Half-Way Day Already !!

hi mom, hi dad, hi family,

today is my halfway day. the reason i know is because i got the halfway package mom sent last Thursday, and i waited until today to open it! are you proud? PS, it was an awesome awesome package, the jelly beans are gone already, turns out the were the perfect thing to send, because sister seve doesn't even like them! and mom, how did you get so cool? OK family, so you can know how cool mom is, guess what she did? she put scriptures on all of the little gifts, that were all wrapped separately. but that is not all. i notice from the outside of the package, that one of the things was a stain stick, and the scripture was about how the Lord removed the stains off the swords of the anti-nephi-lehites.. so me and my companion had a good old time reading all of the scriptures and trying to guess what was inside all of the presents. the perfect pastime for a missionary, let me tell you what. my personal favorite was how charity suffereth long and is kind, turned out to be mascara! (eyelash lengthening mascara, to be exact) which was perfect, because my other one was getting a little low. and mom, the skirt you sent is perfect too, fits great, will be perfect for the bike too. you are awesome, mom! how did i get a mother like you? PS, can you believe that i am already done with half of my mission? when i think about it, half of my mission is memory already, it just blows me away.

this was a really good week, we are having four people baptized this Saturday! a mom, bingot, and her two children, Lorren, 13, and Caroline 11, and one other lady, Dorina. they are so awesome. yesterday, the kids asked us when they were getting baptized, and we said Saturday, and they got so excited, i want to remember that moment for the rest of my life, they were both all smiles and practically jumping up and down, i know i wasn't that excited to be baptized. they are really cool kids. hopefully their dad, Spencer, will be baptized in a couple of weeks. he has to kick cigarettes first, but he really loves his family and is a really cool guy.

one more interesting piece of news about my mission, this is pretty new, but I'm pretty sure it will go into effect soon. they are sort of separating our mission. so missionaries who get sent to east Malaysia will stay in east Malaysia their whole mission (that is where i am right now) and people who go to west Malaysia, (which includes Singapore) will stay in west Malaysia their whole mission. because those two places are way different, it is kind of like they are two different missions anyway. but it is still one mission, still one mission president. it is kind of crazy, because east Malaysia is where missionary work is kind of exploding right now, lots of people lots of baptisms. and west Malaysia is definitely slower work. also, i don't know how much this will effect sisters anyway, because there are only five sister areas anyway, and one of them is in west Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur. we'll see. but lots of changes are coming, that is for sure.

anywho, family, i love you lots, don't have too much fun without me!

ou te alofa ya te oi, (haha, samoan, courtesy of sister seve)
sister harrison