This week has been kind of a crazy week, not in the
sense that there has been a lot of stuff going on just that the spirit
has been so much more present. Actually I have been recognizing it more
its always been there.
Sunday my companion spoke
in sacrament meeting about repentance, then the devotional that night
was by the Provo Temple President and his wife, and they talked a lot
about being a converted missionary and I know that the only way you can
convert others is to you yourself be converted to what you are teaching.
A testimony of the gospel is strong, but now testimony alone isn't
strong enough to protect us from the darkness in today's world. We need
to be converted. After the devotional we went and watched a "moive" it
wasn't really a movie it was just a previous MTC devotional given by Tad
R. Callister and it was titled "A Consecrated Missionary" by far one of
the very best devotionals I have ever heard. He asked a question in
that devotional "What are you willing to put on the alter of sacrifice?"
and I ask all of you to ask yourselves that, what are you willing to
sacrifice for the Lord.
Monday:
nothing really interesting happens on Mondays lol we did try to have
exercise time as a Zone everyone came out to play but 4 of the sisters
decided to just sit in the grass while we played volleyball. We're going
to try it again this next Monday
but with Kick Ball. we also spoke only in Italian for pranzo (lunch)
that day it was the first one so it was intersting but fun at the same
time!
Tuesday:
nothing too exciting happened except for our devotional!!! We had one
of the 12 come!!! can you guess who?!?!?! ..............................
Elder Quinton L. Cook, His talk was really focused on the Restoration
and Love. He had the choir sing (I'm in the MTC choir if you didn't
know) The Morning Breaks and it was soooooo good! I couldn't believe how
good it was we sung all 5 verses and he talked about how we are
bringing to pass prophecy and how we are the ones bringing the world the
restoration of the gospel super cool! The other thing he talked about
was Love, there are 4 types of love missionaries should develop and they
are as follows
1. love for your companions: Respect them, learn from them
2. love the people: the more you love them the success you will have when you teach them
3.
love your Mission President: as you love your mission president you
will want to go to him for guidance even after you mission
4.
love the Savior: This one is the most important one. As you love the
Savior your desire to serve and love the people increase.
well that was Tuesday!!!!
Wednesday: Not much happened here the day flew by and I can't remember anything.
Thursday:
Yesterday was bomb, my lesson with my investigator wasn't that great
but then in our evening lesson with Sorella Griffin we talked about "The
Power of Our Call" and I'm going to be honest with you I thought I knew
what that power of my call as a missionary was before we started
talking about this, as we kept talking I realized that I really didn't
know all that much about the power of my call. It's from Preach my
Gospel on Page 4 (any missionary that is getting this and has had the
time read most of my email and is reading this now pay attention) it
talks a lot about what we are called to do but more importantly what
power we have with this calling, as a missionary for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints we have the power to help people understand
that there is more to this life and that the Savior has paid the
ultimate price for us to live once again and the only way we can help
them is to teach by the power of the Spirit.
Today:
one of the Romanian elders is having muscle spasms in his right
shoulder so I stayed with him in the residence while everyone else went
to the temple and I've just been studying since then and writing this
email.
Let me know how you are all doing! Love to hear from you all!
Love you all! Ciao ciao
-Anziano Harrison
Become as He is
Theses are the Italians in the Zone
Laundry time but my companion says first let me take a selfie
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