Holy moly everyone. I got so much to tell that I definitely forgot to type about last week.... Aka this is going to be the longest email of my entire life so I'm sorry to everyone, lol.
Patricia:
We are starting off strong, but we had an amazing lesson with Patricia, we answered a million questions that she had. And I'm not quite sure if I said this before, but a pastor a little while ago asked her to teach a Bible class, and she wasn't sure what she wanted to do. So after that lesson, we decided to invite her to our English class and share a spiritual message at the end of it, and she said yes!! So late that day, we bought her an Uber because literally not a single soul in our ward could take her, and she pulls up to English class. We taught English and she was participating and having a great time, and then the spiritual message came up, and we passed the time over to her.... And she shared the best message I have ever heard. She bore her testimony for 15 min, and it was so Spirit filled. She quoted Moroni, talked about Joseph Smith, prophets, the Restoration, the Book of Mormon, church, and prayer. I was in complete aww the entire time. Every person in the class was completely captivated, and every single person in that class came up to us and talked about how they could learn more, come to church, and get a lesson. It was absolutely amazing. We got so many new contacts and people to teach which really was just a miracle!!
Big Change:
After that, Elder Medina and I were at an all time high, and then p-day rolls around. We were headed home from the church when we got a call from our Mission President, and we both thought we did something, lol. For a quick little context, the northern most part of our mission reconstructed the Stake boundaries, and now we are adding 2 new areas to our mission which is super cool. And our Mission President called Elder Medina and I to tell us that he would like to have us open up the area called Fort Pierce!! And that we would leave on Wednesday (in 2 days plus a week before transfers). So we ended up packing all the next day, and it was a ton of work, but we did it!!
Orlando:
So we pulled up to our apartment and met the Orlando missionaries (this area was part of the Orlando mission before we took it over), they were super sick. We spent most of the day with them and got to know the area and the people they were teaching and it seems like there is a ton of potential here. The members are super involved and the Bishop and we're ready to get stuff done, lol. So that's super awesome to see. And we are also in a Spanish/English and Creole Ward, which is pretty crazy. It's mostly English so everything is in English and we are going to have to translate for the Spanish members. Also we have a carpet gym in our building that I have never heard of, but that was pretty interesting, lol. Literally every member in this Ward wants to feed us like every single day lol, so that's super nice of them!!!
David:
We started teaching this great guy, and his name is David. He has a rough background and he is trying super hard to change which is amazing to see!! The first lesson we taught him the Restoration and he really liked it. The next lesson we taught him was about Prophets, and we invited him to watch General Conference with us. He is a pretty busy guy but he said he could come to the morning session on Sunday, and he came!!! So we went to the family history room in our building and pulled up Conference in Spanish and watched it with him, which was great!! He ended up asking how he could watch the other sessions so that's super exciting and we can't wait to continue teaching him!!
General Conference:
General Conference was great!!! I absolutely loved it!! I have appreciated Conference so much more since starting my mission. I loved so many of the talks and took a million notes which I honestly haven't done before. But hey, I did this time, lol. President Nelson's talk really hit home. I love where the Lord is directing us during this crazy time.
There is a member in our ward that owns a restaurant, and all of the servers know that anyone with a black tag (missionary obviously) gets to eat completely FREE. So we ended up going there for dinner and it was super good!!! The restaurant is like one street away from the beach and it is so crazy how close I am, and how badly I want to go in the ocean, lol.
Anyways, I'm super excited for this transfer, I'm staying with Elder Medina, if that wasn't clear enough, and we are excited to pick up where the Orlando Missionaries left off. Problem is, is that we don't have area book right now so we are just trying to get everything figured out. We are trying our best though.
I want to talk about so much more but I don't have any more time, I hope you all are doing super well!!! Love you all and have a great week!!!
Cya next week!!
Elder Harbs
Pictures:
1 & 2. Mission President Wife's FB post about the two new areas being added and Trevin & his companion going.
3. Costco food court food!
4.The restaurant who feeds the missionaries for free.
5.General Conference
6. New Apartment in Orlando
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