Monday November 26, 2012
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That makes me sooo happy to hear about Lincoln and Tyler!!!
They are going to be such great missionaries!!!
Man there are soo many changes going on back home its
nuts!!!! But oh well that’s how life is.
A little about my life as of late. Well I have a new
companion and he is ELDER C! Way cool and he’s from CHILE and so we’re
having a blast just working away. I love him and he’s just a ball of energy and
full of desire to work his butt off. I love him soo much and I’m super happy
that he is here with me. I live with 3 Latinos and those 3
Latinos are all Chileans!!!! I love them all and I actually
love speaking Spanish more than English so it makes me a super happy camper!!
So besides that the Lord continues to bless us everyday day
and every week and just all the time!!! I know that he is watching over us as
we do his work and well he blessed us with another beautiful baptism where we
were able to complete a family. C the father of D who was just baptized
about 3 weeks ago entered into the waters of baptisms and man it was so special!!!
And then the other person that was baptized is named R and guess what she
is Chilean tambien!!! But it has been a great week
and I love the work soo much!
Things keep going well as we keep working hard. I have no
doubt in my mind that God exists and loves every single one of us because we
are his children. I’m grateful for the testimony I have and that I can share it
with those around me every day. It sure is a blessing to me to be able to do
that. Anyway that’s about all the news that I have for now but I’ll let you
know what’s up next week!!!
I LOVE YOU ALL
Elder Harker
Monday December 3, 2012
Wad up Fam ???
Well, well ,well, sounds like you are a busy folk. It makes
me super happy to hear that all is well back in the good ol winter wonderland. Sounds like it’s pretty cool over there and well we are in the oven
over here and summer hasn’t even started yet.
It’s been about 35 on average these days and so we are working hard and
well drinking lots of water!!
But it’s all just dandy my family and well I love the work
more than anything in the world!!! We had the baptism of G this week and
man she is a way cool girl and going to be a super fiel miembro de la iglesia.
She has changed her life so much and it was soo amazing to see her enter the
waters of baptism. It’s the best thing in the world to see when children of God
make covenants with their Father. What a blessing to be a part of that
decision.
Things are going well and we are seeing lots of success. The
ward is doing good and one of our recent converts D is on fire!!! He just
preaches the gospel to everyone and shares with them how he changed his life as
he came from a pretty sketchy background. He was just called to be our new ward
mission leader and i just know he’s going to be amazing and I’m excited to see
the work we will be able to do together!!!
Well I don’t know what else to tell you. I just am having
the time of my life although lots of times it’s hard and there are many
difficulties the work goes on and it’s time to keep moving forward. About the
Christmas call cause we got the email today. I don’t know how that day will be
working out yet but I’ll let you know in the weeks to come when I will call and
by what means. Until next week my beloved ones. Chau
Love Elder Harker
Monday December 3, 2012
Hey dad!!!
So things are just wonderful here in
Argentina and yup, so far we have been baptizing every week for the last while
and it’s not that common, as the mission standard is about one per month. It is
very possible to baptize more than one per month but the Lord has been blessing
us tremendously!! About church, we have never had 30 investigators in church
one Sunday but lately we have been having around 10 which is still a lot for
the average missionary here. Lots of missionaries right now I think are having
success if they are working hard, but I must say that I feel very blessed to be
where I am and to be seeing such success in our ward. When I first got here in the mission we baptized
about 75 per month let’s say, and then we were going for about 100 and now we
are averaging about 150 per month. But this month we are pushing to get 200
baptisms. The retention rate I don’t know the specific numbers, but it depends
on the ward because we can’t always pass by the recent converts and so we have
to manage our time well. It all depends on the ward really and the retention
rate is not great but it’s improving.
So that’s what’s happening in the
mission these days. But man I love the mission and it is such a great
experience. We had some more success brought our way as G was baptized
this weekend, and well hay qye trabajar y ´hay que hacerlo, no hay
excusas´
I love you
Elder
Harker
Tuesday December 11, 2012
I hope you had a good one. Well all in all sounds like the
world keeps moving on and well it’s great to hear, especially about all the
things going on back home, you guys are the best ever!!! I have the best family
in the world!! So I’m super happy that all went well with bball and the
singing, and way to go mom out with the missionaries!! Also with activities and
well all that stuff that you have been doing way to go!!!
As for me, well I’m tired but its good because we are
working our butts off and literally because it is soo hot!!! Man I feel like I
come home everyday like 10 pound slighter. ahhahah not actually but it’s hot,
and I love it!!! This week we had the baptism of R, who is a man we have
been teach for the last couple of weeks. Way chosen and just was so willing to
keep all of the commitments we left with him and just a way good example of
being willing to do the will of God. He’s a great man and it was super great to
see him get baptized!!!
Another great thing that happened is that on Sunday we had a
bunch of new people in church and we are working with all the family of E
and R who were baptized recently and well they have a huge family. This
next week E grandma is getting baptized and well she is a great great
grandmother and so we are working with all her and her husband’s posterity and
well they have a lot, plus they all live in our area!!!!!! The work is great and we are seeing tons of
fruits from the work we are doing here.
Yesterday we had our Christmas conference and so that’s why
I’m writing today, but man it was super fun although it killed me and I’m super
tired from it. We didn’t sleep in 2 hours cause we had to get up at 2 am to
travel to Cordoba and then we had the conference did some activities and played
futbol and then travel back to Rio Cuarto and got home at like 2 am so it was
tough but I loved it!!! We had a super great conference and well I got your
package and it’s the 10th so I decided to open it instead of wait and thank you
soo much!!! for the ties and the candy and the caramels all way delicious and
just thanks!!!! So all is well from that and well we had a great day!!!!
Apart from all that everything is normal and I just love it
here. I’m excited for the Christmas season cause we are going to work way hard
and just help soo many people!!! ahhh its amazing the Lord showers us with
blessing and well I am grateful every day for that. I know this is the work of
the Lord and this is the true church that teaches the restored gospel of Jesus
Christ. I know that Jesus is the Christ and that he lives and that this is the
time to remember the birth of our Lord and Saviour. I hope you have a great
week.
Lots of Love
Elder Harker
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