Hey everyone, I am still in Parker!!
My new companion is Samoan!! He is awesome :) I miss Elder Smith though, he was
great. So I really want to send this email and focus a little bit on my week
but more make it kind of a tribute to Elder Smith. This week was good though :)
I am happy. I love you guys.
So this week we met a guy at
Walmart. I was walking around and looking for Christmas stuff to send home then
a guy came up to me and looked at me and asked if I worked there and then he
saw my name tag and was like "Jesus Christ: oh, you work for my God!"
So we started talking to him and we asked if we could come by and talk to him
some more and then he said ya! So we got his information and we are now trying
to meet with him! Ha ha! it’s awesome. God works in mysterious ways. I was
really happy that, that happened. So that was really cool to report on :) That
is kind of the highlight of last week.
This week was good but also sad
because Elder Smith is gone now. He was my trainer and in the mission they have
this weird thing that when you are a new missionary and the missionary who
trains you is your dad and you are his son. So, Elder Smith was my mission
father... ha ha funny stuff but I really just want to report on that.
I want to tell you of some of the
things me and Elder Smith did and how awesome he is. He was super nice and
happy a lot, he was a very sarcastic guy when I was asking serious questions. I
hated it!! He would just be super sarcastic, I really loved his sense of humor
though, and he is probably the one of the funniest guys. He’s just awesome. What we did together as missionaries I believe
is we really got people interested in the church. We set the example and I feel
like we really showed the light that we had and people notice that something
was different about us. I think we set a really good seed in their hearts and
made them curious. So hopefully me and Elder Anani (my new Samoan companion)
can show them more. I am excited to work with him.
I learned a lot from Elder Smith. One
of the thing is that I learned don't worry about what you can’t control and let
go of all the little things. I really enjoyed being his companion.
He helped me and when he knew something
was bothering me he would just give me a hug and I really felt the Saviors love
when he hugged me. I felt like I was in the Saviors arms and that’s how he
is going to hug us when we get back home. He helped me keep my head up when things
were getting rough and I really am grateful for him. I know that the Lord
put him in my path and that I needed him. He is an incredible guy. I
really want to give hugs to people like he did. I believe he had the gift of
charity and he could just exercise it at his control and put you at peace with
yourself. It was definitely something really cool and interesting that he had.
Me and Elder Smith really got a long
good together. He is a great friend and a great guy. He wants to go into video
production and do some stuff with that. He loves the cold and I hate it. Ha ha
He kills me at night when he likes to put the fan on high and the window open
and it’s so cold at night! I and Elder smith liked to do a lot of stuff. One
way we would wake up each other is have nerf guns and shoot each other if we
got caught falling asleep. Another one was we would make missionary lyrics to
regular songs. so like "bear necessities" from jungle book would be
"bearing testimony" "500 miles" to "500 doors" we
also did "Prezzy, its cold outside" instead of "baby its
cold outside" ha ha we did so many wonderful songs. I had the time of my
life with Elder Smith.
We had lots of ups and downs but he
is an amazing guy, and I just appreciate him a lot for what he had done. He
reminded me a lot of my dad. It was awesome. I am super happy to have met him
and to know him. Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say something; that
is always an honor to know someone. I am so excited for a new journey but I
am sad a little because Elder Smith is gone. He is a great guy and really
fun.
He played basketball like a dork but when we sword fight and
it was just me and him; he won with a kill shot! Man, it was lame but it was
awesome. He’s going to go on and do great things. So this is for Elder Smith. He
is amazing and I really wish him the best. I can't wait to see him again. He
was like a dad, completely. It was awesome. I have videos of me and him and
pictures together so yeah. This was a good week guys. So now it’s time for
Elder Anani!! It’s going to be awesome. He is a power house and he is
awesome. I can't wait :) Love you all hope you are doing good!
Love,
Elder Garrett Steven Harrington
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