Elder Graf!

My new companion is Elder Graf. He is the best!! He is 20 yrs. old and went to a year of college at BYU-I before the mission. He has been on his mission for 8 months, all of which have been in the same area. He is from Washington. I've only had 1 companion from Utah my whole mission which is pretty cool. This is the first time I have had a companion that has been younger then me in the mission. He is the most sincere companion I have had so far and he really cares for others. I'm so excited to serve with him, he's super funny as well.

I've never been so lost in the work. I'm dead tired. But we are teaching a lot of really great people and seeing a lot of success.

Sevilla Family Update- Elder Graf speaks sign language!!!! He took three years of it and he's pretty good at it. It was so fun to see the face of Alexis when Elder Graf started talking to him. He was so excited! Elder Graf translated the song we sang, the prayers and everything. It was a miracle.

Our cars battery was super old and dying. So if we left our car outside in the heat too long the battery would drain and the car wouldn't start. Needless to say we had to get jumped four times this weekend. The first time it happened was Friday. So we went and talked a guy named Carlos and he helped us out. I literally didn't understand what his dad was saying. Talk about a southern accent, it's a good thing I just have to speak Spanish. The church has a deal with Pep boys, so we put in pep boys on the GPS and drove to it. But it wasn't there. So I searched the next closest one and it was in the opposite direction. We went, it wasn't there. So I didn't worry about it because we were wasting miles and time. Saturday it died again. Elder Graf called some info number and found out where Pep Boys was. We went there and they took about an our to tell us that nothing is wrong. Sunday it died again. Today it took 5 hours for us to get a new battery.

Sometimes things happen that you don't plan and you can't control. Don't worry about it. I'm learning to be content in doing my best. I know that as long as I give the Lord my best, even though it isn't perfect, I can be satisfied and happy with the results.

Elder Harmon

1019 Marquis Way

Morrow, GA 30260

The Sabbath Day!

We had the last Zone Conference this week with President Harding. He will be leaving in two weeks and we will have a new Mission President. It was really really good! The main theme of the Zone Conference was keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. I'm not sure if you have all heard of it yet, and if you haven't you will, but the First Presidency and the Apostles had a meeting this past April and have decided that something we need to do as a world is Keep the Sabbath Day Holy. We watched a video that had a portion of each Apostle talking about the importance of this. It is amazing.

So we as missionaries are using this great opportunity to really testify of our living day Prophet and to invite others to come to church. 2 cool experiences:

Christian. He was baptized about 15-20 years ago in Mexico when he was only a teenager. Shortly afterward his family moved to the United States and he hadn't been to the church since. Right now he is living in the same house as one of our recent converts Ricardo who is his cousin. We've talked to him a couple times and he is really nice, but he never seemed interested in coming back to church. On Friday we were looking for Ricardo and Christian was the only one home. We pulled up some chairs and talked with him about when he was baptized and a little bit of his history. The conversation slowly turned to church and we asked him if he wanted to come. He said Ricardo had invited him many times and he wanted to go but something always came up. So we shared with him the fact that the Prophet and Apostles had received specific revelation for the entire world that we need to do a better job at keeping the Sabbath day holy. Of course this is a short version of the conversation but the spirit was very strong. I felt it and I knew exactly what to say and how to say it. I could literally see in his reactions that the spirit was testifying to him that he needed to come to church. Yesterday he came to church for the first time in a very long time. Hopefully he never misses another week.

Branch President. He brought a couple people to church but we never saw him. Sacrament is the last hour and at the beginning of the meeting he wasn't there. His wife didn't even know where he was. So we quickly drove to his house which is about 2 min away and found him there lying on the couch. He wasn't feeling very well and had a bad migraine. So we gave him a blessing by the power of the priesthood and told him we had to hurry and get to church so that he could partake of the sacrament. We made it just in time. He stayed the rest of the meeting and a correlation meeting afterward. As well he went to a stake priesthood meeting later that night.

Partaking of the Sacrament is very important. It's great to be a missionary right now and to be able to testify and proclaim that to everyone.

I love you all! Have a great week :)

Elder Harmon

1019 Marquis Way

Morrow, GA 30260

Lake Jodeco

This week feels like a blur. It's all just going by so fast. I'm getting to know Elder Jones a little better. That's one of the great things about being on a mission. You have to learn how to get along and live with someone. So that's been great :) At the beginning of my mission when my companion did something I didn't like then I would just try to ignore it. But when that happens I just get super quiet and distracted from everything and I can't focus at all. But Elder Jones and I are working harder together then I've worked in any other companionship. I love it.

We finally were able to see the Sevilla Family. They have a boy, I think he is 11, that is deaf. It's a lot of fun to try and talk to him. He gets so happy. I wish I knew ASL, someday I will learn it. I'm really impressed with the parents. They are both really smart and understand everything so well.

The branch is amazing. We had a "linger longer" yesterday and it was really good. Since it was fast sunday everyone brought food and we all broke our fast together after church.

The treck was this last week for the youth and they all bore their testimonies about it.

All is well.

Elder Harmon

1019 Marquis Way

Morrow, GA 30260

Rain

It feels like I just wrote yesturday. Everythings still good and it's basically the same. We are teaching a lot of really great people. I love to teach about the gospel. It encompasses everything and answers so many questions. I don't know what I would do if I wasn't able to teach people. I just love it.

Nobody showed up to the eng class. Hopefully it goes better this week. We think no one came because of the rain.

Sounds like it's been raining pretty good across the whole country. We've received some good rain as well. I found this picture on Elder Jones's camera from mexico and I thought it would go good with all the rain.

Elder Harmon

1019 Marquis Way

Morrow, GA 30260