keyboards, converts & babies

(Renee' is working on a keyboard that doesn't always type the 'n' key, so I had to go back through and add a bunch of n's. If I've missed any, sorry / Dad)

sibu is doing really great, everyone here is getting revved up for chinese New year, its a pretty big deal. and everywhere we go they play chinese new year music, which is sort of like christmas music, except they are faster and higher pitched and there are only a few different songs that they keep playing over and over. so it is fun right, but since chinese new year is two weeks log, and not until the fourteeth, i might be going crazy. and we got to see a chinese temple/pagoda yesterday that was really cool, they had a ton of incense burning and everything. i got some pictures, don't worry.

thats enough about chinese new year. the best part about my mission right now is being able to go to mukah. i think i told you a little about it, but i'll explain a bit more. when the work started there, there were only two long time members, who had been converted other places, and then moved there. so we started a group, and in august started sending senior missionaries there, and then two sisters started going a couple of months later. and then when i came, i took the place of one of the sisters. so basically, we are the first missionaries that have ever been able to teach there, and i really can't believe that they let me go, but it is really awesome, the people are so good there. Now there is a group of about thirty members and we are just teaching family members of recent converts, and the people we are teaching are so anxious to learn and want to get baptized. last week we met for the first time in a room we rented in a hotel, it was so cool. this is the kind of work where the hand of the Lord is so evident, because these people are so prepared to find the gospel. the first family sis richey taught, none of them smoked or drank, so they had no major problems, and they have been so, so good. the faith of these members, in this tiny little group, has been such a testimony to me. they come every week, even though none of them know any of the hymns or anything, they just come and try, this is exactly what the gospel is supposed to be. you can see how the gospel changes people's lives, how they become better people, have closer families, and it is so cool to see.

and for the first time, i was talking to this girl, mostly all by myself, and i understood what she was saying, not every word, but we were talking about her baby (who is the same age as mira, i always think about her when i see her little baby) and she was just talking about how awesome her baby is, learning to crawl already and starting to eat real food. so that was exciting, we could actually communicate, so take that world! Love, Sister Harrison