So this week has been pretty crazy! Sister Mendon and I walked outside one morning to drive to an appointment and there was a hole in the back of our windshield! The entire back was shattered! I guess some kids the night before were throwing rocks and threw one right into our car. Nothing else happened but it was a little crazy for a bro! So we told the mission office so we could get new glass put into our car. A couple days later they called us back and let us know that they were closing the Hanover apartments and that we were going to move into the elders apartments in Madison. (Madison is the town next to Hanover). So now they are combining the Hanover and Madison areas and the sisters are taking over both towns. So we are pink washing (when sisters take over an elders area) the Madison area while still serving in the Hanover area. Like what!?!?! So now we have one transfer to learn an entire new area before I'm out of training and taking over the area. So much is happening its crazy! We are super sad to have the elders leave our ward though. They were super awesome but this means more dinner meals for us so that's alright. But ya crazy right! I had heard about pink washing before and I really wanted to but I cant believe its happening already my second transfer in! Other than that nothing much has happened. Just lots of paper work for the damage report. Ya. But general conference is coming up and Im so excited!! Its going to be great! Love yall! Sister Harris 1) So since our car is out of commission Sister Mendon and I have to bike more in our area. We joked that we are now the Hanover Bike mission so we made a biker gang sign (HB in sign language). 2) Those were notes from the elders that they left us when they stopped to see what happened to our car haha. 3) We had to drive our car to a members garage because it was going to rain and as we drove the glass kept falling out but we are okay haha. 4) That's the hole when we first saw it. 5) The YM/YW in my home ward made me this awesome poster! I loved it so much! Made me so happy! Its hanging up by my study desk! Thank yall so much! Ive already had a couple chocolate bars lol. 6) The poster they made :) 7 and 8) There was a super cool sunset so we had to take some cool pics. Hey everybody!! This week was so great! Last Monday we were able to go to House of Boom. It's this super awesome trampoline place we went with our STL's. Sister Bowen from Charlestown picked us all up and took us to Zaxby's and then to the place. She is so awesome! She's this cute old lady that takes the Charlestown sisters every week and is just the best! When we got to the house of boom I saw sister Wilde! It was so awesome to see her and talk to Her! I missed her so much! We only got to talk for a little bit but it was so great to see her there! After we jumped around and stuff sister Bowen took us out to get groceries and got us shakes. It was such a fun day! Last week one of the spots of glue on my permanent retainers popped off and luckily one of our ward members is a dentist! I got to go to the dentist and they reglued it for me for free. It was so nice of her! The members here are so amazing! They will do anything to help the missionaries. We got to visit one of our investigators Luna and watched the movie about Thomas S. Monson and his life. I love that movie so Much! 10 out of 10 would recommend. It was so great! Luna even told us that she thinks she's ready for baptism! Luna is so awesome! I'm so excited for her! I love teaching her so much. It's amazing when you get to teach people and you know that they have been prepared by Heavenly Father to be taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. Luna is so elect! We were outside talking with a new investigator and this guy is walking his dog on the sidewalk and she just starts talking to the guy passing by. She asked him if he believed in God and if he was saved. The guy was confused and didn't know what she was talking about. And then she told me and my companion to go and save the guy. Haha it was so funny! She was like, "Come on girls let's go pray and save this guy" and she started walking towards him and he backed away. She asked us if we could save him and we had no idea what to say haha it was such a weird situation. We told them that it is important to believe in Jesus Christ and to try to be like him so we can live with him again but it was so funny haha! Later she asked us to pray for her with her and she grabbed our hands and we prayed and after she kissed us on our cheeks and we made an appointment for later in the week. She is so awesome and so Sweet! We are so excited to the each her More! So much has gone wrong with our apartment this last week haha! First of all we noticed our ipads wouldnt connect to wifi and so we called our apartment manager and he said we never had wifi in the first place and we were using some random persons wifi the whole time. And they moved :( Rip WiFi. Also our water heater broke. So we had to boil water so we could have warm water to bathe in. That was pretty great. Then we got new neighbors. We didn't have anyone living next to us but now we do. There really nice and we like them but one night they left a candle in their room and their fire alarm would not stop going off. It set off our fire alarms in our apartment as well. We have such a tiny shoebox apartment with two alarms going off and our neighbors fire alarm going off... ALL NIGHT LONG... it never ended. It went off from 6 the previous night to 9 in the morning. We took out the batteries and it still was going off and so we disconnected our alarms from the walls and ours stopped but our neighbors alarm was still going off. We had no sleep that night. We told our apartment manager that and he stopped the alarms and now everything's good so we are now able to sleep :) After district meeting last week we went out to eat all together to smoking crows. It was so good! It's this BBQ place that is so delicious! It was Elder Cox's last district lunch! So Sad! Elder Cox is a missionary in Scottsburg. And it's his last transfer. We are all going to miss him so much! At the animal shelter they got two new puppies, George and Lenny. They are so cute! We play with them all of the time! They love to play with my shoes and pants and it's so funny! On Saturday they both climbed in my lap and fell asleep. It was so precious! They both have been pre adopted already and it's going to be so sad to see them go! We love them so much! That's basically it for this Week! I love you all so much! Sister Harris There are some old pics this week. First one is my first day in the field! That's when I met my trainer Sister Mendon. Second pic was the trampoline place with the STL's. Third, that's our district! We got shamrock shakes this week! Lat pic is after the house of boom at the cute diner where we got shakes with sister Bowen. Hey everybody! I don't have much time to email this week because I'm going to a trampoline place so this email is going to be kind of short! This week was so awesome! Life as a missionary is so great! Literally me and my companion are the same person. We say the exact same things at the exact same time all of the time. Shes so awesome! This week we went on exchanges and I went to Charlestown. I was so excited to go on exchanges because everyone says miracles happen on exchanges. When we got to Charlestown it was so nice so we rode our bikes that day. It was so fun! And let me tell you, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN ON EXCHANGES! We were able to find 3 new investigators! It was so awesome! The people we taught were so amazing and so prepared to hear the message of the restoration. It was such an amazing day. My companion for the day was her hermana Castillo. She is so sweet and so awesome. We had so many Spanish lessons that day. I don't know any Spanish but it made me really want to be in a tiger team. A tiger team is where there's a sister and an hermana. It would be so cool to learn and teach in Spanish. Even though in the Spanish lessons I had no idea what they were saying I felt the spirit so strongly. It was an amazing experience. At the end of the day we needed WiFi to update our area books so we parked outside of the public library. This guy was walking around the parking lot and it seemed pretty sketch. Then a car pulled up and we were wondering what was going on. Then these lights started flashing from the car and it was a cop car! The police officer got out of his car and came to my window and I rolled it down and he asked what we were doing there. We told him we were mormon missionaries and we were only there for the WiFi. He told us this area was a place where people deal drugs and told us to leave. He then started patting down the guy that was walking around the parking lot. Haha it was so cool. I wish we told him more about the gospel so I could say I contacted a police officer haha. Also on exchanges I saw some Amish people building a house. It was super cool! Ive never seen so many amish people before. I also see a lot of Amish wagon crossing signs around here. There's an Amish market around Hanover somewhere and I want to go so badly! Our investigators are so awesome and I love them so Much! This week one of our investigators dropped us. It was so sad, we had a baptisimal date set for her and everything. She said she needed more time but it was so hard that she didn't want to continue to meet with us anymore. The hardest thing is seeing how the gospel blesses their lives and then they walk away from it. We hope her the best and hope she will talk to missionaries some other time in her life. Despite those lows, the highs of missionary work are so worth it. One of our long term investigators is so close to baptism. We are so excited for him and hope he commits soon! It's so amazing seeing how much the gospel changes people. The person I've seen the gospel change the most is myself. Even though I haven't been out that long I can see how much of a different person I've become. My testimony has grown so much and I can truly say I've seen the Lord's hand in my life. The gospel is so amazing and I know that we can all have lasting happiness through it. I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week! Sister Harris Not too many pics this week. There was gum on sale this week so we bought 17 packs of gum haha. And on exchanges we met with a lady from Arabia and she gave us Arabian coke lol. Last pic, me and hermana Castillo tried taking selfies with the cop car but it was pretty dark. Hey y'all! This week has been a pretty good week! So much has been going on! I'm really loving my mission and everyone here! Every week we go and do service at the nursing home. We sing hymns to the residence and share scriptures with them. Since neither me or Sister Mendon play the piano we brought a speaker to play the music but it died in the middle of a song so we had to sing acapella. It was very awkward but we continued to sing anyways haha. Last week there was a huge storm here in Hanover. Me and my companion woke up to hearing loud winds. We checked our phone and some of the ward members and investigators texted us telling us we were on a tornado warning. Nothing affected us but when we got outside there were branches from trees all over the streets. As we drove through the town we saw so many trees uprooted and some ever fell on top of houses! It was pretty insane in the membrane! We had SO much to eat this week! A couple days ago we were going over to an investigators house and she was serving us dinner. She made spaghetti for us and she started putting a ton of noodles on a plate. It seemed like she was putting all of the noodles on a plate so we could serve it ourselves from the table but then she put the sauce on it and handed it to my companion. AN ENTIRE DINNER PLATE FULL OF SPAGHETTI! This plate was massive and the spaghetti was piled high! She served me a plate the same size as my companion. We had no idea how we were going to finish the entire player of spaghetti. Somehow we did and we were so full and then she served us a giant bowl of rice pudding! I thought I was going to die I was so full. We finished it all and almost exploded in the process! The next day was fast Sunday and we were dying because our mouths were so dry from all of the sodium. It was killer but we did it! Earlier this week we had a ton of miles to kill so we decided to go finding people out in the boonies. The boonies is so pretty! The fields are so green and there are so many trees. We were looking for a certain house but there were no addresses on the houses so we just started knocking around. Then three dogs ran up to us and started following us everywhere. They were so cute but they were huge and wet and smelly and would not leave. Dogs follow us around everywhere here. So many times we are out walking and dogs start following us and they follow us so far that we have to call their owners to come pick them up because they won't go home. 2 more weeks until Barbara's Baptism! We are so excited for her! She's so solid it's going to be great! This week we got a new investigator, Stephanie. We shared with her the message of the Restoration and we have a baptisimal date set! So far so good but we have a long way to go so hopefully she can stick with us! Brother Kubik is doing awesome. We committed him to reading 9 pages from the Book of Mormon a day so he can be finished by General Conference. Hopefully this strengthens his testimony and he will desire to be baptized! We are getting so pumped for conference! We will be making a conference bracket with some of the members of the ward. It consists of things like what new temples are being built where, or what color is the choir going to wear, or who's wearing what color of tie. The winner gets a trophy and I want it so badly! So not too many crazy things happened but it was a great week! I love you All! Sister Harris |