Wednesday, June 20, 2012
June 4, 2012
I have lost 15 lbs and am going on strong! This is the best place to lose weight! We are too busy to even worry about food, so we eat a quick breakfast and lunch and then by dinner you eat what is put in front of you, then you go back out and work, and then crash. Not to mention we get to work out 30 minutes everyday, which is nice. Even if I can't stand having to walk to the gym across the complex in the morning ha ha ha!
Well, the work is great! It seems like it rains every monday! and i love it! The rain is fantastic... but the sun comes out and it turns into a steam room. Not so fun! so we like the rain to stay! It keeps it cool.
We got some new bikes for some sisters, and we got to try them out last week which was so fun!
Yesterday we had a miraculous fast sunday! I love fast sundays as a missionary! They have really turned out to be the most amazing days! Yesterday as we fasted we had a three families come to church that had said they weren't coming! We have been praying for them and actually dropped on a while ago. They had stopped answering our phone calls, or the door whenever anyone went over. So the day started with miracles during comp study when this family we had dropped called and said they needed to come and asked if we could get them a ride. She has never been to church since she was baptized and it was amazing to get to meet her, because I had only heard about her until yesterday. Next when we got to church our dear friend that was baptized last week was confirmed and it was nothing short of a miracle! Then our friend we taught that was drunk a couple of weeks ago came and he was very sober and really enjoyed the testimony meeting. Then! (remember the family that has been struggling to get ready to be baptized. The mom and the two twins and her ex husband rents out the down stairs and she lives with the twins and her finace upstairs...) Well durning our lesson on saturday their dad yelled up the stairs that none of them could go to church because he was taking them to the lake. It was really upsetting, because the twins didn't have a choice and the mom was to nervous to come to church by herself. so they told us their weren't coming.... but we turned around and there they were... AND! they brought their neighbor friend we had been teaching who we had to stop seeing a few weeks ago! So another miracle! And the friend has an assignment in primary next week so she is so excited to come back next week! That primary teacher was really in tune to extend that to her! Amazing! We ended up teaching Gospel Principles which was really good, we had the temple president and his wife, and my mission president's wife and a few others share about the temple and family history. It was amazing because the room has never been so packed with investigators before! It was such a blessing to see all these things unfold!
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!!!!! I hope you are able to follow all this babbling... but I can't express how amazing this day was!
We had a sister who is less active and worried about gas money come, and she has been coming every week and she was telling me how she is truly seeing the blessings! It's amazing to be able to promise something to someone, because the Lord wants to bless them. Through the spirit I told her a couple weeks ago that if she came every sunday, the things she is really struggling with would be handled, and she was so skeptical. Here she is weeks later and already seeing results! The Lord is so merciful to those who obey!
So that was just church! That was the first part of the day. Then we went out to contact some people we had met but hadn't been able to get back in with yet. We went to this complex called the Villas and we went at it! Every single person we talked to invited us back to share more with them! It was something like 12 people! That is amazing! THe Lord put them in our path so we could talk to them at the exact time we did with each person. If we hadn't been exact with the timing we wouldn't have talked to all the people we did! For instance, we talked to one lady just as she drove up, and she was so very uninterested! She was trying to get her groceries and didn't want anythign to do with us. So we offered to help and we kept chatting with her. The second we walked through her front door she said tuesday was a great day for us to come back and talk to her about our message and she was actually excited. The Lord opened her heart right before our eyes! It was amazing! Just seconds passed between one to the other. The second we walked out her door there was a man coming out of his door, so we talked to him. He was Muslim... which usually when they pull that card it's a "back off", so we waited it out and said we could come back and tell him more. COOOL!!! By that time it was time to get to dinner... So we were headed to one last door, and they too were able to allow up to come back. As we just felt so full of joy and the love that the Lord has for all these people we figured we needed to talk to one more person! We saw this guy getting out of his car and went over and started explaining who we were and what we had for him. This woman came out from behind the car and said the had just spent all morning looking for our church. The had pulled out their GPS, went through the list of churches, and saw "the Church of Jesus Christ" and she said they knew that had to be where they needed to be. So they drove around and ended up in the middle of an apartment complex, so they quit trying. She said that this was just what she needed right now! She needed a good church again. So S. Scott offered her a Book of Mormon and she freaked!!!! She was going off about how crazy them Mormons are and how she would have nothing to do with them and started naming off all kinds of misunderstandings about the church and Joseph Smith. S. Scott asked if she could explain to her what she was saying. We then stood there and taught her the first lesson on the restoration and half an hour later she wanted a Book of Mormon so bad we couldn't help but help her with that desire ha ha ha... she was so excited to hear that our church wasn't created in 2012 like she thought and that it had been around for a long time. She had never heard about it until this year and she had only heard terrible things about it. We got so much cleared up she was wondering when we could come share more. But she doesn't live in our area so we explained that we would send someone to see her. She said, "But what if I want you to teach me? I like you!" She was so amazing! I really hope we get to see her again! Then we ran off to dinner and got to share with a sweet non-member family that was also eating with us! They were so awesome! The atmosphere was very spiritual and we all were able to share experiences in which the Lord was very much in our lives. S. Scott was able to share our experience with the last woman we had just met, and how the Lord touches hearts, not only in preparation for them but also you... everything just fits together like a puzzle piece. Time, experience. It all fits together for something bigger! Bigger than we can even comprehend!
Well! I must get to running! I love you all so much and I know this work is the most important thing I can be doing right now! Thank you for your prayers and your love! Keep it up!! I love your guts!
Sister Harnish
Well, the work is great! It seems like it rains every monday! and i love it! The rain is fantastic... but the sun comes out and it turns into a steam room. Not so fun! so we like the rain to stay! It keeps it cool.
We got some new bikes for some sisters, and we got to try them out last week which was so fun!
Yesterday we had a miraculous fast sunday! I love fast sundays as a missionary! They have really turned out to be the most amazing days! Yesterday as we fasted we had a three families come to church that had said they weren't coming! We have been praying for them and actually dropped on a while ago. They had stopped answering our phone calls, or the door whenever anyone went over. So the day started with miracles during comp study when this family we had dropped called and said they needed to come and asked if we could get them a ride. She has never been to church since she was baptized and it was amazing to get to meet her, because I had only heard about her until yesterday. Next when we got to church our dear friend that was baptized last week was confirmed and it was nothing short of a miracle! Then our friend we taught that was drunk a couple of weeks ago came and he was very sober and really enjoyed the testimony meeting. Then! (remember the family that has been struggling to get ready to be baptized. The mom and the two twins and her ex husband rents out the down stairs and she lives with the twins and her finace upstairs...) Well durning our lesson on saturday their dad yelled up the stairs that none of them could go to church because he was taking them to the lake. It was really upsetting, because the twins didn't have a choice and the mom was to nervous to come to church by herself. so they told us their weren't coming.... but we turned around and there they were... AND! they brought their neighbor friend we had been teaching who we had to stop seeing a few weeks ago! So another miracle! And the friend has an assignment in primary next week so she is so excited to come back next week! That primary teacher was really in tune to extend that to her! Amazing! We ended up teaching Gospel Principles which was really good, we had the temple president and his wife, and my mission president's wife and a few others share about the temple and family history. It was amazing because the room has never been so packed with investigators before! It was such a blessing to see all these things unfold!
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!!!!! I hope you are able to follow all this babbling... but I can't express how amazing this day was!
We had a sister who is less active and worried about gas money come, and she has been coming every week and she was telling me how she is truly seeing the blessings! It's amazing to be able to promise something to someone, because the Lord wants to bless them. Through the spirit I told her a couple weeks ago that if she came every sunday, the things she is really struggling with would be handled, and she was so skeptical. Here she is weeks later and already seeing results! The Lord is so merciful to those who obey!
So that was just church! That was the first part of the day. Then we went out to contact some people we had met but hadn't been able to get back in with yet. We went to this complex called the Villas and we went at it! Every single person we talked to invited us back to share more with them! It was something like 12 people! That is amazing! THe Lord put them in our path so we could talk to them at the exact time we did with each person. If we hadn't been exact with the timing we wouldn't have talked to all the people we did! For instance, we talked to one lady just as she drove up, and she was so very uninterested! She was trying to get her groceries and didn't want anythign to do with us. So we offered to help and we kept chatting with her. The second we walked through her front door she said tuesday was a great day for us to come back and talk to her about our message and she was actually excited. The Lord opened her heart right before our eyes! It was amazing! Just seconds passed between one to the other. The second we walked out her door there was a man coming out of his door, so we talked to him. He was Muslim... which usually when they pull that card it's a "back off", so we waited it out and said we could come back and tell him more. COOOL!!! By that time it was time to get to dinner... So we were headed to one last door, and they too were able to allow up to come back. As we just felt so full of joy and the love that the Lord has for all these people we figured we needed to talk to one more person! We saw this guy getting out of his car and went over and started explaining who we were and what we had for him. This woman came out from behind the car and said the had just spent all morning looking for our church. The had pulled out their GPS, went through the list of churches, and saw "the Church of Jesus Christ" and she said they knew that had to be where they needed to be. So they drove around and ended up in the middle of an apartment complex, so they quit trying. She said that this was just what she needed right now! She needed a good church again. So S. Scott offered her a Book of Mormon and she freaked!!!! She was going off about how crazy them Mormons are and how she would have nothing to do with them and started naming off all kinds of misunderstandings about the church and Joseph Smith. S. Scott asked if she could explain to her what she was saying. We then stood there and taught her the first lesson on the restoration and half an hour later she wanted a Book of Mormon so bad we couldn't help but help her with that desire ha ha ha... she was so excited to hear that our church wasn't created in 2012 like she thought and that it had been around for a long time. She had never heard about it until this year and she had only heard terrible things about it. We got so much cleared up she was wondering when we could come share more. But she doesn't live in our area so we explained that we would send someone to see her. She said, "But what if I want you to teach me? I like you!" She was so amazing! I really hope we get to see her again! Then we ran off to dinner and got to share with a sweet non-member family that was also eating with us! They were so awesome! The atmosphere was very spiritual and we all were able to share experiences in which the Lord was very much in our lives. S. Scott was able to share our experience with the last woman we had just met, and how the Lord touches hearts, not only in preparation for them but also you... everything just fits together like a puzzle piece. Time, experience. It all fits together for something bigger! Bigger than we can even comprehend!
Well! I must get to running! I love you all so much and I know this work is the most important thing I can be doing right now! Thank you for your prayers and your love! Keep it up!! I love your guts!
Sister Harnish
May 21, 2012
I am really learning more and more the importance of the scriptures in our lives. I never thought it would be possible to love them more, or see them as even more important! They are our map! They will lead us home and give us the strength to get out of any situation we find ourselves in. The Lord loves us so very much. I can just tell by opening the Book of Mormon each day. I really can't believe all these people live without it from day to day. I can't teach if I don't read in the morning!
Well this week has been very eventful! I have been pretty sick, some kind of weird cold but I'm feeling much better now. it made for an interesting week. I had to sleep in twice which is a big deal! That means I didn't get to have personal study, so teaching on those days were especially difficult. But such a learning experience!
We met this amazing family I think I told you about. The husband is a less active member and so one day as we were searching out less actives we felt we should go see him. Before we even got to his house we saw a lady out in her yard and we felt to ask her where this family lived. She said they moved but directed us down the street to their new house. After we knocked on a wrong door we found ourselves on their door step.
But we have been teaching this guys ex wife and his twin 9 yr old daughters. They are very excited and I can just see how hungry they are for the truth. The ex wife owns the house, he rents out the bottom of the house, the kids live there, and her fiance I guess is there in the mix too. But they are doing great. We went and taught them the first lesson and they just loved it! Who couldn't love learning that Jesus Christ's church is on the earth again!!!! It's amazing! What a blessing to get to teach them.
We have a baptism planned for next week which we are really excited about. We have been working with her since I got here. They had been working with her 2 or 3 weeks before that as well. So we are getting all geared up for that one. She too is amazing and I love her so much. What a testimony she has!
We are continuing to work with a lot of really sweet less actives and I'm loving those learning experiences. They have such difficult questions because they know the gospel, so we have to have the spirit with us to be able to answer them!!!! It's hard, but it's a work and progress on my end :D
Well it's been a busy busy week and we are short on time today so I must run off to do crafts with Sister Sanders! I love you all and I miss you! and hope you have a wonderful day!!!!
love ya!
Sister Harnish
Well this week has been very eventful! I have been pretty sick, some kind of weird cold but I'm feeling much better now. it made for an interesting week. I had to sleep in twice which is a big deal! That means I didn't get to have personal study, so teaching on those days were especially difficult. But such a learning experience!
We met this amazing family I think I told you about. The husband is a less active member and so one day as we were searching out less actives we felt we should go see him. Before we even got to his house we saw a lady out in her yard and we felt to ask her where this family lived. She said they moved but directed us down the street to their new house. After we knocked on a wrong door we found ourselves on their door step.
But we have been teaching this guys ex wife and his twin 9 yr old daughters. They are very excited and I can just see how hungry they are for the truth. The ex wife owns the house, he rents out the bottom of the house, the kids live there, and her fiance I guess is there in the mix too. But they are doing great. We went and taught them the first lesson and they just loved it! Who couldn't love learning that Jesus Christ's church is on the earth again!!!! It's amazing! What a blessing to get to teach them.
We have a baptism planned for next week which we are really excited about. We have been working with her since I got here. They had been working with her 2 or 3 weeks before that as well. So we are getting all geared up for that one. She too is amazing and I love her so much. What a testimony she has!
We are continuing to work with a lot of really sweet less actives and I'm loving those learning experiences. They have such difficult questions because they know the gospel, so we have to have the spirit with us to be able to answer them!!!! It's hard, but it's a work and progress on my end :D
Well it's been a busy busy week and we are short on time today so I must run off to do crafts with Sister Sanders! I love you all and I miss you! and hope you have a wonderful day!!!!
love ya!
Sister Harnish
May 7, 2012
I'm so thankful for the love I have coming from back home. I couldn't do it without you!!
Next sunday I get to skype you!!!!!!
So this week has been crazy! Last monday we went over to a thrift store that on thursdays everything is 1.75 and then in goes down a quarter a day. so we went monday and got me 5 blazers for 75 cents each! It was great! But there was no air in there so once you opened and shut the door you had better run before you sweat your face off and run out of air. ha ha ha! The trees are beautiful and it's not to muggy yet!
The other morning we got up and I thought I heard water but I didn't realize it was raining until I walked into it. it was like walking into a wall of water. No wonder I didn't see it. It was solid sheets of water! I was soaked in a few minutes to the point of no return :D
The baptism was wonderful yesterday! I got to sing I feel my Saviors Love... I think... we ran though it once at light speed so I was basically sight reading the music, but I really felt the spirit, so I think I was good! Our newly baptized member called us laughing yesterday because she thought she left her glasses in the bathroom at the church but was so happy she couldn't stop laughing about it. it was so cool, and super cute!
It has been quite interesting this week. I have really tried to run before I can walk so I get mad and don't know what to do with myself. So I kinda have to start over and remember to let the spirit teach through me. I wish I could have had one more week in the mtc. It went by to fast and I still haven't had the chance to digest anything. This week it really hit me that I am actually on my mission... i'm here... so I need to be excited and get to work, even though I feel like I'm walking under water... figurativly and physically!
Thank you so much for the recipie! I don't ever know what to cook. My trainer is lactoseintolerant and doesnt eat meat, or eggs... or anything. She hates tomatos. She asked me to cook for her the other day and I really didn't know what to do. I made some toast... she doens't like to eat bread. ha ha ha! We are quite the pair. We are learning a lot about each other and I'm really trying to figure this thing out. It's really hard, but it will be for my own good. And my family to come as well. It will come, with Faith. It will come. I'm so happy I get to talk about the gospel everyday I just really need to learn how to approach people. Most the time I just freak them out! ha ha ha!
Thank you so much for all your love and support! I miss you all! I love you! and I love getting your mail! It keeps me going!
Love you with all my heart!
Sister Harnish
Next sunday I get to skype you!!!!!!
So this week has been crazy! Last monday we went over to a thrift store that on thursdays everything is 1.75 and then in goes down a quarter a day. so we went monday and got me 5 blazers for 75 cents each! It was great! But there was no air in there so once you opened and shut the door you had better run before you sweat your face off and run out of air. ha ha ha! The trees are beautiful and it's not to muggy yet!
The other morning we got up and I thought I heard water but I didn't realize it was raining until I walked into it. it was like walking into a wall of water. No wonder I didn't see it. It was solid sheets of water! I was soaked in a few minutes to the point of no return :D
The baptism was wonderful yesterday! I got to sing I feel my Saviors Love... I think... we ran though it once at light speed so I was basically sight reading the music, but I really felt the spirit, so I think I was good! Our newly baptized member called us laughing yesterday because she thought she left her glasses in the bathroom at the church but was so happy she couldn't stop laughing about it. it was so cool, and super cute!
It has been quite interesting this week. I have really tried to run before I can walk so I get mad and don't know what to do with myself. So I kinda have to start over and remember to let the spirit teach through me. I wish I could have had one more week in the mtc. It went by to fast and I still haven't had the chance to digest anything. This week it really hit me that I am actually on my mission... i'm here... so I need to be excited and get to work, even though I feel like I'm walking under water... figurativly and physically!
Thank you so much for the recipie! I don't ever know what to cook. My trainer is lactoseintolerant and doesnt eat meat, or eggs... or anything. She hates tomatos. She asked me to cook for her the other day and I really didn't know what to do. I made some toast... she doens't like to eat bread. ha ha ha! We are quite the pair. We are learning a lot about each other and I'm really trying to figure this thing out. It's really hard, but it will be for my own good. And my family to come as well. It will come, with Faith. It will come. I'm so happy I get to talk about the gospel everyday I just really need to learn how to approach people. Most the time I just freak them out! ha ha ha!
Thank you so much for all your love and support! I miss you all! I love you! and I love getting your mail! It keeps me going!
Love you with all my heart!
Sister Harnish
April 30, 2012
So.... I made it to Georgia. That was the easy part... Well now Sister Scott and I are hard at work. BUSY BUSY BUSY! We talk to everyone! And teach lots and lots of lessons! I'm in the Lilburn area and our ward is packed with lots of really amazing people. Including the stake president, a counselor, the temple president, the assistants to President Wolfert. It's an amazing ward. We have a baptism coming up on Sunday... yes already! This wonderful lady we met a few weeks ago started the lessons this week and she is on fire. So ready and excited! After the initial shock wore off we explained there is a lot she has to do before she can be baptized. She said bring it on! She moves to New York the first of June so she prayed and received the answer that it needed to be before then, so she thought sunday would be the best way to act on that. I was put on the program for a special musical number so we will see how that goes. We also have another sister who is working toward baptism that i love to death. She has been through some really hard things lately and just loves coming to church and loving everything that encompasses. I miss you all and wish you could be here to see all the trees! They are everywhere! I love you all so much and will chat with yawl soon! Momma, if you haven't sent that box yet will you please put yourself in it te he he! Hugs and Kisses!
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