Libertadores - Week 8

Conviction and Sincerity

Fun fact about my mission is there are only two Mexicans in our mission and they are companions haha. They are also in our zone and today as a zone we ate COMPLETOS.

Saturday was one of those days where we were walking all day long talking with everyone but there were a ton of rejects. At 8:00 we looked at our planners and saw that we had an appointment on the other side of our area. At least 10 minutes walking. We were so tired, but we remembered that it was a good contact so we went for it, and we were able to find a married couple to teach. They weren't that receptive, they actually didn't accept a baptismal date, but after we left I felt like wow that was a lot of work just to have two nuevos. But it was worth it, nothing is better than teaching the Restoration.

Yesterday one of our recent converts gave a talk in sacrament meeting about prayer and fasting, and I'm not lying I felt like I was listening to general conference. It was so good, I felt so happy that he had taken time to prepare his talk so well, and the room was filled with the spirit when he bore his firm testimony with conviction and with sincerity.

It's the only picture I took this week.

Elder Harris

Congrats to Abby for graduating from High School and

Congrats to Chandler for being assigned to the PERU LIMA SOUTH MISSION

Libertadores - Week 7

Zona El Trebol

Libertadores - Week 6

Sprint to the End

The best thing that happened this week was the baptism we had. It was a cool experience because Joao (the convert of Elder Chalampuento, my trainer) baptized his sister Alicia. It was amazing to see the changes that Alicia had made in her conversion. Actually she had made all the changes before I got here, I just arrived and we found her ready. She is getting along well with the JAS and we are hoping to see more progress with her and her family.

I had some good pictures to send but my camera isn't working, sorry.

It was good talking to my family. I think the best part of the week was asking my mom to say the opening prayer and the signal was cut off, so I didn't hear a thing. But they told me afterward that she cried through the whole prayer. So I'm sure it was a spiritual experience for everyone who was there. But I'm really grateful for my mom, she has helped me through a lot of struggles in my life. I'm pretty sure if she was a missionary she would baptize more than Ammon. She showed me the example of how to do the work of salvation before my mission and I often find myself sharing experiences of things that my mom has done here on the mission. She is the best. LOVE YOU MOM.

Until next week,

Elder Harris

Libertadores - Week 5

Pollada o Apollada?

This week we taught a lot of interesting people with lots of diverse beliefs. It's a little harder helping those kind of people but we are striving. But of all the few people we taught I think the best experience was going with the former bishop to one of his referrals. Her husband had passed away a few years ago, and she still felt pained because of his absence. We testified of the blessings of the restoration, the knowledge we have of the plan of salvation, and at the end the member suggested that we sing God Be With You Until We Meet Again, and it was really spiritual. It was actually a lot of work getting that referral, and then getting the member to accompany us to visit her was another story. But all that work paid off when we were able to teach her, and we are praying that she will progress.

One goal we made for this week was to not waste time when we are leaving the apartment, because a few times we left late to proselyte, and the next day I read this stripture.

Alma 60:22 "Yea, will ye sit in idleness while ye are surrounded with thousands of those, yea, and tens of thousands, who do also sit in idleness, while there are thousands round about in the borders of the land who are falling by the sword, yea, wounded and bleeding?"

Reading this helped me repent and now we are leaving the apartment earlier and with more fire.

We also had zone conference this week and President Stauffer instructed us about how we minister as missionaries. How we minister to investigators, members, and other missionaries.

One teaching of President Stauffer that is always emphasized in every meeting is THE LORD BLESSES MISSIONARIES WHO WORK. President Stauffer always tells us all the blessings he has had in his life and says that all of it was thanks to the work that he dedicated as a missionary.

Thanks everyone

Elder Harris