Now you know what MILO is.

hi family!

mom and dad, you are the best, thank you for sending me awesome stuff all the time, I'm sorry i always am asking you guys to send me stuff, but i am forever grateful. this week was really good, we finished up the training in Sibu, and we came back to dive into the work, only to have sister lim leave on Monday to go to Singapore to chop her passport. she has to go back nearly every month because usually they only give her thirty days, unless she gets an extension. but now she is back, and we are back, and we have some cool people right now. most of them are families, which is really cool, i have never really taught families before now, so i am really grateful we got to find them and have the opportunity to teach them. they are all having their own personal struggles right now, meaning that none of them came to church last week. lame. but hopefully this week will be another story, and my district leader says we have to be bold and everything, so we are working on that.

i'm glad to hear that mom is doing better, and that she is working furiously along with the orchestra, i can't wait to hear her! and also i am waiting on pins and needles to hear how lance's date went.. haha seriously tell me i want to know.

but family, i love you and things are doing really well here, have a good Halloween!

sister Harrison

PS. milo is a chocolate malt drink, sort of like hot chocolate but not quite. it is delicious hot or cold, i hear you can get it in America at the Asian market, so don't worry family, i will have you try it and you will love it too!

PPS

we live above elder and sister reidt, and sister reidt has been helping me do a little quilt (don't worry, all on pday) but its turning out pretty cool, and we included a picture.. hibiscus is the national flower, bunga raya love you fam!

Sibu Mission Training

hi fam, I'm writing you from the sibu, the city of my birth. we are here for mission training, and it is really weird to be back here. the last time i was here, it was January! insane, it is October right now. mostly everything is the same, same house same church, same email place. weird. time goes by way to fast, and i think i say that in every email.

the conference has been great, getting us really pumped up for work in our area, and it is really cool just to listen to the gospel. we saw (finally) conference last week, and it went by so fast. Anita and ain got baptized last week, and it was a bit of a nightmare, we had ady baptize her, he is our recent convert from September, and it was his first time baptizing, and lets just say that i lost count of the times he had to rebaptize her. at least six or seven. oops. i hope he is not afraid to baptize again, but at least she is baptized, and i don't think she'll forget that one any time soon.

the funniest thing happened on Sunday, we went over to tom's house, we are teaching his family, his niece and nephew are Bianca and martin, i may have mentioned them before. anywho, they never want to pray in the lessons, they are really shy about it, we have been wanting them to pray for at least two weeks now. tom finally prayed at the beginning, and we hardly even had to ask him. it was a really good prayer. so we asked martin to give the closing prayer, and we wrote an outline for a prayer in his book of Mormon, and said he could follow it as he prayed. so he agreed. and basically, translated into english, this is how it went, 'Heavenly Father, speak from your heart..' haha the whole family busted up laughing, even martin. they are such a good family, the only problem is that tom works every Sunday. but, he says after October his job on Sundays is ending, so we are excited for them.

love your favorite little Malaysian,

sister Harrison

Baptisms are Awesome !!

hi family, hi mom and dad,

guess what? we get to watch conference this weekend! cool, huh? but we are super excited, i can't believe it has already been six months since the last time i saw conference. dang time goes by fast. we are also having a baptism this weekend, so it is has been an awesome week. Anita and ain are getting baptized. the craziest story of how we met them. they knew elders a long time ago, maybe more than a year. but they saw some elders riding their bikes and yelled out to them, the elders stopped and got there number, and gave it to us. then like a week later, like an hour before church, i was calling people, trying to get people to come, and i just called them and told them about church, and Anita showed up with four kids in tow. so freaking awesome. since then she has come every week, and is super strong. she is from Indonesia, just like Ady, who got baptized last month, and Dorina, who got baptized in August. and not only are they all Indonesian, they are are they same dialect of Indonesian. sweet. they are starting a little Indonesian club. yesterday i met another Indonesian from the same place as them, so we'll try to get him converted too. and they are all super strong together, it is really cool to see. so baptism, conference, and next week we are going to Sibu for mission conference. crazy, i feel like I'm traveling as much as you guys are! it will be really cool to be back in Sibu, i haven't been there since January. Dang.

yesterday we saw these people we are teaching, Reni and Tedong, and Tedong, the dad, said some pretty cool things. first, i was asking him what faith means, and in effect, he said it is when we want to do good and don't want to do bad anymore. what a good answer. sure faith is when we believe, but is when we believe enough to follow, to change our lives. he is cool. we were asking them about baptism, and he said the only thing he is afraid of is starting to follow something, and then later not being able to follow it. so cool huh? usually people don't even think it through that far. so if he was to get baptized, he knows he is in it for good, that it is a real change in his life. we are excited for him. hopefully in a few weeks i will be telling you that they are getting baptized!

but i love you family, have a good week,

sister Harrison

It's the Rainy Season !

dear mom and dad, and the rest of the family too,

hi dad i like your email, and I'm glad hear that you are deliberating over my Christmas package, haha.

hi mom my favorite part of your email was when you said "we are enjoying your letters and emails immensely" i wrote this in the letter I'm sending, but two nights ago i had a horrible dream i was at home and you and dad sat me down and said that you hated my letters! crazy dream, huh? but i totally thought it was real, and i was crying in my dream and everything, so i am really happy that that is not the case. thanks for liking my letters. and don't worry, my dreams aren't all bad. last night sister lim said l was laughing out loud in my sleep. creepy, yes. it must have been pretty funny.

kuching is good. the wet season has starting in true Malaysian fashion by completely soaking us, and then as soon as we buy rain coats and drag them around with us everywhere, it has been as dry and hot as ever. I'll include a picture, we bought temporary bright yellow raincoats, that we wore over our bags and under our helmets, and they were billowing out in the wind. as if we didn't stand out enough. oh well.

next week we will be getting ready for a baptism, Anita and her daughter Ain. Anita is really cool. she comes to church every week even though she has to sit outside the whole time because her baby just cries and cries. he is such a sad baby. his dad is a big drug user, the first of it I've ever seen in Malaysia, and sometimes i worry that that is why he cries all the time. so so sad, but I'm happy we got to meet Anita anyway, and really happy she always comes to church.

i love you family, so much!

sister Harrison

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