A miracle !!

dear family,

yesterday a miracle happened. i still can't believe it, even now, every time i think about it. we were biking yesterday, and it was starting to rain, and we were just biking like normal, coming down this little hill to a stoplight, and there were lots of cars waiting, and some trying to get over to turn. anywho, i biked around these cars to get up to the stoplight, and i look back, and sister lim had slipped and fallen. so when i got back to her she had gotten up already, but her knee was bleeding a little bit (seriously, me and sister lim fall all the time, we are back luck for each other) so when she fell, she fell to the ground, the bike slid out from under her, and she put her hand out to catch her fall, and the car right by her pulled up, and rolled right over her hand, her hand was out, and it rolled right over it. so i said, pretty much, bag the appointments we are going into the clinic. she said, no no its really fine, i I'm like whatever you are probably in shock something. but she could move it and said it wasn't painful or anything, so we kept going. but then down the road, i was thinking to myself, a car rolled over her had. a car rolled over her hand. so i made us stop again, and told her we were going in. but looking at her hand, no swelling at all, no pain, no mark, she could totally move it all around. so i asked her if she would bowl with it the next day, like we were planning, and she said, why not? so we continued on with our day. can you believe that? am i crazy to think that is a miracle? i mean, hundreds and hundreds of pounds, and nothing, not even a mark. all those little bones, and it rolled over her wrist, too. gosh. i don't know why, but Heavenly Father is watching out for us.

so even though we have hard times, and sometimes people ignore us when we talk to them, none of that really matters. we have a lot to work on with our missionary work, so many things I'm not good at when it comes to missionary work. but whatever, we just try and work and Heavenly Father looks out for us. its a good gospel, family. its funny, we teach the plan of salvation all the time, but you still can learn something new. I've been reading the old testament, do you remember when the Lord killed the first born of the Egyptians, and saved the first born of Israel? well, it talks about how all the first born had to give their lives to serving the Lord, and it makes sense, He saved their lives, so their lives really belong to Him. all of a sudden it just clicked for me, that is why we promise to always follow commandments, because through Christ our lives are saved and now our lives belong to Him. just a little personal insight, take it or leave it. i love you family!

sister Harrison

Zone Conference, Yea !!

hello family,

the email is coming out a bit late because yesterday we had zone conference. everyone from kuching, and then all the missionaries from sibu came down too. basically, it was awesome. so last month at mission conference, it was pretty heavy training and new material, so at zone conference, it was more doctrinal. One thing that he talked about was angels, and i had never thought about it before, but the book of Mormon has so many stories with angelic visitations. it is practically riddled with them. So it was a really cool thing to study and to hear about all of those stories again. when i have time that is something that would be awesome to study from the book of Mormon. recently i have been stressing out about numbers and getting mad at leaders for getting worried about my numbers, and that is exactly what they talked about at zone conference. usually after people have a couple of baptisms they go through this famine so to speak when they are 'rebuilding their area'. and then they showed us how you can see this coming from your numbers. and then they told us how we can see it and avoid it, all using our numbers. i seriously felt like my eyes were opened, like i am just barely learning how to really do missionary work, and now i know why numbers are important. i think we will change the way we do missionary work, and it is pretty exciting. i don't know if it is that interesting to read about, but we are pretty excited about it.

sister lim and i are getting along really great. we recently found this grocery store where that has everything we love, and everything is cheaper! the night we found this out, we were practically dancing around the store. we were on our bikes, so we kept saying things like, 'later, we'll come back later for it' and 'we can come back everyday!' since we eat at home all the time (sister lim cooks, yum) we have all this money, so grocery shopping is really fun for us. but yeah, we are having fun and trying to work really hard too. if things go right, we should have a lot of baptisms coming up next month, and hopefully, every week after that if we can get this consistency thing down.

i love you family, i pray for you!

sister Harrison

PS sister lim and i are still pretty accident prone. i fell last Thursday too, and i will spare you the details because the scape on my leg is already better. love you!

Crash and Orangutan City

hey family.

it sounds like things are still going full force over there in America, lots of people visiting las Vegas, del taco nights at one thirty and lots of granite counter tops. you sure know how to make a girl miss home. just kidding, things are going really well over here, too. we thought we wouldn't have anyone at church on Sunday, and we were pretty bummed about it. but i called up this referral i got from an elder, i called her up at 12, told her church was at one thirty, and she came and brought four kids! we met her yesterday, her name is Anita, she is from Indonesia. she is really cool, and learned from elders before. I'm not sure why she never got baptized, but she is super willing to learn and come to church and everything, so i am not complaining. and we have a couple of other families that we are excited about. one is brand new, Reni and Tedong, and their son Sylvester Stallone. (we thought his name was just boy for a long time, but apparently, its not, its sylvester, awesome) we taught them for the first time just yesterday, and Tedong, the dad, was really into it, and even prayed at the end of the lesson. in my other areas, we never really got the chance to teach families together like that, and it is awesome, the best kind of teaching. so i really hope things work out for them.

today we also got the chance to go see the orangutan wildlife part. it only cost three ringgit, which is one dollar, and it was totally worth it. huge orangutans, moms, and little babies, and little ones practically doing cartwheels on the rope, it was so cool. so i highly recommend it if any of you are in the kuching way.

what else? oh, me and sister lim are not the best combination. it turns out we both tend to get into a lot of accidents. sister lim fell on her bike going down this hill, and the next day, we were crossing the street, this barrier in the middle with dirt and rocks, and i stepped in this huge hole, and got cut on my leg. it was a tiny little cut, but it bled sort of a lot, I'm going to try to send you the picture we took. but yesterday, I'm happy to report, neither of us had any accidents, and counting today, that is two days already, its a good start.

so i love you family, and have a great nother week, enjoy the cold weather, haha.

love, sister Harrison

PS. did you know orangutan is the only English word from Malay, orang is person and hutan is jungle, have i told you that before? just a little trivia for all the Harrison's out there

PPS in the accident picture the cut is the tiny dot on my leg, the blood just ran down into my shoe, and that is why my foot is bloody. gross slash awesome

Birthday Thanks

hi family,

maybe just a short email today because i had birthday overload here in the email department, and i have been writing people back like crazy, it is awesome,i love my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (twenty two, for how old i am now)

things here in kuching are going okay, a lot of new implements in missionary work. so i feel a bit overwhelmed sometimes, but yesterday i got a really nice compliment on my Malay from an Indonesian elder, so i guess everything works out. we are having a baptism this Friday. his name is adih. he is from Indonesia. and he is probably the coolest, most prepared to hear the gospel person i have ever met slash taught. the other cool thing about this baptism is that it is my first one as a senior comp, which is cool in its own right. after him we will have exactly zero people on baptism date, so it is back to the grindstone. we do have a new family, though, that we are seeing this Saturday again, and i have good hope for them. one of them is a nineteen year old boy, who you, by his hair and tattoos and stuff would never be interested in the gospel, but he is the best one! i have a testimony that heavenly father answers our prayers. i have been praying to find men, men who could get the Melchizedek priesthood, and it has started to happen, i love the gospel, and good thing heavenly father loves us so much.

so i love you family, if you don't believe me, look above, i think twenty two exclamation points speak for themselves.

sister Harrison

New Comp / New Lease on Life !!

hello family,

i just got back from Singapore on Saturday, i have a new companion, (sister lim) and right now i am sort of riding a spiritual high. i remember the first night that my new compie got here, i was praying hard that we would do good, and that i would be okay in training her and finding and teaching people, because i was a little nervous for all the responsibilities of the senior companion. anyway, i just felt a lot of hope, for our area, for the people we were teaching, for missionary work in general, that things even though they might be hard, will turn out good and that we will see a lot of good things happen. so we have just been working hard and i actually really like being a senior companion, go figure. i really like kuching too. we are teaching this one guy, adih. OK, so in my missionary lifetime i have taught a few pretty golden investigators, but i think that adih blows them all out of the water. first, we met him at church, he came with his friend, jepris. he has come every week since that, even when we were in Singapore. the day we were planning to put him on baptismal date, he asked if he could be baptized, and the clincher, we taught him the word of wisdom last night. before, he used to drink and smoke, but he already stopped doing both already. dang, he is awesome. and he told us he has three friends he wants to bring to church! he has to go back to Indonesia in December, but until then he will really be a help to the branch.

anyway, i am really feeling missionary work right now. you remember back when, when i was in KK, i had ups and downs like crazy? well, now it just feels like up all the time. it feels good, and now i know what people are talking about when they say they find joy in the work. i think I've come a long way from when i couldn't imagine how anyone could like doing missionary work. so that is that family, put that in your pipe and smoke it. (is that missionary appropriate? just an expression everyone...)

i love you all so much. keep staying awesome, have a good fall. here the weather never changes, it is really weird. love you,

sister Harrison

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

Sister H on her own

yes, my compie left me for the sunny weather and kangaroos of down under. its crazy to kill off a missionary, sort of like the end of an era. she has been in kuching, this same area for over a year. dang, those are some big shoes to fill. so here i am, chillin' at the couples apartment on p-day. i don't get my new companion until i get to Singapore next week. so far this week I've been doing all i can to beg borrow and steal people to be my temporary companion, and I've gotten a little work done, and I've had a lot of plans fall through, but what else is new about being a missionary. on Monday i went out with sister Hellen, she is coming to this mission in October, she is awesome. anyway, we went to Umang's house, she is getting baptized on sept. 4, and she came to church for the first time on Sunday. this is sis Hellen's first appointment, and its dark because this lady doesn't have electricity, we were sitting around a candle on the floor. there were a few other people there, and at least one of them was drunk and the others were smoking. we had planned to teach the word of wisdom, but that didn't feel like the best plan. anywho, we started our lesson, talking about faith. now, some drunk people are good and will just sit there and listen, but this guy was not one of them. he kept asking loud annoying questions, like if he could have one of my sisters (don't worry guys, i told him you all were already married) blah blah blah and everyone was laughing at him, basically impossible to teach. so i just read one more scripture and we did the skedaddle out of there. so i think that lesson broke both me and sister hellen in. drunk people do dumb things, but they think they are hilarious. i don't get it. but tonight, we are taking sister hellen out on the bike, her first time to ride on the road, so that is going to be pretty fun. we have this brand new investigator, Adih, he just showed up at church on Sunday with his friend who is a member. when he first walked in on Sunday i thought he was dorina's (she just got baptized) husband. dorina told me that maybe one day her husband would come to church, when he was old and had to use a cane to get there (her words, not mine) so i went right up and started talking to him, come to find out he was just a friend who was there, awesome, I'll take it. he is cool, apparently he learned a lot from elders back in Indonesia, and our first meeting he asked me if we could set up our church in his home town after he went back; a pretty promising beginning.

but on Sunday we head out to Singapore. all the missionaries from Sarawak, and maybe from sabah, so basically all of the east Malaysian missionaries are going to be on the same plane headed to Singapore. they all fly in to kuching, and we all take a plane there. cool, huh? i want to get a picture of all those missionaries on one plane. and then, once we get to Singapore, we are all going to take the subway to get to the mission office. so many missionaries, with all of their bags on one train. awesome. so we are going there for this new training, and we will have time to go out at night and contact and practice our new skills. eighty plus plus missionaries, taking Singapore by storm. Singapore is not that big of place. two elders from our district used to serve in Singapore, so they are going to show us around. i'm pretty excited for it. my new little missionary come in on that Wednesday, and after everyone goes home, we stay for orientation, so we don't get back until Saturday night. when we get back, it will be me and this brand new missionary rushing around trying to see everyone in one day, getting people to church. that will be a nice way to start off her mission. Kuching is a good place, though. she will like it here. i have a feeling i will be here for a long time, they don't move missionaries around very much. but i am fine here. let me stay here and get some good work done.

but it is time to sign off, i love you mom and dad, i hope things are going well now that you have no kids at home! i can't even believe it, what's it going to be like when i am the only kid there...