Familiaaa!
What’s been
happenin! haha
Ahhh
Mommmm... I love you so much. Thank you for sending me the stuff. I don’t need a ton... just peanut butter. I’m
not kidding, it’s like the holy water down here. People go absolutely nuts over
it. The members and the missionaries. haha
Funny story - this family found out I had some... so they asked me if
they could have some... of course I said yes, but.. I didn’t know how to transport
it to their house so their son came over to our apartment and we couldn’t think
of anything so we just threw some spoonfuls in a grocery bag hahaha
On typical
day we get up at 6:30 and work out. Then shower in the arctic water and eat
breakfast. I usually start studying about 7:45 until 11. It seems like a long
time but it’s really not much. At 11 we leave the apartment and work until 1. Then
we have lunch for an hour and at 2 we have language study. We leave again at 3 to work and get back to apartment
about 8:45 or 9. We plan for the next day, eat dinner and finish up about 10. We
chill for 30 minutes and go to bed and wake up and do it all over again :) Yes,
my ipod works and it’s glorious. The
district meetings are always in Talara, so like 20 minutes away. Our apartment isn’t much. There’s a little 1
circle stove on the ground. but the problem is that we never have water to use.
To get drinking water we have to walk
like half a mile to get it and we just don’t have a lot of time. soooo we just
eat bread. THANK YOU FOR OATMEAL MOM! I LOVE YOU.
Hey wow I saw
you changed everything in the house! It looks great! Why such a big change? You
must be going through a mid life crisis or something. Don’t worry mom it will
get better. Just give it some time. :)
This week was
awesome. Last week for p day we went to this bowling alley. It is the oldest in South America. 103 years
old. haha It was like throwing a rock down a wood floor and you had to set up
the pins by hand. Haha! It was fun
though :) I also cleaned my apartment and it took me 2 hours but I actually
feel somewhat clean now. Haha! Before I continue, I better tell you that when I
was washing the dishes this week and I cut my thumb open with a knife. I better
not send a pic......
Tuesday I
went on exchanges with Elder Campo from Ecuador. It was awesome except for the
fact that in my real area, 2 investigators that we’ve been teaching told us
that they know the church is true and they want be baptized! Soo yeah boohyah.
December 6th. Save the date! I guess it’s not about me though so I should just
be happy for them. All this hard work is really paying off! haha
On Thursday,
their son cooked us dinner. It was great. He literally chopped a chicken right
in front of our faces and mixed it with some rice. It was great besides the
fact it was still bleeding. Please take me to the hospital when I get home to
get my stomach pumped. Thanks.
We also ate
masamora this week. It’s black corn in liquid form. Goopy liquid form. It’s
weird. It makes my stomach sick. Also the crazy food of the week... drum roll
bababa… QUAIL EGGS!!!! Like literal quail eggs.
Like who eats that? And they were fresh too. Like the quail had just dropped
them out moments before and I had to eat like 5.
On Friday
night we slept in the zone leaders room cause we went to Piura on Saturday.
There were 6 people in a tiny room and 4 of us on 2 tiny mattresses. As you can
imagine, it was a long night. We had to get up early (3:15 a.m.) to get to Piura. We left the room at 4 and walked to the bus
station and left Talara at 5. We arrived in Piura about 7:30 AM. It was nice
though because I just slept on the bus. Well what I could, it’s hard because
its hot and there’s a lot of smelly latinos. It was so nice to see all of my
homies though. Beidleman, Haws, Hanvey. ahh GLORIOUS. We started the meeting at
8:30 and Elder Evans of the 70 spoke to us. It was great. He talked about
hastening the work, repentance and obedience. It was very long and the meeting
didn’t end until 1:30 and keep in mind that I hadn’t eaten ANYTHING. No
breakfast. Nothing. They finally gave us a sandwich around 2. We left Piura the
same day and got back around 5:30.
Yesterday at
church, it was amazing. Almost ALL of our investigators and less actives came.
And like we have no idea how they all came but dang were we happy. Usually we
have about 36 to 38 people come but yesterday, we had 56!!! It was like a big
family reunion! Everyone was just so happy to see each other. It was amazing, I
wish you could’ve seen it. I just felt happy. Pure happiness.
I also got to
speak in church yesterday. I talked about faith. It was like 10 to 12 minutes
long in Spanish and its crazy cause I don’t speak that well and my Spanish was
near perfect. I spoke with power, and I truly felt like God was speaking
through me. My testimony was strengthened yesterday. I know that when we do put our trust in God
that miracles can happen. I gained a stronger testimony of the power of God and
the gift of tongues. It was an answer to my prayers because I was so nervous
about it. ahh so crazy. I wish you guys
could’ve heard it - with a translator, of course :)
It’s great
being here and I’m having the time of my life but it’s hard, really hard. I’m
just trying to push through one day at a time. I’ve truly never been more
humbled in my entire life. Sometimes I feel like I just keep getting punched
and punched in the face time and time again but I’ve had such an amazing
experience coming closer to my Savior because I can’t tell you how many times
that I’ve got down on my knees and just said help me. I can’t do this on my own and every single
time, I’ve felt Gods love. I’ve felt him next to me.
I’m doing
great family, and sounds like you guys are too. Thank you for supporting me, it
truly means the world to me.
I love you
guys more than anything! Always praying for you!
-Elder Harris IV
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