March 25, 2013

Family and Friends,

Meet Melida!

We had the privilege to help her get baptized this week! She lives in one of the mountains, well really it's more of a really big hill (to not make it sound so bad) and lives in the last house there. From our house it's about an hour, but it was totally worth the sacrifice and all the sand that ended up in our shoes to hike up to where she lives. She was soooo prepared to receive the gospel in her life. The other day we taught her the plan of salvation and when we explained all the parts to the plan, that our Savior is the center of it all, her face just lit up. I love doing my job, helping others to come unto Christ, with their first covenant that they make with our Father in Heaven. It really is the best.

I hope you all had a great week!

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

March 18, 2013

Family and Friends,
Sorry if my letter sounded depressing last week, I really didn´t have any news from last week. This week was a good week here in the field. I don´t know if you remember about the family that we found, Wendy and Victor that are expecting their first baby. (However, she can´t leave the house because her pregnancy is super risky). Well we had a super great lesson with them on Tuesday, they both want to be baptized, go to Church with their little family, and then in 8 years baptize their baby that hasn´t been born yet. Seriously two great people we have the opportunity to teach. With time I know that Hermana Wendy is going to get better and they both are going to be baptized. I love doing the Lord´s work and finding families to teach!

I hope you all have a great week! Support your local missionaries and give them references!

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

March 11, 2013

Be obedient. It´s the first law of the Heavens.

That´s all I´ve got. Thanks for all your support and have a great week!

Love Always,
HERMANA HARBISON

March 4, 2013

Family and Friends,

We found a family. It´s a couple, Wendy and Victor, who are already married (which is unheard of in Perú) and expecting a baby. Good news, right? Well the not so good news is that she´s has bed rest until the baby is born in May... Which for us that means that she can´t go to church and progress towards baptism. It´s a hurdle that we have but we have faith that she´s going to be well enough to leave her house and go to church and soon. Really, because every time we visit her she looks better and better. We´re super grateful that we found this family that´s just starting because really our goal is to always find families so that as time goes on they can be sealed as a family in the temple. Basically goal in missionary work=find families. So that´s what we´re going to keep on doing, find families.

Have a great week!

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

February 25, 2013

Family and Friends,

I hope everything is going great up there in the States. I was informed that a snowstorm passed through Colorado. That doesn´t happen here in Perú, at least here in the south. Another transfer day today, but for the second time in my mission, I don´t have to transfer. It´s fine with me because my companion is great and we´re doing some great work here in Monterrico. I asked my companion what was something exciting that happened this week and she said that we achieved the goal of 6 investigators at church yesterday. I feel bad that I totally forgot because it really was something exciting. Other than that nothing new and we´re ready to take on this new transfer. Hope you all have a great week!

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

PS Hermana Harbison loves to get mail...Just so you know.

February 18, 2013

Family and Friends,

Great week this week! My companion and I had the opportunity to help 3 people enter into the waters of baptism this Saturday. As always, it was a great experience.

From the left: Hermano Fierro, His Son (he helped baptize), Elder Siguenza, Leonardo, Giselle, Ana, Myself and Hermana Toral, Leonardo and Giselle are brother and sister and Ana, her son was baptized a few weeks ago and we were able to teach her and help her be baptized. It was a great experience!

So we heard this week that the Pope resigned or something like that. Well funny story time: Pope in Spanish is El Papa and potato in Spanish is La Papa. Well while contacting someone he asked about el papa and I said well it doesn´t talk about la papa in the bible so I don´t know much about that. He didn't realize that I said "the potato" but my companion did and I did too so we had to contain our laughters while trying to teach him the truth of what´s up. Just some spanish humor for you all. When we got home we had a good laugh about it, because really I don´t understand why pope in spanish is basically the same as potato.

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

February 11, 2013

Family and Friends,

Thanks for reading my blog, don´t think I´ve expressed my gratitude but thank you all for the support! Life here in the field is going great! Tons of teaching and learning going on here. Really nothing out of the ordinary is happening these days here. I just asked my companion what was something exciting that happened this week and she told me it was when she killed a cockroach the other day. Really that´s all the exciting news I´ve got from here down south. Next week I´ll have more and maybe even a picture! So get excited! Take care this week!
Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

February 4, 2013

Buenas Dias!

January 28, 2013

Familia y Amigos,

Welcome to the mission, today is the day of transfers...again. My companion went to Colombia, because her visa came. Tomorrow I´ll be receiving my new companion who I´ll be training. I hope we´ll be able to stay together for a while and I can finish the entire 12 weeks of the training with her. (With all the changes I´ve only ever made it to the 3 week mark with the training program.) So today and part of tomorrow I´m in a trio with some other hermanas who are also going to train. We´ll see if there are any 19 year old hermanas that are coming in. In total there are going to be 46 new missionaries (3 Hermanas), I´m pretty sure its the most that have ever entered in one time, as far as I know. With the age requirements lowered, lots and lots of missionaries are coming in, but they´re entering in so fast that they don´t have their visas to actually go to their missions. This means that some come here to our mission, waiting here in Lima until it comes. It´s the life of the mission, coming and going, teaching and learning so many new things every day from so many different people. Really that´s all the news I´ve got from down south. Everything is going great here in Monterrico; it´s nice and hot here in the summer time and no they don´t have air conditioning anywhere. Hope you all are enjoying your winter up there in the States. I hope you have a great a week!

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON

January 20, 2013

Greetings from Perú!

I hope everyone had a great week! Nothing really new here in Perú, everything is going great. Here´s a picture of me and my companion, Hermana Vizurraga.

She´s going to go to Colombia for her mission and she´s here waiting for her visa in these coming days. She´s from Perú and we´re here in Monterrico together.

Really nothing new coming from down here in the South. The sun and summer is coming on and we can feel it everyday. I love it. Have a great week!

Love Always,

HERMANA HARBISON