2 Nephi 22 : 2

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song...

Monday, April 29, 2013

The One Year Tradition

FIRE!!!!!!!!! BURNED A SHIRT!!!!!!! ONE YEAR!!!!!!!!!
no pics of the remains, there was none :o
i took a video but it wouldn't send ;p









Two years its a suit.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

And Now He's Training



I remember getting this picture of Harry along with a letter introducing us to his first companion who would be training him for the next12 weeks:
16 May 2012
Dear Brother & Sister Larsen,
We are pleased to let you know that your son, Elder Harald Douglas Charles Larsen, has arrived in the England London Mission. He seems very happy to be here, and is anxious to get to work. We are excited to have him here and look forward to getting to know him better.
Soon after he arrived, we introduced him to his first companion, Elder Maryan Boysyuk. He is a wonderful young man and one of our very best missionaries. Elder Boysyuk will teach your son the joy of sharing the gospel. They have been assigned to work in the Romford area in the Romford zone. I have attached a picture of your son with myself, Sister Patch and Elder Boysyuk.


Harry LOVED Elder Boysyuk. He taught him so much. Harry was a little sad when Elder Boysyuk went off to be a zone leader. I think there's a special bond between a new missionary and their trainer.
It seems like such a short time ago that Harry was being trained. But now, parents in Utah have probably received a letter and picture introducing them to their son's first companion and trainer...and it just happens to be HARRY.

My companion is amazing, his name is Elder Allred and he's from St. George, UTAH!! xD Man, it's so fun being with this kid, he's like a spiritual firework, faith!
...he's a lacrosse player, apparently he's pretty good. He's 6' 3" so I feel pretty short... but that's ok! we go running in the mornings... ugh! xD but yeah, it's really fun to be training, it's also really neat to hear a missionary praise you so much, especially when you don't think you're too noteworthy of a guy :3
so this week has been awesome! I'm training a kid from Utah, it's rather exciting to expose him to the real world ;) I very much enjoy it!



And he's a blast, kid is a dork, kinda like the rest of my family ;) but yeah, we've been working hard this week, which is a good change for him!! I've put him to sleep in several odd situations cuz i've tired him out so much. Twice on the bus, twice on a recliner before we were about to teach a lesson with some members, and once on our floor :3 It's so much fun!!!




I hope, when his 12 weeks are up, Elder Allred holds Harry in as high regard as Harry did Elder Boysyuk.

ONE YEAR!




xD oh man, it's gone by so fast! :O like seriously, where'd all the time go??

o don't talk about going home yet! xD i'm still here ;3 i've got a whole 368 days left! then i'll be done, and then yeah i might be sad to leave :3 but hey mum!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!

He calls me "mum" now.


Monday, April 8, 2013

Playing Piano, Funnies, and a Baptism






I tried and tried to tell Harry how important it was to learn piano. And he took lessons from some really good teachers. But he had his own ideas and guess who's wishing he'd stuck with it?
I'm also learning to play some things on the piano since my mission, and Elder Gonzalez is teaching me pretty things :3 and i can play a few hymns as well. Oh how i wish i would have listened to you about piano when i was younger!!! I'm sorry mom!!! But i guess i'm more sorry to myself xD I'm gonna FORCE my kids to play an instrument when they grow up ;D
Harry wanted to play drums...and guitar...


We are always asking for funny stories. Actually, any stories. This one is great and I am soooo glad Harry is feeling inspired.
As for the funny story, oh have i got a good one this week.... so we were knocking on some doors ten minutes before an appointment, and we did so for about eight minutes and we were about to walk down the street to the appointment, when the spirit whispers to me... "one more door." and i totally ignore it, saying oh man, i wanna sit down, but the prompting persisted so i turn around and walk back to the next door, and my companion spins around to follow me... we knock on the door.... and a dog starts barking. not usually a sign of an interested investigator, just from experience ;) but we wait for someone to answer, and a little girl comes to the door! then from between her legs emerges a huskie-german shepherd mix looking dog, and it RUNS up to us!!!!! THEN!!!!!! It commences to mark Elder Gonzalez as it's territory... he got peed on!!!! XDD Then it ran back inside having finished it's job! the little girl apologized and closed the door, I was in stitches!! And Elder Gonzalez' best suit was a bit wet... This is my testimony that God has a sense of humor!! ;)

In England (well, actually Europe) baptisms are hard to come by, so here's hoping this one happens.
Elder Gonzalez was contacting some potential investigators from several years ago who were never contacted and set up an appointment with Phillip, we didn't really know anything else about him at the time. So the time for the appointment comes and we walk to his house, his wife answers and ushers us in, how nice! Then we go into the living room and meet Phillip! He's from Ghana so he speaks Chwii (i think that's how you spell it? Probably not, but you say Etesay to say hello, which he thought was awesome that i could do that) and we had a nice little chit chat to begin. Turns out he met missionaries ages ago in London but then fell out of touch! We had an absolutely amazing first lesson with him and he fell in love with the Book Of Mormon, he understands the passages that he reads better than most members I know! During our second lesson we invited him to be baptized on April 27, and he said.... oh. well, what time? and inside we just jump up and down for joy!!! xD so with a tentative time of 4 o'clock on April 27, Phillip from Ghana will be baptized!

Perhaps he has difficult days, but he never mentions them to us. He continues to tell us what a wonderful time he's having. He's happy and feels blessed to be on a mission. I guess maybe its true that doing what The Lord wants us to do will make us happy.

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