Threesome and an upcoming Baptism !!

dear family,

number one, i love the family newsletter! i just got it this week, and seriously, sometimes it makes me feel bad, i get this huge envelope out of the mailbox, take it upstairs, take out a huge sheaf of letters and spend the rest of the night devouring it, showing my compies pictures, laughing out loud to my self, yelling, 'you gotta hear this, you gotta hear this!' basically making everyone wish they had a family as awesome as ours! i really wish i could contribute, maybe i will try next month. but then again, you guys get to hear from me every single week, yay!

but this week has been soooooo good. yesterday was the climax. so we are teaching this guy, Lazias. he is really cool, 21, pretty religious, kind of funny. he got mad at sister hite and sent like three texts explaining why she couldn't say oi! haha. sister hite actually contacted his brother on the bus, and the brother gave our card to Lazias. Lazias called us up, and we started teaching him. we actually have only seen him two times and haven't even taught him about the Book of Mormon yet. So, on Saturday night he wasn't sure if he could come to church the next day, but he came, and he had an awesome time, made friends, stayed the whole time. so great. great Sunday. on the way home he was telling us that that very morning his brother came to wake him up to go jalan-jalan, to go out, but his heart was thumping and he knew he should go to church, so he pretended to be asleep! so awesome! then yesterday we got a text saying he couldn't meet with us for a few weeks, then we got another text asking us about the book of Mormon, and we got all worried, that someone had told him bad things about it, or i don't even know. so sister hite called him. turns out, the night before, he had been reading the pamphlet we gave him, and he was praying about Joseph Smith, and he said he'd never prayed like that before. He said words came into his heart. he's been going to another church for a year and a half, but he says these two weeks he's felt full, he felt truly touched. He also was asking about why we don't use the symbol of the cross, sister hite told him it was because we believe that Christ is still alive, and he said when he heard those words, he really felt something in his heart. Lazias is so golden, huh?! i love missionary work! he said that he knows this is the church he should follow. when he said that, sister hite asked him if he would be baptized, and he said yes. he has to go to kampung for a couple of weeks, that's why he said he couldn't meet, but he's getting baptized on April 30, the Saturday before i leave!! i really hope everything works out. he is so great, we were talking about it, just being able to be a part of his story is so worth it, so worth all the door knocking and all the hard weeks. he is really cool. so that is the miracle of the week. and we found all of this out, on just one phone call!

the past couple of days, I've just felt so happy, the happiest I've been in a few weeks, it was kind of a hard transition to come here from kuching, but i really love it here. and i just love my companions (ha ha that last line is funnier if you say it in a high Texan accent, huh, Matt?) but i love our family, i can't wait to do karaoke with everyone, you are going to love Indonesian karaoke! love you guys,

sister Harrison