us. That day changed my view a bit. I just realized how small I am and how much our Father in Heaven loves us, how sometimes we without knowing anything about what he is trying to give us reject it. We just tell him "I don't need it," "Can it help me have money?" "Can it make me not go to work? If not I don't need it, and I don't want it." Sad. I love these people so much, I just want to share a life changing message with them, but sometimes they don't even give it a chance. I thank our Father in Heaven for giving us the ability and the right to choose. I hope that as we go through life we make the right choices.

Last week I went on two exchanges, as zone leaders we go on about two a week, and so time seems to be going by faster than normal because you are always going on exchanges all over, and helping out where you can. This last week there was a training that 38 people attended and so my companion Elder Bogle and myself had the duty for food. We found a place that sells curry, soup, rice and a thing called moutianmellon tea (dong1gua2cha2). It tastes somewhat like watered down homemade
rootbeer, it tastes good. So ya, we got to plan that, in the end the bill was 3600 quai. Which is about $120 U.S. that's not bad, it ended up feeding 40 people because we ate it as well. So that was good.

So today I get to go look at a bag. Here in Taiwan they use a train system and you can take your bike on the train as long as it is bagged. So in my zone we have a few places that take about an hour to get to by train and so we are going to try to find a cheap way to bag our bikes so we can just go down and split and do work. We'll see what we find. Then yesterday was Mexican Revolution day and so today we are also going to go and eat some Mexican food. There is one place in xinzhu that sells it. So we'll see how that goes.

Thank you Dad for helping me out by talking to coach about dates. Dad, Mom, thank you for all that you do. Thank you for your example. You are amazing. Thank you for teaching me to work hard and for teaching me how to listen, to think, and for giving me so much. Thank you for teaching me that if we do our part and trust the Lord we can do anything. I was talking about miricles and the power of faith with Elder Bogle and I can count how many times I have seen "Miricles" because we asked the Lord and did our part. I'm thinking about the youth fireside out by the Santa Clara river wow that would have been three four years ago now, the 4th of july. So many! Thank you for your example. I have been giving away rolls of paper so people can make a grateful list. Thank you. I love you.

Thank you for your emails.

American Thanksgiving in Taiwan

Hey awesome family wow it's here again. I'm so grateful for the chance that I have to know you.

Wow you all moved flagstone... 300+- Pounds that's heavy, how did you move it? I hope you where careful. Way to work though. I bet it looks awesome. I love you. Sounds like you are getting cold there. I heard that New England had over a foot of snow before Halloween, Crazy. It is getting cooler here but not nearly that cold. The other day I was riding my bike out to hukou on exchanges and it was raining thinking how much funner it would be if it was snowing instead. My companion for that exchange was an Elder Terry, from Enterprise. He's a cool Elder. While out there wow we went and visited one of my former investigators. They are formers because they are always going to China, really just outside of Taiwan, but wow they are amazing. They leave for China this week and can't meet until Dec 7th. so I'll keep you posted on that story. This family has a 24 yr old daughter that had started to read the Book of Mormon (B.O.M) last time, about a year ago then got flooded with anti Mormon stuff then stoped. I called them up yesterday to see if they could come to church, and she had already read through 1 Nephi 15 and was loving it so hopefuly they keep reading it this time. We'll have to wait until Dec 8,9,10 something like that. Anyway kinda big tangent, when we went out there it was raining and they told us that they could give us a ride in their car because it was raining, but we told them that is was not snowing yet like we kinda wished it was and so we would be ok.

Ok so this week, it is crazy. I am starting to realize a bit of how long I have been out here. As I look at the mission there are like three groups that are from America that are above me that have served longer but other than that, my group is it. Crazy. My sisters, the ones that came on with me go home next transfer, crazy. I'm grateful for the chance that I have to be serving the Lord. Anyway this week, we found a Pumpkin Pie!!!!! Costco, I love you. We found it for 229 quai. It's a bit up there in prices, but it was not a choice. Once we found that we knew that we needed to share this happyness and taste from America with everyone so today we are having a Thanksgiving party. Even though it is next week we are going to do it today and it's going to be a blast. Thank you for a Costco card. We were there and got a bag of chicken, 10 pounds of potatoes, 10 pounds of sweet potatoes, two pies, some corn and Costco dinner rolls, stuff for stuffing (that's going to be fun trying to make)! It's going to be sweet. I'm really excited.

So L, sounds like you are excited getting ready. I is going to be fun. You know all you really need for cooking is a rost-pot and a cast iron pan, the rest you can do with a knife and chopsticks. It's all you need... ok well maybe it would be nice to have a few other things but that's about it.

Lets see I need to type a email to my mission president for a sec, then I'll write another one to you all.

So guess what Julian got baptised, I got to baptize him last Friday. I included some photos of that.

Well I need to go. I love you all. Know that I love you. Thank you for your example.

Love you all,
Elder J Harr

Transferred, new routine

Hey awesome Family another week has come and gone already. Wow is time speeding up?

Brinley Happy Birthday. I hope that you have a good one. You're awesome. Thank you for the emails that you send me. Have a happy Birthday. Know that I love you.

Thank you for the photos, looks like there were some fun cars at SEMA. I loved that the Cars we like the most, seem to be the tallest. Wow C, your hair is really blond or even white, cool. Looks like you all are doing good thank you for all that you do.

November is here. Wow crazy, I was talking to my companion, we decided that because we didn't get a chance to have a Halloween party that we would have one in the middle between Thanksgiving and Halloween, so today we are going to get some of the stuff for it, hence we get to go next to the jeep shop, the next favorite store, Costco. Thank you for a Costco card. We are going to pool some money and do mash potato's, a meat, not sure if it will be chicken or ham yet, pumpkin something pie and cookies? not really sure yet. Thank you for teaching me.

This week has been good we have been busy. We have gone up to Taibei twice this week, which is a big thing because it takes about two hours to get there, and so about four hours a travel each time. But it's ok. We where still able to get a lot done and had a great week. This week Julian will be baptized. Last week there was some miscommunication and he couldn't be baptized because of it, and so it got bumped to this week. Also the Brother Xu in Tianmu got baptized and I heard that he did a great job. I hear that he shared a great testimony after he was baptized and everyone felt the spirit. I love being able to know good people that help so many people; that set such a good example for the rest of us.

This week we have a little slower week, just two exchanges, then the baptism. So it will be fun to get to do some work. What is coming up on your calender this week? I am sure that you are doing several good things.

How is everyone there? How is college? When are finals? December.

How is Jared? What have you heard? Last I heard he was finishing up his papers.
Thank you for all that you do!

Elder J Harr

Temple Time, Attitude & Goals

Hello Awesome family guess what, it is temple week. I get to go to the temple this morning sorry that I was not able to tell you earlier.

This week has been busy, and as I go on exchanges with everyone it is interesting to hear about and learn about all that different problems that are all over. There is an important thing that I have learned. Choose, sit down and think for a sec. Make up your mind and choose, then love your decision. There are a few people that are in my zone that have not chosen who or what they want to be or who they are. They are out in the mission field and they have not chosen to be a missionary yet in the field, and because of that they are causing more trouble and are more in the way then they do good. I know that I need to learn, but we need to choose. We need to have know that the Lord in in control of this earth and it is all going to go according to his plan anyway, so why fight it? It is so much funner to be in the winning team. Something else that I have learning this week is the fact that when we have made a decision we need to be 100% committed to it. Listen to others around you, and realize that what they are saying has a reason. Sorry, I have learned a lot this week about that. I am reminded of a quote "Be careful who's advise you buy, BUT be patient with those who supply it." I think that we all can learn a bit from this saying. We should listen and really think if this is in line with the Lord's way and if it is then we need to think about it.

How are you all? Thank you for the letters. S sorry that your not feeling well, get better. L thank you for that note, that is neat and thank you for sharing with me. Thank you for all that you all have already taught me. You all are awesome.

OK I am going to be sending a box with some stuff home. Is there anything that you would like from Taiwan? I am doing well as far a stuff goes. Shoes, I have a Costco not too far from my house and so I'm good that way.

This week I am so excited to go to the temple. I can't wait. I'm going to love it. I am grateful for all that the Lord has given me and I am really grateful for the knowledge that we are able to repent. We must do it. We have got to do it. Must. There is no other way, and so we need to do it everyday! I know that this Church is the church of our Lord and I am so grateful for all that we have that teaches us about our Father in Heaven. I know that he is real. I know that through our Father we can do everything.

I need to write my Mission Pres. Thank you. I love you all so much.

I love you all thank you for much for all that you do.

Elder J Harr