First, off for this Blog..I hope and wished Everyone had an amazing and loving Christmas!! I know I did, there was not a minute of it that I did not appreciate being around my family on such a special Holiday! Second, I Wish and Hope everyone will bring in the New Year surrounded by your friends and loved ones. If you are going to set a New Years goal, I would ask of you to set a New Years goal of coming closer to our Heavenly Father as well!! For I promise you, that if you stirve to be more like Chirst and care for others more than you already do, that you will be A WHOLE LOT HAPPIER in your lives.. =) ELE! (Everbody Love Everybody)
So just one more day left here in Nebraska with my family and friends. Wow, is all I can say for how this year has changed my life and how fast it went. =) If someone where to tell me last year, at this time. That in a year you will be a completely different person ( meaning of my old habbits and lifestyle), you will have a whole new outcome on the meaning of life and you will be worthy and ready to serve a 24 month mission in Mexico. I would have told them they are crazy and would have not belived them for a second. But I am very loved, happy and blessed of where I am in my life today, I could not be any happier!! =) I have to thank and show my love for all my friends and family who gave and showed me the support, for if it was not for them, I would not be leaving for this amazing new lifetime/changing experience tomorrow! Also I am very sorry for the friends I have missed to say goodbye to you are not forgotten in my heart, I love each and every1 of you. I think and pray about all of you hoping one day you can feel the joy and happiness I feel today!! Here are the Address's to my younger Sister and my Brother's Missions as well if you want to keep in touch with us...I hope if you have any questions or just want to talk about anything, know that we will be here for you! =)
Being in the mtc has been a wonderful experience for me, i now know why they call it the "missionary training center" as soon as you walk in you can feel the power of the holy spirit. my teachers were training me to do the Lord's work. it was a challenge having to be up out of bed by 6:30, i love my sleep and having to be in bed by 10:30. i think that was the most difficult for me not napping when i wanted to. naps soon disappeared, i didnt get the chance to have one the whole time i was there. but it prepared me because i havent had the chance nor the time to nap since ive been on the field. There was so much to learn while i was at the MTC and i still am learning. But the spirit there was incredible, i remember walking into the Sunday Devotional for my first time and being on top of the stairs and looking down at hundreds, thousands of missionaries going all over the world, learning just as me and the hymns they were singing, it was like an ocean wave of spirituality that just rushed over me. it was a feeling of love and peace that i cant really describe it was a joy that i want to share. it definitely got me excited to be there. it went by way too fast, i made close friends and we helped each other, i got the chance to see lots of my friends from byu though it was kind of hard knowing that my social life is completely over. lol well for 18 months. but it made me smile when they all said "Wow! i cant believe YOU are serving!.. and being like Wow!..Sar.. i mean Sister Harlan you are glowing" i knew that i was representing jesus christ because i was never complimented before of glowing, though not really glowing just having the Light of Christ in me, trying to represent him and share his love. what an honor and blessing to be doing what i am doing. i soon learned that i am here for multiple reasons. and i am still learning to why i am here. After the MTC i left for Albuquerque New Mexico, i was excited to teach the Natives in the area, i felt that teaching my people was the reason i was called to the states and not foreign but as soon as i got here my mission president informed me that through prayers the Lord wants me to go to Socorro Texas, spanish speaking. I'm thinking "yayy!!.. Espanol!" but i forgot that i didnt get the 9 weeks of training like other spanish missionaries, i was 3 weeks English speaking. So now i am here, outside of my window is Juarez Mexico, yes i know the stories from the news, the #1 killing city in this part of the world. though that doesnt scare me, what scares me is knowing that i can't share my message my reason of being here in this area. i pray for the gift of tongues to come quicker!, i know through faith i will learn the language, i have already met so many amazing families who dont have much to give but are always giving. what a beautiful work i am doing, i can only ask if you want to help to pray that i will receive the promised blessing of the gift of tongues. so i can do what i am here for to serve. i love my Lord and Savior and he loves all of those who are reading this.
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