What’s up everybody!! This week was
pretty fun :)
We got to fix a washer! It was
insane! And it was insanely cold! Everyone makes fun of me here because I cover
my entire face. I wear ski goggles and a ski mask and a beanie. IT’S COLD
OUTSIDE! We’re walking too! I am from California. I AM SUPPOSED TO STAY WARM! I
tell them that and they just start laughing. But regardless of the weather,
Colorado is soooooo beautiful. Mountains look so cool all decked out with snow
and it’s just wonderful place to be here.
So remember how I said last week we
were going to go work out with our investigator? Well we did. We worked out at
5:30 in the morning! It was insane!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha So we did jump rope for a minute then went
into a plank position and stick out our feet and touch them with our hands,
alternating... did that for a minute. Then we did push-ups for a minute. Then we
did burpees… Did that for 15 minutes. That was our warm up! Then we had like a
two minute break, and me being the smart kid I am, I ate a banana before the
work out… Then we did more of an ab work out and legs as well again. Then did
this circuit of pull ups and bench and I didn't do the circuit. hahaha I sat out before the circuit and I felt like I
was going to throw up hahaha and I did! I ran outside of the gym and just
pukedddddd. I just felt waaaaaaaaaay more better after that...
You know you get a real work out in
when you puke... haha so now Raul calls me champ and then my ward mission
leader calls me Elder Barffington. I am making a big time presence at Fox Hollow...
haha But the work out was fun and we are going every Thursday now. I am finally not sore anymore from the work out.
It lasted all the way until Sunday. The altitude here is great and killer. haha
I love it though. I feel very healthy here and that I can breathe!
So we were going to teach Raul but
he needs to help out his parents. His dad is going through surgery so we hope
that goes well.
Savannah went to church yesterday!!
You have no idea how good that is :) Her parents have been very hesitant to her
getting baptized. She has been going to Catholic Mass with her mom for the last
two weeks and she came yesterday! She still wants to get baptized, but it’s
just been a very sensitive situation so we are trying to help her out. We go
over there every week to read scriptures with their family now and they are
starting to really see that we are pretty similar and we are teaching good
things! So hopefully soon… We will keep praying.
So we got to go to a wrestling meet
this week too! IT WAS SOOOOO FUN! The members in our ward invited us to go to
their son’s high school wrestling meet! And it was so awesome because we were
supporting the school and we got our face in the community and showing everyone
like hey we are normal people as well. We cheered on the school and the
wrestlers and we got to meet some wrestlers. They were really nice and so we
are planting some seeds and hoping to open some people’s hearts! We met a
really nice family too, so we are going to go and try and meet with them
sometime. I really have respect for wrestling now. Those guys work hard!
Then the same members, who invited
us to a wrestling meet, invited us to this Chinese New Year party. It was a big
one and again same as the wrestling meet! We met some awesome people and they
asked us a lot of questions and they were very friendly and I think a lot of
the people here are seeing that hey, Mormons are awesome and are really nice!
They throw parties and do some great things! So we are doing our best to just
try and meet everyone.
We also went tracting this week. I
and Elder Farr have a hard time with tracting. So we faced our fears together.
I really wanted to try a new tracting approach. haha I wanted to replace my
fear with honesty and see what happens. I really wanted to knock on a door and
say "Hi I am Elder Harrington! and I am extremely nervous to talk to you
right now! whats your name?" hahaha I feel like they would be super
confused if I just knocked on their door and said that. I hope it would lower
their guard though and kind of see like wow. He’s a normal person. But then I
would say "But I am confident enough because we are sharing a message
about Christ and how much he loves us and how he can improve our life." I
didn't do it though because I felt like it would have come across as pathetic
and stuff, not confident. Takes away power, but we did go tracting and after
you go tracting. You feel really good about yourself.
I don't know why but you just feel
that you are pleasing your Heavenly Father because you are doing what he wants
you to do even though you don't want to do it or you just feel uncomfortable
doing it. I feel peace after I go tracting. So hopefully I can use that more of
as motivation to go tracting some more, because I will feel peace. I am doing
everything that the Lord asks of me. Just because I do that doesn't mean that
everyone is going to accept my message but it does mean that they had the
chance and that I helping the Lord and going through with this journey with
him.
I hope you had a good week as well
:) Love you guys. GO GIVE THEM HEAVEN!
--
Love,
Elder Garrett Steven Harrington
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