Happy and Sad, work goes on.

dear mom and dad,
i liked your email, and what you did for family night. this week we did a family night with three families from the branch, and it was so cool, just to kind of sit back and watch them laugh and have fun together, one was our recent converts, sulin and simbut, i like them so much, i hope they always do good.

yesterday, we had a zone meeting, and our zone leaders were telling us what the mission goals were for this year, and how they were broken down to our specific goals, and what we can do to help our mission. its kind of crazy, because they are pretty big goals, and we will have to change a lot of things about our work, but at the same time, we know that we can be doing a lot better, and all we really have to do is believe that heavenly father will show us and help us and tell us what to do, and then work like crazy. our mission is sort of a high baptizing mission, its doing really good right now. our goal for baptisms this year, I'll tell you just for curiosity's sake, is 1200. last year i think we had 1024. but i think it will be really good, to keep me on my toes until the very end. so that has really been on my mind a lot lately, because i think i will have to keep focused to the max, because they broke it down for us, and eventually, they want us to get around ten new investigators a week, and nine at church every Sunday. i hate to bore you with numbers, but it is what is on my mind, so whatever. its pretty high, but i want to do it so bad, to have the faith, and put the work in and see some results. so that is the goal, mom and dad. there is a really good scripture in Romans, about how experience worketh our hope. sometimes i used to think, 'what if it doesn't? what if you have a lot of experience, but all your experience is that you tried and you failed? what then?' but in the gospel, experience always worketh hope. you just can't tell now when you are working and trying and not seeing any results, but later, you will. that is where the faith comes in.

anyway, how about one sad piece of news and one happy piece of news? sad first. we've been teaching this family for four and a half months now. they almost got baptized in December, their interview was the next day. but he drank on Christmas. so we had to push it back, and push it back again because of this stupid conference thing, and two weeks, maybe three now, they haven't come to church, and last night, they ditched out on their appointment. so sad! we have to start dropping them, and it is so sad family, i like them so much. but then last week, a family, a mother and a daughter, came to church for the first time, i kind of thought that they wouldn't ever come, but they came, and they loved it, and they are really into the gospel now. they are excited to get baptized, and it is really cool to see. even though sometimes we're not that great of teachers or whatever, the gospel can overcome all of that and shine through. its good.

sister Harrison