Hello!
Well I got my new missionary on Tuesday! Her name is Hermana Bloxham and she is from St George Utah. I don't know how I have made it 6 transfers in the mission field without having a companion from Utah but it finally happened. She is amazing! From what I've seen from our first few days together, the Mexico MTC is way more efficient than it was 9 months ago. She learned so much in the MTC and was able to hit the ground running when she got to the field.
When we were driving home from transfer conference on Tuesday and we finally got to our area (it took almost 3 hours to drive there because we are so far south) it was almost time to go home. But I wanted Hermana Bloxham to have at least a little time to actually be a missionary on her first day in the field, so we parked in an area where there are a lot of Hispanics and walked around and contacted for a little while. The first person that talked to us was a black guy who asked us if we're from a church. We said yes and tried to give him a pass-along card, to which he replied "Naww, I'm smokin' weed, I'd probably burn up by touching something holy like that"... Haha it was great. But the second person we talked to was this guy Marvin from Honduras. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he seemed super open to learn more and we got his information. Then just last night we read the Introduction of the Book of Mormon with him and got him as a new investigator!
This week we had to take our car to the dealership to have some work done on it. While the car was being worked on, we went to a nearby apartment complex and started knocking. The first person to open the door was this nice lady from Guatemala and she let us in right away. We showed her the Because He Lives video and gave her a Book of Mormon and got her as a new investigator. Then as soon as we are out of the lesson I asked "Do you think the dealership is done with our car yet?" Two seconds later the phone rings and it's the dealership guy telling us the car is done! We were just amazed at how perfectly we were able to get that lesson in just in time for the car to be done and we know it is because God really wanted us to find this lady. We are excited to keep teaching her!
Funny moment this week: we were in a lesson with a Mexican teenager and suddenly I start coughing. I feel like I'm getting sick. About two minutes later Hermana Bloxham starts coughing too. We can both feel something in our throats making us cough. Then the kid we are teaching starts coughing too and kinda nonchalantly says "Oh sorry my aunt is cooking spicy food in the kitchen". I don't want to know how hard it is to eat whatever food that was... we were having trouble breathing in the room next door! I can't imagine eating it! So I guess that's the closest I've gotten to being slowly poisoned. We really struggled through the rest of the lesson... it's hard to talk and teach when you can't breath very well. But all is well, we survived and finished the lesson and got to go outside and breathe fresh air again!
This weekend was stake conference. We had to leave Saturday afternoon to be at the stake center in East Brunswick for the Saturday session of the conference. Since my first daughter Hermana Stone is serving in the same stake, I got to see her there and my two daughters got to meet each other! We got to spend the night in the apartment of the sisters who are serving there so we didn't have to make the long drive home Saturday night only to return to the stake center Sunday morning. Sleepover! Then Sunday morning was the general session of stake conference and after that we had the long drive back to our area. So we didn't have much time to actually teach lessons this weekend.
So this week was great and pretty big. I'm training again and really excited to see what miracles we will have together and what I will learn from her. Also this week means I officially have less than 8 months left which weirds me out! And, to make this week even more historic, I had frozen yogurt for the first time since I left California (don't know how I survived this long!) and I went to Dunkin' Donuts for the first time ever (there are soooo many of those here in Jersey it's ridiculous!) Good week!
<3 Hermana Harris
There were only two new sisters coming in, one English and one Spanish. So Sister Rogers, the English trainer, and I decided to switch nametags to trick our new missionaries and make them think I was the English missionary and Sister Rogers was the Spanish missionary. It totally worked and we got President Taggart and the Assistants to go along with it! All the new missionaries and trainers got to eat lunch together before President officially announces which new missionaries go with which trainers. I introduced myself as Sister Rogers, and English-speaking missionary, and Sister Rogers, wearing my nametag, said she was Hermana Harris. Then when President announced who was with who, we switched nametags back and revealed our true identities! We totally fooled them and it was totally awesome!!
Me with Hermana Bloxham approximately 2 seconds after she learned that I was actually a Spanish missionary and would be her trainer
Family picture at stake conference! My new daughter, me, my first daughter Hermana Stone, and my CCM companion Hermana Ivie!
Stake conference sleepover with Hermanas Bascom (who was in the CCM with me) and Nielsen
First time at Dunkin Donuts!
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