Well i am finally half way done with training wow! I can't believe it. I have already been in Puerto Rico for 6 weeks, it honestly feels like 2 days. So the way we say here is the days seem like they drag on but the weeks and months fly by.
Well for this week sorry I'm gonna be a little boring and short. It was just a uninteresting week. We contacted every single day. It was just kinda a rough week, it seemed like the few investigators we had just seemed uninterested. We do have one that we have kept with though. Her name is Lydia. She is a widowed grandma that takes care of most of her grandchildren every night while her children work. She stopped going to school when she was 12, so she has problems understanding things. It is great though because she will read in the Book of Mormon with us and we get to stop every couple of verses to ask her what she understood and what she doesn't. It is great for me because their is some Spanish words i don't understand. We go over it with her and i do a mini catch up at the same time :) Win win!! So we have visited her a couple times this week constantly reading with her and making sure she understands.
We got her a ride to church on Sunday. It was so amazing to see how well the ward acted and was so welcoming to her! I am curious to see if she was really impacted by the strong spirit that was there. It was such a great feeling to be able to share the experience of being in the church and taking the sacrament with her. I have never really explained to anyone all the parts that go on during church so it was a huge new experience to not only explain it but to do it in Spanish. haha. It really makes me reflect on how of a lazy member i was in the past. I can think of so many people that i could have shared the gospel with and invited to church all growing up, but i didn't. As a missionary you really come to appreciate all of the members that help in the obra misional, or missionary work. I hope that when i get back, i can be just like them. It is not enough to just feed the missionaries. We need to give them referrals! I challenge you to the next time you feed the missionaries to give them one name so that they can contact. I promise that they will be eternally grateful.
So reflecting on this past 6 weeks, i have grown in so many ways. I definitely have a lot more patience then I have ever had! I have truly made the effort to brush off the little things, when a person totally rejects us. It isn't us they are rejecting. I can't take it personal, honestly it is the spirit and the lord that they are rejecting. I have learned that to be really converted in this gospel you have to make the effort every single day! If you want a lasting testimony of the truth, you have to do the work! I need to be reading my scriptures everyday, praying to my heavenly father often, and i need to be waiting and listening for spiritual promptings!! I love being on a mission it is the best decision i have made thus far in my life. i am so grateful for each of you for supporting me and helping me prepare my whole life to serve the Lord for 18 months! The field is white and it is my time to harvest!
Con Amor Siempre
Hermana Harris
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