Hello Family and Friends! I can't believe that it is Monday already! It
seems like just yesterday I was on here emailing you all! But I don't mind!
That is just less time that I feel like I have to wait to talk to you guys!
GAVIN: I cannot believe that you are up to 185! Honestly... You
can bench more than me... I think I hit 150 just the other day... So my goal
before I leave this area is I will hit 185. Let me know when you hit 200! You are getting so BIG!!! I cannot believe it! Soon you will be able to
beat me up, Maybe! ;) Don't crash my truck please! That is my baby from home
and I want to be able to drive it around a little when I finish things here. I
know you like rap music so here is a suggestion that I think you might like
that would make mom and dad happy too. There is an artist named Lacre I think.
His album is called Gravity. LOOK IT UP! It is Christian rap so it doesn't
swear or talk about anything bad but it would pound the bass in the truck!
Connor: How have you been doing buddy?? I brag to everyone that
you are a drummer and we even had a member trying to look up your videos on
facebook! But we couldn't find it... How has school been? I hope its going
well! No girls yet, right? ;) You play in St. George for thanksgiving huh? Hey,
let me give you some advice... Are you listening? Don't let the other team
score and you might win. Tell that to your team and convince them you are a
genious! ;D
Mom: So the girl that called is named Becky. She is so cool! She
is 20 and went to chile' on her mission. But after 6 months out, she had some
heart problems and so she had to come home for surgery. She wants to go back
out but the mission headquarters doesn't think she will... Sad day.... Anyway,
her sister is 35 and lives in our ward. So the two of them took Elder Flake and
I out to a Chinese Buffet. It was so great! Untill Elder Flake and I decided
that we would eat the most disgusting looking thing we could find. We chose
oysters. It was about 3 inches long and the part you eat looked like someone
took their spit, mixed it with their mucas then put it into a shell. It smelled
like cat urine.... We counted to 3 and I dumped it into my mouth. Elder Flake
spit his out immediately and i just let it sit in my mouth. My gag reflex
wouldn't let me swallow it. Finally after like 5 seconds of holding it in, I
forced it down and kept it down! But I was drinking Dr Pepper so everytime I
burped in my throat, it tasted like oysters.... I didn't eat anything else for
dinner... But it was still so much fun! After dinner, she asked for your number
so she could call you and tell you about me. Right as you guys were finishing, she put the phone on speaker and
I heard you say through your tears, "Thank you so much." I admittedly
broke down and started to cry too. But it was just perfect! It helped me
realize that I will be home soon and this mission here isn't forever! I don't
want to come home but I can't wait till I do!
Dad: I am writing in my journal every night and trying to put a
lot of detail into it for the future! On youtube there is a channel that I
believe is called "After Ever After". It is basically songs about
disney movies and what happened after happily ever after. It is SO funny! I
think you might like it :)
We had such a scary experience because of a dumb choice we made.
We were on exchanges and I was with my District Leader Elder Smith in our area.
We were visiting less actives and we had this one we were visiting that no one
had heard from since they read the records in 15 years before. So we showed up
and the gate was locked. It was only like 4 feet high. We didn't have a number
to contact her and we didn't know what to do. Admittedly I wanted to show my DL
that I wasn't scared to make decisions so I said, "Lets jump the fence! We
have to find out!" We walked up to the door timidly and knocked on it. A
man opened it immediately. He was big and had a really long scruffy
beard. The first words that come out of his mouth were, "How the
[heck] did you get into my yard?!" We explained who we were and tryed to
explain our reason but he interupted and asked again "How the [heck] did
you get into my yard?!" Without being about to really answer his question
he pointed at the ground, stared into each of our eyes, and said, "Don't
move from that spot." Then he turned around and walked inside. I thought 2
things were gonna happen. 1) he was gonna shoot us. Or 2) He was gonna call the
cops. Luckily, neither happened. He walked us out the gate, opened it up and
explained that we had come to the right house but the member we were looking
for has been really sick and that she was sleeping for the first time in a few
weeks. He said the only reason the cops weren't there was because we didn't
wake her up. We apologized over and over and he said that it was fine but never
to come back. We agreed and walked away. Boy... That was super scary.... Elder
Smith said we were never jumping fences again! I agree. :)
I heard two things that I would like to share with you.
"When reading the Book of Mormon, we should never turn the
page until we've learned something from that page." How true this is! The
Book of Mormon is meant for us and everything in there is meant to be applied
for each and every one of us. I have been trying to learn something from every
page and i realized that a lot of the lessons I learn are a repeat of ones I've
previously come up with. That is because the Lord works with repitition. So
maybe that is a sign to me about what I need to change.
"The best things to do with downward moving escalators is
go up them! Well, think of this analogy. We are like faith and the world
is like a downward moving excalator. If we stop moving up, we will always go
down." It is so true to! If we don't progress, we will degress. Faith
isn't meant to linger. It is like the seed analogy in Alma 32. If a seeds just
sits on the counter, it will die. You have to nourish it, plant it, and take
care of it! So it is with our faith. If we just let it sit around, it will
diminish and die.
I challenge you guys to look for the simple ways that you feel
like you can strengthen your faith and then DO THEM! That is the part I have a
hard time with.
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!
Love,
~Elder
Harris
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