Good Crazy

Day 139 among the Jews. They are wary of outsiders but they are growing more accustomed to having me here and I believe that soon they shall accept me as one of their own.

For Pday Hermana Bloxham and I decided to go do Jewish stuff! We went to one of their clothing stores and felt super out of place because... we're Gentiles. However, it was definitely the largest selection of sister missionary-appropriate skirts I've seen anywhere outside of Utah. The Jews have a dress code that is way stricter than ours. In the dressing room, there were charts showing what is considered modest enough and what's not. It was super interesting. Pictures to come! We also got dinner at a Jewish pita place.

This was a great week. We got 6 new investigators and had a lot of lessons. We've been finding a lot of good people. This month of June, President Taggart wants us as a mission to have a lot of success and baptisms because we all found so many new investigators a couple months ago. Each companionship set a goal for how many baptisms they want to have this month, and they all were added up to create our goal as a mission which is 184 baptisms for the month of June. That number means everyone is going to have to baptize a lot more than we have been lately. It's a super high goal but we can do all things with the Lord's help. It's crazy but it's good crazy! On Tuesday, the entire mission did a special fast asking the Lord to help each companionship in the mission see miracles in June. Each Zone was gathered in a different chapel for our Zone Meetings, and we all Skyped in using our iPads so the entire mission could watch President Taggart pray as we all started the fast together. It was really special. We are excited to see the miracles that will come from it!

We are really trying to get Eddie to be baptized on June 21st. He's super interested, and this week he told us he believes the Book of Mormon is true, which is a huge improvement from where he was a few weeks ago! There's still something holding him back from committing to be baptized. We are going to continue working with him and wait for the Lord to do the rest because we're doing all we can do to help him.

This week William got moved from his rehab center, to a hospital, to a different rehab center. The medical problems just never end with him. He is anxious to get released as soon as possible so he can finally be baptized. I know he will be baptized eventually, I just hope it's before I leave this area! That man is amazing. He's a little eccentric but in the best way possible.

Friday we got to watch the streaming of Elder Perry's funeral on our iPads. He had been an Apostle for 41 years, which means he become one 21 years before I was born! That blew my mind a bit. That's such a long time! The last time an Apostle died I was too young to appreciate it or pay attention to it. But I am so grateful for Elder Perry and his life of service and I am excited to see who the newest Apostle will be!

Yesterday a member from the English ward talked to us at church and said she had a Hispanic man working in her yard and she wanted us to come see him after church. Then when we were sitting in sacrament meeting (our branch has sacrament as the last meeting) we get a text from the member saying that he was still there at her house but was going to leave in just a few minutes so our only chance to talk to him was leaving church early. So we ended up leaving sacrament meeting a few minutes early (and getting a lot of confused looks from the branch members) and hurrying over to this English member's house and arriving just in time to meet the referral (a nice man from Peru) and give him a Book of Mormon and get his information. It was crazy!

I love being a missionary, and I love June!

<3 Hermana Harris

Happy JEWn!