Wednesday, April 17, 2013
April 15, 2013
how is life?? well mission is sick. strait up amazing!
weeks are just flyin by! i already hit my 4 month mark this friday! crazy! i always heard the whole weeks feel like days thing but never beleived it till now. i feel like each week goes by faster and faster. spring WAS on its way here...then it decided to snow this week and be freezing again haha its a crack up. mom dont you know gloves are for sissys! i like my hands to be purple! colors are starting to come...i think spring will be here soon!
this week was yet again amazing. lots of great things happened on wednesday we had a lesson with the lopez familia.. hno. garcia from the arama came with us to teach. members are the secret weapon! they help so much! our lesson was on the book of mormon. the lopez family and the reyes family were both there! (reyes live above them) the lesson went so good the spirit was there and was powerful! we broke down the introduction with them paragraph by paragraph. hno. garcia was amazing! he brought so much to the table as we taught. as hno garcia was bearing testimony a scripture popped into my head and when it did i was so stoked to share it haha. its pretty cool when that happens. so i bore my testimony and taught for a good while ! elder squires face was priceless as i kept just goin and goin...so spanish...its commin! and im lovin it! teaching is so fun when ya know whats goin on haha. the lesson went so good. it was probably one of our best lessons as a companionship..one of those lessons you just walk out smiling because you know it was good and you know they felt the spirit.spanished happened on wednesday. that was a powerful lesson all three of us were united as we taught which i know helped a lot!
thursday we went to the meza family! david there son is way into editng and loves my edits haha he tells me all about how nra3 just blows his mind.. so you can see why i love talkin to him. this family is amazing as well! we taught them about the importance of church. hna. meza is actually a member... she was baptized when she was 11 and she really wanted to serve a mission. she knows it is true. but works sooooo much. she loves the church though . the whole family does. they love it when we come over to teach. next weekend they are all goin to ohio for hna. mezas cousins son baptism!!! there all members! its gonna be an awesome experience for them i know it! but anyways our lesson went great and right as we were ending it...ANOTHER family walks in sits down and hna. meza starts tellin them how amazing our church is and just bears her testimony to them! bam!!! so then we teach them the restoration!! right there! they loved it and felt really good about it! so we have an appt with them this week!! pretty excited!
then we had exchanges and i was here in milwaukee all by myself with the zone leader that knows NO spanish! it was an awesome day!! went to angels! and just shared a short message of how we get peace and joy! he wants to get baptized...i told him thats exactly why we are here! to help him make those steps! hes awesome! he might be moving to puerto rico though! hes still unsure i hope he doesnt...
this weekend was amazing...haha everything is amazing. this weekend bernadina, tanith, and jackeline were baptized. to see them all dressed in white and watch them enter the font was amazing.. this family has been such a blessing. i have learned so much from them. this family is an example of what all rm's talk about...they were prepared. sunday we were able to go to racine for there confirmation! i will always be greatful for the opportunity heavenly father gave me to teach the tecualts. bernadina bore her testimony yesterday in sacrament... she called us her angels! this work is amazing!
this week i ran into an amazing scripture D&C 88:78-80
78 Teach ye diligently and my agrace shall attend you, that you may be binstructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand;
79 Of things both in aheaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must bshortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the cnations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a dknowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—
80 That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to amagnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the bmission with which I have commissioned you.
now more than ever people are being prepared. BUT we have alll also been prepared. everything that has happened in my life has shaped me into the servant that i am for the lord. it has perfected me to be here. to be able to teach those that heavenly father has prepared for me.
i love you all!!!! wanted to write so much more haha but time is up till next week!!!
to all my pals out servin and are leaving next week and the weeks to come!! da les cielo!
con amor,
Elder Harper-Smith
weeks are just flyin by! i already hit my 4 month mark this friday! crazy! i always heard the whole weeks feel like days thing but never beleived it till now. i feel like each week goes by faster and faster. spring WAS on its way here...then it decided to snow this week and be freezing again haha its a crack up. mom dont you know gloves are for sissys! i like my hands to be purple! colors are starting to come...i think spring will be here soon!
this week was yet again amazing. lots of great things happened on wednesday we had a lesson with the lopez familia.. hno. garcia from the arama came with us to teach. members are the secret weapon! they help so much! our lesson was on the book of mormon. the lopez family and the reyes family were both there! (reyes live above them) the lesson went so good the spirit was there and was powerful! we broke down the introduction with them paragraph by paragraph. hno. garcia was amazing! he brought so much to the table as we taught. as hno garcia was bearing testimony a scripture popped into my head and when it did i was so stoked to share it haha. its pretty cool when that happens. so i bore my testimony and taught for a good while ! elder squires face was priceless as i kept just goin and goin...so spanish...its commin! and im lovin it! teaching is so fun when ya know whats goin on haha. the lesson went so good. it was probably one of our best lessons as a companionship..one of those lessons you just walk out smiling because you know it was good and you know they felt the spirit.spanished happened on wednesday. that was a powerful lesson all three of us were united as we taught which i know helped a lot!
thursday we went to the meza family! david there son is way into editng and loves my edits haha he tells me all about how nra3 just blows his mind.. so you can see why i love talkin to him. this family is amazing as well! we taught them about the importance of church. hna. meza is actually a member... she was baptized when she was 11 and she really wanted to serve a mission. she knows it is true. but works sooooo much. she loves the church though . the whole family does. they love it when we come over to teach. next weekend they are all goin to ohio for hna. mezas cousins son baptism!!! there all members! its gonna be an awesome experience for them i know it! but anyways our lesson went great and right as we were ending it...ANOTHER family walks in sits down and hna. meza starts tellin them how amazing our church is and just bears her testimony to them! bam!!! so then we teach them the restoration!! right there! they loved it and felt really good about it! so we have an appt with them this week!! pretty excited!
then we had exchanges and i was here in milwaukee all by myself with the zone leader that knows NO spanish! it was an awesome day!! went to angels! and just shared a short message of how we get peace and joy! he wants to get baptized...i told him thats exactly why we are here! to help him make those steps! hes awesome! he might be moving to puerto rico though! hes still unsure i hope he doesnt...
this weekend was amazing...haha everything is amazing. this weekend bernadina, tanith, and jackeline were baptized. to see them all dressed in white and watch them enter the font was amazing.. this family has been such a blessing. i have learned so much from them. this family is an example of what all rm's talk about...they were prepared. sunday we were able to go to racine for there confirmation! i will always be greatful for the opportunity heavenly father gave me to teach the tecualts. bernadina bore her testimony yesterday in sacrament... she called us her angels! this work is amazing!
this week i ran into an amazing scripture D&C 88:78-80
78 Teach ye diligently and my agrace shall attend you, that you may be binstructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand;
79 Of things both in aheaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must bshortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the cnations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a dknowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—
80 That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to amagnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the bmission with which I have commissioned you.
now more than ever people are being prepared. BUT we have alll also been prepared. everything that has happened in my life has shaped me into the servant that i am for the lord. it has perfected me to be here. to be able to teach those that heavenly father has prepared for me.
i love you all!!!! wanted to write so much more haha but time is up till next week!!!
to all my pals out servin and are leaving next week and the weeks to come!! da les cielo!
con amor,
Elder Harper-Smith
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
"I know that He lives!!!!"
Hola familia!!!
this week was amazing! it started with an amazing lesson with the Tecualt family! they are so prepared its just blowin my mind! haha. i cant wait for them to enter the waters of baptism. The lesson...was amazing . the spirit was there and it was strong. it was on the plan of salvation. bernadine had received an answer the night before from our heavenly father that the everything we have been teaching is true...she shared her experience with us and it was amazing.when she got down and prayed the night before she was overwhelmed by a feeling of warmth and comfort...she told us that it was like a burning feeling. that night she had a dream... in her dream her mom came to her (she passed away awhile back) came up to her and told her that she was in a happier place! she also told us about another dream..before we came and taught her and her family she had a dream awhile back with our savior in it...she couldnt see his face but saw his hands and feet. in her dream he told her to prepare herself and her kids for something... the amazing thing about teaching this family is bernadine is so prepared she bares testimony to us. she knew from the day we had started teaching her that we were what would help her prepare them. she knew that the gospel was that thing. words cant describe the true happiness a mission brings! we did run into a little obstacle when we taught the word of wisdom last night....... they wanna move there baptism dates...to the 13th instead of the 20th!!!
we have been really focusing on finding this week...and we have been blessed! we spent a day contacting formers and potentials this week ! not alot of doors were opened. we went to a house hoping that we would be able to get in and teach...the former ended up not living there bit a really nice old lady answered the door and her face lit up when she saw us! elena lives with all of her children (except one daughter) and all there families. we set up an appointment for i think wednesday! tuesday was district meeting and we get a call...ends up being elenas daughter that lives in utah! shes a member and was so excited to here that we found her mom!! our first lesson went really good with her!
weve been finding alot this week! !! its amazing! when we walk streets and see a bright colored house..a dish 500 ..and other things we always knock there! we found the meza familia! there amazing! we walk in sit on the couch and hermana meza is asking us if we are hungry or thirsty...before we could answer she was already in the kitchen!... hermana meza's familia en mexico son miembros! we were so stoked when we heard that! our lesson went really good. we taught just about the book of mormon. the whole family was just there sittin around us and listening! it was an awesome experience! there gonna be fun to teach! they were so excited to teach us!
we were able to contact the lopez family!!! the family me and elder kanahele found! they thought we forgot about them! sad to hear that...we had to explain that its just been a crazy couple weeks with stuff happening! they were all so excited to see us... we have an appointment on wednesday with them!!
mission is a beautiful thing!! what an amazing time of the year to really reflect on the power of the atonement and all that our savior jesus chist did for all of us. im greatful for my savior... i know that he lives!!!!
love you all!!
-Elder Harper-Smith
this week was amazing! it started with an amazing lesson with the Tecualt family! they are so prepared its just blowin my mind! haha. i cant wait for them to enter the waters of baptism. The lesson...was amazing . the spirit was there and it was strong. it was on the plan of salvation. bernadine had received an answer the night before from our heavenly father that the everything we have been teaching is true...she shared her experience with us and it was amazing.when she got down and prayed the night before she was overwhelmed by a feeling of warmth and comfort...she told us that it was like a burning feeling. that night she had a dream... in her dream her mom came to her (she passed away awhile back) came up to her and told her that she was in a happier place! she also told us about another dream..before we came and taught her and her family she had a dream awhile back with our savior in it...she couldnt see his face but saw his hands and feet. in her dream he told her to prepare herself and her kids for something... the amazing thing about teaching this family is bernadine is so prepared she bares testimony to us. she knew from the day we had started teaching her that we were what would help her prepare them. she knew that the gospel was that thing. words cant describe the true happiness a mission brings! we did run into a little obstacle when we taught the word of wisdom last night....... they wanna move there baptism dates...to the 13th instead of the 20th!!!
we have been really focusing on finding this week...and we have been blessed! we spent a day contacting formers and potentials this week ! not alot of doors were opened. we went to a house hoping that we would be able to get in and teach...the former ended up not living there bit a really nice old lady answered the door and her face lit up when she saw us! elena lives with all of her children (except one daughter) and all there families. we set up an appointment for i think wednesday! tuesday was district meeting and we get a call...ends up being elenas daughter that lives in utah! shes a member and was so excited to here that we found her mom!! our first lesson went really good with her!
weve been finding alot this week! !! its amazing! when we walk streets and see a bright colored house..a dish 500 ..and other things we always knock there! we found the meza familia! there amazing! we walk in sit on the couch and hermana meza is asking us if we are hungry or thirsty...before we could answer she was already in the kitchen!... hermana meza's familia en mexico son miembros! we were so stoked when we heard that! our lesson went really good. we taught just about the book of mormon. the whole family was just there sittin around us and listening! it was an awesome experience! there gonna be fun to teach! they were so excited to teach us!
we were able to contact the lopez family!!! the family me and elder kanahele found! they thought we forgot about them! sad to hear that...we had to explain that its just been a crazy couple weeks with stuff happening! they were all so excited to see us... we have an appointment on wednesday with them!!
mission is a beautiful thing!! what an amazing time of the year to really reflect on the power of the atonement and all that our savior jesus chist did for all of us. im greatful for my savior... i know that he lives!!!!
love you all!!
-Elder Harper-Smith
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