The Last Singapore Post

To all, this is the last post for Sister Harrison's mission to Singapore. She will be coming home May 10th. Thanks for all of the love and prayers that you have offered on her behalf. She'll be sad to leave Singapore and Malaysia and to leave many new friends and fellow saints behind, but we will be glad to have her home after serving a productive and inspired mission. (SBH)

wow.

i can't believe the last email is here. its pretty crazy. this week was very good. there was a baptism yesterday, a girl named Aling. she has been waiting years to get baptized, there were all of these problems, her fiance's ID card said he was muslim, so he had to get that changed, and then they had to get married but it takes a long time to arrange a kampung wedding. and her fiance, Samuel, was going to get baptized on Christmas, but then someone told him that wasn't the actual day that Jesus Christ was born, so Samuel got baptized on April 6th, he got the priesthood, and then he baptized his wife Aling yesterday. last year when i was here the elders were working with them, trying to get their marriage worked out, and now, a year later, they are baptized. it was a pretty special baptism, a really good last baptism to attend. she wanted me to be the one to translate for her baptismal interview last Sunday, and then yesterday i got to give a talk at her baptism. it was so nice. i like her so much! and that talk was probably the first one ever that i didn't have written out notes for. just me and my kitab Mormon. i talked about the gift of the holy ghost. gosh, when i first got here, i would be very nervous to give a talk in church, especially in Malay. I've really changed a lot.

another really cool thing happened this week. we were waiting for a bus, to go out and find a former investigator, a bus pulls up, but it is too full. then i see a lady sitting in that bus, staring at me, and i realize that i know her, she was an investigator that i taught last year when i was here. she almost got baptized too. so i waved, and the bus pulled away, and we decided to go visit that lady instead. she lives in this kampung, Kampung Baru, i think i sent a picture of it. it is a pretty poor kampung, and i hadn't been in that part of it since i was here last year. it was so crazy being back there again. and we saw her, she is doing good, we are going back there on Saturday. while we were there, we met two other former investigators from last year. Noreni and Loni. noreni couldn't ever come to church because she was always working on Sunday, but now, she has Sundays off, and they are coming to church!! can you believe it, just like that! maybe that is one of the reasons that i was supposed to come back here, if i hadn't, they would have been lost. it made me remember how much you really love the people you teach; people i hadn't seen in a year, but i just met them again, and like instant friends again. they are really cool. (and now i can understand them a lot better, haha) I'm really glad that happened right before the end of my mission, i hope i always remember that feeling.
leaving Malaysia is going to be very hard.

i love you family, i cannot wait to see you again!

sister Harrison