Hi Everyone,
Welp-first things first we got
transfer calls!! We had president come to Aruba and give us our transfer calls
in person! Drum roll please......I am staying here in Aruba and training a
brand new greenie again in an area I have known for a week, AND I got called as
Zone Leader over the three islands!
Every transfer seems to be getting
more and more difficult but somehow God always seems to work everything out! I
am kind of excited to be a zone leader and E Walker is FINALLY coming back to
the islands this transfer! He will be in Curacao but we will be working
together so I am pretty excited for that!
We don't really fish anymore
because Aruba has bad fishing but we have lots of fun like today we got
together as a district and ate pizza at these rock formations. It was kinda sad
because E Carrillo is leaving to Trinidad tomorrow. I am really gonna miss that
guy. We have been doing tons of finding trying to get this area back into shape
but the saving grace is the Chacon family. We brought the Yuyez family with us
and talked about the Book of Mormon. Only the mom had read it but she could
feel the truthfulness of it as she read and we had a long talk about the spirit
and how to recognize it and the spirit was so strong. It was really one of
those times where you can see the spirit working miracles in people’s lives. When
we left sister Yuyez looked at us and said "Elders, they are ready"
They connected right off the bat like they were old friends and they invited
them to the Christmas dinner this week and they all committed to read and pray
and come to church next week (not yesterday cause he had to work) and I am so
excited to see what the Lord has in store for this family!
It’s a really special feeling to be
serving the Savior and I feel like sometimes I don't express that very much in
the emails because there is so much going on in this mission but it’s the times
like that where you see the people changing and getting closer to the Savior
that you realize that this is where I need to be to help these families and
people. Things happen all the time that I wouldn't trade for the world, and it
all comes from letting the spirit guide and developing a love for the people
and language(s).
It’s still blazing hot and it
doesn't feel like Christmas time, also in Papiamento, the word for Christmas is
the word for Easter in Spanish, so I get really confused when people tell me
merry Christmas.
Love, Elder Harsh
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