Well, Spanish is going pretty well. See enclosed diagram:
Actually this week we taught our first full-blown lessons in entire Spanish. We had to teach a lesson for 25 minutes to a native Spanish speaker, so it was a little crazy. Most of the time they're already members of the church and are just acting, but
I was still pretty nervous before that we just wouldn't be able to understand them in our lesson or that we wouldn't be able to get our point across. However, we said a prayer before and went for it, and it was amazing! We didn't speak perfectly by any means,
but we could understand the things that our investigator told us. We taught him a little bit about God and Jesus Christ and how to pray. When we were bearing our testimonies at the end he started to tear up just a little bit. The Spirit was really strong and
we were just so happy afterwards. The Gift of Tongues is definitely real, and God will help you out when you are doing His work. It made me think too that even though sometimes the mission is boring or hard or tiring, all it takes is one day like that to make
everything worth it.
Let's see...in other news, we were just walking past the room of some of the other guys in our district on the way to our room and we found this:
A picture's worth a thousand words. We didn't do it, but we thought that whoever did was pretty clever. Made us laugh a lot. The other Elders are also about to lose their minds because our rooms look pretty much the same, but we keep getting perfect room
inspection scores while they get "needs work."
On Sunday we also got to watch a talk given by Elder Bednar that they only show at the MTC called Character of Christ. It is a super good and powerful talk about how the defining element of Christ's character is that he turns outward when the natural man
in us would turn inward. Thinking about that is powerful. It was a super good talk and supposedly everyone that goes to the MTC remembers it.
In other good news, we were playing basketball and I did a between-the legs layup on a 6' 8" elder! Not that I am that great at basketball, it was probably a lot of luck. But I think I earned some basketball respect. I want that on my end of life highlight
reel.
Anyways, they keep us pretty busy here. Lots of studying and lesson planning. The first couple days are really long, but after that, time flies. Things that normally aren't that entertaining become incredibly fun. My companion's new favorite thing is using
his zip-zip (badge reel) to drop his badge or a pen or something in front of someone and then suck it up when they go to pick it up.
The Church is true. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to make the lighting in my pictures normal.
Elder Harris
(Below: Abe with his close friend Chipper.)
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