HI EVERYONE!!! I am in the area now. I am in Parker Colorado. It’s
seriously beautiful here. Being a district leader was awesome and I enjoyed helping
out. Now I am just a fresh missionary right off the plane. I am super new and
just trying to get adjusted to the area! I am really stoked. :) My companion is
awesome. Trainer. He is kind of like “I am not your trainer” and stuff and he’s
asking me to teach him too. It’s kind of cool, even though he is the senior
companion. He is very humble and I love Him! Elder Smith, he’s great. Walking
around kind of feels natural. I feel that I am supposed to be here, I don't
know how but I am. I don't feel awkward at all. I'm just me with a name tag now
that says elder. Ha ha It’s awesome! :) Its soo good to hear from you all too!
It really is a treat to see emails back... I can't really write much but know
that I love you all, and it’s weird how fast it is going by already. But I am
learning a lot. My mission president is awesome! Super funny and super nice so
yeah… MTC was awesome and now I'm in the field trying to build up some courage
to talk to some people. I don't have much to say really right now to you all
because nothing happened really yet. When I got off the plane and the people
that work in the airport wear cowboy hat, pants, boots and a huge belt buckle.
It’s kind of funny ha ha. The area is very green right now. I can't see much
effects of the flood but the members and people are really nice. I am in a
member’s home. The bed is sooo good omgosh. Ha ha ha its sooooooo comfy. There
are three dogs in the member’s home too. two labs named Max and Daisy and
German shepherd named Thor. If you howl at Thor he will start to howl too! It’s
awesome! But I seriously cannot wait to teach. This is my second day in the
area, emailing you. My p day is on Monday and once I get my address
I'll let you know. I know you all want to hear a cool spiritual experience. Ha ha
I have had a few in the MTC where the spirit just guided the lessons and I am
continuing to learn about a mission. I'll share one quick experience:
We got a referral from a church member to teach. A person called
Christian he is such a loving and caring guy. He’s a photographer and has book
cases for an iPhone and laptop so he looks like he’s carrying around books! But
it’s really technology and he just loves it and it made me laugh every time I
would see them. But, anyway... He lost his son in a car accident. He was three.
He was absolutely perfect; I wish you could see the picture of Alex. His sons
name was Alex. He loved to play hide and seek and he was in the house and the
door was left unlock and he ran into a street and a teenager hit him and killed
him. I felt so much grief and sorrow. He was the cutest kid. I knew something
was special about Alex when I saw the picture of him. He reminded me of my
brother Austin in a way. So Christian was really sad and kind of angry. He
asked me "if God loves Alex so much, why did he let him die?" and
that right there had me stumped. I wrote it down and prayed about the question.
I have learned on my mission that Heavenly Father knows the answer to all these
people’s questions. You have to pray to get the answer that they ask because it’s
a question that only Heavenly Father knows… well I did. I got the answer and
when I did, I started to write it down. It was one of the heavenly answers. I
knew that answer came to me from Heavenly Father. There’s no way it could have
happened without Him. So when I got to teach him again, I read him the answer
and He couldn't stop smiling. He said he felt the same way when he was holding
Alex again for the first time. He felt like his heart was about to explode and
he was warm and felt this amazing peace and comfort. We told Him it was the
spirit but that is up for you to decide and he said. "I believe you. I
want to know more and what to do so that I can be with Alex again." He was
sincerely interested. I gave him the answer and he said, “…that it makes sense
why it happened now and that I am no longer angry. I am at peace and comfort."
I know that Heavenly Father loves all of His children.
Missionary work is awesome and this is what Christ’s life was all about. He was
constantly serving others, helping. Look what he became. He never really
focused so much on him. I think that is what I need to learn more than ever
now. Lose yourself in the work of helping others and serving others and then
you will become what you were meant to become. I am happiest when I am doing
what the Lord wants me to do and that is always serving others. I know that I
cannot relate very well to others because I have not been through some of the
things they have been through but I do know this, I can love them; with all my
heart. You can succeed on love alone. I hope you all are doing good. Please
write back!! I want to hear how you are.
Love
Elder Garrett Steven Harrington
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