Wednesday:
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It was a crazy day. Finished packing up my room and suitcases. My kasama (companion) is Elder Petersen. He is an awesome guy. I'm relieved to have started my mission with a good companion. I hope it will stay that way.
Thursday:
I was super tired today and was ready to go back to bed at 8:00. Tomorrow we are giving a lesson to an investigator in tagalog. I hope it goes well. I expect that our district's investigator will be fake like everyone tells me the investigators here at the MTC are.
Friday:
We taught our investigator (probably fake) in tagalog. We had a lot of awkward pauses and flipping through dictionaries to say words. It wasn't as bad as it sounds. The language is coming slowly and the words are starting to stick in my mind. We teach the "investigator" again tomorrow. We worked on a lesson that seems good.
Saturday:
We played volleyball for exercise today. It was super fun. Exercise is great because I can just relax and take a break from all the things we do here. We taught our investigator today. When we sat down I opened my bag and saw that my lesson plan was not there. Good thing my companion didn't forget his.
I got very discouraged with the language today but I could feel the spirit cheering me on and letting me know that I can do this. I can't wait to see where I am with the language in a few weeks.
Sunday:
It was a good day. We had sacrament meeting and a few other meetings. We walked to the temple as a zone and sat on the grass for a while. It was very hard for me because my home is only three blocks away and I would have been able to see it if there weren't trees and houses in the way. I got over it though. We listened to an excellent talk given by Elder Bednar at the MTC on christmas a few years ago.
Monday:
We taught our investigator in tagalog for the third time today. Our teacher challenged us to take no notes to help us. We did that and were very successful. The only thing we took were our tagalog scriptures. The spirit was so strong and when I bore my testimony to him I looked at him and knew he was feeling the spirit (even if he is a fake investigator).
Tuesday:
Taught the "investigator". It was a good lesson. I can't wait to teach lessons to people in the philippines! Listened to a talk from a released general authority. It was awesome.
Wednesday:
We did service for a while today and then exercised. Taught our investigator. After the lesson we found out that this investigator is in fact real and isn't a member of the church. I don't know what he is doing in the United states or much about him. They are telling us that he really doesn't speak English and is a real investigator. It's crazy! All this time I thought he was fake! In the lesson we asked him if he wants to be baptized and he said he does but wants to prepare more. He has started to gain a testimony. It is just amazing that we have been teaching him and have only spoken the language for a week. I don't know if our investigator will really be baptized or not. Maybe he was just playing along. I do know that he felt the spirit though.
Love, Elder Harkness
Love, Elder Harkness
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