Singapore, baby !!

i know it is hard to believe that I'm actually doing missionary work out here in this tropical paradise, especially when our mission president puts us up in Singapore for a whole week. its kind of hard for me to believe, too. but every missionary from this mission is here in Singapore right now, and the conference is only half way done! it is really cool, we have conference from nine until five everyday, which is hearing from our president, doing role plays, things like that, and after, we go out, either with investigators, members, less actives, or just contacting. i personally have been contacting for the last two days, and it is kind of scary here in Singapore, it is all street contacting, you just have to walk up to people and strike up a conversation, and usually it goes pretty good. last night i talked to a Filipino lady for a while, she was really cool, i gave her a pamphlet and she said she would read it, i couldn't get her number because she suddenly had to get on her bus. the good part was, it wasn't scary, and i said some good things and she was really nice. but after i talked to her i was kind of mad at myself, i really only explained about the church in kind of an objectionable kind of way, i didn't really share my testimony, i didn't get her number, and i really didn't commit her to do anything besides read the pamphlet. I've been out here for so long, but i still have a lot to learn. but all in all, it went okay, for my first time contacting here, i will only get better at it as i go along.

the training itself is really cool, lots of new things, but in a way, the same things we have been doing, with a re emphasis on the basics, like teaching people how they can get personal revelation through prayer and the book of Mormon and going to church, lots of missionary things like that. it has been awesome so far. I'm going to change a lot of the ways i do things, like always start with questions and here from the people more and have a lot more emphasis on the book of Mormon. sorry if this is boring you to tears, but whatever. its cool to a missionary, okay?

I'm meeting my new missionary later today. her name is sister lim, and she is from Singapore. I've got a good feeling about this one. I'm pretty nervous to train, but we have a good area, and we have a lot of new things (thanks to this five day conference) to change and to work on, so I'm sure we will be busy.

anywho, family, i love you, i miss you. school is already started, the summer is almost over, i can't believe it. give my love to Trent, and what day is lance leaving? pretty soon there will be another Harrison on the eastern hemisphere, I'm pretty stoked for that. i love you family, take care, i pray for you!

sister Harrison