Hello Everyone!! This email may not
be very long this week but I will do my best to extend all my stories out a
little longer so it looks just as long. :P Each day this week flew by but the
week itself went by really slow. Looking back at last Tuesday and Wednesday
seems like it has been forever ago! But maybe that's just cause I have been
trying to focus on each day instead of the week in its entirety. However, only
like 3 cool things happened this week. Let me tell you about my week and
then we will see what happens from there.
This last Tuesday I went on exchanges
with my district leader, Elder Zeegan George. He is from Sandy Utah as
well. I didn't learn a whole lot about his family or what he likes to do
but right now, he loves the mission and has put his home life on hold
completely. It's really cool to hear about the changes he has been able
to make out here cause then it allows me the time and chance as well
to reflect on the changes I've been able to make. We saw SOO many miracles
that day! Here are just a few of them:
As we were planning Tuesday
morning to see which families in the Pima 1st ward we should visit,
we chose 6 families and then decided we should pray and ask if
there was anyone else we should add to the list. When we finished the prayer,
he had the feeling that we should put another one on there and a name came
to my mind. It was the Peterson Family. We had been told to go see
them last week but they don't have a phone number and we couldn't
find their house. So we put them on the list and headed out for the day.
We saw a few families and had some great experiences! Then we went looking
for a brother Milsap. But we got a little lost... we ended up going
down some dirt road about half a mile and it ended at 2 houses, a brown one and
a white one. We decided we should knock on them but couldn't decide which one.
Elder George kept looking at the brown one and said that we should go
to that one. But I looked at the white one and said that we should knock
the white one first and then the brown one if we needed to. He said, "It's
your area." and followed me to the door. We knocked and a man answered the
door with a friendly "Hello Elders! Come on inside!" We
introduced ourselves and he said "I'm Brother Peterson. Welcome to our
home." THIS WAS THE SAME PETERSON FAMILY THAT WE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR LAST
WEEK AND PLANNED TO SEE TODAY!!!! Oh it was so cool to see the Lord's hand like
that! She has been diagnosed with breast cancer and it has been really tough
for them to deal with. She goes through radiation this week then Kimo next
week. They said they really needed us to come over and share message with them.
So that was really cool!!
We then went out to Bylas again, that
is the Apache Indian Reservation. First we saw Leon. He told us he had read the
Restoration Pamphlet and believed it! After telling us what the Apache's
believed, we realized how close it was to what we believe! He told us about the
Holy Ghost and how it works and feels, but he explained it like a hummingbird.
We told him about the Book of Mormon and he told us he would read and pray
about it! We challenged him to Baptism and he accepted a date of June 28th.
Elder George set that date and it wasn't till we got home that night that we
realized it was impossible for him to keep. The rule in the mission is you have
to go to church 3 times at least. With the date, he would only have the
opportunity to go twice... So we are going out there tomorrow to reset it and
help him make arrangements to go to church.
We then went over to Joey's who is a
potential we have. Long story short, he wasn't home. But his mom was! She told
us she used to be Lutheran but wasn't anymore cause there wasn't a church out
in Bylas that she believed in. So we asked her what she believed in and
told he that we believed all that and more. She was just leaving right then but
asked for a Book of Mormon and then asked us to come back and talk to her more
about what we believe! So both Leon and Joey's mom were miracles to me!
This week, I hit a year!! We treated
it as a normal day until that night when we got home! We had ice cream and we
were going to make a cake but I don't have a pan or eggs so I'll make it today
instead. :) BUT I BURNED MY SHIRT!!! I am going to try to put it onto a google
doc's from kyle.myfastpc@gmail.com
but we will see if I can get into it first. :P If that doesn't work then I will
put it into a drop-box account and see if I can get that to work. But it
was insane! We bought a bottle of lighter fluid and took the shirt out to the
middle of our property where there is just rocks and dirt. We took a short
stick and taped it to a bigger on to make a "t" then got it to stand
up with rocks holding it up. We hung the shirt on and lit it up! We used the
entire bottle of lighter fluid on it... :) The flame was HUGE for about 3
seconds before it melted the tape and the shirt fell down but continued to
burn. It was probably like 15 or 20 feet high and the heat was super intense
and we were like 20 feet away from it. The video is super cool and hopefully I
can get it to start working!
And of course, it was Fathers day
yesterday. Dad, Happy Fathers day! I love you so much! We were talking about
memories we had with our dads yesterday and I had a lot come to mind. I've
talked about them in past emails but I want to remind you cause I know how your
memory is starting to fade now-a-days. ;) Remember that Thanksgiving where
it was just me and you? You didn't want Turkey, you wanted Ham! But we didn't
have anything else to go with it so instead of making potatoes or green beans,
we had ham, a banana, pickles, popcorn, and diet coke! We had our meat, fruits,
and vegies in it (popcorn is made from corn which is a vegie, right?)... I also
remember you taking me to St. Johns with you for the 24th of July Celebration.
I remember the ride down there was super squished cause I sat in the middle in
the back taking up everyone's leg and arm room. That was such a great trip! I
remember going on the Fathers and Sons campout and sleeping in the bed of the
truck on an air mattress but there was a hole it in so it was super
uncomfortable... :P But you were always the life of Fathers and Sons and made
it fun for all the guys there, even the older ones. Of course there was clear
creek! As a 5th grader, I got special treatment when it came to my pot gut
trap! We used peanut butter back then which works a WHOLE lot better than those
seeds. Plus it fattens us the potguts and makes the kids feel better knowing
they caught one that was like 5 lbs instead of like 1 lb. I got to use peanut
butter AND a special blend of seed that no other kid had! I wish I had more
time to go over all my memories but I just want to say, I love you dad. Thank
you for always putting up with me and always being the best example to me!
I sent home a package this week. It
should get there today. Inside is something for everyone including Syd and
Dave. I also have a new suit in there and my box of mission memories that I
want to keep safe there at home. Feel free to go through it! Most of them are
just letters and you can go through them if you have to but if you don't, that
would be best (just some secrets that my friends don't want me to put out for
the whole world to know). Well, I think that is about everything! The heat lost
this week to the Spurs and so the Spurs are the new NBA Champions! GO SPURS!!
;) Also, the U.S. plays in their world cup game today. Let me know how it is if
you watch it. I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!
~Elder Kyle Harris
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