Week 73 There is GOLD at the end of the rainbow!

Yay! We had another lesson with D yesterday. It was AWESOME. We read part of 3 Nephi 11 and talked about how the voice they heard pierced them to the soul and we asked him if he had ever felt that, and he said yes, but that it goes away, and that he wanted it to stay longer. So we also talked about the gift of the Holy Ghost, and we asked him what he thought would be the next step for him. AND HE SAID HE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING, LIKE, MAKE A PROMISE WITH GOD THAT HE WOULD FOLLOW HIM. Seriously. This guy is INCREDIBLE. :D

So. We saw the C. family, and they made us chile rellenos. :) Yum. On Wednesday we saw 4/5 people we planned to see... unfortunately 3 of those 5 were busy doing something. But. We saw them. And we had two members with us. Haha. :)

Thursday we had both our appointments cancel on us, and we still had to finish weekly planning, but we felt like we needed to go out to the area for a minute. So. The first street that came to mind was the one we selected, and off we went. We had a house in mind and on the way there we saw a young man. We stopped and invited him to the Battalion and then talked to him for the next hour. It was super cool. I KNOW that God put us in his path that day. It was a super cool experience for me. :)

One more before the road! Last P-Day!

Cinco de Mayo weekend was nothing like last year's, unfortunately. :( We only had like 300 visitors each day. This year they had most of the roads leading to the Battalion blocked off. So. That was less favorite. :/

But. Yesterday was the best day ever. Like I talked about earlier, we had a lesson with D. It was incredible! But before that - we had a mission-wide conference with Elder M Russell Ballard! That's my second one! It was so incredible. All the speakers were so inspired and inspirational. I felt so pumped to be a missionary! And here's the kicker - the night before one of the assistants to the president texted and said President asked if I would give the closing prayer. >_< 

Ummmm... so 6 people spoke, the 6th being Elder Ballard, and then we sang a song, and I closed with a prayer. I literally almost lost all bodily functions. I was so nervous I couldn't even breathe. But as I walked up, President Morgan gave me a smile, and that helped. Then I saw Sister and President Clayton giving me a smile too, and that helped. Then I saw Elder Ballard and he was smiling at me too! So I knew it was going to be okay. :) Then I tried to speak and my throat clenched again and nothing came out. But finally something did and I guess it was okay, no one booed or shouted "false doctrine!" and President didn't send me home, and I just ran down, relieved to be done. It was pretty cool though, because during it I felt the Spirit really strongly, and I felt the joy of being a missionary. I felt such gratitude and love and happiness. It was really sweet. :)

THEN at the Battalion I saw a sister taking a tour by herself so I asked if I could go with her. Sister Rasmussen said yes, so I joined, and it was so cool. It was a mom and her daughter, and they had come by the day before but they didn't have any time, so they promised Sister Baker they'd come back the next day. And they did! And she was on shift! Outside! When they showed up! :) Miracles! So anyway we took the tour.

In the end we were out in goldpanning and we were just talking to her, pretty lowkey/casual. Now, something I've struggled with my whole mission is TALKING to people. I just don't know how. I usually just straight up ask if they'd like for missionaries to come visit them. And I usually just get a 'no thank you.' But this time was different. Questions just came out of our mouths and the conversation was steered by heavenly hands and suddenly she was telling us about how her brother converted and how they were super nice to him and when he went to Afghanistan they even helicoptered him to church every week and how she's asked him about it but he always thinks she's just making fun of it and yes, she'd like a Book of Mormon and she'd love to hear more. I got to testify to her about how the Book of Mormon unites families and brings such a strength into the home. She seemed really touched and was so happy when she left and Sister Baker and I were ecstatic. It was such a miracle!

THEN. I took a tour with Sister Calderon and these two people from Jordan. They were a RIOT. So funny! Haha, then I went to whisper something to Sister Calderon at the same time that she turned to whisper something to me and we ended up bonking into each other and well she got a bloody nose and it was pretty hilarious. :) But the tour went super well and we both learned a lot and Z and M learned a lot too. :)

Things are going so well! It's going to be an incredible week this week. MIRACLES! :D

Well. I love you all!

--Hermana Harris

Week 72 Happy Happy May!

Cinco de Mayo will be filled with lots and lots and lots of Spanish tours. It won't be as intense as the 3rd or the 4th though. Both of those will be CRAZY. The Battalion gets SUPER BUSY since Old Town has a massive celebration. It literally takes 30 minutes to get from the freeway exit to the Battalion. It's normally a 2-3 minute drive. So. Yeah. It's bad. But it'll be good because all those people will get to feel the spirit and learn about faith in Jesus Christ!

We went and visited a recent convert that's struggling. So to help support her we all gave up something. I gave up complaining. Well... I failed. I still complained some. BUT I did get better at recognizing when I complained and then changed what I said to be something positive. So it's getting better. So I liked what you said about creating positiveness in your thoughts. I've been working on that! :D

Wednesday we had another lesson with M., but this time we had a member with us. It went so well! She's listening more and objecting less. So that's good. :) More open to the message. Progress!

Thursday we had exchanges!!! Sister Amendola went to Barrio 20. Sister Bermudez! The amazing one and only! came with Sister Calderon and I. It was a pretty intense day. But. We also met lots of people and got a referral for the deaf elders and learned a lot. It was pretty awesome. :)

On Friday we had the coolest miracle ever. A while back the elders in our area gave us a phone number and told us to call the guy, but they didn't give us the area code, so the number didn't work. So then a week later they gave us the area code and we called and set up an appointment. On the day of the appointment we called him and he said he had forgotten, so we set up another appointment. 

This time he was able to come and we met and it was the most incredible lesson. He is literally the most prepared person I've ever taught. Ever. We asked him what faith in Jesus Christ meant to him, and he said it meant that he needs to follow the example of Jesus Christ in everything, because He came and set the example for us, and we need to follow Him and try to be like He was, and do what He did. And after we talked about the Book of Mormon (the elders had already given him one) he asked what was the best way to study it so he could really learn from it. It was so cool!! Anyway. Yeah. So we are going to see him again this week. So excited. :)

On Saturday we went tracting with a bunch of members. We met some very cool people, and I really feel like God wanted us right there at that moment. The best feeling ever! We met this lady Y. from the Middle East and she was going on about how she just believed in Christ, not in all these churches created by man, and how Jesus taught the truth, He taught the pure truth, and then man changed it according to what man wanted, so that's why she doesn't believe any western religions. 

SO she already understands The Apostasy! Perfect! Now she just needs part 2, The Restoration. :) Anyway we sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives", and she said it gave her the "goosey bumps." When we first knocked at her door she was a little...well she didn't want us there so much. But by the end she was hugging us and said she felt so good. It was waaaay sweet. :) And the member that came with us said she felt really good too, and that she didn't want to come at first but she was SO glad she had! :)

BTW>>>Turns out I really like Thai food. Had some yesterday. It was SOOO GOOOD. ^_^

Love you all!

--Hermana Harris

Week 71 Thats why I'm here!

This week! Whoo, what the week. We've really seen why Sister Calderon was sent to us. We had a lesson on Wednesday with our investigator M, and she LOVED her. She said Sister Amendola and I are nice, and quiet, but she just really connects with Hna Calderon. So, we're super grateful to her. She's so awesome!

I made a bread loaf called a Stollen Loaf. People kept asking me what it was. So I told them it was a stollen loaf. But of course they all heard stolen. Did I bother to clarify? ...Well, I DO love a good pun....

On Thursday we had a sweet training meeting where they had some of us come in costume as someone that we've met at the Battalion or an acquaintance or something. So I came wearing jeans (it was a surprise so I couldn't say anything so Sister Calderon was freaking out) and sunglasses and we went through the tour and it was one of my favorite moments. I took the tour through my character's eyes and it was just so powerful. I LOVED it. I love that no matter how many times I take the tour it always applies in different ways. :)

On Saturday my companion was having a super hard time. But then we went to the Battalion and we took a tour together, and afterwards she had, as she called it, a Best Two Years moment - "That's why I'm here." She testified to these two Marines that God loved them regardless of tattoos or the mistakes they had made. She told me she felt His love for them and just shared it with them and they walked out changed men. It was a neat experience for all of us. :)

Sunday! Easter is the best. I LOVE IT. :)

Well, yesterday we again saw why Sister Calderon is here. A member invited us over, and had her friend come as well. Her friend is from the Dominican Republic. So. She immediately connected with Sister Calderon and talked to her the WHOLE time (every time we tried to talk the lady just cut us off and talked to Sister Calderon again, haha) and was so happy and wants us to come over. She's not in our area so that's a problem. But. It's fine. Miracles are miracles. :)

Today we're going to go tour the Midway!( a Navy Aircraft carrier) I'll be thinking of Grandpa the whole time. :) ( Grandpa David worked as an electrician on those big ships the Navy shipyard in Bremerton)

Love you all! :D

--Hermana Harris

Week 70 Loving Laughter and Miracles!

Here are a few quotes from Sister Calderon, our new trainee:

"Will you just chill? Take some Hawaii cough drops or something."

Hermanas Harris, Calderon, X.  and Amendola

"Another prayer? We are just saying HELLOOO to you today!" (that was directed at the ceiling... haha...)

This one was as I was trying to fall asleep: "Sister Harris, you are so naturally beautiful. You just wake up in the morning, like, "Aaahaaaahaaaaaaaah aaahaaahaaaahaaaaahaaaaaaah!" <--- That's the song Ariel sings when Ursula is taking her voice.

Last night she was telling us (for the 3rd time) about how she accidentally called a group of elders 'guys' and how they freaked out. She was dramatizing her would-be response, and said, "Woahwoahwoahwoahwoah. I'm NEW, chumbucket!"

We had temple shift this week, and we were talking to someone about who was in charge of driving, and she said she was, and added, "God said give her the keys, and so they gave me the keys!"

She was telling us once about her shower routine (not sure why... but you know, that's how it goes) and she said it takes so long because "I shave, then shampoo my hair, rinse it, conditioner, rinse it, shampoo again..." we interrupted her and asked her why she had to shampoo twice, and she said, "It says shampoo, rinse, repeat!!"

Oy.

Then she was talking about how she loves shoes, especially Uggs. "I bought this pair of sparkly Uggs right before I came out. They were SO cute. I wore them like 3 times. BLESS. THOSE. SHOES."

"Raisins rogues sans panini? What the heck?" (Reading the side of the bag of red seedless grapes).

In the car once she was talking about how people in Utah get married so quickly. "I don't know what the secret is in Utah. Maybe it's the water. I need to drink more of that stuff."

And this one is probably the one you should put on the blog: "I want to be a talk show host, because if there's one think I can't get enough of, it's talking!"

 (THEY WERE ALL TOO FUNNY AND I HAD TO PUT THEM IN!)

Ok so this one takes some explanation. So Sister Amendola told me about this song she learned from a video that teaches sign language. It says something like, "I like apples on my pizza, I like apple pizza please. Put more apples on my pizza, don't forget the extra cheese." Then you change what you put on it. Anyway. It was stuck in my head in the shower and I kept mixing up all the words and making up new verses, like "I like popcorn on my pizza, I like popcorn pizza please, put more popcorn on my pizza, don't forget the extra cheese" and "I like carrots on my popcorn, I like popcorn pizza please, put more carrots on my popcorn, don't forget the extra cheese?" When I came out of the shower, I was telling SIster Amendola about it, and Sister Calderon was listening. She said, 

"OKITHINKYOURPIZZA'SFULL."

Anyway!

Speaking of pizza, last Tuesday we made a pizza with rosemary dough for the crust and put bell peppers and onions on top. It was SOO good. ^_^ A cream cheese sauce would've been better maybe but I didn't know how to do that so... we just went with the regular kind.

On Wednesday we finally had a lesson again with X. She made us crepes. She's the cutest! She also gave me a birthday present! It's a beautiful grey and brown scarf. It looks very elegant. And here's the super cool thing. She LOVES Hermana Calderon. She just was straight up and bold with her and loving and Xachi kept saying, "Wow you're so powerful! I love having you hermanas here, but YOU speak my language! You have such a way with words! What you said has entered my heart. I feel it very strongly." So... that's good! Like I said, she's an incredible teacher. and a rocking awesome missionary!

On Friday Sister Calderon took her first solo tour at the Battalion! WOOO! Very proud of her. :) She's doing awesome! We also had an adventure with the cars. Turns out the Chevy Cruze had a recall on the axle, so we had to take it into the nearest dealership, which was thankfully only about 10 minutes away. So we went and they checked it out, and we had to wait for about an hour in the dealership. I had never been inside one before. It was all so fancy. It was pretty fun. We especially enjoyed the complimentary herbal tea and water and fruit. We got to share the gospel a bit, read some scriptures, etc. Not bad. :)

Laundry day is a special day! It the day we get ready for laundry...

Saturday we had choir practice and threw together a song for the Fireside on Sunday. Good news: Heavenly Father helps you when you're missionaries. It literally just came together and it worked out perfectly. Very neat. Then we had temple shift, and afterwards went to the corner store that our member just opened. Such a cute little shop! If anyone goes to La Jolla, go buy something from him! It's off of Judicial. It's in this little square for an apartment complex called Crossroads something or other. It's so cute. ^_^ Get some frozen yogurt or something.

Sunday we had the fireside. It went really well! The song wasn't flawless but it sounded fine, and that's not bad considering we literally only practiced it with the piano ONCE. The testimonies were really unique but good and the messages were awesome. :) One is called Wrong Path or something. It's by Jeffrey R Holland.

Yesterday we had interviews with President. And at the Battalion I got to see an AWESOME miracle. :) I wrote a bit about it, and Sister Kennedy wrote the ending.

 Here's the story. 

One day I was standing in the lobby talking to some sisters at the front desk, and I felt prompted to go outside. I merely glanced outside to see if anyone was out there, and my eye caught a glimpse of someone walking with their bicycle, looking at the Battalion but hurrying on. I thought, “Oops, too late, I missed him.” The Spirit and I had a battle in my head: “You can still catch up.” “No, I’d have to run.” “Well, RUN.” I had been praying all week for the ability to recognize and obey the Spirit, so I repented and jogged all the way to the statue, catching up just in time.

 I spoke to him and we had a friendly chat about the Battalion, what it was, etc., and he said that he helped organize after-school activities and that he might have the kids come through some day. He mentioned that he had often walked past the building, and had always wondered what it was. He added that after seeing all the friendly sisters outside waving all the time, he felt like he should check it out. He said he didn’t have time that day to take the tour, but that he would definitely come back soon. I gave him some Battalion cards, and he went on his way. After he left, I felt such peace and excitement. I knew the Spirit had prompted me to go out and talk to B, and I felt the joy and thrill of following a prompting and planting a seed.

Many times here at the Battalion we don’t see the fruits of the seeds we plant, or even much growth. As time went on, I started wondering what ever happened to B. It had been over a month since we had met, and I wondered if he had ever come in or not. For the past week or so he kept coming to mind on a daily basis, but I just pushed it aside, accepting that sometimes we just never see the end. Then, as I was greeting a cute member family from Fresno, I saw B. walking past with his bicycle! As soon as I saw him, I knew Heavenly Father was answering my prayers, and that a miracle was in the making.

I waved, and he saw me and stopped and parked his bike on the street and headed up the stairs. I went outside and greeted him again. He remembered me, and my name, (“Like you said, it’s Sister Harris, because your ‘hair is’ always covering your name tag!”) and said he had time to take the tour. He was so excited that he left his bike on the sidewalk. I told him he could bring his bike inside, so he grabbed his bike, put it in the lobby, and joined the two families in the intro room. Throughout the whole tour, he was just beaming from ear to ear.  At the end of the tour, I ended up taking the pictures of the families, and so the other sister on tour was able to talk to B.

-Sister Harris

(Sister Kennedy wrote)

I had just come from dinner break and the senior sister asked me if I would hop in on the tour that Sister Harris had already started. I obliged, and as the video played, Sister Harris informed me that B. was a miracle in the making. Throughout the rest of the tour I just prayed that he would feel the spirit and that Sister Harris and I could bring the spirit and have a chance to share the gospel at the end.

After the tour, we were in the artifact room and B. asked if the artifacts were real. I assured him that they were all genuine, and then guided him to the case with the Bible and the Book of Mormon, telling him that it was my favorite case. I then asked him if he had ever heard of it. He hadn’t, so I explained a little about what it was and that’s why we are sometimes known as “Mormons”.  I asked him if he was religious at all and he told me “kind-of”. He said that most of his life he had been Agnostic, but he didn’t want to be. He doesn’t like the fact that he questions everything, so he has been going to a Christian church and praying a lot, but doesn’t feel like his prayers are really being answered. I told him that as missionaries, our purpose is to help people find answers to their prayers, and I asked him if he would like to meet missionaries. He said yes! 

As we talked more, I testified of the power of the Book of Mormon and of prayer, and how these two things combined with church will help him to answer his prayers. He was concerned that his prayers were not being answered because people told him that their answers were like a “punch in the face”. I explained to him that this usually isn’t the case, but that they come slowly, with time. 

When we receive a referral, we are told to let the missionaries that come to their house give them a Book of Mormon, but the spirit told me that he needed to hear a scripture, so I grabbed a nearby book, and read to him Heleman 5:30 which says “And it came to pass when they heard this voice, and beheld that it was not a voice of thunder, neither was it a voice of a great tumultuous noise, but behold, it was a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul”. 

He read it again, and he looked at me and said “I love that.” I told him to keep it, and he was so touched. He asked me if he could meet with me and Sister Harris. It broke my heart, but I explained to him that we had our assigned areas in which we teach, but he could visit the battalion and tell us how his journey was going! He said he would, and asked me how soon the missionaries would come. I told him “as soon as possible!”

Sometimes it’s hard to be at the battalion because you plant these seeds and almost never see the growth, but its days like these where I see the miracles that remind me that the work I am doing is making a difference, and that the Lord sees and appreciates my labors, and it makes it all worth it.

-Sister Kennedy

So there you go. :) AWESOME. I love being a missionary!!!

I think that's most of what happened. Love you all! :)

--Hermana Harris

Week 69 Sister Calderon arrives!

Hermana Calderon

So. The adventure continues in La Mesa. Sister Amendola and I are still companions, and we have a new trainee, Sister Calderon. She's from North Carolina, but her parents are Dominican, so she has a sweet accent and a lot of spunk. She's SUPER pumped to be a missionary and loves tracting and teaching and just being with people. She has the gift of being social. So I'm trying to pick up some tips from her, haha. It's like magic. It's fascinating just watching her talk to people. People are literally spellbound. She just makes insta-friends. On her way here she placed two Books of Mormon! Like, on the flight over from Utah and then in the bathroom at the airport. She's on FIRE. So basically, watch out La Mesa, because we are going to tear it up! She's super funny too. She makes us laugh. A lot. She's just hilarious. We've got a lot to teach her and we've got a lot to learn from her. It's going to be quite the adventure!!!

I left my planner at home so I don't have my usual notes to know what happened this week so I'll give a few highlights. Yes, they're ranked. :)

4. We visited the branch president with Sister Calderon. We taught a lesson about 1 Nephi, and we acted out Nephi getting the plates from Laban. Mia (the 3-yr-old) was Nephi, Cristina (her 7-yr-old sister) was Sam, Sister Amendola was Laman and Lemuel, Sister Calderon was Lehi, and I was Laban. Oh and their dog Stick was Zoram. No they did not decapitate me, but they did take my cardigan and put it on Mia, so then Stick gave her the 'plates.' (a quad... haha) It was really neat. :)

3. An investigator came to conference!!! :D She watched like 30 minutes of the 1st session and stayed for the intermediate meal thing and watched the last session too! It was so awesome. We haven't seen her yet since then but we'll be sure to follow up on it. Follow up is important! :) Oh. And conference itself was just so incredible!!! LOVED IT.

2. This comes from our trainee. She was having a hard time at the Battalion, because she felt like it wasn't doing real missionary work. She was struggling with that a lot, and then suddenly Heavenly Father gave her a tender mercy: someone came up to her and started asking her missionary questions, and she was able to testify and teach and do all the things she felt she was missing out on. Heavenly Father knows us so well, and He knows what we need and helps us when we need it most!!

1. Yesterday we had a follow-the-Spirit miracle. We had planned to see someone as a backup, but as the night went on we felt really really really strongly like we needed to visit them regardless. So with only a few minutes left we raced over and stopped by. We're working with her on quitting smoking, and when we opened the door she looked really sad and she told us she had just smoked a cigarette. She then told us about how she hasn't seen her grandkids since Thanksgiving and her daughter lives literally a 2 minute walk from her house. She feels lonely and sad and rejected by her children and she's struggling so much. We listened and comforted and we read some scriptures and all knelt and said a special prayer for her. We all cried and hugged her, and it was such an incredible moment for all of us. What a blessing to be an instrument in His hands!

I love being a missionary! Here's to another excellent week!

--Hermana Harris

Week 68 Feliz Cumpleanos Hermana Harris!

Ok so this week has been interesting. Here's the good stuff:

Fun thing this week:

Sunset Cliffs, but we were very careful and did not die!

-Last p-day we went to Sunset Cliffs. It's so pretty!!

-During district meeting we made cake waffles and put ice cream and strawberries on them. It was SO GOOD. ^_^

-Oh! I had a birthday! Shout hurray! Dolores bought me a little cake and made me some catfish. She's so cute! Then we were on our way back to the battalion for the Sisters' farewell and when we got there my companion disappeared...so I was freaking out and no one knew where she was and then someone came up to me and told me to close my eyes and they led me to the teaching room in back and had me open my eyes and Edgar and Joaquin and some of the sisters were there and they said Happy Birthday!!! and Joaquin then say Las Mananitas and he gave me a cake and a present (he told me it was 'symbolic') and then we were ushered into the other meeting so I didn't get to open it until we got back home, and inside was a variety of goodies, including toothpaste, soap, a ice-cream maker-shaker, oven mitts, and a stethoscope. He also wrote a letter explaining the 'why' for everything. He's such a sweetheart! Haha the soap is dove soap, and he said it's symbolic because it reminds him of the baptism of Jesus Christ when the Holy Ghost descended like a dove. :) and the stethoscope because as missionaries we listen to peoples' hearts. Aww!

More spiritual things:

-Learned more this week about the importance of hymns. We always sing a hymn whenever we visit, but this week I payed more attention to the Spirit it brings. :) I love the hymns!!

-On Friday we had 3 set appointments - and they all turned out! We met everyone we had set an appointment with! That is such a miracle. We had a temple shift, too. It was pretty sweet. :) Met lots of people. Woohoo!

-The broadcast was INCREDIBLE. I can't even begin to describe what a wonderful time that was. Seriously incredible. I've almost never felt such a unity and sisterhood before. It was such a special moment for me. :)

-On Sunday there was a fireside that we didn't go to, because someone had to be at the Battalion, haha. So I ended up going on 5 tours! That's pretty incredible. Usually on busy days 4 is the most, but there you go.

 There was a sister from Sweetwater that came back from her mission while I served there that came through and I took her on tour. It was cool seeing her again. She brought her nonmember friend with her. I think he enjoyed it. In the same tour was this young adult going to UCSD. He had on the coolest sweater EVER. It was the Beatles abbey road pic, but different. It had Totoro on it, and Howl from Howl's moving castle, and the little girl from Spirited Away, and then someone from Princess Mononoke. It was so sweet! Well. anyway. He and his mother loved it. They're from China but they live here now and speak really good English, but I told them it's in Mandarin as well, and they got really excited and said they'll come back and also bring their friends next time too! :) 

-Last night Elder Barnes had an FHE thing and invited all the battalion sisters to come, so we did. The guest speaker was his daughter in law, Thessily. She's SUPER COOL. She talked about the three C's. Her Conversion story, her bout with Cancer, and how she has come to know her Savior, Jesus Christ. It was awesome. And she talked about how she went to a temple visitor center and one of the sisters there changed her life by just saying something that was an answer to her prayers and exactly what she needed and she decided to be baptized and carry on! So that was really nice to hear. :)

Ok well I ran out of time. Love you all!!

--Hermana Harris

Week 67 Little Miracle add up!

I heard this joke in honor of last week.

What do you call 3.14% of all sailors?

Twinner shirts!

Highlight here--->Pi-rates. :) Get it? Hahaha... :)

So I had a insight while reading the scriptures the other day in Spanish. It's also connected to something I learned in Zone Conference. So in the most recent Zone Conference, President Clayton told us about 19 Evidences of the Book of Mormon. He prefaced it by explaining that obviously the only way to know that the Book of Mormon is true is by reading it and praying about it and receiving spiritual confirmation by the Spirit. There are also textual evidences of it too. (There's actually a book called Mormon's Codex or something that has over 400 of them. I want to read that book!!) 

So there's something called a Similie Oath, which they used back in those times, which just means that you make an oath and if you break the oath, then whatever you did to seal the oath will be done to you. For example, Moroni and the Title of Liberty. All the people rent (meaning they tore) their garments and covenanted that if they broke their oath then they'd be rent like their garments. Anyway. So I was reading El Libro De Mormon, and I read a part that talked about how Lehi offered up burnt sacrifices. So I remembered that the Jews of course did that as part of the Law of Moses. In El Libro de Mormon they call them sacrificios y holocaustos. So...when they rejected Jesus Christ, they broke their oath/covenant with God... that similie oath was fulfilled. Tragic.

So excited. We finally met this lady again, one we had been trying to see since the beginning of February. Turns out she's going to move soon, but she's going to let us help! And since she's moving to Temecula, we're going to get in contact with the ward up there and they'll help her out! :D SUPER SWEET!

We lost another Senior couple this week. But the good news is that means we get a new couple, so new friends! Yay! :)

This week I would have to say our biggest miracle is X. She has a lesson with her and we just made it as simple as possible. We just taught about prophets. We discussed several prophets and what they did and why it was important. and then testified about a prophet today. THEN. On Sunday she came to church AGAIN!!! :D AND she stayed for the gospel principles! AND what was the topic? PROPHETS. :) So all the people were testifying and she was asking all sorts of good questions and it was awesome. :) SO COOL.

Also on Saturday we had a pretty awesome night in the Battalion. I took two Spanish tours. I haven't take one in a very long time, so that was good. On one of them, when I was doing the wrap-up speech at the end, I said something different that I've never said before, and it was pretty cool, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't actually me. But it was super cool. Something about how every day we have the choice to choose whether we let our fears hold us back or if we follow our faith to where God wants us to be. :) Woo!

Yesterday we had some sweet miracles too. We had a lesson with these two guys from the navy that were just sitting in their car. It was super sweet. That night, it was like 8:30, and it takes 15 minutes to get home, so my comp asked if we should go, but I felt like we needed to stop by this member's house. So we went and knocked, but no one came, and someone walked past that Sister Amendola recognized, so we followed him and talked to him and he was this guy we had been trying to visit for a long time, so that was super sweet! Then we were walking past the member's house again so we tried knocking again, and were about to leave when the member's daughter opened the door. She used to be inactive but is recently coming back. She told us that her family was having FHE at someone's house but she got off work too late to go, and told us that our visiting her was perfect, and just want she needed, because she was feeling lonely and sad, and was super grateful for it. I was so grateful that I listened!! I love being a missionary. It's the best!!!

Love you all!!

--Hermana Harris